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These thoughts root from the belief I inherit from Gandhi's leadership style,
Be the change you seek in the world.
Practicing meditation individually and as a group is a creative change-management activity. Setting training rooms for mind relaxation & to nurture positive group mindset is a rewarding organizational practice. Google, Twitter, Cisco, Zappos are a few global-scale companies benefiting from offering such programs for their leaders, managers, engineers and creative talents.
Assisting people side of change in an organization requires a structured approach through OCM (organizational change management). I've personally found using ADKAR (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforce) change methodology very effective.
We all know whether personal or professional, going through change creates anxiety due to ambiguity. Mismanaged ambiguity leads to resistance & creates unnecessary conflicts. Managing resistance to change can be tackled in so many creative ways through focused communications, coaching, training and leadership support. Meditation also proves to be an effective people change strategy. The practice silences the mind and alters attitudes for collective awareness and compassionate dialogue on the desired change and possible compromises.
How can meditation assist in managing social change?
Meditation helps at a personal level first! The practice helps us connect deeply to our personal authentic voice. With authenticity, shines truthful intent.
Personally for me, connecting with my breath, nurturing positive thoughts, freeing the mind from unnecessary clutter of wasteful thoughts helps me become clear on my work intent. When I am clear about my intention, I feel more authentic. With such truthful presence in my awareness, people tend regard and pay more attention to what I have to offer. Even if it may be conflicting to their agenda, the truthful presence creates a safer environment for an open dialogue. It helps me manage conflicts and break through the walls of resistance and have a constructive dialogue. Most often, it helps me create better collaborative environments to facilitate change more happily.
This practice further promotes positive social affiliation. A group of authentic individuals working together with a truthful intent co-create a safer environment for vulnerabilities to show-up and better support each other. There is less shame in becoming transparent. Transparent environment feeds the trust factor further creating stronger group affiliations. Transparent environments enable open dialogues for collaboration and co-creating win-win outcomes. Such mindful and conscious business environments thrive in uncertainties as trust and openness compensates all the unknown anxiety.
Meditating as a group creates an environment for more focused discussion. It helps shed away the personal insecurities or unconscious egotistical attitudes. While meditating together as a group in a business setting, everyone can sense & feel each other's positive attitudes and a shared sense of self-awareness. Compassion fills up in everyone's hearts. Conversations become more meaningful and less damage is done to the faulty egos, as the egos most often disappear with the authentic connection, assisted through appropriate meditation practices.
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- Offer mind-training videos and audio distributed via existing communication channels such as newsletters, leader's blog etc.
- Form social collaboration portal sharing promoting network of practitioners, wisdom-based content & success stories.
- Reward & recognize positive mindsets
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How can robots get our attention?
Research helps robots function more in tune with human coworkers by picking up on nonverbal cues: Georgia Institute of Technology. Smarter software and machine vision could make industrial robots safer and more efficient.
Getting someone's attention can be easy with a loud noise or a shout, but what if the situation calls for a little more tact? How can a robot use subtle cues to attract a human's notice and tell when it has captured it? In a preliminary study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that they can program a robot to understand when it gains a human's attention and when it falls short. The research is being presented at the Human-Robot Interaction conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Control Engineering context: Such research could be helpful for industrial robots, which could use such software to change their behavior or routes depending on interactions with human counterparts in the workplace. Automated guided vehicles (AGVs), for instance, might eventually slow slightly less, or take a more direct route in a situation, if it has a cue that a human nearby sees where the roving robot is at and where it's going. Such software could add productivity to the industrial applications without increasing risk. Software that helps computers better understand human language also advanced. For more about AGVs from Control Engineering, see the AIMing for Automated Vehicles blog at www.controleng.com/blogs.
"The primary focus was trying to give Simon, our robot, the ability to understand when a human being seems to be reacting appropriately, or in some sense is interested now in a response with respect to Simon and to be able to do it using a visual medium, a camera," said Aaron Bobick, professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing in Georgia Tech's College of Computing.
Using the socially expressive robot Simon, from Assistant Professor Andrea Thomaz's Socially Intelligent Machines lab, researchers wanted to see if they could tell when he had successfully attracted the attention of a human who was busily engaged in a task and when he had not.
"Simon would make some form of a gesture, or some form of an action when the user was present, and the computer vision task was to try to determine whether or not you had captured the attention of the human being," said Bobick.
With close to 80 percent accuracy Simon was able to tell, using only his cameras as a guide, whether someone was paying attention to him or ignoring him.
"We would like to bring robots into the human world. That means they have to engage with human beings, and human beings have an expectation of being engaged in a way similar to the way other human beings would engage with them," said Bobick.
"Other human beings understand turn-taking. They understand that if I make some indication, they'll turn and face someone when they want to engage with them and they won't when they don't want to engage with them. In order for these robots to work with us effectively, they have to obey these same kinds of social conventions, which means they have to perceive the same thing humans perceive in determining how to abide by those conventions," he added.
Researchers plan to go further with their investigations into how Simon can read communication cues by studying whether he can tell by a person's gaze whether they are paying attention or using elements of language or other actions.
"Previously people would have pre-defined notions of what the user should do in a particular context and they would look for those," said Bobick. "That only works when the person behaves exactly as expected. Our approach, which I think is the most novel element, is to use the user's current behavior as the baseline and observe what changes."
The research team for this study consisted of Bobick, Thomaz, doctoral student Jinhan Lee and undergraduate student Jeffrey Kiser.
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Liverpool v Swansea Betting Preview
It is go time again for Brendan Rodgers against his former club Swansea in the weekend's only Premier League match. The two sides are level on points heading into this one so big points at stake in the race to book a top six finish in the league. The Swans have already won at Anfield this season, taking a 3-1 win there in the League Cup. Liverpool have been very guilty of letting games slip through their fingers lately and had a long trip to Russia on Thursday in the Europa League. Will the Swans heap more pressure on the Reds?
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The Reds were stunned in Europe on Thursday night, as Zenit St Petersburg scored a brace in two second half minutes to take a firm grip of the tie. So therefore the Reds could be going out of Europe very soon and they are now without a win in their last three Premier League matches. The Reds threw away leads against Arsenal and then Man City and last weekend, despite all their dominance in a home game against West Brom, they came out on the losing end 2-0. The same old problem is there for Liverpool, plenty of style through the middle of the park, but just a lack of penetration and conviction up front. Even Luis Suarez, who remains their only attacking force, has been guilty of being very wasteful. Even at home in the Premier League, Liverpool have been vulnerable, losing two of their last five at Anfield.
There has been one win in the last six games now for Liverpool, in that run was a miserable FA Cup exit at Oldham as well. The Reds ahve failed to score against Swansea since the Welsh club was promoted to the Premier League last season. That is three EPL meetings without a goal against Swansea. One worrying stat for Brendan Rodgers is that Liverpool still have yet to beat a top half of the table side this season (D7 L7) and they won't want to lose ground to the Swans. But Liverpool have not won in their last four matches in all competitions, but their home form in the league of five wins and two defeats in their last seven, should at least see them work for a point. Defensively Liverpool haven't been bad at Anfield, having conceded at an average of under a goal per game, scoring themselves at a rate of 1.7 per game. Luis Suarez's seventeen league goals this season will make him their biggest threat, but Daniel Sturridge will likely be up top as well, giving them some extra pace.
