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Release updates
This topic provides resources where you can learn about the new features that have recently released and new features that will be releasing over the next few months.
Power Apps portals updates
For information about new features releasing over the next few months that you can use for planning, see:
Previous portal updates
Here's a list of features added for Dynamics 365 Portals. For more information updates for Dynamics 365 Portals to date, see portal capabilities for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Releases.
Power Apps portals were earlier known as Dynamics 365 Portals.
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.1.4 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.1.4 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 brings these new updates and features:
Maintenance mode for portal: As a portal administrator, you can now configure your portal to display a proper message to the customers whenever a maintenance activity is going on—for example, solution packages are being upgraded. More information: Maintenance mode for a portal
Enable Power BI Embedded service: As a portal customizer, you can now embed dashboards and reports created in the new workspace of Power BI by enabling Power BI Embedded service. The dashboards and reports are embedded on web pages in a portal by using the powerbi Liquid tag. More information: Set up Power BI integration
Enable content moderation on ideas: As a portal administrator, you can now create a content moderation policy to moderate the ideas that are submitted on your portal.
OAuth 2.0 implicit grant flow: As a portal developer, you can now make client-side API calls to external APIs and get them secured by using OAuth 2.0 implicit grant flow. More information: OAuth 2.0 implicit grant flow
Common Data Service starter portal (preview): As a portal administrator, you can now configure your portal to connect to the Common Data Service environment and allow your users to interact with it. This feature brings in the ability to connect a portal to a Common Data Service environment that does not have any model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 (Dynamics 365 Sales,Dynamics 365 Service, or Dynamics 365 Marketing) preinstalled.
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.1.1 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.1.1 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 brings these new updates and features:
- Portal checker: You can now use portal checker to identify issues with your portal by looking at various configuration parameters and provide suggestions on how to fix them. More information: Portal checker
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.0.10 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.0.10 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 brings these new updates and features:
Migrate Dynamics 365 Portals configuration: You can now migrate your Dynamics 365 Portals configuration from development to testing or the production environments. Migration involves exporting the existing configuration from the source Dynamics 365 instance, and then importing it into the target Dynamics 365 instance. To migrate configuration data, you need to use the Configuration Migration tool and a portal-specific configuration schema file. More information: Migrate Dynamics 365 Portals configuration
Add Power BI visualization: As a portal customizer, you can now embed Power BI visualizations (dashboard, reports, and tiles) on web pages in a portal by using the powerbi Liquid tag. More information: Set up Power BI integration
Restrict portal access by IP address: As a portal administrator, you can now define a list of IP addresses that are allowed to access your portal. When a request to the portal is generated from any user, their IP address is evaluated against the allow list. If the IP address is not on the list, the portal displays a web page with an HTTP 403 status code. More information: Restrict portal access by IP address
Manage SharePoint documents: Dynamics 365 Portals now supports uploading and displaying documents to and from SharePoint directly on an entity form or web form in a portal. This allows portal users to view, download, add, and delete documents from a portal. Portal users can also create folders to organize their documents. More information: Manage SharePoint documents
New portal content editor (preview): In this preview, a new and simplified portal editor is available for Dynamics 365 Portals customizers to reduce the learning curve on Dynamics 365 Portals customization and increase a customizer's productivity.
Enable voting for status reasons: By default, an idea is enabled for voting only when the Status Reason is set to New. You can now enable the voting on an idea for different status reasons. To enable voting for different status reasons, you must create the Ideas/EnableVotingForStatusReasons site setting and set its value to the required status reason values.
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.0.6 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.0.6 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 has brought the following latest updates and features:
Dynamics 365 Portals app: The Dynamics 365 Portals app provides a new experience to configure and manage your online platform to communicate and collaborate with customers. When you install Dynamics 365 Portals version 9.0 and higher, the Dynamics 365 Portals app, built on the Unified Interface framework, is created out-of-the-box.
