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Are you in a relationship (marital, amorous, friendly, familial) stressed by political differences? If so my wife, Jeanne Safer, author, psychoanalyst, and sometime NR-cruiser, would like to interview you for her current book (working title: Love You, Hate Your Politics; ...
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So I finally saw the movie about America's great rugged face – Diana Vreeland: The Eye Must Travel. The next night I saw Lincoln. One of the most instructive moments of the evening was the shift ...
One Man's GOTV
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Election Summary
As Joe Biden says, Chris Stevens is dead and the UAW's pension plan is alive.
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Order Yours Now
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For John J. Miller
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Change of Mood
My last recommended reading, Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist? was a bit austere. If you want to see how to live, try In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. ...
Grass Roots Funder
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When I first met Frances Bronson, as an NR intern 36 summers ago, I was a bit intimidated. In the Book of Job God speaks from a whirlwind. Frances lived in one — the spin of WFB's ceaseless demands and commands, ...
My Visit with Gore Vidal
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War of 1812
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Msgr. Clark, R.I.P.
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The DAR Will Never Look Quite the Same
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Titanic Commemorations
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George Will's column on Al Felzenberg and WFB has made waves. George rightly praises Al's book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley, Jr. I hosted a discussion of it with Al at ...
Appreciating Cervantes's Innovations, 400 Years after His Death
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Love Across Party Lines, and Other Topics
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A Sanders Fan on HRC, the Campaign So Far
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Harding's Love Child and Larger Legacy
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A Contemporary of Lincoln Reacts to His Death
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A New Birth
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All Alone with Bach
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Lincoln, the Founders, and YouTube
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Love in a Temperate Climate
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Shakespeare at 450, Oxford at . . .
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Reid Buckley, R.I.P.
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Rocky Mountain High
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Sometimes You Read a Sentence and Say . . .
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Holiday Guests
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Holiday Survival Advice
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A Hardy Perennial . . .
. . . in my marriage.
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Bob Filner Does It, It Must Be Okay!
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The Master and the Tyrant
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How to Write About Gettysburg
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Kenneth Minogue, R.I.P.
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God I Thank Thee That I Am Not as This Publican
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Cambronne Time
La garde meurt et ne se rend pas.
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Fearful Asymmetry
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27 Days To Go
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Cheesehead Alert
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The Constitution Is Still Sound
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The Year in Just One Photo
A friend e-mails:
New History Webcasts
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Re: Kodak Armed to the Teeth
Jonah — when you say Rochester, N.Y., smile.
Founding Father of Reggae
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The Right Name
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The Founders, WFB, WASPs, Jesse Jackson . . .
. . . will all appear when I and my books are the subject of In Depth on C-SPAN2, Monday April 2, noon to 3 p.m.


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[More blog entries about archaeology, Sweden, ethnicity, saami, minorities, indigenouspeople; arkeologi, etnicitet, samer, minoriteter, urbefolkningar]
I got an inspiring question from Z at Enkla bloggen.
"Who made the rock carvings, hällristningar? Was it the Saami people?
Is this a sensitive matter? I've already asked several archaeologists but they haven't answered me."
Archaeology is fundamentally incapable of answering the question "who did this?" without the aid of written history. This is because everything we put into that question when we pose it is non-material, and the archaeological record is entirely material. This also holds when it comes to questions about peoples, questions of ethnicity, possibly nationalistic questions. Bear with me for a moment while I explain a few things.
In the American vernacular, "ethnicity" is just a polite way of saying "race". In academe, "ethnicity" means something else which is taken to reside entirely in people's heads. My ethnicity is Swedish. I'm also a white atheist whose mother tongue is Germanic. I could be a black Christian whose mother tongue was Fenno-Ugric, and still be Swedish. But the only way to know about my ethnicity is to talk to me or read something I wrote. Whack me hard in the head with a flint axe, and my ethnicity, religion and mother tongue disappear, leaving only my phenotype, my "race".
Ethnicities are mutable, inconstant and fluid: they're renegotiated and redefined every day. When I say that I'm Swedish, then this does not mean exactly what it meant when my great grandmother said she was Swedish. And it hardly has any connection to what someone meant in AD 1007 when they said they were Swedish. The words remain, but the content changes. There are no timeless nationalities. All culture is continually bastardised and mutated.
Now for the rock carvings. Swedish rock carvings come in two flavours. The country is shaped like a ski orientated N-S. In the northern two thirds of Sweden, the rock carvings are mainly from the Neolithic and tend to depict elks. In the southern third, they are mainly from the Bronze Age and tend to depict boats.
Sweden's earliest known inhabitants documented in written sources spoke languages belonging to two different language groups and were ethnically divided into innumerable tribes. The country's northern two thirds were home to hunter-gatherer-fishers who spoke Fenno-Ugric and had a very low population density. The southern third was home to farmers who spoke Germanic and had a higher population density. This was in the 1st Millennium AD, and from the earliest references on the farmers encroached upon the area of the hunter-gatherer-fishers until they had settled all the fertile land and Christianised the hunter-gatherer-fishers. Attempts were made into the 20th century to wipe out their language too.
So, who made the rock carvings? Impossible to tell. Centuries passed between the last boat rock-carving (about 300 BC?) and the first written mention of languages and tribes in Sweden (about AD 100), millennia between the last elk rock-carving (about 2000 BC?) and that date. There is no data, there can never be any data, on languages or ethnicities in Scandinavia around 2000 BC. Archaeologists can't answer that question, and neither can anyone else. Because the answer isn't hidden in the bones of those people, it isn't hidden in their pottery or lithics or meal remains. The data were in their minds, and those are forever lost.
This is not a controversial issue among archaeologists. But it may be among nationalists without archaeological training. Because they
- a) believe in national essences that stay constant over long periods of time,
- b) believe that such a nation may have the right to land,
- c) believe that archaeologists produce the same kind of knowledge as historians do.
All these three beliefs are in my opinion false.
So if a Saami nationalist and a Swedish nationalist stop arguing long enough to ask me who carved the elks at Nämforsen, then I'll reply, "Guys, those elks were made long before the first Swede and Saami had even been born".
Here's something about my view on the rights of indigenous people.