Swansea know very well how to frustrate the big sides. They have done it against Everton, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal this season. The Swans have lost just one of their last nine Premier League matches, as well as making their run to the League Cup final. Their form on the road though hasn't been that strong, having won just one of the last six they have played (D3 L2). Swansea have conceded the fewest amount of goals in the first 30 minutes of matches this season, and they have also dropped the fewest points of all teams when being in the lead. In nine of the ten games in which they have taken the lead in the top flight this term, they have won nine and drawn one. So if they get themselves in front, there could be trouble ahead for Liverpool.
Only Swansea (and newcastle) have scored a higher proportion of goals from open play this season than Liverpool have. The thing about Swansea is that they don't have too much firepower on the road. They have only scored twelve all season which is an average of less than a goal per away game (in stark contrast to their super home scoring form). Defensively though there is a lot of strength to Michael Laudrup's line up, as they have conceded at a rate of just 0.7 goals per away game. While Liverpool rely on Suarez, Swansea's big threat of course is Spanish star Muchu, who has netted fifteen league goals for the season. The Swans have done it before and could well be in line to frustrate the Anfield crowd again.
A draw is going to be worth looking at given the history between these two. They'll probably be fairly well matched up against each other. Naturally going to be value in looking at Suarez as First Goalscorer for odds of 3/1 at online bookmaker BetFred
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I'll second that emotion. Howdy peeps!Originally Posted by superfly
I'll second that emotion. Howdy peeps!Originally Posted by superfly
good luck Tom
I agree, superfly -- I hope Tom wins tonight, too!!Originally Posted by superfly
I'm having some technical difficulties here at the Pomeranian pad so I hope I can stay connected to the Internet throughout tonight's Finale!!
so long as Jenn Pop and Krapie don't win!!!
This season has been okay, but not great... hopefully the finale will help it out a bit. Can't wait to find out where Survivor 11 is!
Okay, I've been waiting patiently for 13 minutes. Understand the need for recaps, etc. but come on!!! I'm ready to watch Tom take home $1 million. (fingers crossed for him, anyway).
There's always one in every bunch.
True dat! I for once would like someone I am rooting for to win on a reality show I watch!Originally Posted by superfly
I wish they had chosen the purple rock.....
No one else seems to want to win.......
Ian's talking to the camera, saying "I'm feeling real good" because he knows that right now, in the eyes of the Jury, Tom's got the biggest target on him.


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A Peruvian woman claims she's the unacknowledged child of disgraced suspended senator Mike Duffy.
Karen Duffy says she's the product of a fling between Duffy, then a famous Canadian TV journalist, and a Peruvian drug trafficker who was serving time in Canada, says her lawyer Jorge Alejandro Rizuri.
She told her story to Macleans magazine.
Her March 15, 1982, birth certificate reportedly lists her father as Mike Duffy, "reportero de T.V."
"When I was a child I didn't really understand it. I just felt rejected and wondered why my father wasn't with me," she told Macleans.
After years of reaching out to Duffy and getting no response, Karen and her mother have filed a suit in Peruvian court seeking to formally establish that he is her biological father.
Duffy has vehemently disputed the claims.
"The Macleans story contains untrue allegations, made by a convicted narcotics smuggler, and which go back more than 30 years," he wrote in an e-mail to QMI Agency on Tuesday. "I will respond to any legal process from Peru in an appropriate manner. I will have no further comment."
Karen told Macleans that her mother, Yvette Benites, met Mike Duffy's sister Moira at the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ont., and then later met Mike Duffy when she was staying at a halfway house in Ottawa.
Karen told the magazine she doesn't want Duffy's money and she has no interest in moving to Canada.
"I want to have a relationship. I want to meet him. I want him to know me, and share the things that are important to me," she said.


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Medina on form at Huntington Beach
Gabriel Medina advanced to the round of 24 with victory in his heat at the US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach.
The Brazilian delivered an effortless masterclass on the lefthanders running into the pier at the Californian venue to notch a heat total of 17.97.
"That was definitely a tough heat because it was kind of slow and I just tried to find the big sets and do my airs," Medina said.
"The US Open is a big event and everyone wants this title," Medina said. "I know everyone is going to fight for it and I really hope I can win this year."
Joining 18-year-old Medina in victory on day five of the tournament was Patrick Gudauskas, who toppled Julian Wilson, Alejo Muniz and Joel Parkinson in his heat, largely thanks to a single wave score of 9.17.
Earlier in the day, Courtney Conlogue posted two heat wins in the women's event.
The American kicked off with a second-round victory before progressing straight through to the quarter-finals thanks to a single wave score of 9.10 and a heat total of 17.27.
"I think having that early morning heat today allowed me to shake the nerves out," Conlogue said. "I think I was on the wrong equipment yesterday and today my board was going perfectly through those flat sections. I'm glad I had that morning heat to work things out."
The local favourite added: "I was pretty nervous before this event for some reason. I think I was trying to aim too much for perfection and not focusing on the basics, which is what I've been training so hard for and working on.
"Today, I just calmed down and realised it's just another World Tour event and do what I've been practicing. It feels so good getting another fifth here already, so I'm glad I don't have to do another sudden-death round because Sage (Erickson) and Tyler (Wright) have been surfing amazing."
Women's round three results:
Heat 1: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 17.27, Tyler Wright (AUS) 12.00, Sage Erickson (USA) 9.40
Heat 2: Lakey Peterson (USA) 16.73, Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 13.43, Malia Manuel (HAW) 11.17
Heat 3: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 13.16, Coco Ho (HAW) 11.80, Paige Hareb (NZL) 9.10
Heat 4: Carissa Moore (HAW) 10.00, Pauline Ado (FRA) 8.83, Laura Enever (AUS) 4.97
Women's round two results:
Heat 1: Paige Hareb (NZL) 13.00 def. Sarah Mason (NZL) 8.10
Heat 2: Sage Erickson (USA) 14.40 def. Sofia Mulanovich (PER) 10.43
Heat 3: Tyler Wright (AUS) 13.00 def. Dax McGill (HAW) 7.66
Heat 4: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 14.93 def. Jacqueline Silva (BRA) 7.84
Heat 5: Laura Enever (AUS) 10.67 def. Justine Dupont (FRA) 7.83
Heat 6: Pauline Ado (FRA) 13.50 def. Rebecca Woods (AUS) 6.54
Men's round of 48 results:
Heat 7: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 17.97, Alex Ribeiro (BRA) 13.16, Dion Atkinson (AUS) 11.50, Adam Melling (AUS) 9.00
Heat 8: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 15.50, Granger Larsen (HAW) 12.66, Heitor Alves (BRA) 12.26, Thiago Camarao (BRA) 11.10
Heat 9: Mitchel Coleborn (AUS) 11.43, Nat Young (USA) 10.47, Josh Kerr (AUS) 10.34, Willian Cardoso (BRA) 6.70
Heat 10: John John Florence (HAW) 12.04, Brett Simpson (USA) 11.86, Gabe Kling (USA) 11.47, Caio Ibelli (BRA) 7.67
Heat 11: Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 17.17, Julian Wilson (AUS) 13.34, Alejo Muniz (BRA) 13.34, Joel Parkinson (AUS) 7.27


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The P-Series of variable frequency drives by Cerus now have an energy management bypass (EMB) option to keep HVAC systems running without interruption and has integrated ANSI grade power and BACnet communications.