Reset a portal: You can now reset a portal if you plan to move to another geolocation or to another tenant, and don't want to use the portal anymore. When you reset a portal, the hosted resources of the portal are deleted, and the portal URL will not be accessible. More information: Reset a portal
Change the base URL of a portal: You can now change the base URL of a portal after it is provisioned. For example, if you choose contosocommunity.microsoftcrmportals.com as the base URL while provision the portal, you can later change it to contosocommunityportal.microsoftcrmportals.com as per your requirement. More information: Change base URL
Dynamics 365 Portals version 8.4.1 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Portals version 8.4.1 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 brings in a bunch of bug fixes, as well as performance improvements, along with the following features:
- Search within attachment content of knowledge articles and web files: Attachment content of knowledge articles and web files are now searchable to increase the likelihood of relevant search results. More information: Search within file attachment content
- Accessibility: The out-of-the-box portals (Community portal, Partner portal, Customer portal, Employee self-service portal) are now accessible. However, customizer should ensure that the portal remains accessible after any customization or changes.
Dynamics 365 Portals version 8.4 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Portals version 8.4 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 brings in a bunch of bug fixes, as well as performance improvements, along with the following features:
- Access portal error logs: As a portal developer, you can now access detailed error logs for any issues on your portal. This helps you to debug the issues while developing the portal. Once your portal is live, you can configure the portal to send all application errors to an Azure Blob storage account owned by you. This will help you to debug the issues reported by your customers. More information: Access portal error logs
- Renew portal authentication key: A portal connects to Common Data Service environment using Azure active directory application. To do this, it requires an authentication key connected to Azure Active Directory application. This key is added when you provision your portal and it must be renewed every two years. This version of portal brings in the capability for administrators to be notified about key expiration and renew this key from Power Apps Portals admin center. More information: Renew portal authentication key
- Implement General Data Protection Regulation in portals: As a portal administrator, you can now configure your portal to meet the GDPR standards. You can also provide certain terms and conditions that must be agreed by the portal users to use a portal. You can also setup checks such as, if a portal is accessed by a minor user, the user must have parental consent to access the portal. Implementing GDPR allows obtaining consent from portal users regarding use of their personal data, identifying minor users, and obtaining parental consent for minor users. More information: Implement GDPR in portals
Dynamics 365 Portals version 8.3 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Portals version 8.3 for the model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 has many new updates and features:
Ability to include attachments with knowledge articles: You can display note attachments along with knowledge articles. To enable this feature, you create the site setting KnowledgeManagement/DisplayNotes and set the value to true. Portal users can also search for these attachments. More information: Display attachments with knowledge articles
Search for attachments can only be performed on the note's description and file attachment name. The content of the attached file is not searchable.
Administrative wizard to add an entity to the portal: This feature introduces a new administrative wizard to easily expose data on the portal. The entity created through the wizard takes the data from your organization and makes a subset of it available to your portal customers, based on the security and permission model you choose.
Import metadata translation: Use this feature to import the metadata translation of newly activated languages after you install a portal. More information: Import metadata translation
Source code availability for portals: A one-time release of Dynamics 365 Portals code is released to the Microsoft Download Center under MIT license for developers to download. This feature enables portals to be deployed to Dynamics 365 on-premises or online environments, and allows developers to customize the code to suit their specific business needs.
Source code is offered as a working sample and on an as-needed basis. No direct support will be provided for any modifications to the code.
Single sign-on (SSO) configuration improvements and support for Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C): For portals that require a consumer-based sign-in, this feature now supports the ability to:
- Configure your portal authentication to use SSO.
- Support Azure AD B2C for customer authentication.
- Manage your portal security in Azure.
More information: Azure AD B2C provider settings for portals
Support time zone–independent date formats in portals forms: This feature adds support for Date Only and Timezone Independent behaviors for date/time fields. More information: Behavior and format of the date and time field
Allowing non-global administrators to provision a portal: You can now provision a portal if you are assigned to the System Administrator role of the CRM organization selected for the portal. You can now also manage an existing portal, if you have any of the following roles:
- Dynamics 365 Service Administrator
- System Administrator of the CRM organization selected for the portal
Store the custom domain name for a portal: This feature stores the primary domain name of a portal on the website record. If the domain name is changed in the future, the latest primary domain name will be stored.
Tracking cookie for portals: A persistent cookie, Dynamics365PortalAnalytics, will be set whenever a user goes to a portal. This cookie has an expiration of 90 days. This cookie does not store any of the user's personal data and is used by Microsoft to collect analytics about portal service. Please read the Microsoft online services privacy statement here.
