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How can you use data on people to improve business performance?
In today's increasingly competitive and disruptive world, organisations are demanding more from HR - they want not just the data, but the insights, recommendations and activity that will actively support the strategy and drive the business forward.
…But how can you use people data to improve performance? How can 'people' be measured, and how can this data be turned into meaningful insights you can actually use to make better strategic HR decisions in future?
Join us to find out how you can better understand the relationship between your people and the value they deliver to your organisation. Looking together at real examples and key learnings from other organisations who are already leveraging this opportunity; we aim to inspire, empower and arm you with the knowledge you need to truly enhance your analytics capabilities and ultimately 'maximise human value' in your organisation.
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HRreview - Inside HR
How to manage your talent strategy during and after times of disruption
May 21 2020
10:00 am
60 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Della Rath, Principal Consultant, Aon
Disruption isn't something new to you or me, however we haven't seen anything like the disruption caused by COVID-19 for a generation.
For those of us that work within the talent space, securing critical talent pipelines during times of this new disruption, what does it mean for us? And what does the future hold?
Join our virtual forum and hear from experts as they discuss the trends, disruptors and drivers that are shaping the future of talent assessment.
On the webinar we will discuss:
oThe big talent questions facing organisations right now – and how these are influencing the future of talent assessment.
oSkills vs Behaviours – what top attributes should you be looking for in your employees in these uncertain times?
oHow agile are your talent assessments? How agile will they remain? (e.g. virtual assessment for times of crisis or forever?)
oTangible assessment tools that will help HR leaders prepare for the next few month and years and beyond
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Empower your People to Impact Engagement
May 7 2020
10:00 am
60 mins
James Marsh,HRr; Steve Malduca, Consulting Director, Achievers
Join Steve as he shares how the latest recognition and engagement product innovations are changing the way the world works.
Through a combination of thought leadership, customer success stories and product demonstration, you will learn how our customers are empowering their people to impact engagement – everyday, everywhere.
This session will explore:
•The latest tools to tackle multiple employee initiatives using one platform
•Bringing the employee experience into the flow of work by leveraging the latest mobile and integration tools
•The positive impact on business performance
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Childcare & the Gender Pay Gap – Baby Steps or a Giant Leap?
Apr 30 2020
10:00 am
60 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Denise Priest, Director of Employer and Strategic Partnerships at Bright Horizons
Research (published by LSE, London School of Economics) suggests there is stronger evidence for the impact of childcare and in-work benefits on closing the gender pay gap, than there is for parental leave and pay policies. OECD evidence also suggests affordable quality childcare is the main driver in achieving better female labour market participation outcomes.
What are leading employers doing to make it easier for talented and experienced working parents to 'have it all'? How do you keep career on track and yet be the parent you want to be? And is helping with childcare the glaringly obvious solution that employers might be overlooking?
By April 2020, we'll have data from three rounds of Gender Pay Gap reporting. It's clear that truly closing the gap will take decades to achieve and there are some home truths in the data: it's not an homogenous picture. The gender pay gap among all full-time employees stands at 8.9%, little changed from 2018 while for age groups under 30 years, the gender pay gap for full-time employees is now close to zero. It is at childbearing years that the gap sets in and never closes.
At 72% the female employment rate in 2019 was the highest seen since comparable records began in 1971 (52.8%) and yet, as the recent Government Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy consultation document on Family Support summed it up: 'Women who have children are more likely to: leave employment; reduce their hours of work; move into lower paid roles; and move into roles which are not commensurate with their qualifications and experience. In short, it appears that mothers are trading-off pay and career progression for increased flexibility.'
Join James Marsh, our panel of employers and thought leaders including Denise Priest, Director of Employer and Strategic Partnerships at Bright Horizons, for an insightful and lively discussion.
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Case study: How AI is transforming recruitment at Ocado Group
Feb 27 2020
63 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Amber Harris, AON; Sarah Kenehan, AON; Abbie Lopez, Emerging Talent Specialist, Ocado Group
Organisations are implementing talent assessments to find future focused behaviours and introducing artificial intelligence in recruitment to make better decisions, enhance quality of hire and for efficiency savings.
Find out how Aon's Assessment Solutions and Ocado Group have created a winning formula to spot future focused emerging talent in a free webinar where we will discuss:
- How AI has sped up hiring processes and decision making
- How AI has removed unconscious bias from a hiring process
- How to ensure a candidate friendly experience using AI
- How the role of the recruiter has changed forever and will your next job interview be with a robot?
Ensure you keep up to speed on all things talent assessment and join the interactive discussions on our webinar,
Look forward to seeing you on February 27th at 11am.
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Family-Friendly Business Practice on a Global Scale?
Feb 6 2020
62 mins
James Marsh,HRr; Jennifer Liston-Smith, Bright Horizons; Andrea Wicks-Bowles, Bright Horizons
Increasingly employers want a joined-up global approach to supporting employees in combining work and family. Driven by the competition for talent, greater transparency on gender pay gaps and new gender-neutral expectations around parental leave, we need to 'think globally and act locally' working with differing cultural considerations, circumstances and expectations.
In this lively and practical webinar, James Marsh will be discussing emerging global family-friendly trends and solutions with and Jennifer Liston-Smith, Head of Thought Leadership at Bright Horizons Work+Family Solutions and Andrea Wicks-Bowles, Senior Consultant, Director Global Initiatives at Bright Horizons. Sharing experience and insights from working with global employers, we'll place particular emphasis on what the UK can learn from, and offer to, other global regions. You'll also be able to ask questions of the panel.
Since Bright Horizons acquired My Family Care in February this year, the combined business serves around 1,100 client organisations globally, bringing deep insights into best practice on policy and on provision from workplace nurseries and backup care to coaching for parents and carers, training for line managers and online resources such as the Parental Leave Toolkit.
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Driving engagement with L&D: Lakeland's story with Fuse
Jan 30 2020
62 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Suzanne Allen, Head of People, Lakeland; Sam Lawton, Customer Success Manager, Fuse Universal
Forward-looking businesses are increasingly recognising the vital importance of an equally forward-looking learning strategy. It's no longer a luxury; L&D is rapidly being recognised as a major driver that can boost engagement, staff retention, and business results.
This is certainly the case for Kitchen and homeware business Lakeland, who wanted to bring their whole business together in one space and help drive communication between their teams . After adopting Fuse's mobile-first Integrated Learning Platform, Lakeland saw their engagement rate soar to 75.8%.
This major shift from creating resources instead of courses has been a winning strategy for Lakeland. But how did they do it?
That's just what they'll be sharing. In this webinar, you'll learn:
• How Lakeland have brought their community and people together by opening up communications
• Their sharing of best practices – how a great idea in one store is shared quickly across their retail network to maximise opportunities for increasing sales
• The power and value of user-generated content from Lakeland's own passionate experts
• How better product knowledge and content lets Lakeland sell products through stories rather than features
In fact, webinar is probably the wrong term for this – in reality, this will be a live interactive case study about how Lakeland are working to deliver real behavioural changes and break down the barriers to digital adoption. Their employees had always wanted to share knowledge; now they can and do.
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Engagement 2020
Nov 28 2019
64 mins
James Marsh, HRr: Richard Doherty, Workday; Jon Lester, IBM
How can businesses rise to the challenge of engaging an ever-more diverse and disparate workforce?
The last 20 years have been a time of enormous change for many workplaces, with evolving cultural pressures, legal frameworks and working practices. These changes to our working environments, with the help of technology, are accelerating. So how does a business navigate these challenges and still keep their workforce engaged, happy and productive?