Cerus Industrial, Inc. has enhanced their P-Series line of variable frequency drives (VFDs) with an Energy Management Bypass option (EMB). The new option assures uninterruptible operation of customers' HVAC systems, even if the drive is taken out of the loop for some reason, including reprogramming or maintenance operations.
Cerus' EMB architecture reflects an all new approach to bypass design. With integrated real time ANSI grade power metering and BACnet communications the EMB accurately measures consumption in both VFD and Bypass mode to +/- 1%. The EMB also provides all the advanced motor protection in bypass mode that would typically only be available through the VFD (OV/UV, ground fault, phase loss, phase reversal, and belt loss protection).
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Leading cotton analyst John Robinson cut his forecast for prices of the fibre for a second successive month, seeing scope for further falls, after the US unveiled "very bearish" supply and demand estimates.
Dr Robinson, cotton marketing specialist at Texas A&M University, who a month ago cut his forecast for 2014-15 future prices from 75-87 cents a pound to 72-82 cents a pound, reduced it further, to 65-77 cents a pound.
The forecast reflected revised estimates in the US Department of Agriculture's July Wasde crop report, released on Friday, which he termed "very bearish, with almost a 3m-bale increase to projected 2014-15 ending stocks".
The Wasde lifted its estimate for world cotton inventories at the close of the season starting next month from 102.72m bales to 105.68m bales – equivalent to nearly one-year's consumption, and a revision influential KCG Futures cotton specialist Sharon Johnson also termed "very bearish".
Dr Robinson's forecast compares with a price of 68.36 cents a pound for New York's best-traded December cotton contract on Monday, up 0.4% on the day, already near the bottom of the forecast range.
Indeed, noting the USDA forecast of US farmgate cotton price of 60-76 cents a pound, a marginal downgrade from the previous forecast of 60-80 cents a pound, Dr Robinson said that "I only hope that a 60-cent average farm price is [really] the low end of that range".
At 68 cents a pound, the mid-point of the USDA's price range, US farmers would receive their lower values for their cotton in five years.
The USDA revisions to the world balance sheet in 2014-15 reflected largely an upgrade of 900,000 bales to a six-year high of 5.20m bales in the forecast for US inventories.
The revision reflected higher hopes for US production, seen rebounding 28% to 16.5m bales, 1.5m bales more than previously expected, largely thanks to rains in the core southern Plains producing area.
The USDA also raised its estimate for US cotton plantings by 270,000 acres, reflecting the findings of a plantings report published two weeks ago.
"The historical implication of such a month-on-month increase is weaker cotton futures prices and weaker cash prices," Dr Robinson said, estimating at 0.219 cents the drop in potential for farmgate prices for every 1% rise in US ending stocks.
For the much-watched Cotlook A index of physical prices, which in including an element for transport typically trades at a decent premium to futures, he cut his price forecast to 86.6 cents per pound for 2014-15.
"For every 1% increase in world, excluding China, ending stocks, the A-index would be expected to weaken by 0.706 cents a pound," he said.
The Wasde raised the estimate for world ex-China cotton stocks as of the close of 2014-15 by 1.47m bales to 41.95m bales.
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Our multi-continent family is meeting in London for Christmas. We're a group of six, five adults and an eight-year-old girl. One of the adults has never been in London before, while the rest of us (except the child) have been multiple times. We're renting an apartment near Victoria Station. We'll be in London for a week.
I've already reserved some things, but I want to keep our schedule flexible. We have tickets for the Lessons and Carols at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Eve, for a pantomime (Cinderella), and for a concert at St. Martin in the Fields on Boxing Day. All of these are late afternoon or evening events, so the days are mostly free.
One day we'll surely go to visit the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. Another day, we should visit the Tower of London; my granddaughter learned of it when studying Elizabeth I in school and wants to see it.
We'll see Trafalgar Square when we go to the concert at St. Martin in the Fields. I hope to get to Covent Garden as well, and maybe to something on the other bank of the Thames; I've heard that Borough Market is very nice.
My granddaughter is also a Harry Potter fan; I found a self-guided Harry Potter tour on the internet that looks interesting, but I think we'll try to do parts of it on different days. My granddaughter has read the first four books, but hasn't seen any of the films, so things related only to the films wouldn't interest her.
We were thinking of going one day to the Duxford site of the Imperial War Museum, which would be very interesting to the pilot in our group. (The rest of us may stay in Cambridge most of the day.) We won't have a car, so we would need to get there by train to Cambridge, followed by bus (which runs only on Sundays) or taxi.
We will probably also visit a museum while we're there. I was thinking of the Courtald Gallery. I usually return to the British Museum every time I'm in London, but was thinking that this habit is impeding my visits to the many other museums in London. I'd also love to see the British Library (which I visited once before, years ago) and the Samuel Johnson Museum, but those may be places that would interest only me.
I would welcome suggestions for other things that might be fun for a child.
Also, my husband and I will arrive a day and a half in advance of the others. I was thinking of doing some shopping, and would like to know a place to get good woolen sweaters. I don't think I want to try shopping on Boxing Day. Is it really the madness that I've heard? I don't care much for crowds.
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Our multi-continent family is meeting in London for Christmas. We're a group of six, five adults and an eight-year-old girl. One of the adults has never been in London before, while the rest of us (except the child) have been multiple times. We're renting an apartment near Victoria Station. We'll be in London for a week.
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Once you arrive in London, book a restaurant for lunch on Christmas Day. Brown's Hotel is wonderful and festive.
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Friends of mine were in London last April with a 12-year-old, and she loved the Black Taxi Harry Potter tour.
King's Cross Station is a do-it-yourself visit.
For a different museum, head to the Sir John Soane and look especially at the Hogarth drawings. I'd also recommend the Wallace Collection and, of course, the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Sounds like a great trip ! Yes to the British Library and the V&A. May you have some non-rainy days !!
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Have a look at the Museum of London - it's not huge and has a bunch of things a child would like - interactive displays, giant royal coaches etc.
Also, if she is into anything royal - or equine (as so many little girls are) - she might like to visit the Royal Mews and see more coaches, horses, footmen, etc.
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We like the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. There's quite a lot of hands on stuff and nostalgia for adults.
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Another vote for the museum of London. It's a great little museum and pairs well with St. Paul's which is just down the road.
Sounds like you have a great trip planned!
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This link may help for ideas for kids
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Many of the museums have available special kits or treasure hunts or the like geared for kids, in particular the V&A and Natural History. Check those out on line in advance or ask at the information desk when you arrive. With so many of the London museums free it is great with kids you can pop in just to see a couple of things and not feel like you "wasted" the entire admission fee.
Remember too that there is no public transit on Christmas Day. So you will need to walk or taxi to your Christmas dinner. www.timeout.com/london is a good resource for what is open and going on that day.
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Thanks so much for the advice. The Museum of London sounds like a great idea. I'm still checking the London for Kids link.
I think we'll probably just have Christmas Dinner at the apartment. One reason we chose the apartment near Victoria Station is that it would have more possibilities for walks on Christmas Day than some of the others I considered.