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Ian Fenn remembers exactly when he first got closely involved in the government's preventing violent extremism (PVE) project, because he was in Ed Balls's office in London and Balls wasn't there.
It was the day Peter Hain resigned – 24 January 2008 – and the loss of a cabinet member had the schools secretary scurrying about as a media frenzy engulfed what Fenn calls the "Westminster wonderland". He is only teasing – as someone with close and active links to the centre of power from his headteacher's desk in Burnage, a diverse and challenging part of Manchester can. But Westminster values him precisely because of that detached and different view. Here is a real teacher in a real place where real suborning could go on by real extremists, targeting young idealists or misfits who are still at school.
Fenn is the long-serving and well respected head of a high school – now called Burnage Media and Arts College – whose alumni range from Manchester United's Wes Brown to Lord Foster, the architect. As of this month, he is also one of the country's first "lead heads" on PVE, which has joined other school specialities on which local education authorities are obliged to draw up a plan of action.
Manchester's "anti-extremism tsar" is the tag he was given, but his first job has been to quash that kind of talk. Like Russia's tsars, he has a fine beard and imposing appearance, but, unlike them, it comes with humour, self-deprecation and an obvious ability to relate to one and all.
"Tsars were despots and talk of them smacks of 'new initiatives' perhaps primarily aimed at the media," he says, making the same criticism of the term "toolkit", which has been widely used to describe the government's guidance Learning Together To Be Safe, published in February last year. Indeed, the Department for Children, Schools and Families still uses the term. "It isn't a toolkit," says Fenn. "It is a framework, and a very good one. But there had been rather a lot of frameworks published by the government at the time, so they thought this ought to be called something different."
What is the difference? A toolkit suggests metaphorical spanners or screwdrivers whose cunning design might unhinge extremist recruiters. A framework is a set of values and processes through which these values can be passed on to young people and debated by them.
"At the heart of the process is a moderate interpretation of life and, where relevant, faith, because we don't want to produce extremists," he says. "Perhaps the greatest asset we have here in Manchester is a range of communities that are full of people who want to interact, and who want the whole to stick together like glue. If we can achieve that, there is no room for people who want to come in and recruit for violent extremism."
Lesson one, then, from the new lead head is that the city's schools should redouble the energy they already put into mission statements about inclusivity and community cohesion. Not just among pupils, but drawing in families – something notoriously hard to do in high schools, where teens' parents are uncool.
Initial strands of Manchester's PVE policy include mentoring for pupils, using volunteers from the wider community, promoting youth councils, and drawing on the abundant experience and learning in local higher education and other institutions. Rightwing extremism concerns Fenn as much, or slightly more than, the Islamist version that dominates national discussion, but on the latter, he reels off resource after resource.
"We have tremendous scholarship at our universities here, and of course in the mosques," he says. And although he plays down the point, he has his own skills as a Muslim convert. Discussing gender issues with a pupil – Burnage is boys-only and 85% Muslim – he checkmated a discussion on Paradise.
"Where is it?" he asked the lad, who pointed upwards. "No," replied Fenn, briefly going into the Arabic of the holy Qur'an. "It is at your mother's knee." Scripture of all sorts is notorious for offering quotes to back almost any point of view, but Fenn knows his Muslim stuff.
He is also robust about the most common worry related to PVE: that teachers will be encouraged to snoop at best, spy at worst, via airport security-style attempts to "profile" potential prey for extremists. That path is unhelpful, quite apart from the damage it might do to pupil-teacher relationships, he thinks. Amateur psychology isn't the skill required; just old-fashioned knowledge of what is going on.
References to "recruiting at the school gates" lead to his favoured parallel: every responsible school has antennae looking out for pupil involvement with drugs. "Who would think twice about informing the appropriate authorities if they thought their child was falling prey to drug gangs?" he asks.
Fenn's thinking as lead head, which he will put to colleagues across the city as the framework expands, also embraces classroom political discussion. As a newcomer to the school, he was hesitant about this during the first Gulf war, especially as the school had pupils whose parents had fled from the Middle East. But now he welcomes it wholeheartedly.
"Schools do not live in a bubble, separate from the world of terrorism and suicide bombing. We cannot act as though it did not exist," he says. His own student days coincided with leftwing campaigning that was often extreme and sometimes physical, as in the occupation of buildings. But there is an absolute line.
"We can argue the rights and wrongs, right up to extremists who believe that the world will only be set to rights if it's all-Christian, or all-Muslim," he says. "But advocating violence to reach those ends, no. That is the line. You may shout. You may not shoot, or blow up." In all his years he has yet to encounter a school pupil who does not agree with this.
But he is not complacent, which is why he cannot agree with those who think PVE alarmist, whether directed at jihadists or extreme rightwingers. Harking back to his Ed Balls meeting, he says: "We were given a talk by counter-terrorism officers who reckoned that Britain was home to between 2,000 and 3,000 potential terrorists. In the Provisional IRA days, they were dealing with around 300, and they knew who they were and where they lived. But you remember those bombs. As I say, schools are not in a bubble, but the real world."