In this webinar we will take a look at the key building blocks for creating and maintaining an environment of engagement for all employees, including:
• Employee experience
• Organisational Agility
• The use of technology / AI
• The benefits of a data driven approach
Register now to reserve your place.
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21st Century Work+Family: Where do we go from here?
Nov 7 2019
63 mins
James Marsh,HRr; Jennifer Liston-Smith, MFC; Dr. Gonzalo Shoobridge, Great Place to Work; Marc McKenna-Coles, Lloyd's
Technology, demographics, cultural, social and generational changes mean that why and how we work has changed almost beyond recognition in the last decade. There's now a five generational workplace, fewer of us to do the work, increased care responsibilities and a fundamental shift in how younger generations want to work and how they value the components of work, life and family.
The pace of that change continues unabated and it demands that we all start thinking in a different way when it comes to the way we work and live, especially when it comes to 'managing the balance'.
In this lively, future-gazing webinar, James Marsh will be discussing the trends, challenges and possible solutions with leading global employers and thought leaders. The panel line-up includes:
•Dr. Gonzalo Shoobridge, Head of Action Consultancy (Employee Engagement/HR Organisational Development Solutions) at Great Place to Work.Gonzalo's expertise comprises of 20+ years in diverse international business development and HR consulting experience.
•Marc McKenna-Coles, Global Diversity & Inclusion Manager at Lloyd's and key supporter of Dive In, the international & award-winning festival for diversity & inclusion in insurance.
•Jennifer Liston-Smith, Head of Thought Leadership at Bright Horizons Work+Family Solutions brings her deep insight and experience of working with leading employers to shape programmes to engage and retain talented parents and carers.
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Career Pathing Is Your Best Employee Retention Strategy
Oct 24 2019
63 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Amanda Wellborne, SumTotal Systems
Five generations now work alongside each other. Accommodating the different expectations and demands from each group is no small task.
As the demographics shift and millennials and Gen Z together begin to outnumber the other groups, it is increasingly evident that companies need to restructure their learning opportunities to better align to this disparate group. The themes that we will discuss are;
-The shape of the new career path
-Self-directed career pathing
-Define your organisational needs and areas of future growth
-Digital tools to support your process
-How to measure organizational progress
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How can you use data on people to improve business performance?
Oct 17 2019
63 mins
James Marsh,HRreview; Simon Haines, CEO, Simply
In today's increasingly competitive and disruptive world, organisations are demanding more from HR - they want not just the data, but the insights, recommendations and activity that will actively support the strategy and drive the business forward.
…But how can you use people data to improve performance? How can 'people' be measured, and how can this data be turned into meaningful insights you can actually use to make better strategic HR decisions in future?
Join us to find out how you can better understand the relationship between your people and the value they deliver to your organisation. Looking together at real examples and key learnings from other organisations who are already leveraging this opportunity; we aim to inspire, empower and arm you with the knowledge you need to truly enhance your analytics capabilities and ultimately 'maximise human value' in your organisation.
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Paternity Leave, Families and the Government's Good Work Plan
Sep 26 2019
62 mins
James Marsh,HRr; Jennifer Liston-Smith, MFC; Debbi Jackson, BEIS; Carolanne Minashi, UBS
There has been an explosion of interest in extended paternity leave recently, further propelled to national news headlines by Theresa May's focus on this topic during her last days in post as Prime Minister. No doubt your employees are asking about your stance on paternity leave vs shared parental leave and the Government is now asking for opinions as part of a wider consultation on proposals to support families.
Government consultations on transparency regarding flexible working and Parental Leave and pay close on 11th October and 29th November.
In this timely webinar in partnership with My Family Care / Bright Horizons we'll give you the inside track on the topics, how best to respond as well as how to communicate your position as an employer externally and internally while the consultation is ongoing. Crucially, what are the immediate and future implications for employers for attracting and retaining talent?
We're delighted to be joined by Debbi Jackson - Assistant Director - Family Related Leave and Pay at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), who'll be providing an overview of the consultations. Carolanne Minashi, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at UBS, will be sharing her thoughts and in depth experience from an employer's POV.
To complete the panel, Jennifer Liston-Smith, Head of Thought Leadership at My Family Care / Bright Horizons, will be contributing her broad experience of working with award-winning employers as a sought-after consultant on family-friendly best practice.
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The Future of Work Part II: Technology & the New World of Work
Jul 4 2019
62 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Richard Doherty, Workday; Jeremy Lief, PwC
In June 2018 we discussed the future of the workforce and how HR professionals can prepare their organisations for this brave new world.
One year on it's time to revisit the future of work with a review of what has changed in the last year and a look at how new waves of technological disruption and innovation will continue to shape the new world of work where agility and therefore HR, will be at the heart of an organisation's ability to succeed.
Joining the discussion and sharing some of their innovative work in this area will be Richard Doherty, Senior Director Product Marketing EMEA at Workday & Jeremy Lief, a partner at PwC, leading the HR Transformation & Technology practice in the UK.
This webinar will examine and consider the impact of the following areas on the workplace:
• Machine Learning
• Augmented Analytics
• The Employee Experience
• Talent Marketplaces
Register now to reserve your place!
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Does your Employer Brand attract talented parents and carers?
Jun 27 2019
76 mins
James Marsh,HRr; Jennifer Liston-Smith, MFC; Nikunj Upadhay, Barclays; Cassie Raine, PiPA; Yvonne Smyth, Hays
In the competition to attract and retain talent across multiple generations, the best Employee Value Propositions include family-friendly benefits and policies. Inclusion of working parents and carers also plays a part in your overall consumer brand, corporate social responsibility perception as well as measures such as Gender Pay Gap reporting.
• Nearly 61%* of women would take an organisation's gender pay gap into consideration when looking for a new job.
• Flexible working is the top benefit people look for when considering a new role, way beyond any other typical benefits.**
• Women put parent and carer benefits second only to flexible working when considering a new role**
With online comparison sites and social media further increasing transparency on employer culture, policies and benefits, prospective and existing employees have never been more aware or had more access to this level of information. And it matters to them!
In this webinar hosted by James Marsh, we're delighted to be joined by a strong panel of guests from Barclays, PiPA, Hays, recruiting experts worldwide, and My Family Care / Bright Horizons.
Join us for a lively discussion, expert comment and some surprising insights into the value of family-friendly in your employer brand and talent attraction!
*Survey of 2,515 UK employees by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
** My Family Care/Hydrogen Competitive advantage of flexible family friendly working report 2016
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Upskilling talent for the modern workforce
Jun 20 2019
62 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Amanda Wellborne, Snr Customer Success Manager, SumTotal Systems
In a world of uncertainty and changing economic direction, upskilling your workforce for the modern world should be the number one priority on your people and development strategy.
But knowing where to start can be a challenging hurdle to overcome. Understanding first what is needed from your organisation and subsequently people is critical to developing and retaining the best people.
In this complimentary webinar you will hear from Morne Swart, VP Global Product Strategy and Transformation, SumTotal Systems who will explore:
-The current and emerging skills gaps in the modern workforce
-What skills are most highly sought after
-How to develop a long term strategy for talent development and retention
-And practical tips on where to start first
Register today!
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Talent Assessment Trends in the Digital Age
Jun 13 2019
61 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Suzanne Courtney, Cut-e; Lena Justenhoven, Cut-e
Talent Assessment in the digital era is changing, organizations must focus on attracting, retaining, and developing digital talent, as no one can predict the future of work in five years' time.