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London walks does a tour on Xmas day which could be of interest www.walks.com
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Don't forget to look at the windows of Harrod's. It is magic for kids of ALl ages.
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"Don't forget to look at the windows of Harrod's"
Views about anything to do with the shop everyone in London calls Horrids vary (though among Londoners, not much). It's not where Londoners shop - or in a street much respected in London for windows or decent shopkeeping (Harvey Nicks being the one exception)
London's seen a huge improvement in its Christmas windows over the past couple of years, especially around Oxford St/ Regent St/ Piccadilly/ Bond St, with Selfridge's, Liberty and Fortnum's leading the way. But window dressing still isn't something we lead the world in. Having streets so crowded you can't see the windows anyway most certainly is
There's a depressing (for visitors, though most of us have left by then) tradition that Xmas windows get dressed out on Xmas Eve, and sometimes even the day before, to be replaced by pre-advertising for the post-Xmas Sale.
Street illuminations are unaffected, though there's also a longstanding tradition for Oxford St's to be disappointingly underwhelming (a tradition as old as moaning that shops start Xmas too early), and for Trafalgar Square to have an understated Nordic asceticism. Many side streets have better Xmas lights than the main shopping streets
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I second flanner's comments on shop windows and lights (Harrod's = vulgar at best, Harvey Nicks usually a bit wackier). Try Covent Garden and Seven Dials for street decorations (not that I've checked for this year).
Something else that might be of interest - seasonal ice rinks:
And for children of all ages, a panto (if you can find one with seats still available).
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We already have the tickets to the panto, Wind in the Willows. I thought we had reserved Cinderella, but I see that I was mistaken.
I looked into skating, but at the places I checked (Winter Wonderland, Somerset House, and the Tower of London), it was not only expensive, but you had to reserve a time and tickets were nonrefundable. It seemed to me that if it rained, we might have wasted the money. I can't see trying to convince my granddaughter that it's fun to skate in the rain. Anyway, she skates a lot at home, where it's practically free, although not with the spectacular surroundings. We'll just have to enjoy the surroundings without the skating, and she'll have to enjoy the skating without the surroundings.
Is the shopping really madness on Boxing Day? The bargains tempt me, and probably will tempt my daughters even more, but I have a very low tolerance for crowds. From what I've read, the crowds may be unpleasant before Christmas as well. Is there some lesser-known shopping area with good shops?
I would love to find a place where I can buy a few good wool sweaters, nothing high fashion, but definitely high quality. This is the kind of thing it's hard to find in Italy.
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Wind in the Willows sounds great, but isn't a panto (by which we mean a fairly raucous variety entertainment strung loosely around a well-known children's tale, but with plenty of audience participation).
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When you're at the Courtauld Gallery it's fun, and free, to stand and watch the Somerset House skaters for awhile.
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Boxing day is mostly shopping madness. Oxford Street/Regent Street are packed, and I've seen long queues for some of the designer shops in Bond Street.
Away from the main shopping streets it's much better. Notting HIll (Westbourne Grove/Ledbury Road) is quiet during the holidays, as many locals are away.
Westfield Shepherds Bush is open at 8 am on Boxing Day. We did this two years ago; if you're there that early, it's not busy. The shops in the upmarket Village area have good sales, with 50% off Prada etc. Spend 2 hours there, then leave!
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Actually, I remember now that Wind in the Willows wasn't a pantomime. I had forgotten altogether that I had reserved that instead of Cinderella, the pantomime. I've been organizing too many things in the past month.
I remember now that Wind in the Willows is a combination of song, ballet, and puppetry. It looked to me as though it might be more accessible to my granddaughter (8 years old) and my husband (with limited English language skills). Also I always loved the book, as did my kids (now adults, who will be part of our group). My granddaughter hasn't read it yet.
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If you can't abide crowds - then Harrods/Horrids, Fortnum & Mason, Oxford street, regent street, Harvey Nicks, et al will be totally intolerable. Same for portobello road (unless you arrive extremely early and leave by 9:30 AM) and Borough market. All are very crowded at the best of times and absolutely slammed during the holidays.
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I was really hoping to go to Fortnum & Mason. Is there some other place with a wide selection of all kinds of food, tea, etc., but not as well known? Or if I get there quite early would it be tolerable?
Haven't hard times hit London at all? Shopkeepers in Italy can only dream about such crowds. I was at Rinascente in Milan, and in the famous Galleria, a few years ago during the Christmas season, and, yes, it was a little crowded, but certainly not packed.
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Trek out to Hampton Court Palace - the English Versailles for their popular Tudor Christmas - Hampton Court is fab any time but so special at Christmas:
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There isn't really anything that compares to F&M in London.
I don't know where you are from, but I find Wholefoods Market in Kensington High Street amazing - there's really nothing like it where I live (Belgium). Even though we have some great food shops, nothing like having everything under one foor like Wholefoods.
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Wholefoods in Kensington High Street is certainly large, and I was taken with its cute 1950's American signage. However, looking at some of the speciality cheeses, it seemed that they were about 50% more expensive than usual. Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire was the one I noticed particularly.
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>>I was really hoping to go to Fortnum & Mason. Is there some other place with a wide selection of all kinds of food, tea, etc., but not as well known?<<
It's a while since I've been there, but you could try Partridge's off Sloane Square. Otherwise, it's a matter of speciality shops (e.g., around Covent Garden, the Tea House in Neal St, the Neal's Yard Dairy for cheese, and so on).
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There isn't really anything that compares to F&M in London for absurd prices. Or for an almost complete absence of any Britons with an interest in food.
The most interesting "British" equivalent of an Italian salumeria you'll meet in your travels are probably the London branches of my local deli http://daylesford.com/our-locations/
If you're phobic about crowds, go onto the Waitrose site (which is where people interested in food go if they're too mean to pay Daylesford prices) and get the food delivered. I know a lot of the outside world hasn't grasped the web for food yet. But these days, it IS the British Way - though sadly Waitrose's ability to organise a grocery site isn't up to its food retailing standards, and it might be less of a pain going to the shop
Conventional branches of supermarkets are THE worst places for misanthropes in the two days before Christmas, but you're not going to find much in the poncier places that won't be in the Waitrose Victoria branch.
You can never be 100% accurate in predicting crowds around Christmas, but central London will be empty this year on Dec 24, and empty by its standards on December 22. That may not apply to food shops, but I - like most Londoners - would normally rate the John Lewis Food Hall in Oxford Street as London's best all-round food place (for most purposes it's Waitrose's flagship).
If you're thinking of F&M for twee food souvenirs, you'll do better in some ways at a decent-size M&S, though its Marble Arch flagship food dept does stay busy the couple of days before Xmas.
For sweaters etc: again, most non-food shops in the centre will be empty (by our standards, which obviously aren't those of Europe's depressed provinces) Dec 23& 24. I'm not sure what you're expecting from sweaters. M&S is better value than much of the world outside (though opinions differ on quality these days), Primark's dirt cheap, and London's got more different brands of fashion chain (especially foreign ones) than anywhere else on earth.
But for such global brands as operate in sweaters, prices are no different from elsewhere (indeed,some of the more amateur-night American chains, like A&F and J Crew, quite wilfully operate a "pounds for dollars" pricing strategy. But they'll go home soon, and are already publicly wondering why no-one shops there). We're not desperately fussed about what Americans and Italians call "quality"
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The Victoria branch of Waitrose is in their micro-chain of convenience stores. The closest full size store is at 27 Motcomb Street, SW1X 8GG
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I do like the Motcomb Street branch of Waitrose. For NYE stock up on Nyetimber, a British 'champagne', that is sold there. It's really quite good.