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Raptors practice is closed to the media on a daily basis. Normally when the doors open and the various newspaper, television and radio types are let in, all that is left to witness are a bunch of grown men practising foul shooting.
But yesterday when the doors to the Rbk Court swung open, there was Andrea Bargnani knocking down shot after shot from various three-point spots on the floor. Following that Bargnani was pushed and leaned on by guard Darrick Martin as he took passes from assistant coach Jay Triano. More often than not he drained those too.
Bargnani has not been in a game since March 18, He has missed nine games following an emergency appendectomy.
Bargnani said the operation has cost him about seven pounds but he slowly is getting that back. Bargnani said yesterday he didn't have a definite timetable for a return, but the most likely scenario would see him continue to practise with the team for a few days and then, barring any setbacks, return to the court Friday when the Raptors play host to the Detroit Pistons.
Raptors coach Sam Mitchell knows what to expect from the Chicago Bulls this evening at the Air Canada Centre. He also has a good handle on what his team must do to stop them.
"(Ben) Gordon, (Kirk) Hinrich and (Luol) Deng are their scorers," Mitchell said. "Some way we have to control two of the three. It's fine (if one has a good game). But all three guys have to score most nights for them to win."
Expected back tonight (solely as a spectator) for his first taste of Raptors basketball since a scary ankle injury ended his season almost two weeks ago is forward Jorge Garbajosa .... The Raptors own as many division titles (one) in their 11 seasons as the Leafs have won in the past 43 years. The Maple Leafs' most recent division title came in 1999-2000 when they went on to lose in the conference sem-finals. For their previous division title before that, one has to go back to 1962-63, one of their four Stanley Cup years in the 1960s.


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Stop me if you've heard this one before: Rick Porcello is on the verge of having a big season this year. That's a statement that seemingly pops up every year, most notably last spring, when Porcello was doing his best to disprove the long-held theory that spring training stats don't matter by striking out 21 without walking a single batter.
Yet the anticipated breakout didn't quite happen, not when Porcello put up an ERA north of 4.30 for the fourth straight year and was the subject of trade rumors this offseason.
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Secure Password-Based Remote User Authentication Scheme With Non-Tamper Resistant Smart Cards
It is a challenge for password authentication protocols using non-tamper resistant smart cards to achieve user anonymity, forward secrecy, immunity to various attacks and high performance at the same time. In DBSec'11, Li et al. showed that Kim and Chung's password-based remote user authentication scheme is vulnerable to various attacks if the smart card is non-tamper resistant. Consequently, an improved version was proposed and claimed that it is secure against smart card security breach attacks. In this paper, however, the authors will show that Li et al.'s scheme still cannot withstand offline password guessing attack under the non-tamper resistance assumption of the smart card.
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Andrei Kirilenko's quicker-than-expected return to the Jazz lineup almost begs a question about his teammate: Just when will the team welcome back Carlos Boozer?
Thursday against the Boston Celtics?
Saturday versus the New Orleans Hornets?
Next week? Next month?
"That's the question," Boozer said when asked about his anticipated return date after the Jazz's shootaround Tuesday.
"It's getting better," he said of his surgically repaired left knee, "and hopefully it will continue to improve and I'll be back out there soon."
Though he didn't divulge his definition of "soon," Boozer continued his rehab Tuesday. The two-time All-Star forward says he is feeling "really good" and has been doing more basketball-related work, including light running and ballhandling along with hitting the cardio exercise equipment and the pool.
Boozer hasn't played in 42 straight games after getting injured during a game against Milwaukee on Nov. 19. He underwent arthroscopic surgery to clean out his knee on Jan. 9 at which time it was estimated he would be out at least four weeks.
Boozer says he isn't getting discouraged about his prolonged comeback.
"I'm still encouraged because I'm getting better," Boozer said. "For me, I'm just going to continue to be positive about it and continue to get ready for it. It's getting a lot better, so hopefully very soon."
Though some fans might be getting impatient, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said the team isn't pressing Boozer to hurry his return.
"It's not fair for me to set a timetable for the guy or any player," Sloan said. "I've never done that in my life, because it's like I'm trying to put pressure on him."
Sloan insists the long-term health of players is more important than rushing them back too soon.
"The player's more important than we are. That's the way we've always tried to approach it," Sloan said. "Whenever he's able to come back, fine. ... We hope he's back our next game, but there's not any guarantee that will happen."
HEAT OFF? So, what did Boozer think about his hometown team, Miami, dealing to get six-time All-Star big man Jermaine O'Neal last week in a trade that all but guarantees he won't be picked up by the Heat this offseason as rumored?
"They're trying to get better," said Boozer, who spent the All-Star break in the Florida hot spot.
Boozer said he isn't worried if the Heat's move will put to bed all rumors regarding him ending up playing permanently near South Beach.
"It doesn't affect me at all, actually," Boozer said. "I'm just trying to get back with my knee healthy, get back with my team and get back on the court. For me, that's all I'm thinking about."
HALL WORTHY: Sloan calls John Stockton's imminent inclusion in the Basketball Hall of Fame a "no-brainer." But the Class of 2009 finalist's players feel the same way about their coach, even if Sloan balks when asked about his own Hall of Fame future.
"He's definitely going to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think anybody would doubt that," Jazz guard Deron Williams said. "He's definitely deserving of it. Not much you can say because he probably doesn't want to hear it."
Andrei Kirilenko was surprised — not that Sloan was included among the finalists announced last week, but because the 21st-year Jazz coach isn't already enshrined.
"He's well-deserving," Kirilenko said. "I'm just wondering why it takes so long to figure it out."
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MISC.: Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of when Sloan's No. 4 player jersey was retired by the Chicago Bulls. ... They don't play the Jazz until Thursday, but the Boston Celtics arrived in town Tuesday. The defending NBA champions, who had three players at the All-Star Game in Phoenix this past weekend, practiced Tuesday at the Zions Bank Basketball Center and will go again today at the EnergySolutions Arena. Boston forward Glen Davis attended the Jazz-Grizzlies game. ... With Mehmet Okur missing Tuesday's game with the flu and Boozer still out, the Jazz have now lost 145 man games due to injuries, illnesses and personal reasons this season. Last year, they only lost 45 man-games.
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Possible Rocori swine flu case is a 'wake-up call'
PAYNESVILLE -- Superintendents from eight rural school districts had a conference call this morning after learning a potential case of swine flu had been reported in a neighboring school district.
"We're all in the same boat together, so we put our heads together," said Todd Burlingame, superintendent of the Paynesville Area School District. "We put our game plan in place and will make sure our students are going to be safe."
Two schools in Cold Spring were closed today because preliminary tests indicated "an individual" associated with the Rocori Middle School had tested positive for H1N1 flu.
It's not known if the individual is a student or staff member, but the individual was not hospitalized and is reportedly improving.
Superintendents from districts close to Rocori held a telephone conference call with the Minnesota Association of School Administrators to air questions and share ideas for addressing the possibility that swine flu could be in the area.
That plan includes informing staff about preventative measures, sending letters to parents and putting information on the school Web sites. The group even agreed that school athletic teams that shouldn't shake hands after games this spring to help prevent transmission of the flu, Burlingame said.
"I just feel bad for Rocori," Burlingame said, adding that some parents may not want their children to compete in athletics with Rocori students because of the fear of the flu.
Matthew Bullard, acting superintendent and high school principal at Brooten-Belgrade-Elrosa, brought a unique issue to the superintendent's conference call table.
Besides being geographically close to Rocori, BBE expects to see farm migrant workers arriving soon from Texas, where the first death from swine flu was reported this week.
Bullard said there will be many "unknowns" about potential health issues when approximately 40 children of agricultural migrant workers come to the classroom this spring.
"It's a question that's out there," he said. "We're in the preventative stage."
BBE is not the only school district that offers a migrant school program. Bullard said the department of health has not contacted him about any potential health issues.
He said area schools are "no where near a state of panic" about the flu and are instead playing an important role in getting accurate information out to people that will help prevent the spread of the disease.
"This isn't something we have to push the panic button on," said Bullard."It's about that whole aspect of educating people."
At the New London-Spicer School District, school nurse Peggy Dykema has talked with staff and students who have traveled recently to Mexico to tell them about the symptoms of swine flu. Staff was advised to keep a close eye on students' health and to encourage kids to wash their hands and to cover their cough. Letters were being sent to parents this week reminding parents to keep their child home from school if they have a fever or have flu symptoms.
"It's important that we respond this way because prevention is just such a key," Dykema said.
"When it gets that close to home and there's possibilities of how it can come to your community, it really is a wake up call."
Burlingame said schools are "being bombarded" with e-mails from the Department of Health and the school administrators association. "Everyone's taking this very seriously."
He said the area superintendents will have another telephone conference call Thursday morning. He's hoping the potential flu case in Cold Spring will be negative and the superintendents won't have much to talk about.