As the war for digital talent continues to progress, assessing for technical skills and "soft skills" together become key to building an agile, digitally ready workforce.
Join us for a free webinar to discuss:
- Identifying skills gaps and redeploying internal talent
- How to make better decisions when hiring for agile and digital behaviors with case study examples
- Top digital readiness trends and how to get your organisation ready for digital change
We look forward to meeting you.
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The Parent Transition: The Latest on Policy, Practice and Benefits
May 23 2019
69 mins
James Marsh, HRr; Jennifer Liston-Smith, MFC; Dr Sarah Forbes & Dr Holly Birkett, Birmingham Business School.
Retaining employees through the transition to parenthood is now a mainstream tenet of most organisations' talent retention strategy It's been 5 years since Shared Parental Leave was introduced in the UK and Gender Pay Gap reporting has added further impetus to organisations' efforts to retain women as well as men through the new parent transition.
Many employers have reviewed, updated and introduced new programmes, policies and benefits.
In this webinar we'll be sharing the results and insights from My Family Care's New Parent Transition Benchmark. It's been designed to shed light on changes to benefits and policy in this area, high-lighting innovative practice and the impact that organisations have seen as a result.
Elizabeth Kerry, Inclusion Partner, Hermes Investment Management and Gemma Dale, Policy and Engagement Manager, University of Manchester will be sharing their employer journeys in supporting the parental leave transition.
Dr Sarah Forbes is joining us to discuss the findings of the latest research from the University of Birmingham Business School into the factors that enable or block the take-up of Shared Parental Leave.
Last, but my no means least, Jennifer Liston-Smith, Director, Head of Thought Leadership, Coaching & Consultancy at My Family Care will be contributing her insights from long term working relationships with employers across a very diverse range of organisations.
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Gender Pay Gap: Where are we now?
Apr 30 2019
75 mins
James Marsh,HRr; Jennifer Liston-Smith, MFC; Ruth Thomas, CURO; Catherine Manson, Christie's; Sarah Gregory, Baker & McKenzie
The UK has one of the biggest gender pay gaps in Europe as well as a growing skills shortage. Research shows 92% of people would use gender pay gap information when looking for a job and half of female employees would favour an organisation with a smaller gap (Business in the Community, 2015).
We now have data from two rounds of Gender Pay Gap reporting and we've seen many narratives and action plans exploring the drivers, and solutions.
In this webinar we'll be sharing analysis of the latest round of reporting and examining what it tells us about any progress in closing the gap. But it's not just about the numbers, we'll also be considering challenges and opportunities of the mandatory narrative and asking what 'good' looks like.
We'll be discussing what employers are actually doing to close the gap with a focus on addressing the key 'motherhood' and 'good daughter' penalties.
Join James Marsh and our panel of employers, thought leaders and gender pay experts for an insightful and lively discussion.
Jennifer Liston-Smith, Director, Head of Coaching, Consultancy and Thought Leadership at My Family Care and Ruth Thomas, co-founder and Senior Consultant at Curo Compensation will be providing expert insight and a broad perspective on the topic. Catherine Manson, Global Head of Communications and Corporate Affairs at Christie's and Sarah Gregory, Inclusion and Diversity Partner at leading law firm Baker & McKenzie will be sharing their gender pay gap journeys.
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The Future of Talent Acquisition
Apr 4 2019
63 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Charlotte Schaller, cut-e; Lauren Jepson, Vodafone; Dean Callaghan, cut-e.
The world is changing: Brexit, industry convergence, digital transformation, increasing automation and the arrival of the information age.
Is traditional recruitment keeping pace? It is time to rethink talent acquisition. Start talking the language of business and deliver tangible business value.
Learn how Vodafone revolutionised finding future digital leaders with the award winning tool 'the future jobs finder'.
Join us on this one-hour webinar at which we will explore:
- What trends impact the role of HR in 2019
- Case Study: Vodafone – Digital transformation in early careers
- The impact of technology, gamification and artificial intelligence on talent assessment
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How AI is changing talent assessment
Feb 21 2019
63 mins
James Marsh, HRreview; Oke Brandt, Product development, cut-e; Sarah Kenehan, Consultant, cut-e
Artificial Intelligence in assessment is a current key debate amongst HR professionals. AI undoubtedly transforms some jobs – but it will also transform the role of the HR function in managing talent.
If you want to get up to speed on how AI can be used in selection, understand the challenges it poses and how to manage these, then reserve your place now.
During the webinar we'll be:
• Exploring Natural Language Processing and its uses in Talent Assessment
• Learning about the acceptance of AI in recruitment processes
• Explaining how to use Machine Learning that is compliant with regulations
• Examining the role of automatic scoring in the future of video assessment
• Outlining the ethical and legal challenges facing us as we move forward with AI
The use of AI in recruitment and assessment is progressing quickly.
Don't get left behind. We look forward to meeting you.
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Why it pays to be family friendly: How leading employers make work+family work
Feb 14 2019
74 mins
James Marsh, HRr; Jennifer Liston-Smith, MFC; Deborah Richards, IBM; Sally McCann, Macfarlanes; Liz Kotze, Sky
With a workforce that is ever-more age and life-stage diverse, it's never been more important for organisations to enable their employees to combine Work+Family successfully.
In this webinar we will share the highlights of My Family Care's Work+Family Snapshot – exploring the challenges faced by working parents and carers, and their priorities for keeping career on track alongside family.
We'll also be discussing the solutions, successes, and lessons learnt by leading employers including IBM as a case study.
We'll explore the culture, policies and benefits that contribute to making an organisation family-friendly and inclusive; the trends, benefits, and return on investment for the employer including:
1.The key trends and innovative practices emerging in UK
2.How clever employers use family-friendly practice to build their employer brand
3.How family-friendly practices translate into employee engagement
4.Measuring the business impact and ROI of these practices
In this lively webinar, James Marsh will be joined by Panellists including Jennifer Liston-Smith, Director, Head of Coaching and Consultancy at My Family Care, and Deborah Richards, Diversity & Inclusion Leader at IBM.
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The Southside Hoods, made up of two subdivisions: the Purple Nines and the Red Jacks, are a set of prominent African-American gangs in Shoreside Vale, Liberty City.
Events of GTA Liberty City Stories
In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, set in 1998, they are assisted by the Leone Family in taking Wichita Gardens as their turf and driving out the Forelli Family. At this point in time, both gangs were allied and acted as a single gang.
Events of GTA III
By the time Grand Theft Auto III takes place in 2001, the Nines begin selling SPANK on local streets. The Redjacks, particularly their leader D-Ice, are against the drug and narcotic business and start a war with the Nines. After performing a drive-by on the Nines, using RC Bombs to destroy their armored vans, stopping D-Ice's Infernus from being destroyed and collecting some platinum from a crashed airplane Claude and D-Ice's Brother defeat them in a mêlée battle.
Curiously, the Red Jacks and Purple Nines do not attack each other on the streets, and will even assist each other if one is wounded or in battle, pertaining to all gang member characters being modeled after Southside Hoods. To cover up the error in the plot, D-Ice warns Claude that if he shoots at Nines, some Red Jacks would assume they were under fire and shoot at him as well.
The favorite radio stations of the Southside Hoods are Game Radio, MSX FM, K-Jah, Rise FM and The Liberty Jam.