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Whole Foods Market still around - flanner pooch was predicting its dismal demise several years ago when it opened!
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When I lived in London, about twice a week, I would take the bus ( 6 or 36 at the time ) backwards from near Selfridges to the end and then back home ( Maida Vale ) just to see the Christmas lights.
I would try to get a top deck up front for the best view
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Something else OP might want to check out. There's a Christmas market on the South Bank, outside the Festival Hall, with an old-fashioned carousel, and also up on the terrace of the Hall a couple of giant snow globes for people to power by pedalling away.
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I see that the National Gallery has a Nativity trail
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People who live in London might not mind terribly but for those visiting, the fact that London is virtually shut down on Christmas day might be a surprise. No taxis, no buses, no theaters, nothing is open really.
There are a couple of restaurants open, Sarastro (no affiliation whatsoever) near Covent Garden is usually open on Christmas but otherwise plan ahead for meals.
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>>I see that the National Gallery has a Nativity trail<<
Does one dress up as a wise man, or as one of Herod's soldiers?
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" No taxis, no buses," there are still taxis around.
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I'm a italian girl and I stay in London last month.
London is a beautful city and offers many things for both adults and children.
I recommend the Natural History Museum, inside there are many animal species and you can see the history of the earth.
After, near to Madame Trussaud's there is an aquarium fantastic!
You can buy the ticket from the internet.
Good trip and Marry Christmas
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One Christmas Eve we tried to find a taxi to get us back to our Mayfair hotel after Midnight Mass at Westminster Abbey. It turned out to be hopeless and a long, cold walk.
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>>there are still taxis around.<< . . . but not many -- most are pre-booked. But there are some.
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Hooameye have you actually ridden in a London taxi on Christmas day?
I have spent three lonely Christmases in London in my life and never once have I spotted a taxi on Christmas day.
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"Hooameye have you actually ridden in a London taxi on Christmas day?"
Yes, 2 years ago, wasn't too difficult, a lot easier than trying to get a taxi in Minneapolis over thanksgiving!!
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There's always the Boris Bikes, and with no busses and little other traffic, it's the perfect day to cycle in London. If it's not raining or snowing, that is how I would spend Christmas day in London.
If you do need a taxi, try Atlas Cars, they are great. Not sure if they work on Christmas day though.
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funny how London is dead as a door nail on Xmas Day but Paris is hopping with zillions of folks out and about strolling around - many cafes and small stores are open and even some museums - in London probably even the churches are closed.
I did notice on Coronation Street that pubs are indeed open or at least some of them on Xmas Day so that could be an option as well.
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True, Patrick, about Paris.
>>in London probably even the churches are closed<<
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"funny how London is dead as a door nail on Xmas Day"
An infallible guide to someone out of touch with Britain in the 21st century.
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People who live in London might not mind terribly but for those visiting, the fact that London is virtually shut down on Christmas day might be a surprise. No taxis, no buses, no theaters, nothing is open really.>
flanner - not the only one who thinks that I guess Sarastro is completely out of touch as well?
And several others above say the same. Me I don't know I am just parroting folks who I think know.
So London hops on Christmas Day - why are there no tubes, taxis, buses, etc.
Are McDonalds open?
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"but for those visiting, the fact that London is virtually shut down on Christmas day might be a surprise."
Thankfully we haven't become the 51st state just yet, I still, like many have a (probably unpopular) view on Sunday trading.
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My local was open on Christmas . . of course, Opening hours were in force when I live there
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I'm just returned from London, where we had a wonderful time, in spite of the fact that we had to curtail our program greatly. Both of my daughters are academics and arrived with their laptops and unfinished end-of-the-semester grading to do. After that, they wanted to sleep late every day, and one of them learned just before the trip that she was expecting twins! I plan to post a trip report, but here I'll reply to some of the suggestions I got and give some ideas on how things worked out.
We didn't get to Duxford, and the only museum we visited was the Victoria & Albert, which was certainly very interesting, especially to my granddaughter, who loved the historical fashions exhibit. Wind in the Willows was wonderful, and was enjoyed by all, except one daughter who was not well enough to go. Another highlight was the Lessons and Carols service in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Eve, and we also enjoyed the Baroque concert at St. Martin in the Fields on Boxing Day.
Maybe London is not completely shut down for Christmas, but it's certainly very shut down compared to cities in Italy, where museums are closed on Christmas Day, but open on Christmas Eve and St. Stephen's (Boxing to you) Day, and there is at least some limited public transportation running in Italian cities on Christmas Day. Also, in Italy, there are lots of people who aren't totally plastered walking around outdoors on Christmas Day. (Flanneruk seems to think that only Americans notice things that seem somewhat unusual in the London.)
Our apartment near Victoria Station was ideal. The weather was mostly good, although one day there was heavy rain and gale-force winds; this was the day we went to the Tower of London, and the weather was pretty much the same the last time we were there. Oddly enough, for most of the time we were there, it was warmer in England than in Le Marche, where we live.
I made the mistake of scheduling the Harry Potter walk for Boxing Day, which was not a brilliant idea, since one of the main attractions was off limits because King's Cross Station was totally closed that day; I had made sure that trains were running on Boxing Day, but it hadn't dawned on me that one major train station might be completely closed. Except for one, all of the shops recommended on the walk were closed. Also some of the charming streets that were featured in the films were full of trash, beer bottles, piss, vomit, and even human excrement, the last of which I was fortunately able to keep my granddaughter from noticing. We ran into an organized Harry Potter tour while we were out, and I was just glad I hadn't paid anything for one of those on that particular day. My granddaughter was happy with the walk, all things considered, and that's what counts. However, it would have been much better planned for a different day, maybe the 24th, which is the day we went to Winter Wonderland.
Winter Wonderland had been a bit oversold to me, but it was fine for my granddaughter, who managed to run through a great deal of money in a very short time. (For the convenience of children there are ATM machines everywhere you turn.)
I did almost no shopping, except for groceries. I was too busy organizing everything, cooking everything, and cleaning up everything. This is one of the big disadvantages, from my point of view, of staying in an apartment rather than in a hotel, although with a group of six, a hotel is much more practical.
My husband and I visited some medieval churches and went to the British Library the day before the others arrived. We passed through King's Cross Station, where there was a branch of Fortnum & Mason, and where I bought a few things, including a pot of Stilton cheese, which might have been overpriced, but was very delicious. I also stocked up on tea while I was in London, as in Italy there isn't a great variety of good tea.
My granddaughter absolutely loved London and wants to live there when she grows up. Since London is one of my favorite cities in the world, I was very happy to share this experience with her.
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>>Also some of the charming streets that were featured in the films were full of trash, beer bottles, piss, vomit, and even human excrement,<<
If you think that was bad you should see New Years Day in London (or then again, perhaps not).