Performance improvement of header and footer on a portal: Two new site settings, Header/OutputCache/Enabled and Footer/OutputCache/Enabled, are added to enable header/footer output caching when these settings are set to true. For new users, these site settings are set to true by default, thereby enabling header and footer output caching. For existing users who upgrade to a newer version of Dynamics 365 Portals, output caching is disabled by default. It means that the Header and Footer web templates are parsed and rendered on every page load. To enable output caching, they must update the appropriate web templates and create the required site settings. More information: Enable header and footer output caching
December 2016 updates
The December 2016 update has brought many new features to Dynamics 365 Portals. These updates allow for better interactions among companies, partners, and customers, and make the experience of navigating the portal faster and easier. Some of the major updates include:
- Multiple language support: Support customers from multiple regions by using a single portal. More information: Enable multiple-language support
- East Asian language support: Multiple-byte languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean are now supported.
- Faceted search: New filters improve how quickly customers can find the content they are looking for while granting more control over visibility of content. More information: Faceted search
- Product filtering: Portal users can trim access to knowledge articles related to their product ownership to avoid information overload.
- Content access levels: A new level of ownership associated with a portal contact, account, or web role can be used to control access to knowledge articles, to help target the right article at the right audience and prevent irrelevant articles from surfacing. More information: Content access levels
- Knowledge article reporting enhancement: The portal tracks where a knowledge article was used in the portal.
- Project Service Automation integration: Provide access and visibility for active and closed projects across all stages of a project lifecycle to partners and customers. Team members, reviewers, and customers can view project status, quotes, order forums, and bookable resources on the portal with this solution. More information: Integrate Project Service Automation
- Field Service integration: Expose information about active agreements, assets, work orders, invoices, and support cases to partners and customers on the portal with this solution. More information: Integrate Field Service
- Partner onboarding: Recruit new partners for better customer sales and service experiences. Potential partners can apply for partner status through the portal.
Privacy notice
By enabling the portal capabilities for Dynamics 365, Dynamics 365 data, such as customer name, product name, case number, or any custom entity data, can be exposed through an external-facing Dynamics 365 portal. Any data exposed through the portal is stored in memory in Microsoft Azure Web Apps for caching and also as files on the local hard drive to enable portal search functionality.
A tenant administrator enables Dynamics 365 portals by configuring it through the Dynamics 365 admin center, which also installs a package (with solutions and data) in the selected Dynamics 365 instance. A tenant administrator or a Dynamics 365 user set up as a Portal Administrator can then specify the data that will be exposed through the portal. To subsequently disable the portal capabilities, a tenant administrator can cancel the Portal Add-on subscription with Office 365.
Important Azure components and services that are involved with the portal capabilities are:
- Azure Web Apps: Azure Web Apps are used to host the portal in Azure.
- Azure Traffic Manager: Azure Traffic Manager is used to ensure the high availability of the service by routing the user to the Web Apps that are up and running.
- Azure Service Bus: Azure Service Bus (Topics/Subscriptions) is used for cache invalidation of the portals. Azure Service Bus temporarily stores the messages, which are triggered when any portal-related record is changed in Dynamics 365, and are passed along to Web Apps to do the cache invalidation.
- Azure Key Vault: All services store configuration data in Azure Key Vault.
- Azure Storage: Data related to the organization, tenant, and portal is stored in Azure Storage.
- Azure Active Directory: All the web services use Azure Active Directory to authenticate.
For more information about additional Azure service offerings, see the Microsoft Azure Trust Center.
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This year's Diwali festive season ended on November 8 and thanks to the holiday spirit and plenty of discounts across retailers, smartphone sales grew 26%, compared with last year's period.
Counterpoint Research announced that Flipkart and Amazon played a massive role with their respective online sale events " Flipkart Big Billion Day" and "Amazon Great Indian Festival." OEM stores, including mi.com, vivo e-store, and Hi Honor helped as the online sales went up 46% YoY.
The big winner of the shopping festival is Xiaomi with 43% online share and 14% offline share in the respective categories, solidifying its position as a market leader over Samsung.
One of the more impressive companies was Realme that registered a record performance for any new brand in India. It accounted for 18% of all online sales and 9% of the total smartphone sales, jumping at third place overall.