No Purple Nines Glitch
- In Grand Theft Auto III, there is a glitch involving the Purple Nines, usually on the PS2 and the PS3. When the player finishes Rumble and makes a new profile and goes to Wichita Gardens, the player will notice the Purple Nines have vanished. If the player starts the game all over again with the same memory card inserted, the player will then realize the Purple Nines are still gone, like because that you already finished Rumble and Rockstar forgot to make sure they appear in another file. Thus if the player tries to make more profiles, The Nines will still not spawn and the player will always fail the mission, and this can prevent the player from getting 100%. To fix this, try starting the game on a new memory card, or have backup saves, or try to do 100% and never re-start the game otherwise the glitch comes into effect. Another method is to start a new game without the memory card inserted, then re-insert the memory card and save your game. For the PS3, delete every file and once the player revisits the area, the Nines start spawning again.
- There is a fix for this glitch made by Demarest of GTA Forums for the PC version, which helps you pass Uzi Money by killing Red Jacks instead of Purple Nines. The fix can be found here.
- To check if you have this glitch in the beginning of the game, you can go to Shoreside Vale using these methods.
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GTA Liberty City Stories
- In Manhunt, there is a gang called the Hoods too, although it does not bear any resemblance to the Southside Hoods.
- The Southside Hoods, along with the Yakuza, are the only gangs in GTA III that do not act hostile towards Claude upon completion of the storyline.
- In another Rockstar game, Manhunt 2, there is a gang called Red Kings. Since both games took place in the same universe, it could be the same gang as Red Jacks, which went bigger and took the new name after defeating their rivals.
- The Purple Nines faction shares its gang color with the Ballas.
- The rival colors of the Red Jacks and the Purple Nines might be a reference to the Bloods and the Crips, street gangs from Los Angeles, which are also in New York (what Liberty City is based on), although only the color of the Bloods is represented in the game by the Red Jacks.
- Like the Cubans in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, they also are not hostile to the player.


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Since Kate's terrific essay was published on Salon and in Feed Me!, I've been thinking again about the protest "But you're not fat!" and how it can be so much at odds with lived experience. Many of us, of many different sizes, have been flat-out told we're fat (and therefore unacceptable, unloveable, unfeminine, and so on) by everyone from complete strangers to our own families. I've spent most of my twenties as an inbetweenie or thinner, and I still find it hard to reconcile my past as a fat girl with my present as a not-fat woman — especially given that the characteristics that my fat body had (wide hips, jiggly thighs, heavy breasts) are all still around on my thinner body.
Which is why two recent blog posts really stuck in my mind: they illustrate the way that even when you're relatively free of fat harassment in your daily life, you can never be free of it culturally. Even when the real people in your life tell you "But you're not fat," a host of forces are out there to tell you "Yeah, you are."
The first is from Sociological Images: a vintage Sears ad (from what, the 70s?) that is just rife with gender and racial subtexts as well.
If little Tracy Harper is chubby, then so am I. What struck me most about this ad is that it is pre-OBESITY ARMAGEDDON!!!!11 hysteria; there's no suggestion that this girl is part of the downfall of society (although she doesn't care about being "fashionable," presumably in her figure as well as her clothes), just that she should look better to make her mother look better. What do you think this ad would look like if it ran today? And would the word "chubby" appear in it?
And then, of course, there's the "Jessica Simpson Weight Controversy," in which pop star Jessica Simpson appears to have gained maybe 5 pounds and also joined the unfortunate trend of super-high-waisted jeans. Again, if Jessica Simpson is fat, then I must be a fatpocalypse in the making.
This image was helpfully constructed in classic before/after style by the assholes over at the Daily Mail, which also reports that Simpson's "before" figure was the result of "two-hour workouts six days a week" with a personal trainer and "a South Beach Diet-style low-carb, high-protein menu" — all in the service of a movie role. In other words, having that figure was her job, and having the figure on the right is what happens when she goes back to her normal job (i.e., singing). What a hideous role model she is! Why, if young girls look up to her, they'll all end up as fat as little Tracy Harper!
As Liss says at Shakesville:
Got that? Even eating a strict diet, Simpson had to work out two hours a day, six days a week to attain the physique she's now being crucified for no longer having—and it's evidently a perfectly reasonable expectation that she do it for the rest of her life.
Simpson didn't need that rigorous regime because she needed to lose lots of weight: She just had to get to Daisy Duke from where she is now—which used to be considered enormously hot, until she made an extraordinary effort to make her body do something it doesn't naturally do. Now she's lambasted for refusing to maintain it by dedicating at least twelve hours a week of her life just to working out, a schedule she called "emotionally destructive."
These are just some of the messages that bombard us every day; this is the miasma of fat hatred and misogyny that threatens our every breath. This is why people who say "You're not fat!" or "Why should thin people care about fat acceptance?" are missing the point. We need to disarm the word "fat" as an insult for so many reasons; one of them is that it is nearly always possible to wield. Tracy Harper and Jessica Simpson show that there is no place where you are safe from the charge that you are fat — a line can always be drawn between "acceptable" and "too fat," no matter what it looks like on either side. As long as we buy into the idea that fat means bad, lazy, unhealthy, unsexy, then we are always vulnerable to the images above. "Fat," like "bitch," is an insult designed to put you in your place; as an insult, it has little to do with you and your actual body, and a whole lot to do with marking some bodies and some modes of living as inferior.
That's why it's so hilarious when people react to FA blogs by saying that we're trying to encourage our readers to be fat. Ask Jessica Simpson: no matter how thin you are, you might be fat already.


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Traveling Hair Stylist in Fourways before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Mobile Hairdressers Price List is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
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1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A Mobile Hairdresser Johannesburg hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
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4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
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We ask ourselves so many questions when caring for our locks. However, maintaining healthy locked hair can be simple (in fact, foolproof) when you know what to do and what not to do to your hair. This article will give you some basic Do's and Don'ts when it comes to lock maintenance. Before presenting you with what you should and should not do, keep in mind that there is no way to make an exhaustive list, however, this list will get you started. When taking care of your locks, many people are bombarded with what they CANNOT do, that they forget to enjoy what they CAN do. Keep in mind the DON'Ts and embrace the DOs. The new found freedoms that your locks bring also afford you the chance to DO a lot! Here are the "Dreadlock Commandments":
No matter what, do NOT ever put any kind of beeswax on your hair. In the past many have believed that using beeswax was the only why to start locks. However, this ideology couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, using beeswax actually isn't a good thing at all. One of the main reasons that wax is a "no-no" is simply because of the fact that wax doesn't breakdown in water. What does this mean? It means that no matter how much you wash your hair, the beeswax will forever be in your locks. Wax also attracts debris, lint, dirt, pollutants, and other undesired things into you hair that might also be hard to wash out. If you ever meet someone that uses beeswax on their hair, look at their locks and you will see the buildup that using wax has left over the years. There are other products that can be used to lock your hair that are also beneficial to your hair as well. Products such as lanolin, honey, olive oil, avocado butter, shea butter, and similar items can have the same holding power as wax BUT lead to healthier hair.
Lock maintenance is as simple as it comes. Some try to make the process a complicated maze in order to keep others from wanted to take on this commitment. The only thing a lock wearer really needs to do is develop a good hair routine and stick with it. If need be, you can just get up and go without doing anything to your hair. Keeping the process simple makes this commitment even more attractive.