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October 7, 2013 BY Brendan Dunne
It's not too often that you see a sneaker brand giving back to its most devoted of collectors in thanks for their years of dedicate. adidas Originals has decided to do that with the new "Collector's Project", a series that brought five Three Stripes devotees from around the world to the company's Berlin HQ to create their own SMU. The models selected include the adidas Originals Pro Model 80s, the adidas Originals ZX500, and more-with the individuals involved touch a little bit in the video on the difficulties of properly homage a treasured silhouette while maintaining a personal spin. Get the introductory video on the adidas Originals Collector's Project below and stay tuned for some exclusive coverage soon from Sneaker News and on the adidas Originals Tumblr.
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Miley's new fiance was honored at the Australians In Film Awards with the "Film Breakthrough Award" for his fast rise to fame this year.
And of course, everyone wanted to talk about his engagement to Miley! She talked about why she loves her Liam Hemsworth so much…and it's partly because he is like her father:
"My dad has always been a really hard worker so I like when men work hard. I always work really hard, so it's good to have someone that is passionate at what they do and wants to be great at what they do, instead of just being okay. We always strive to have 130%."
She also said she likes her Australians more than Americans! She says it's because Aussies remind her of her Southern roots–
"They are a little more respectful. There is a masculinity about it. It's probably like growing up in the South, like what I did."
Miley also says of Australians, "They are way hotter, there is no competition!"


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Snowmonsterwrote a review of Burton Custom Snowboard on February 29, 2008
Awesome Board
This is the best board period. You only need one board and this is it. Freeride, freestyle, ice, powder - this guy can do it all. I tried every flagship model of every brand and there is no contest. Custom is the best board out there. But don't take my word for it, this is the choice of most professionals!


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The deceased had his head smashed, his manhood slashed and the wrists chopped by the killers. He was believed to have been ambushed while tilling the land in the company of his wife.
The woman, who had gone to a nearby bush to collect firewood, it was gathered, managed to flee from the scene on realizing that danger had befallen them at the farm.
Two bullocks belonging to the farmer were also stolen according to the police, while his tricycle, popularly called motorking, was smashed beyond repairs.
The body of the deceased was discovered on Wednesday by some residents who were returning from farm; and the matter was reported to the police.
An autopsy has since been conducted at the Baptist Medical Centre (BMC) and the body released to the family for burial.
Police have directly linked the latest incident to the raging ethnic clashes among the Mamprusis, Konkombas and Bimobas which began three weeks ago.
Some farmers who spoke to DAILY GUIDE from the area expressed worry at the manner in which they were being ambushed and killed, indicating that it had the potential of affecting this year's farming in the area.
One person was last week Tuesday abducted and killed by unknown assailants at Kpakpritinga, a farming community near Sakogu in the East Mamprusi District of the Northern Region.
Yakubu Laari, the deceased who all the while was seeking cover in the forest when the conflict escalated, returned home a day earlier with his family only to meet his untimely death the following day.
This brings to six the number of persons killed since the renewed ethnic clashes in the area a fortnight ago.
Three weeks ago 11 houses in the Kamputin village were completely burnt after a dawn raid by a rival group after gunning down one person.
A dawn to dusk curfew according to the Northern Regional Police Command, is still in force and security has been stepped up in the troubled town.
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We are very pleased to offer this program to undergraduates from all majors and disciplines. Like Global Health itself, our minor is inherently interdisciplinary.
From the molecular biology of infectious disease and vaccine development to environmental science on the health implications of global climate change; from the sophisticated math of health metrics estimations to the ethnographic evidence of anthropological and geographical studies of suffering and care in different global contexts; and from public health work on the epidemiology of inequality to international, legal and political-economic research into the impact of war, trade law and global financial crises on health systems and health rights, the scope of global health work at our university is extraordinarily wide.
Our Global Health Minor aims to help students make the best of all these opportunities and gives undergraduates an opportunity to become familiar with the major problems and policy issues in global health. We provide a broad-based curriculum, an intellectually engaged support staff, and an ongoing commitment to identifying great classes, lectures, and opportunities for all students whatever their major field of study. Students participating in the minor will be able to understand and discuss the determinants of global health and global responses to health problems, including health systems. By becoming knowledgeable in these core areas of global health, students should also be able to engage actively in efforts to improve health as global citizens.