Hanish Bhatia, Senior Analyst at Counterpoint, said that emerging brand such as Pocophone, Asus, Nokia and OnePlus also did well online, unli

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The Wells range of high-pressure solenoid valves covers a range of pressure up to 415 bar (6000 psi), and orifices from 1.6mm to 12.7mm diameter (1/16″ to 1/2″). Two and three way port arrangements are included in the range.
For the smallest orifice (E20 to E29) a porous bronze filter disk is fitted as standard into the valve port.
For all larger sizes of valve, it is recommended that a Wells high pressure filter is fitted upstream of the solenoid valve.
The largest orifice range (E50 to E57) incorporates a pilot valve to operate the main valve due to the need to overcome the spring loads and friction on the main valve steam, a minimum pressure of 10 bar (150 psi) is needed to operate the valve.
In the case of solenoid valves E26 E27 and E50 to E57 the vent is not ported. These valves can only be used for gas applications.
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I wasn't going to post today - but I found a post at a NEW blog called The Pleated Poppy that I was SO impressed with. You need to go to the blog to see all the rules written out clearly - but definitley ANOTHER craft project on my list....LUUUURVE it!!!!
Also loving this one done by Brown Paper Packages ;)
Do you have something like this at your place? If so, what is on it and how did you make it?


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An initiative to help growers retain access to vital products was introduced in 2015. Jane Carley looks at how the Nematicide Stewardship Programme is progressing, and how growers can get involved.
Nematicides have come under considerable scrutiny recently, not only from European regulators but from environmentalists, health professionals and the general public.
However, nematicide manufacturers say the use of these products will remain critical to many growers in producing a quality product and maintaining current rotations.
The Nematicide Stewardship Programme (NSP) group was formed in 2015 to work alongside farmers and operators to ensure adherence to 'best practice' for all nematicide applications.
The NSP group is a joint initiative which brings agrochemical companies Certis, DuPont and Syngenta together for the first time and includes cross-industry support from AIC, AHDB, the Fresh Potatoes Suppliers Association, NFU, the Potato Processors Association (PPA) and Richard Austin Agriculture, all geared towards ensuring the products remain available for future use on potatoes and other key root crops.
PPA director general and chair of the NSP Sharon Hall says: "Our stewardship guidance on sustainable nematode control aims to achieve a single, industry application standard for granular nematicides."
At the heart of the initiative is a series of workshops to ensure all operators are fully up-to-date with the latest legislation and supplied with the correct information to ensure the products are applied accurately and safely.
Growers must demonstrate advice has been sought from a BASIS-qualified agronomist prior to the purchase and use of a nematicide. Recommendation sheets must be available for each treated field.
See also: Are you prepared for next seaon's nematicide shortages?
Operators must also be qualified to apply nematicides (NPTC PA4 or PA4G certification).
Dr Hall explains: "The operator training workshops have emphasised safe handling, applicator calibration and eliminating non-target exposure, to ensure these vital products remain available for future use.
"It is vital to note stewardship training does not replace the NPTC PA4 or PA4G certification.
However, if you are applying nematicides and already have these qualifications you should still take the stewardship course, as it covers best practice and is now the basis of the Nematicide Application Protocol in the Red Tractor crop specific protocols for potatoes, onions, parsnips and carrots."
This follows an industry request that Red Tractor Assurance incorporates a requirement into its standards specifying all staff applying nematicides must have completed the course by March 2017.
Andy Alexander, grower, BASIS-qualified agronomist and NFU potato committee member, says the scheme has been well received by growers in its first year.
"Nematodes affect 70% of potato land, and pose a significant risk to this high value crop. Best practice is the only way to safeguard nematicides for the future, and while most growers were already acting in a very professional manner, supported by the chemical manufacturers, the industry coming together on this is a big step forward."
He adds: "Crop protection products are expensive, so using good professional advice is important – growers should always consult a BASIS-qualified agronomist. Good record-keeping and management is key."
The NSP announced a new training partnership with Artis at the end of 2015.
Artis is an industry-led accredited training initiative, launched in 2014 and developed by G's Growers, NIAB, Lantra and East Malling Research, with funding from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
The initiative provides training to growers, farmers and managers in the food supply chain to boost productivity through applying the latest agri-tech knowledge and research.