Sometimes we get eager when we get to different stages in the locking process. One big milestone will be when your hair gets long enough to put in a ponytail. Once you reach that stage, you might have the urge to always throw your hair up in a ponytail, EVERYDAY. Please resist this urge. Repeatedly wearing your hair in the same hairstyle day in and day out, will create weak spots in those area that are continuously under stress due to tight hair ties, hair pins, hair bands, and other hair accoutrements. For example, if you like to wear your hair in a ponytail everyday, you might notice down the line that in the same area on every lock you have a spot where your locks look like they might break. This weak spot is from constantly using a hair tie to hold your pigtail. Also, always pulling your hair back may also cause traction alopecia because of the constant tension on your hairline. Just be mindful and try to give your locks time to JUST BE.
Every stage of locking is unique and comes with its own set of happenings. In order to stick with the entire process it is important that you appreciate the fuzzy locks just like you will appreciate the matured locks. Consider your locks your child and just like a child, you have to raise them from a newborn to an adult. Have patience with your hair and know that if you treat your hair right and are grateful for the small occurrence and milestones, your hair will grow into well-mannered adult locks. Just don't get discouraged and give up because your hair won't obey you.
This is probably one of the most important rules to live by. Understanding that the way your locks look in the beginning is NOT how they will look at their matured state. This means that when you start locking you might find that your locks are bigger than you desire. But keep in mind that as your hair locks, they will get tighter. So a pencil sized lock in the beginning will be smaller when matured. Moreover, there will be shrinkage in the beginning, but as your locks grow, you will forget about it. Keep that in mind as you start locking and it will give you something to look forward to as your locks evolve.
Just like you did not know everything about locking in the beginning, when people see you with locks they are bound to ask questions. Do answer people if they have valid questions. Now, you don't have to open yourself up to harassment, but you answering valid questions might help someone else to become comfortable in their skin and take the plunge on the "Lock Side"
Deciding and going through with locking your hair requires that the wearer has a certain level of confidence and swag. Your new style may also lead to changes to your wardrobe. Do what is best for you and your level of comfort. Locking your hair give you a new sense of freedom that will spill over into the other areas of your life. Embrace the changes and have fun with it.
NOTE: You might find out, during your lock exploration, that there are other items that might go on your personal DO/ DO NOT list. Feel free to adapt this list to your personal experience, by adding those other things that also did or did NOT work for you.
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Hairdressing by definition is the styling of ones hair employing various techniques including hair cutting, hair colouring, styling and various hair treatment options. This is usually executed by qualified and professionally trained people in the art of styling and cutting hair.
One would normally visit a hairdressing or beauty salon to have this performed however it is common today to have home visits as well by a mobile hairdresser. Hairdressing involves using a number of tools to complete the job such as hair straighteners, hair dryers, hair clippers, trimmers as well as the several number of hair care products available to help attain that ultimate style. The most crucial item in a hairdressers toolbox is of course the scissors. There are practically dozens of different types of scissors available on the market and the hairdresser will have his or her favourite make and style. Of the numerous kinds offered you have the traditional standard scissors as well as kinds that thin the hair and left handed ones too.
In order to remain ahead of the competition a good hairdressing salon has to constantly update there staff members skills and knowledge. New styles are showing up constantly and having the means to provide the desired service will help your business develop. Customers will always prefer a salon that provides a substantial and varied choice, not simply for their hair and skin but also their budgets too. One last note to consider prior to getting any kind of hairdressing equipment is to be sure that it adheres to any required security standards.


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BACK in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card, then the president's chief of staff, told The New York Times why the much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn't yet arrived. "You don't introduce new products in August," he said, sounding like the mouthpiece for the Big Three automakers he once was. Sure enough, with an efficiency Detroit can only envy, the manufactured aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds rolled off the White House assembly line after Labor Day like clockwork.
Five summers later, we have the flip side of the Card corollary: You do recall defective products in August, whether you're Mattel or the Bush administration. Karl Rove's departure was both abrupt and fast. The ritualistic "for the sake of my family" rationale convinced no one, and the decision to leak the news in a friendly print interview (on The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page) rather than announce it in a White House spotlight came off as furtive. Inquiring Rove haters wanted to know: Was he one step ahead of yet another major new scandal? Was a Congressional investigation at last about to draw blood?
Perhaps, but the Republican reaction to Mr. Rove's departure is more revealing than the cries from his longtime critics. No G.O.P. presidential candidates paid tribute to Mr. Rove, and, except in the die-hard Bush bastions of Murdochland present (The Weekly Standard, Fox News) and future (The Journal), the conservative commentariat was often surprisingly harsh. It is this condemnation of Rove from his own ideological camp — not the Democrats' familiar litany about his corruption, polarizing partisanship, dirty tricks, etc. — that the White House and Mr. Rove wanted to bury in the August dog days.
What the Rove critics on the right recognize is that it may be even more difficult for their political party to dig out of his wreckage than it will be for America. Their angry bill of grievances only sporadically overlaps that of the Democrats. One popular conservative blogger, Michelle Malkin, mocked Mr. Rove and his interviewer, Paul Gigot, for ignoring "the Harriet Miers debacle, the botching of the Dubai ports battle, or the undeniable stumbles in post-Iraq invasion policies," not to mention "the spectacular disaster of the illegal alien shamnesty." Ms. Malkin, an Asian-American in her 30s, comes from a far different place than the Gigot-Fred Barnes-William Kristol axis of Bush-era ideological lock step.
Those Bush dead-enders are in a serious state of denial. Just how much so could be found in the Journal interview when Mr. Rove extolled his party's health by arguing, without contradiction from Mr. Gigot, that young people are more "pro-life" and "free-market" than their elders. Maybe he was talking about 12-year-olds. Back in the real world of potential voters, the latest New York Times-CBS News poll of Americans aged 17 to 29 found that their views on abortion were almost identical to the rest of the country's. (Only 24 percent want abortion outlawed.)
That poll also found that the percentage of young people who identify as Republicans, whether free-marketers or not, is down to 25, from a high of 37 at the end of the Reagan era. Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, found that self-identified G.O.P. voters are trending older rapidly, with the percentage over age 55 jumping from 28 to 41 percent in a decade.
Every poll and demographic accounting finds the Republican Party on the losing side of history, both politically and culturally. Not even a miraculous armistice in Iraq or vintage Democratic incompetence may be able to ride to the rescue. A survey conducted by The Journal itself (with NBC News) in June reported G.O.P. approval numbers lower than any in that poll's two decades of existence. Such is the political legacy for a party to which Mr. Rove sold Mr. Bush as "a new kind of Republican," an exemplar of "compassionate conservatism" and the avatar of a permanent Republican majority.
That sales pitch, as we long ago learned, was all about packaging, not substance. The hope was that No Child Left Behind and a 2000 G.O.P. convention stacked with break dancers and gospel singers would peel away some independent and black voters from the Democrats. The promise of immigration reform would spread Bush's popularity among Hispanics. Another potential add-on to the Republican base was Muslims, a growing constituency that Mr. Rove's pal Grover Norquist plotted to herd into the coalition.
The rest is history. Any prospect of a rapprochement between the G.O.P. and African-Americans died in the New Orleans Superdome. The tardy, botched immigration initiative unleashed a wave of xenophobia against Hispanics, the fastest-growing voting bloc in the country. The Muslim outreach project disappeared into the memory hole after 9/11.
Forced to pick a single symbolic episode to encapsulate the collapse of Rovian Republicanism, however, I would not choose any of those national watersheds, or even the implosion of the Iraq war, but the George Allen "macaca" moment. Its first anniversary fell, fittingly enough, on the same day last weekend that Mitt Romney bought his victory at the desultory, poorly attended G.O.P. straw poll in Iowa.