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This is a very clean funeral cosplay of Ciel Phamhive from Black Butler. The cosplayer has paid very close attention to the details of the character. The suit is nicely fitted with top quality material, in all aspects of the cosplay. The buttons are in the form of delicate pale gold roses, which is highly reflective of the Victorian era in Britain, a nice touch to this cosplay. Although hard to see in this picture, she is wearing Ciel's ring appropriately. The wig is grey, which looks much more natural and preferable than one that tries to match the bluish colour in the anime. The cosplayer's eyes are also blue, and is enhanced by the blue eye shadow and eye liner. The stance and expression are very fitting as he appears to be very deep in thought over something of interest, while remaining rather cute. The stone wall backdrop is a well thought out setting, reflecting the Victorian era in every aspect of this image. Overall, fantastic cosplay.
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Very simple and elegant photo right there. I like what you did with your hands, as they display the behavior of the earl of the Phantomhive household.The makeup is good, but I suggest making your eyes look a little bigger and softer.The shot is also well done. Not only does it follow the 3x3 rule, it also does not override or put too much emphasis on the subject of the shot. The deviant looking Ciel is good... But I suggest practicing your facial expressions for more impact on your photos. But all in all, great job! Keep up the good work!
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this is such beautiful cosplay *O*
you are too beautiful *____*
Very cute and elegant!!
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Talks aimed at resolving the dispute will be held on Friday, but the crippling strike will continue until Thursday evening.
Tube services will again be disrupted on Thursday because of a walkout by members of the Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) and TSSA unions in protest at the closure of ticket offices.
The 48-hour walkout will end at 9pm, with another strike planned for next week unless the deadlock is broken.
Unions have been calling on London Mayor Boris Johnson to meet them to discuss the closures, which will see the loss of 950 jobs.
But the mayor had refused to meet unless they called off the industrial action.
The strike action is expected to cost the UK economy around £50m.
There was no service on the Waterloo and City or Circle lines and a number of stations are closed, forcing passengers to use to alternative routes.
Some morning train services took twice as long as normal, while at Clapham Junction, the country's busiest railway station, one passenger head-butted another after failing to get on a busy train.
Roads were much busier than usual, as a surge of cyclists and drivers clogged major routes into the city, and there were long queues for buses, despite an extra 100 vehicles being put into service.
David Cameron described the strike as "shameful", telling MPs at Prime Minister's Questions: "The fact is only 3% of transactions now involve ticket offices, so it makes sense to have fewer people in those offices but more people on the platforms and the stations."
Earlier, Transport for London said services were running on seven out of 11 lines, although the unions claimed 70% of the service was at a standstill.
The conciliation service Acas said in a brief statement: "The parties in the London Underground dispute have agreed to come in and continue exploratory talks at Acas this Friday, February 7."
RMT leader Bob Crow said: "Our negotiators are geared up and ready to enter the exploratory talks on Friday.
"In the meantime the current action continues with the rock solid support of our members and we will be back out on the picket lines early tomorrow morning as the strike heads into its third day."
A second 48-hour stoppage is due to be held on February 11.
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This true-crime biopic explores the life of mother-and-son grifters Sante and Kenny Kimes, from Kenny's childhood apprenticeship in early-'80s Honolulu to Sante's murder trial in late-'90s New York City. Fortyish Sante Kimes (Judy Davis) uses her looks and her brazen disregard for the law to acquire whatever she wants in life, from jewels to cars to large insurance settlements. Her most frequent accomplice in these endeavors? Son Kenny (former General Hospital actor Jonathan Jackson), who spends most of his childhood serving as a bit player, then later a co-star, in his mother's schemes. When a slavery -- yes, slavery -- conviction sends Sante to prison, Kenny enjoys a more or less normal adolescence with his wealthy father (Chelcie Ross), who has long refused to marry Sante. But upon her return from the big house, the now over-the-hill Sante re-enlists her son's assistance in her amoral activities. Eventually fingered for the murder of a wealthy Manhattan matron, Sante finds herself in court, where her son's testimony may well end her lifelong crime spree once and for all. Adapted by Randy Stone and Teena Booth from Jeanne King's book Dead End: The Crime Story of the Decade: Murder, Incest and High-Tech Thievery, A Little Thing Called Murder premiered January 23, 2006, on the Lifetime cable network. It was actually the second TV movie to explore the Kimes' story, following Mary Tyler Moore's turn in the 2001 CBS offering Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes.


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Fancy an island holiday? Here is the list for the top 5 beautiful island destinations in Britain that you can visit! Tresco The second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall, Tresco is a small, family-owned island that dates back to the...
Fancy an island holiday? Here is the list for the top 5 beautiful island destinations in Britain that you can visit!
The second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall, Tresco is a small, family-owned island that dates back to the bronze age. Robert Dorrien-Smith and his wife, Lucy, owns this lovely island along with the businesses in the island. A total of 150 people permanently lives on this island with majority of them being young families. Taking your family here on vacation is great because the island is very safe and secure for children of all ages. This beautiful island is home to the world famous Abbey Garden, known for its extraordinary plants and its collection of shipwrecked figureheads.
St. Kilda, an isolated archipelago in the remotest part of the British Isles is located 40 miles west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The islands are home to some of the oldest ruins from the Bronze and Iron Age making the islands a UNESCO World Reserve. If you are interested in diving then St. Kilda is one of the best places in Britain to do just that because of its clear water and its submerged caves, tunnels and arches. The islands are also the home to the world's largest colony of gannets nests on and sea stacs. St. Kilda is an amazing island with a lot of history but coming here is not easy. Many visits begins in the Western Isles but some visitors come to St. Kilda by taking cruises, charter boats, yachts or camping.
The Islands of Orkney is an archipelago of 70 islands located off the Scottish coast. Kirkwall, the capital of the islands and the main town, offers many craft and gift shops, cafes, hotel restaurants and bars, making it the ideal location to explore the islands. Visitors who comes to Orkney do not miss visiting Stromness, the second biggest town in Orkney, because the town is the most picturesque. There are a lot to do in these islands. You can visit stunning beaches, attend a wide variety of festivals and events, or dive on the sunken remains of the German High Seas Fleet.
One of the sunniest places in Britain, the Isle of Tiree offers tranquillity, freedom of space and clean pure air. The island is the perfect place for you to relax, listen to the waves and enjoy the view. With the abundance of birds and other wildlife that this island have, naturalists will be engrossed for hours. isle of Tiree also offers heritage centres in which you can learn about the history of the island.
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Mr Frank bought an iPhone about 18 months ago. I wasn't altogether pleased with the purchase as you can get so many phones for free on contracts, but the iPhone you have to buy. Having invested in the iPhone, I understood the rationale for buying a good case to protect it, and was pleased when Mr Frank resisted spending £30 on a case and found this one for £9.99 instead from the O2 store.
This case has a lot to recommend it. It is available in black or red, and both Mr Frank and I thought the red version looked smart and so bought that one. It is made from real leather, though not of the highest quality, and has a soft lining which protects and cleans the screen of the phone as it is put in and taken out of the case. The phone is pushed into the case and is taken out by pulling the tag on the outside of the case. This then eases the phone out of the pouch. Its slim design was really good as it doesn't ad any extra bulk to the phone, so it still really easily can fit in your pocket.
At first, Mr Frank and I found that the leather had very little give in it, and it was actually quite hard to get the phone in and out of the case. Over the course of a few weeks, the leather softened up and fortunately this became less of a problem.