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My name's Mike Snider—Mike or Michael, your choice, though Michael's less likely to be confused with the banjo player. Born February 21, 1953, in Louisville, Kentucky, I now live in Dameron, Maryland.
I live in Dameron, MD, lucky to be in love, living, and playing music with Krys Baker.
I write poems and play music, but make my living writing Windows software, and that has made me a Macintosh fanatic.
You might get a chance to see me (my beard, back, and feet, anyway) in the independent film The Delicate Art of the Rifle.
And yes, I'm on Facebook and MySpace—but I'm no good about updating them. I do update my Amazon wish list:


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03 April 2012
Stripes Forever
I am back! Baby and I took a roadtrip up to Boston with several stops along the way over the past 10 days. It was great seeing family and friends, and being able to relax with many open arms willing to hold and play with the little one while I had some R&R. (But I hear the weather was so much better in Pittsburgh, sigh.)
I also had the chance to shop a bit, and as I unpacked last night, I realized that this is pretty much going to be my go-to look for the summer. I came home with a coral top and striped skirt, and a striped top with coral jeans. Huh. I love this color combination-- so fresh and classic.
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We review experiments on mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC) generation including our own work on chalcogenide waveguides. Simulations are used to define the conditions in which a chalcogenide waveguide would produce SC from ≈2.5 µm to beyond 10 µm in a single waveguide device. The simulations suggested that broadband SC could be generated by pumping a bulk chalcogenide with fs pulses in the anomalous dispersion regime and this was demonstrated experimentally by producing a flat SC from 2.5 µm to beyond 7.5 µm.
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– Raj Giri of WrestlingINC.com reports that Sin Cara is set to return to action at Saturday's Tapings from the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Sin Cara recently had arthroscopic knee surgery last week.
Must-read wrestling news:
* Update on Randy Orton's shoulder injury
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This is not the breakaway Martin Havlat had in mind.
He'd rather be in the clear on the ice, but instead the Senators winger is breaking ranks with the NHL Players' Association.
Havlat told the Sun yesterday that he's throwing his support behind a group of players who have asked the National Labor Relations Board in the U.S. to investigate the hiring of NHLPA executive director Ted Saskin.
Sources say Saskin was getting plenty of heat during a meeting in Detroit yesterday. There's talk several Wings' players asked him to resign from his post.
"I agree with this group of players. It should have been done the right way in the first place. The rules of our association weren't followed and I just think that something has to be done. You can't have this happening this way," said Havlat prior to last night's game against the Penguins.
But Havlat is not alone in the Ottawa dressing room in his support of the group, which is asking the NLRB in to investigate the way NHLPA president Trevor Linden went about hiring Saskin to replace Bob Goodenow by the union following the lockout.
Senators goalie Dominik Hasek is on a list of players that includes Leafs Eric Lindros and Ed Belfour. The charge is being led by former Kings forward Trent Klatt, who was a member of the NHLPA's executive committee.
"I just feel it's unfortunate it has come to this," said Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson, a VP on the executive committee who doesn't plan to run for re-election next summer. "We had a vote in here and everybody agreed Ted Saskin was the guy. We had nobody against it. I've only heard about it on television. I don't really know what else to say."
Hasek said he has no problem with Alfredsson even though they are on opposite sides of this issue.
"I spoke about this with Alfie last week and I explained to him how I felt. I don't have a problem with him. I just think this hiring should have been done properly. He understands how I feel. This is nothing against him," said Hasek.
Saskin has denied the charges, but there are a number of players who feel he shouldn't have been awarded with a contract in excess of $10 million US after the union gave in and accepted a salary cap.


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Saturday 21th Jenuary I opened my email box like I do every morning, and I found a mail by Amazon. And few minutes later I bought a new pair of shoes.
And I'm talking about this model of Vans!They are the Vans Brigata in Desert Tribe, absolutely amazing. I falled totally in love! ♡
Here I leave the link to the instant buy on Amazon, from the post I bought mine.
At the time there's a super sale on number 36! Don't miss them!
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After a rough offseason, the New England Patriots will begin their 2013 season Friday with the start of training camp.
New England remains the preseason favorite to win the AFC East. But this team is weaker than previous years due to several offseason circumstances.
Here are three things to watch in Patriots camp:
1. Can New England block out distractions?
Analysis: Patriots head coach Bill Belichick did a smart thing Wednesday. He faced the Aaron Hernandez situation head-on before training camp, because questions were coming either way. Belichick relieved some of the media pressure surrounding Hernandez's arrest on murder and other charges and the team's subsequent release of the star tight end. But this story will follow the Patriots to some degree all summer and beyond. The players must prove they can overcome the loss on the field as well as answer Hernandez questions off it. New England is a team which despises distractions, but this will be a challenge.
2. Will wide receivers step up?
Analysis: It's been a question all offseason. Now, it's time for some answers. Which receivers will step up in New England's offense? Danny Amendola, if he stays healthy, is a proven commodity. But the rest of the Patriots' receivers have plenty of question marks. New England lost a ton of production by not bringing back 2012 starters Wes Welker and Brandon Lloyd. This year's group includes veterans Michael Jenkins, Lavelle Hawkins, Kamar Aiken and rookies Aaron Dobson and Josh Boyce. Future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady is good at raising the level of his supporting cast -- but it is asking a lot of Brady to try to lead this group to another Super Bowl title.
3. How much better is the defense?
Analysis: One of the bright spots for the Patriots this offseason has been the additions on defense. New England spent resources in free agency and the draft to improve this side of the football. The Patriots signed veteran free-agent safety Adrian Wilson and defensive tackle Tommy Kelly to toughen up the defense. They also drafted three defenders in the first three rounds to infuse some youth and energy. If other young defenders such as Chandler Jones and Dont'a Hightower take their games to another level, the Patriots defense could make good strides in 2013.