A century seems to have passed since Mr. Allen, the Virginia Republican running for re-election to the Senate, was anointed by Washington insiders as the inevitable heir to the Bush-Rove mantle: a former governor whose jus'-folks personality, the Bushian camouflage for hard-edged conservatism, would propel him to the White House. Mr. Allen's senatorial campaign and presidential future melted down overnight after he insulted a Jim Webb campaign worker, the 20-year-old son of Indian immigrants, not just by calling him a monkey but by sarcastically welcoming him "to America" and "the real world of Virginia."
This incident had resonance well beyond Virginia and Mr. Allen for several reasons. First, it crystallized the monochromatic whiteness at the dark heart of Rovian Republicanism. For all the minstrel antics at the 2000 convention, the record speaks for itself: there is not a single black Republican serving in either the House or Senate, and little representation of other minorities, either. Far from looking like America, the G.O.P. caucus, like the party's presidential field, could pass for a Rotary Club, circa 1954. Meanwhile, a new census analysis released this month finds that nonwhites now make up a majority in nearly a third of the nation's most populous counties, with Houston overtaking Los Angeles in black population and metropolitan Chicago surpassing Honolulu in Asian residents. Even small towns and rural America are exploding in Hispanic growth.
Second, the Allen slur was a compact distillation of the brute nastiness of the Bush-Rove years, all that ostentatious "compassion" notwithstanding. Mr. Bush and Mr. Rove are not xenophobes, but the record will show that their White House spoke up too late and said too little when some of its political allies descended into Mexican-bashing during the immigration brawl. Mr. Bush and Mr. Rove winked at anti-immigrant bigotry, much as they did at the homophobia they inflamed with their incessant election-year demagoguery about same-sex marriage.
Finally, the "macaca" incident was a media touchstone. It became a national phenomenon when the video landed on YouTube, the rollicking Web site whose reach now threatens mainstream news outlets. A year later, leading Republicans are still clueless and panicked about this new medium, which is why they, unlike their Democratic counterparts, pulled out of even a tightly controlled CNN-YouTube debate. It took smart young conservative bloggers like a former Republican National Committee operative, Patrick Ruffini, to shame them into reinstating the debate for November, lest the entire G.O.P. field look as pathetically out of touch as it is.
The rise of YouTube certifies the passing of Mr. Rove's era, a cultural changing of the guard in the digital age. Mr. Rove made his name in direct-mail fund-raising and with fierce top-down message management. As the Internet erodes snail mail, so it upends direct mail. As YouTube threatens a politician's ability to rigidly control a message, so it threatens the Rove ethos that led Mr. Bush to campaign at "town hall" meetings attended only by hand-picked supporters.
It's no coincidence that this new culture is also threatening the Beltway journalistic establishment that celebrated Mr. Rove's invincibility well past its expiration date (much as it did James Carville's before him), extolling what Joshua Green, in his superb new Rove article in The Atlantic, calls the Cult of the Consultant. The YouTube video of Mr. Rove impersonating a rapper at one of those black-tie correspondents' dinners makes the Washington press corps look even more antediluvian than he is.
Last weekend's Iowa straw poll was a more somber but equally anachronistic spectacle. Again, it's a young conservative commentator, Ryan Sager, writing in The New York Sun, who put it best: "The face of the Republican Party in Iowa is the face of a losing party, full of hatred toward immigrants, lust for government subsidies, and the demand that any Republican seeking the office of the presidency acknowledge that he's little more than Jesus Christ's running mate."
That face, at once contemptuous and greedy and self-righteous, is Karl Rove's face. Unless someone in his party rolls out a revolutionary new product, it is indelible enough to serve as the Republican brand for a generation.


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Monday, November 19, 2012
its been so long...
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I know you probably get this all the time but you really deserve credit for managing both this blog and your "beauty" blog etcllymlrs (which I also follow) especially as you update on an almost daily basis. I've only been devoting myself to blogging properly for a month now trying to post everyday and as much as I enjoy it, it is time consuming so how you manage it is beyond me. You deserve a gold star! I love this outfit, it's perfect for autumn. I have this hat too, but it suits you a hell of a lot more than myself.ReplyDelete
oooh really nice!ReplyDelete
Another great outfit! That colour looks great on you! xxxReplyDelete
love that colour polish, looks fab with the burgundy dress! If you get a sec, I'd love if you'd check out my latest post. xoReplyDelete
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I adore your coat xxReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, November 19, 2012 6:44:00 pm
I need that collar! Let the ebay search begin aha! xReplyDelete
Love everything in this outfit, the fur, the colours and the boots are on my wishlist! Looking beautiful(:ReplyDelete
This colour looks so lovely on you, and I love the collar idea too - I'll steal that combo thankyou! Boots are gorg too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, November 19, 2012 6:50:00 pm
You look absolutely stunning Lily!ReplyDelete
the peter pan collar really changes the outfit :)ReplyDelete
Ahh love that dress - topshop are doing some great tshirt type dresses at the moment.ReplyDelete
So so gorgeous , love your dress and collar xxReplyDelete
Love the colour of the dress and the collar is so cute!ReplyDelete
Ahhh I love the haul! I haven't managed to get to Primark for ages now (only because I know I'll spend so much money if I dare go in and I'm trying to save for Xmas pressies!) I live by the Telford store which is brill, and when it's quiet you can go crazy!ReplyDelete
The oxblood/burgundy colour is fab. And I think this coat was a real investment piece, you'll get so many years wear out of this - I mean, when is a fur collar ever gonna go out of style? Love!
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I really like the boots, you look great as usual xReplyDelete
Especially a fan of the little ring and the coat xoReplyDelete
just watched your video, love everything!ReplyDelete
especially the first jumper, can't wait until my local one opens up at the end of the month, you've bought some beautiful items! x
- AnonymousMonday, November 19, 2012 7:27:00 pm
i really like the outfit and enjoyed the haulReplyDelete
sara xx
love the colour of your dress!ReplyDelete
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stunning as always. love your style xxReplyDelete
I love the collar, and Im seriously obsessing over the colour of your dress at the moment! xReplyDelete
I love your socks, random but I love the colour! <3 xoReplyDelete
Cute, little Lily <3ReplyDelete
You look lovely! I must go to Oxford Circus Primark as Croydon's one is horrid. Need more knitwear!ReplyDelete
How cute is this outfit?! I love it! The collar matches the dress sooo well, burgandy is my absolute fave in a/w on clothes!ReplyDelete
Jessica xo
Wow that dress is amazing! Plain and simple, just how I like it! Pretty much love your primark haul aswell :3 xxxReplyDelete
I think you really suit the dip-hem dresses like these! Love the collar as well, so simple but it completely changes the outfit xReplyDelete
love those kimonos you got! xxReplyDelete
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another cute outfit:DReplyDelete
Love the burgundy with the black! That necklace is lovely too xxReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMonday, November 19, 2012 8:48:00 pm
You look GORGE - love that collar xoReplyDelete
You look so beautiful! love the dress so much! What lipstick are you wearing?ReplyDelete
Pip x
Love the colour of this dress. I have this coat and just realised how great it looks with burgundy, so thanks! haha xxReplyDelete
such a lovely dress! :)ReplyDelete
i LOVE the colour!ReplyDelete
also i love the boots, i could do with some winter boots!!