Just as the leather was softening up, the little tag which you pull to get the phone out broke! Maybe it was because the phone was such a snug fit in the pouch that it was overused. Anyway, Mr Frank took it back to the shop and the case was replaced with a new one.
A couple of months later, exactly the same thing happened. This time unfortunately, the case could not be returned. Mr Frank is now struggling with getting his phone in and out of the pouch without the lever mechanism of the case. The case is so difficult to use now that he rarely bothers putting it on at all, though my cynical side wonders whether leaving his iPhone thus unprotected is part of a plan to get an iPhone 4!
Ever since purchasing my iPhone it has been the best purchase of my life, I have had an itouch since November of last year and instantly fell in love with the iPhone, So because I paid a nice figure to buy this smart phone I thought to myself that along side getting a plastic screen protector for it I also decided that if I have to spend a little to get a protective casing then that is what I shall do to preserve it as long as I can, because let's face it, the better these phones are getting the more vulnerable to dust and knocks and scrapes they are vulnerable to.
I can remember all my previous mobile phones of the past like the baby Sony Ericsson and the Sony Ericsson T-28, lasting for so long, and the only reason why I stop using them was because I got bored and wanted a new phone, but the phones themselves I can (if I wanted to ) still use them today, they were practically unbreakable, just like a Tonka toy.
So now I have a phone that is too vulnerable to leave out on it's own and requires some protection.
Then I see it, this nice black sleek case with a luxurious soft leather design, protecting your iPhone from fingerprints, bumps, dust and scratches, to top this off the inside has a soft lining that protects the screen every time it goes in and out the case with it's nice strong stitching so it won't fall apart from wear and tear giving an overall image of it looking and feeling very slim line, you may forget you even have it on you.
And just for some extra ease instead of tilting it upside down to slide the phone out, there is actually a little string system that if you pull on then the iPhone can come out easier.
Because it is so warm and snug on the inside it keeps it clean and secure.
Final thought
If your going to pay out for a nice phone you expect to pay out for a nice protection case, but sometimes that's just not the case, especially here, who says quality has to be expensive.
With this little wonder pouch you get what's advertised and what's more your phone is taken care of, isn't that the whole point.


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Heat-Celtics to open new season
NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA schedule has been released, and the champion Miami Heat are part of an opening-night tripleheader.
The Heat will raise their banner at home on Oct. 30 against the Boston Celtics - meaning Ray Allen's first game with Miami is against his former club. Also on opening night, Washington visits Cleveland and Dallas plays at the Los Angeles Lakers, Steve Nash's debut as Kobe Bryant's teammate.
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The first game for the Brooklyn Nets is Nov. 1, when the New York Knicks visit for a matchup of now-crosstown rivals.
Brooklyn is also home for Christmas, hosting Boston. Other Christmas games include the Knicks at Lakers, Oklahoma City at Miami in a Finals rematch, Houston at Chicago and Denver at the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Tony McCoy set to make big impact at Festival
Tony McCoy moved to within two of his double century of winners for the season yesterday – and also received a massive Cheltenham Festival boost.
McCoy left it until the last race at Carlisle to ride Bobs Lord Tara to his one victory of the day, and news that My Tent Or Yours should be fully fit for Tuesday's Champion Hurdle tilt was music to the Ulsterman's ears.
My Tent Or Yours offers McCoy his best chance of a 30th Festival winner – and the fact it would be in one of the meeting's most prestigious races is an added bonus.
Next week's Cheltenham Festival – which runs from Tuesday to Friday – is likely to be the penultimate one for McCoy who will be 40 in May.
He will secure an unprecedented 19th successive champion jockey title next month and will almost certainly attempt a 20th.
The only landmark that will remain should he accomplish that feat would be 5,000 career winners, which would be a further three or four seasons away.
"I don't know if this will be my last Festival but that's definitely not the plan," said McCoy.
"I'm not so stupid I don't realise I haven't got many Cheltenham Festivals left but I hope this isn't the final one.
"I'm aware I'm going to have to retire at some point and I want that to happen while I'm still successful and champion jockey."
McCoy has two potential Gold Cup rides in Triolo D'Alene and Teaforthree as he chases a third win in the big race, but his best Festival chances will come on board My Tent Or Yours, At Fishers Cross (World Hurdle) and Taquin Du Seuil (JLT Novices).
And McCoy feels Ulster-bred Bobs Worth – the defending champion – will be the one to beat in next Friday's Gold Cup, the Festival's top race.
"The way Bobs Worth won at Leopardstown was really impressive," he said.
"The only worry is it's very hard to win back-to-back Gold Cups, but he hasn't had a hard season. He'll be very difficult to beat."
My Tent Or Yours confirmed his fitness for the Champion Hurdle with a workout at Seven Barrows yesterday.
Handler Nicky Henderson said the two-times Grade One winner has now recovered from a wound in a sole of a foot which had led to concern over his participation in the big race on the opening day.
My Tent Or Yours, winner of the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle and the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton this winter, will again flex his muscles in a spin today, although the champion trainer has repeatedly stressed all of his significant work for Cheltenham was completed some time ago.
Henderson said: "He's 100% fine. In terms of how he is, he's where he was last week and the week before that."
My Tent Or Yours warmed up for the Champion Hurdle with a jumpers bumper victory at Kempton last month and is as big as 5-1 for Cheltenham glory.
Meanwhile, Mount Benbulben has suffered a setback that has ruled him out of the Festival.
Owner Barry Connell revealed the Gordon Elliott-trained nine-year-old had sustained a splint bone fracture which may keep him out for the rest of the season.
Connections had considered supplementing Mount Benbulben for the World Hurdle, although he held entries in the Ryanair Chase and the Gold Cup.
"He should definitely be back for next season," said Connell.
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Tokyo (AFP) Aug 25, 2011
Japan's government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs, a news report said Thursday.
Government nuclear experts, however, said the World War II bomb blast and the accidental reactor meltdowns at Fukushima, which has seen ongoing radiation leaks but no deaths so far, were beyond comparison.
The amount of caesium-137 released since the three reactors were crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami has been estimated at 15,000 tera becquerels, the Tokyo Shimbun reported, quoting a government calculation.
That compares with the 89 tera becquerels released by "Little Boy", the uranium bomb the United States dropped on the western Japanese city in the final days of World War II, the report said.
The estimate was submitted by Prime Minister Naoto Kan's cabinet to a lower house committee on promotion of technology and innovation, the daily said.
The government, however, argued that the comparison was not valid.
While the Hiroshima bomb claimed most of its victims in the intense heatwave of a mid-air nuclear explosion and the highly radioactive fallout from its mushroom cloud, no such nuclear explosions hit Fukushima.
There, the radiation has seeped from molten fuel inside reactors damaged by hydrogen explosions.
"An atomic bomb is designed to enable mass-killing and mass-destruction by causing blast waves and heat rays and releasing neutron radiation," the Tokyo Shimbun daily quoted a government official as saying. "It is not rational to make a simple comparison only based on the amount of isotopes released."
Government officials were not immediately available to confirm the report.
The blinding blast of the Hiroshima bomb and its fallout killed some 140,000 people, either instantly or in the days and weeks that followed as high radiation or horrific burns took their toll.
At Fukushima, Japan declared a 20-kilometre (12 mile) evacuation and no-go zone around the plant after the March 11 quake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago.