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Washington Post: D.C. United's depth chart
Philadelphia Inquirer: Marked Marksmen—A survey of Major League Soccer top goal-scoring threats in the 2013 season
The Oregonian: 2013 Portland Timbers season preview—MLS Eastern Conference
Chicago Daily Herald: MLS East Preview—D.C. United looks strong again
Soccer by Ives: MLS Season Preview—The SBI Power Rankings
Goal.com: Monday MLS Breakdown—Buying or selling? MLS seeks both worlds
NBC Sports ProSoccerTalk: Major League Soccer position Top Tens--- Right Midfielders
Potomac Soccer Wire: MLS, French Football Federation announce partnership to train academy coaches
Potomac Soccer Wire: D.C. United U-23 Academy team set to compete in NPSL in 2013
Philly Soccer Page: Eastern Conference Preview
Sports Network: MLS Features—Forecasting the 2013 season
FIFA.com: Serbian Dragon soars in China
Soccer America: MLS Preview—D.C. United rolls dice with Ruiz
The Shin Guardian: TSG's 2013 MLS Preseason Prediction Preview
Black and Red United: D.C. United 2013 Season Preview—Ben Olsen knows that consistency wins in MLS
Black and Red United: D.C. United's U-23 team to compete in the National Premier Soccer League in 2013
Black and Red United: D.C. United signs trialist Kyle Porter, according to his management's Twitter account
MLSsoccer.com: Kick Off—MLS opener looms as preseason comes to a close
MLSsoccer.com: MLS announces partnership with French Football Federation
DCUnited.com: MLS partners with French Football Federation with Academies in mind
DCUnited.com: U-23 Academy team set to compete in the NPSL in 2013


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Williams 'delighted' by Michael's new role
13 September 2011 – Sir Frank Williams has expressed delight over Sam Michael's move to McLaren, with the Australian leaving Williams and joining the Woking squad as Sporting Director from the start of 2012. Michael has been part of the Grove-based team for ten years.
"I am delighted that Sam has found a new role that will enable him to continue to apply his energy, passion and experience to Formula 1," says Williams. "On behalf of everyone at Williams I wish him a successful move to his new team.
"I would also like to thank Sam for his help in enabling a swift and smooth transition to our new technical leadership. Mike Coughlan and Jason Somerville are settling in very well and the restructuring will be complete when Mark Gillan joins us as Chief Operations Engineer on 19 September."
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Fabulously Spotted was actor Robert Pattinson on the red carpet in the land down under, Australia.
He visited Sydney to promote 'Breaking Dawn' Part 2.
For the occasion he wore a dark olive suit from Kenzo and a multi color print shirt.
Per usual Rob went unshaven. An oxblood lace up shoe completed his look.
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Is there no equivalent to the substr function in c++ in c???
Is there no equivalent to the substr function in c++ in c???
You can use the sprintf function to simulate that.
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I think he means strstr(), which finds a string within a string.
To extract a substring from a string, use strncpy, as in
strncpy( dest, &src[start], len );
dest[len] = '\0';
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
I took hk's reply in this manner:
Code:#include <stdio.h> char *substr(char *dst, const char *src, int start, int len) { sprintf(dst, "%.*s", len, &src[start]); return dst; } int main(void) { const char src[] = "Here is some text."; char dst[sizeof src]; printf("dst = \"%s\"\n", substr(dst,src,5,7)); return 0; } /* my output dst = "is some" */
7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
40. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.*
There's no substr function in the C standard libraries. The standard libraries don't like using dynamic memory with strdup as the only exception I can think of. C++ has a bunch though, I don't know why but I suspect it's because they don't want to give people the burden of having to free memory themselves.
I wrote a substr function once which was supposed to be like the Perl substr but there were some limitations since I couldn't replace text on a string of unknown size so I had the function make a copy instead and that 0 and NULL is used to signal unused parameters.
substr("some string", 5, 0, NULL)Code:#include <stdlib.h> char* substr (const char* string, int pos, int len, const char* replace) { char* substring; int i; int length; if (string == NULL) return NULL; length = strlen(string); if (pos < 0) { pos = length + pos; if (pos < 0) pos = 0; } else if (pos > length) pos = length; if (len <= 0) { len = length - pos + len; if (len < 0) len = length - pos; } if (pos + len > length) len = length - pos; if (replace != NULL) { if ((substring = malloc(sizeof(*substring)*(length-len+strlen(replace)+1))) == NULL) return NULL; for (i = 0; i != pos; i++) substring[i] = string[i]; pos = pos + len; for (len = 0; replace[len]; i++, len++) substring[i] = replace[len]; for (; string[pos]; pos++, i++) substring[i] = string[pos]; substring[i] = '\0'; } else { if ((substring = malloc(sizeof(*substring)*(len+1))) == NULL) return NULL; len += pos; for (i = 0; pos != len; i++, pos++) substring[i] = string[pos]; substring[i] = '\0'; } return substring; }
returns "string"
substr("some string", -5, 3, NULL)
returns "str"
substr("some string", 4, 0, "thing")
returns "something"
free() needs to be called on the string returned after it's use.