That dress is gorgeous :)ReplyDelete
Hi Lily,ReplyDelete
I hope you don't mind me asking but do you have a direct link to where you bought your collar please?
It's the perfect length and size and it'd love one!
Thanks a lot xo
I really love your dress! Especially the collarReplyDelete
Love your nails!ReplyDelete
Katie xo
Great outfit. I love the dress and the collar you added with it :)ReplyDelete
I really love this outfit and you look gorgeous as per <3ReplyDelete
No way! was so pleased to see you wearing this I was only wearing this dress yesterday with a white shirt popping out from underneath :) Would love for you to see how I styled mineReplyDelete
http://www.swigdigs.com/2012/11/a-peek-of-collar.html xx
Loving this look on you! The collar on the dress is super cute and I'm loving the shoes!!!ReplyDelete
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I love this dress. I have it in peach but the burgundy looks a lot nicer.ReplyDelete
i love your hat xxReplyDelete
Love this dress with the collar...another amazing outfit!xxReplyDelete
Love this you look so cute.ReplyDelete
Favorite kind of posts. Love your style! im obsessed with browsing through your blog. Ive just started my own and yours is completely inspiring :) xoxReplyDelete
lovely. <3ReplyDelete
You look amazing, I absolutely love your hat!! XxReplyDelete
Love the collar with this jersey dress.ReplyDelete
Hatsy xx
Love this look! Especially the collar over the dress! I wish I could shop in primark but none in the States yet! I love that grey and black jumper in your hall! I have been looking for the perfect xmas jumper! Which one do you like?ReplyDelete
Great look !!!ReplyDelete
Love your ring, dress & shoes ♥
Love the colour of your dress, like the cute style too xReplyDelete
Stumbled across your blog, and fell in love with your style. You take incredible shots, and your fashion is very young and so relevant to people my age.ReplyDelete
Would love to know your thoughts on my fashion shoot i styled.
I love those Topshop dresses, i really want the one in green. Wish I could pull off one of those hats!xReplyDelete
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I love how you've added this collar to this otherwise plain burgundy dress!ReplyDelete
Sarah x
love that coat, it's perfect! Plus burgundy is such a good colour on youReplyDelete
amazing colors!!ReplyDelete
You are adorable. And I am seriously coveting the bowler hat(as always) and the jeweled collar. Fantastic.ReplyDelete
I'm also following you on IG now! :) @jessihannahjay
I'm loving your nail polish colour! <3 xoReplyDelete
love the burgandy dress with the sparkle collar :)ReplyDelete
the dress and collar are perfect together.ReplyDelete
I have that dress in grey: it's so gorgeous and flattering! I'm resisting spending all my Christmas savings in Topshop at the moment... http://coquetin.blogspot.co.uk/ xxReplyDelete
Love it! Your a beaut!!ReplyDelete
very goodReplyDelete
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�As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.�
� John F. Kennedy
�There never was a good war or a bad peace.� � Benjamin Franklin
�There�s a culture in Washington that engulfs both Republicans and Democrats. It is a culture that makes it easy to go to war but impossible to get out.�
� U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern
We celebrated Veterans Day last week with the usual parades, remembrances and display of war memorabilia. It was an occasion to honor all men and women who have served in the military honorably during times of war and peace. Held on the 11th day of the 11th month of each year, this national holiday also commemorates the end of the �Great War� � World War I, that was supposed to �end all wars.� Sadly, it did not.
During the recent election season, there was much talk about wars � the war on women, the war against the middle class and the struggle to end financial injustice. But there was virtually no mention of the real war fought with real weapons, the longest war in the history of the United States. The candidates addressed countless issues in comments, debates and TV ads, but our armed involvement thousands of miles from our borders, the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, was completely ignored.
Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives refused even to discuss the matter when the Department of Defense request for funding the war came up. �I find that silence shocking and offensive,� Rep. McGovern told his colleagues during a floor speech in September. He has been among the very few public officials who have demanded to end the conflict.
But the silence that is most disturbing is coming from the White House, for the war in Afghanistan is clearly Barack Obama�s war. He has more than doubled the number of American troops there since becoming commander in chief, bringing the total close to 100,000. They are asked to fight for an ill-defined cause, in an unlikely place, alongside an unworthy ally. More than 1,000 Americans have been killed, some by elements associated with the Afghan government we are supposed to protect. Some of our men and women are more concerned about the danger represented by our allies than by the enemy.
If our mission has ever had reasonable objectives � to rid Afghanistan of al-Qaida and defeat the Taliban � they have been already accomplished or are beyond reach. Osama bin-Laden is dead, but the whereabouts and strength of the elusive al-Qaida is largely unknown. The Taliban proved its staying power by regrouping in Pakistan after it was uprooted from Afghanistan in 2001.
With some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world, tailor-made for guerrilla warfare, Afghanistan has been called the �graveyard of empires.� The British lost a war and an entire army there in 1842. The Soviet Union spent nearly a decade fighting in Afghanistan, suffering staggering losses until it was forced to give up in 1989. That defeat was the last nail in the coffin of the Kremlin�s once mighty empire.
Unlike the war in Iraq � where U.S. intervention replaced a murderous dictatorship with a freely elected government striving for democracy � there�s nothing to gain in Afghanistan. Fierce tribal conflicts and rampant corruption, fueled by the opium trade that finances the Taliban, allows that notoriously flexible enemy to easily outwait the American presence.
Mr. Obama says he we will turn over control of security operations to the Afghans by 2014. But it is unclear how many U.S. forces would remain and what their role might be. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, like any puppet dictator installed by Washington, will never enjoy popular support at home, or be able to provide security for his people without outside help. He�s widely despised for rigging the last election and for running an entirely corrupt government.
The chaotic nature of U.S. leadership has aggravated the situation. Civilian officials and military leaders have been operating at cross purposes. Mr. Obama�s special envoy, Richard Holbrooke, had his own agenda. So did Vice President Joe Biden and John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who envisions himself as a major player in international affairs. Then there is Hillary Clinton, whose job is to keep diplomacy under control, but often gets elbowed aside. Generals came and went, praised and discredited, until the seemingly omnipotent Gen. David H. Petraeus was to ensure military success. Then he went to the CIA � and, well the rest is sordid history.
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Many companies today recognize the need to provide their applications on mobile devices. The recently concluded Mobile Expo — the premier event in mobile technology — revealed that devices this year will include multicore processors running at over 1GHz, making them the processing equivalents of PCs less than five years old. Unfortunately, for many companies without experience in mobile development, they're likely to attack new application development with the traditional mindset, even though the user experience is wholly different. Herein are some development differences that are necessary — indeed crucial — to bear in mind when entering into the mobile development realm.
A mobile device is often used like a laptop in the sense that you install applications on it, run multiple applications at the same time, store data, use social networks, consume remote data, and interact with the native hardware. A mobile device, however, is fairly different from a laptop — memory, processing power, battery, screen real-estate, local storage capabilities, input devices, sensors. All these differences necessarily make writing a mobile application a different type of challenge and require a different set of design patterns.
The multi-touch capability of the screen makes it natural to use fingers to select items and command actions. While soft, and sometimes hard, keyboards are supported, the reduced size of the device makes using fingers much easier. Mobile applications, therefore, are UI-focused and should always be super-optimized for the task they intend to carry out; and mobile applications are not usually designed to carry out many tasks. It turns out that behavior-driven design is a very valuable approach for mobile applications and so is the KISS (Keep It Super Simple) principle. A very small number of use-cases, and a UI-focused design, are the pillars of any mobile application.