A recent government survey showed that some areas within the 20-kilometre zone are contaminated with radiation equivalent to more than 500 millisieverts per year -- 25 times more than the government's annual limit.
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Bolton tell-all likely to slam State Department, UN
By the end of the year, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton plans to publish a "tell all" book on his experience in the Bush administration, according to an item in today's Washington Post. The finished product is likely to put the State Department, up for major criticism.
Al Kamen, in his "In the Loop" column, says that the controversial Bush appointee who stepped down from his ambassadorial post at the start of the year because he failed to win confirmation from the Senate, does not yet have a publisher selected. But by the end of the year, he plans to write a book detailing his experiences in the State Department as Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, and later as US Ambassador to the UN.
Kamen did not say whether Bolton would tell more of the back story of his role in blocking the recount of the vote in Florida during the 2000 Election.
Kamen suggests that the book will likely focus on Bolton's days at the United Nations. He adds that is is not clear "how Bolton will treat his most recent bosses, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice." The columnist notes that Bolton may be more critical of Rice, based on the recent North Korea agreement, which the former ambassador publicly criticized. And, he adds, "There are others at State sure to come in for their share of abuse."
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The Greater Land of Israel Delusion
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has no real chance of garnering political support for the diplomatic program he is now formulating in his latest attempt to end the Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed, because it is based on the evacuation of the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has no real chance of garnering political support for the diplomatic program he is now formulating in his latest attempt to end the Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed, because it is based on the evacuation of the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. The cumbersome plan proposed by Labor MKs Shlomo Ben-Ami and Haim Ramon - "the unilateral separation program with multinational support, as an interim step before a comprehensive settlement with the backing of the international community" - is similarly destined for the dustbin of history. It too is based on the assumption that it would be possible to dismantle dozens of Israeli settlements built in the territories. The decisive fact is that no government has yet dared to move as much as one settler from Judea, Samaria and Gaza because these areas fell into Israeli hands as a result of the Six Day War. On the contrary, all Israeli prime ministers of the past 34 years, along with their deputies and their cabinet ministers, have in fact implemented the vision of those who believe in the Greater Land of Israel. Two of them, Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres, today hold key positions vis-a-vis the mess they themselves cooked up.
The historical logic of the Oslo agreement is based on the assumption that Israel and the Palestinians have both arrived at the realization that they must relinquish their respective dreams and divide the land between them. Whether stated explicitly or implicitly, in the discussions or in signed agreements, the Oslo agreement heralded mutual recognition and acceptance of the necessity of providing the other side with living space in which it would be able to realize its right of self-determination without having to constantly worry about threats to its existence.
In fact, the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza doubled in the eight years that have passed since the signing of the agreement. Not a single settlement has been dismantled, and not a single step has been taken to make the settlers understand that they will eventually have to move back to within the Green Line. When it was proposed to then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin that the nettlesome Jewish enclave in the heart of Hebron be removed following the massacre perpetrated by Baruch Goldstein in the Cave of the Patriarchs, he recoiled at doing so, arguing that it would represent a precedent. Ehud Barak spoke about creating settlement blocs, but in actual fact, he lent a hand to the growth of the settlements.
An identical process occurred among the Palestinians. They too refused to relinquish their dream of a greater Land of Israel. They too continued to articulate the concept of the right of return of Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel and to preach its implementation. Just seven months after the signing of the Oslo accords, Yasser Arafat declared at the PLO Central Committee in April 1994, "Why do they say no to the PLO? Because the PLO means the return." On November 15, 1998, Arafat announced, "The right of return is a sacred right and the campaign on this matter is the hottest and most central issue. Fifty-five percent of our nation are refugees and I am one of them. That is the heart of the Palestinian problem."
Arafat's public declarations on this matter over the past eight years have been continuous and consistent, and the message implicit in them is unequivocal - no one may concede the right of return. This issue is identical in importance to the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Military Intelligence reports that Arafat has adhered to the same line in internal debates as well - the implementation of the right of return within the Green Line, at least for the 300,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. According to Military Intelligence assessments, Arafat's commitment to the implementation of the right of return within Israel carries the weight of a historical vow that he cannot rescind.
Statements made by Arafat's associates after the failure of the Camp David summit (for example, Abu Mazen in an interview with Al-Hayat published on November 23 and 24, 2000) prove that for the Palestinians, the right of return means the return to Israel ("When speaking of the right of return, we are speaking about the return of the refugees to Israel, because it drove them out and because their property is there," according to a translation by The Middle East Media Research Institute) The only one to voice a different opinion on this matter has been Dr. Sari Nusseibeh.
Until both sides to the conflict free themselves of their Greater Land of Israel delusions, the conflict cannot be resolved.
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There has never been a golfer to rival Arnold Palmer. To the legions of golf fans around the world, Palmer is a charismatic hero, the winner of sixty-one tournaments on the PGA Tour and still going strong on the Senior PGA Tour. But behind the legend, there is the private Palmer--a man of wit, compassion, loyalty, and true grit in the face of personal adversity. Writing with the humor and candor that are as much his trademark as his unique golf swing, Palmer narrates the deeply moving story of his life both on and off the links. He recounts the loving relationship he shared with his father, "Deacon" Palmer, the course superintendent and head professional at the Latrobe Country Club where young Arnie developed his game, his friendships and rivalries with golf greats, his enduringly happy marriage with Winnie, his legendary charges to triumph and titanic disasters, and his valiant battle against cancer and remarkable recovery. Arnold Palmer has lived one of the great sporting lives of the twentieth century. Now, with the help of acclaimed golf writer James Dodson, he has created one of the great sports autobiographies of our time.
About the Author
James Dodson is a contributing editor and regular columnist for Golf magazine and golf editor for Departures magazine. His work has appeared in GQ, Travel & Leisure, Outside, and numerous other national magazines. His columns won the Golf Writers of America Award in 1995. Dodson's first book, Final Rounds, became an instant golf classic. From the Hardcover edition.
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"Arnold Palmer has led a rich and singular life and has captured it in a wonderful book."
--The New York Times Book Review
"THIS MEMOIR SHOOTS BELOW PAR. . . . Most thrilling to fans will be his shot-by-shot perspective on legendary golf matches, such as the 1960 U.S. Open, where Palmer, Hogan, and Nicklaus converged."
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"A BOOK FIT FOR A KING . . . Palmer's love of golf, and of the life it gave him, streams forth in his new autobiography, A Golfer's Life."
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Made these for both the lovely Renee/Umister and myself in about a week! Everything is stretchy and serged and coverstitched and can totally be used for Jazzercise and then thrown in the washing machine. Renee and I wore these at Japan Expo in France and had the best time, and we can't wait to wear them again! Also, welcome to my ass.
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Communication in the Battle of the Sexes Game: Some Experimental Results
We report experimental results on the role of preplay communication in a one-shot, symmetric battle of the sexes game. We conducted games in which there was no communication, and we studied the effects of three different communication structures: one-way communication with one round of messages and two-way communication with one round as well as three rounds of messages. With these messages, each player could indicate which action he planned to take. Communication significantly increased the frequency of equilibrium play. One-way communication was most effective in resolving the coordination problem. While there was more conflict with two-way communication, one round of communication helped to overcome some of the coordination problems, and three rounds of communication performed even better.
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