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Gregory and Sandi Leeson of Dunmore, Pa., say their century-old Victorian gives them the creeps. Now they're selling it, and their listing forewarns potential buyers that the home is "slightly haunted."
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What better manner to warm a frosty Toronto night than taking in a concert by West African born and New York based Lionel Loueke at the spacious and grand TO Centre for the Arts in North York. My guest and I are led to our seats in the theatre, the usher quickly finds the required points of detail that will place us in the correct seats. The theatre is a good size and I was happy to see so many people out to enjoy the show. The curtain was drawn and musicians were warming up, horn players running through some scales, I was contemplating who in the opening act could be doing this. I should have clued in with the program, it was a program for the show "The Adams Family". However, it took two people with real tickets coming in and informing us we had the wrong seats. "Oh you're here for the jazz." We were pointed in the direction of the small theatre.
This is more like it, an intimate theatre with a couple of hundred seats, instruments on stage and visible - no curtain. A stand up bass, a jazzy looking set of drums and a few microphones on stands at the front of the stage. Confirming this as the right place I was given a new program announcing the JPEC 2011/2012 concert series. This is the first concert of the series, The Lionel Loueke Trio and Darren Sigesmund Strands Sextet. The series also includes: Lucien Ban & John Hebert, Enesco Re-imagined also featuring Peripheral Vision, February 17, 2012. The Tom Harrell Quintet also featuring Paul Tynan Quartet March 16, 2012. And the finale concert, Luciana Souza & Romero Lubambo Brazilian Duos also featuring Amanda Tosoff Quartet April 21, 2012.
Darren Sigesmund Strands Sextet opened the show; the band is made up of Toronto musicians: Sigesmund - Trombone, Luis Deniz - Alto Saxophone, Reg Schwager - Guitar, Jim Vivian - Bass, Fabio Ragnelli - Drums and Eliana Cuevas - Vocals. The sound was not great on the first song. I could not hear a good mix of the instruments. The sound magically came together for the second song and the sound remained pleasant throughout.
A most memorable song from Sigesmund "Dance for Leila" with influences of Latin, Sephardic, Middle Eastern and the Balkan rhythms swirling and dancing in delightful concert with each other as vocalist Cuevas sings with wordless power and splendid tonal control. Sigesmund composes complex tunes with multi ranging tones that crisscross musical borders with seamless ease. He weaves layer upon layer of sound that comes through clearly on most of the songs the group performs. The solos that were played in all of the songs are indicative of first class musicians at the top of their craft. I hope to hear more from Sigesmund and the Strands Project, with two independent CD's released since 2008, Strands I and Strands II, and in the works, due out in the Spring of 2012, Strands III. Somebody should send me some of this for a closer listen.
Lionel Loueke Trio arrived on stage looking casual, announcements were made and members of the trio introduced, Massimo Biolcati - Bass, Ferenc Nemeth - Drums. Loueke announced that the trio would play songs from their first album Karibu and their newest release Mwaliko in Swahili this means Invitation. The songs they performed flowed smoothly, propelled by intricate guitar and founded on the solid, yet probing bass of Biolcati filling out the bottom end. The drums of Nemeth play free flowing with melodic precision and tasteful fills that round out any room for empty space.
Loueke mixes his cultural traditions, the music of West Africa with strong jazz sensibilities and contemporary technology. He has a distinct style, that individualism that sets him apart from your typical jazz guitarist. Loueke has a fearless style of blending all manner of guitar playing - picking, pulling, strumming, harmonic plucking and using the guitars body as a beat box. This combined with his Canadian guitar, a Godin with built in Synth and an ability to sing with a good strong voice as well as an impeccable ability as a percussionist make him one of the stand out performers of our time.
Loueke and the trio played with warmth and passion. They displayed their intense artistry through solo performances and tight complimentary ensemble playing. There were many moments when the stage glowed with the intensity of the blazing musicianship that culminated in a rousing standing ovation that brought the trio back for one more intense song. Bravo!


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This petition is to convince KOEI to release additional content for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Dynasty Warriors 6. KOEI of Japan recently announced Shin Sangokumusou 5 Special (Dynasty Warriors 6 Special) for the PS2. The original game came out on the PS3 and Xbox 360, but was made less enjoyable by the removal of characters, levels, musou modes, unique movesets, and replayability that had made the series so fun in the first place. Still, Dynasty Warriors 6 was a fun game. DW6Special is coming out - as of the time of this writing - exclusively on the PS2. This is a slap in the face to the fans who already bought the game. We know KOEI cares about its fans. Those of us who\'ve already purchased DW6 despite its flaws do not deserve to have to buy a standalone game on an obsolete system just to enjoy a complete experience. We\'re fine with DW6Special being on the PS2, but the PS3 and 360 versions need to be addressed as well. Even if KOEI charges us for the additional content, they should allow those who\'ve already purchased the game to enjoy the following: -The re-addition of removed characters -Additional story/musou modes and stages -Unique experiences using each character rather than "cloned" movesets and weapons We, as loyal fans of the series, hate to be so angry and demanding, but the PS2 exclusiveness is a disgrace and cannot stand. Please share this petition with your friends. We aren\'t going to convince KOEI with fifty signatures. EDIT JULY 30: I have disabled the comments field. Too many people were either spamming ideas or swearing. Neither one is the purpose of this petition, and KOEI isn\'t going to respond to seventy signatures\' worth of it.
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With CES now done and dusted, there's been more room for the wearable news to breathe, and there's been plenty to digest this week.
From AR to heart rate tracking Hollywood blockbusters, here's the biggest headline-grabbing stories from the week in wearables.
Apple hires a virtual reality expert
This week we learnt that Apple looks likely to jump aboard the VR bandwagon by hiring a leading virtual reality expert from Virginia Tech.
Doug Bowman has done research on designing user interfaces for fully immersive VR experiences and recently won a $100,000 grant from Microsoft to work on a mixed reality data study focused on HoloLens.
2016 is definitely the year of VR with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive the first headsets to launch this year.
HoloLens Share Your Ideas finalists announced
From VR we move to AR with the news that Microsoft has revealed the three most futuristic AR app ideas submitted for its Share Your Ideas contest.
The winner will be able to sit in on weekly development meetings at the Redmond company to get a feel of how Microsoft is building its own HoloLens-centric software.
On the topic of Microsoft's holographic headset, there's were some new HoloLens details revealed this week including how you'll be able to combine multiple headsets
Wearable tech UK sales boom in 2015
Yes, Brits are loving fitness trackers and smartwatches with an 118% increase on wearable sales in 2014.
An estimated 3 million devices were sold last year with fitness trackers making up 91% of those sales and smartwatches the other 9%.
The data from market research company also revealed that 60% of consumers are still concerned by the security of wearable data and while more than half still don't know what the point of them is.
If you want to help boost those sales figures, the Apple Watch Hermès Collection is now available to buy online and you can always check out our pick of the best wearable tech deals of the week.
Thorpe Park is getting a VR Ghost Train ride
Last week, Alton Towers unveiled its Galactica VR ride and now Thorpe Park has followed suit revealing it's first VR attraction, Derren Brown's Ghost Train.
The 10-15 minute journey on a 20 metre Victorian train uses HTC Vive headsets to create 12 different mind-bending journeys with two possible endings.
The VR ride will be opening in Spring this year.
In other VR-related news, we take a look at what filmmakers and storytellers have to say about VR, plus we see what it takes to make a great Gear VR game.
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This week it's all about fitness with FitPal, a smart band-aid that can monitor sleep, stress, heart rate irregularities exercise readiness all from your heart rate.
While it does sound very similar to the now cancelled AmpStrip, FitPal is hoping to have more luck its fitness patch and is already more than halfway towards its funding goal on Kickstarter.