When it comes to mobile development, the first step is having a well-defined mobile strategy. Defining a strategy is a management's task, but in the implementation of such a strategy, as a software professional, you may be facing the challenge of creating the "same" mobile application for multiple platforms. How would you take the challenge?
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There are three main platforms in the mobile arena for which a company might want to write applications: iPhone/iPad, Android, and Windows Phone 7. Frankly, it is quite unlikely that these three majors will reduce to one or two. So companies have the problem of investing three times to build three distinct but similar-looking applications.
An alternative is using a framework like PhoneGap, which offers a more powerful and specific interface to the device. Your application will still run within the browser, but it can be given access to an external framework acting as a facade for the device's specific capabilities. Performance, bandwidth, and control are a few aspects that you might want to consider carefully before making this choice. Having said that, for straightforward applications, frameworks like PhoneGap offer real benefits.
As years of real-world experience prove (this is not certainly the first attempt to write cross-platform code), the risk for developers is that the final application effectively has a common body for a subset of features and still requires different branches for the rest. This generally doesn't result from limitations of the product, but from deep and scattered architectural differences that can't just be unified in a single and equally powerful view. Whether the aforementioned subset is large enough to serve the needs of your application ... well, that's just your call. Anyway, a lot of progress has been made in this area and not just from Titanium. Several other frameworks exist that are trying to make writing a multi-platform application simpler and cost-effective. It's an interesting field to explore for changes in the near future.
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A generic mobile application results from a combination of any number of the aspects listed in Table 1. Each aspect requires a native implementation, but having a clear idea of common practices for each aspect and determining beforehand how your application should deal with each aspect is a fundamental step in the direction of seamless development.
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singing along with the music playing on my ipod
So I decided on something different.
I guess it probably doesn't help that I keep
This turned out so pretty...it looks like an antique. And it has a new life!
Not bad, Courtney! The before was so sad, but your after is adorable! :DReplyDelete
imperfectly perfect! it's gorgeous and it has a story behind it which makes it even more special.
Bec x
Goes to show nothing is beyond a little bit of love... so simply beautiful, your style is absolutely gorgeous and inspiring, funny how chairs do that to you. My husband thinks i have a chair problem ;) The ranunculus are so pretty too. Clarissa xoReplyDelete
You are getting some great mileage out of those ranuns! Nice Courtney:-)) xoReplyDelete
It's gorgeous, Courtney!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful save Courtney! LOVE that chippy cabinet behind the chair! Waiting in anticipation for your reveal.Ahh yes paint I too am up to my elbows in paint.Creatively painting away.Much to do and so little time!ReplyDelete
I love what you did for the chair, saving it and giving it new life. <3ReplyDelete
So glad you were able to save it! It is a beautiful chair!!!ReplyDelete
Such beautiful lines to this chair, Courtney! I am so glad you were able to salvage it. I think of all those dents, dings and the crack as "character". : ) It looks lovely with your flowers and the new slip.ReplyDelete
Oh wow it turned out gorgeous, please pat yourself on the back for me....lol
Your pic's are lol sooooo beautiful ;)
Love the chair and the ranunculas. You did a great job patching those staple holes and then making the touch up paint job blend so well with the original paint. Can't wait to see the whole room if you can make a broken chair look that pretty. LeslieReplyDelete
Oh how sad that it came broken. But I am happy you rescued it from it's solitude in the dark and lonely basement. What a beautiful chair... complete with dings and flaws. Perfect in and of it's own. Looking good modeling it's new skirt :-)
Hugs, Gee
The flowers brought the chair to life and so did the glue! lol So nice to still get to keep it.ReplyDelete
WOW - you did a wonderful job on that chair and with the ranunculas it is stunning.
Have a great week.
Courtney, it looks lovely all over again. Isn't it terrific to have a great company make it all better without a lot of fuss? Thanks for sharing.
Un accident qui finit en beauté... De belles photos.
Gros bisous
I understand getting sidetracked like that! I have a dress to get made for a wedding that is this coming Saturday - and all I want to do is play with the fabric I got to create my daughters' Easter dresses out of! LOL!ReplyDelete
I love you took broken junk and made it new - love it - 'cept I liked it w/o its ruffle showing all that gorgeous wood carving..................your flowers are incredible, too.ReplyDelete
I love how you remade the damaged chair. It's always such a nice feeling when you can take something that was damaged and free! :) and turn it into a treasure.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! Love the flowers. ; )
What a transformation! That looks beautiful :)ReplyDelete
You are the chair angel! You brought this chippy back to life and she is so sexy with her backless look and new skirt!!! Beautiful
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What a wonderful rescue ! and sure you love most this chair than an another one !
xoxo from PARIS where it's again snowing !
It looks gorgeous now!ReplyDelete
Beautiful chair and flowers too!!!!
Happy monday to you!
What a great chair rescue.... She is gorgeous !!!!ReplyDelete
NIce save Courtney! It would have been criminal to "dispose of it!"
Without sounding TOO officious I hope(?)--2 repair tips.
1-rub saw dust into the glued up break, it helps hide the line. And,
2-after you glue and re-set the break,
-using a matching sized drill bit and dowel (small)
-drill a deep hole through that newly connected area,
-push the dowel into it, with some glue,
-cut off any extra dowel and sand, putty, paint/stain---
EXTRA SUPPORT to the newly repaired area!
Your chair looks wonderful. I never would have thought something damaged as badly as it was, could be made to be beautiful. Your flowers makes a statement with the chair...or without, for that matter. I would love to have them in my flower beds, but wonder if Wisconsin is the correct zone for growing. I'll have to check my flower and seed catalogs that will soon be coming to my mailbox. Bonnie Schulte in WIReplyDelete
What a gorgeous piece, it turned out great. I am not surprised that you did such a great job.
Your chair is so pretty after its makeover, Courtney! And I love the little slipcover, too.ReplyDelete
Only *you* Courtney, could take something that damaged and bring it back a new fabulous life! And, as always, your flowers are the perfect embellishment ... they are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
More inspiration for me to desire!ReplyDelete
truly wonderful!ReplyDelete
What a great work you did with this chair! xxReplyDelete
Wow... absolutely marvellous <3ReplyDelete
And this is why I Dumpster Dive. Hoping to score something and turn it into a piece as great as this. My husband found an oak coffee table thrown in the bushed when he went for pizza the other night. It is missing a leg. So we are staring at it wondering if we should even tackle this. Wait till I show him what you did with the chair. It will give us the courage to get that table going. And the flowers make it all come together..ReplyDelete
Lovely, of course! And the staging is perfect!ReplyDelete
The chair looks wonderful Courtney! Do you mind me asking where you ordered it from. It's lines are lovely. email@example.com
mmmmmmmm. now that's a silhouette to write home about. love it.
Wow, you really rescued that poor chair. I can't believe it came broken so badly. Or actually I can the way the delivery guys throw things around.ReplyDelete
Great job on salvaging that little beauty!ReplyDelete
Hi Courtney,
Your vintage chair is so pretty. She reminds me of a little child who has fallen and skinned her knees. You have lovingly picked her up, dusted off her knees, kissed her sunny cheek and sent her on her way.
Such a lovely restoration, my friend.
Yay for you and that sweet little chair!!! It's just precious... I'm so tickled that you gave it a new life. It looks beautiful posing in it's pretty little skirt with the gorgeous flowers!


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