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" Brand: All For Eve / Scrub / Type: Body Scrub / Skin type: for dry skin / What it does: Smoothes, Exfoliates / Parabene free: yes "
* Prices may differ from that shown
Don't think this is a review purely about just an ordinary body scrub. This is not a product churned out by yet another company, for the purpose of lining their pockets, and purchasing their mansions. Oh no, this product comes from a company with morals and ideals. They are called, 'all for eve' and they are not in the business of self-profiteering. This company was established to turn a tragedy into good by giving all the net profits to gynaecological research. That's one hundred percent of the net profit, not a token amount to encourage extra sales, but a meaningful and admirable gift to research.
In 2008 George Hammer's sister-in-law died from ovarian cancer. One year later Hammer launched these charitable product lines under the name, 'all for eve'.
Go to the product website and you'll find the shocking statistics about gynaecological disease and that as many as 7,500 women die each year from them in the UK alone. This brand is not here to run as a business for personal wealth gain. Their aim is to halve the number of deaths caused by genealogical cancer. The research is conducted in the prestigious University College London. The findings, to date, lead the company to believe that halving the number of deaths is not an unrealistic goal in the foreseeable future. Buy this body scrub or any of the other items in their range, for the 'eve appeal' and you are helping to save lives. You could be contributing to the saving of the life of your mother, wife, sister, your own life and the lives of women who have yet to be born.
This ethical and rare branding concept alone should inspire us all to make a difference. George Hammer does have other successful businesses on the go, such as Sanctuary and Aveda beauty companies so not many people, I suppose, are in a position where they could set up this type of brand. Of course the products ought to be of a good quality because we all want value for our hard earned money and expect luxury from the man who sells beauty products to the stars. I would expect this line to be up to his normal standards. 'all for eve' sell make-up, skin care products and pampering gifts and, of course, this body scrub.
This rare charitable brand 'all for eve' body scrub comes in a simply designed container. The cream has been created by the respected company URBAN RETREAT. It is paraben free which mean the preservatives that might be harmful to us have not been included. It looks like a designer product and smart in white with 'eve' printed in pink. This, for me, also has links with the pink ribbon of breast cancer campaigns. However, I am not sure why the name 'eve' was picked as the lady that died was called Nadia. My guess is eve is one syllable and easy to recall. The lack of capitalisation makes all women 'eve' rather than the singular person and eve makes me think of Adam and Eve in the Bible. Eve gives in to temptation so we are to give in to the temptation of a luxury branded cream for our own indulgence, only this time we don't get punished because we are doing something wonderful. It's not just a case of self-indulgence when I rub this cream into my skin because I know that having purchased this pot I have given something small but of importance to the world.
The cream is soft and creamy. It does not leave an oily residue. It penetrates into my skin and feels wonderfully luxurious. I opened this pot about three weeks ago. I don't need much of the cream at all. I put a little on a couple of fingers, at a time, and find this massages in well and covers the area of one lower leg. The scrub has jojoba beads in which rub against the skin to successfully remove dry skin. I have used this cream all over on several occasions. There is still plenty in the pot. I can see this lasting for weeks and weeks to come. My skin feels soft after rubbing on my body. I usually use this in the shower and I can feel the resulting silkiness for hours after. I believe it is suitable for all skin types and I have had no negative reactions on my sometimes sensitive skin.
The scent is pleasing though hard to describe. It's sweet but also has a slight cucumber-like scent is not overpowering and lasts. It makes me feel invigorated for the day ahead and I feel like I am polished clean both physically and spiritually!
My friend put in an order for me on the 'all for eve' website and I paid seven pounds and fifty pence for a 200ml pot.
By 2010 'all for eve' won four awards and from the day I first tried this body scrub I knew they are well deserved. Indulge your body with a quality scrub and feel extra good for helping in a fantastic cause.
Love the cream, help save lives and love yourself - perfect!
Buffed and Beautiful / This rich and moisturising body scrub with a refreshing and uplifting scent infused with jojoba beads to micro massage the skin and so stimulating blood flow will buff away rough dry skin for a smooth soft finish / Paraben free / All For Eve Body Scrub is created by Urban Retreat in support of The Eve Appeal /