So far more than 800 growers and operators have attended workshops. The next courses will run from autumn this year and operators can already register their interest by visiting the Artis website.
Workshop trainer Steve Higginbotham says the course offers growers and operators a different approach to a subject which they may already know well.
"It can be as simple as studying the product label more closely, focusing on the use of PPE or how to protect wildlife. We aim to relate the training closely to our, and their, practical experience."
James Hopwood, of grower and packer Ibbotson in Yorkshire, which hosted two workshops this winter, says: "To retain active ingredients we have to maintain stewardship: every user must show diligence and take part in the training.
"I thought the workshops were spot-on – there's all the theory needed but it is presented in a very practical way."
Ibbotson grows 243ha of potatoes, and was already applying nematicides on the rotavator ahead of the planter, but Mr Hopwood says: "We can see the importance of best practice, paying attention to correct calibration and keeping servicing up-to-date to ensure application rates remain accurate.
The course served as an excellent reminder, even though we believe we were already on top of the game."
Operator Steve Johnson works for a large grower in Nottinghamshire and says he found the course informative.
"I learned a lot about the regulations and the products. It's important for operators to stay up-to-date and make sure we understand the requirements of the NSP."
He adds that his employer's system is based on a one-pass, one operator set up, with the applicator on a front-mounted rotavator ahead of the planter. Information on the correct PPE and handling of nematicides was especially helpful, he says.
To address concerns about pesticide granules remaining on the soil surface and to reduce the potential of this happening, a number of guidelines have been drawn up:
Applicator checklist
"Servicing advice will also come in handy – replacing seals and o-rings as necessary to ensure the applicator gives the correct application rates."
One of the key issues for growers and operators is to ensure they are using appropriate machinery, which is correctly maintained and calibrated to apply nematicides safely.
Specialist applicator manufacturer Chafer Horstine is working closely with the NSP; marketing manager Joe Allen explains the requirements.
"Growers need to consider the suitability of the applicator being used. The NSP gives guidance on selecting the right applicator for the process being carried out, and much of the guidance surrounds ensuring that no granules are left on the surface after application.
"Applicators must be no wider than the width of the rotavator on which they are mounted as this would leave granules on the surface either side of the rotavator itself."
Nematicides must be applied and incorporated within a single pass.
"Boomed applicators are not suitable, as these require a separate pass after nematicide application. If circumstances prevented this, the actives would be left on the surface.
"We can offer advice on selecting the right applicator as part of the specification process when purchasing equipment."
After selecting the right applicator for the job, regular calibration and maintenance is vital to ensure the equipment can apply nematicides safely and accurately.
When applying nematicides, growers must keep records to demonstrate that:
"Growers should be able to demonstrate the applicator has been calibrated and has been tested and certified annually by NSTS," adds Mr Allen.
On a more frequent basis the NSP recommends growers keep records to prove regular calibrations are made and the output of the machine matches the target rate for a given area.
The Horstine technical department can offer advice on correct metering components as well as NSTS testing of the applicators themselves to ensure compliance.
One of the most important requirements concerns product shut-off at the headland.
"By March 2017, all applicators must be fitted with a device in-cab which allows the operator to shut off nematicide granule flow at least three metres from the end of each row.
"This is designed to prevent chemicals being dropped while lifting out at the end of rows, and can be achieved in a couple of ways. The simplest and lowest cost option is to fit an electric clutch in the land wheel drive line.
This completely separates the drive using an in-cab switch, ensuring the metering cannot be turned by the land wheel.
"A more popular option among our customers is to upgrade the applicator with an electric Wizard drive, removing the need for a land wheel drive.
As well as providing a positive shut-off, calibration is simplified, rate changes can be made from the tractor seat and increased accountability is possible using area and product counters."


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I also think his description of British-style policy-making is interesting, because it puts into relief the different approaches that are available, and how our system isn't well-suited for any of them:
In many places, I think it's taken for granted that this is how progress is made. In the UK, Labour never wins a definitive victory against the Conservatives and vice versa. Nor is there ever a "grand bargain." But over the long term, public policy reflects both conservative and progressive ideas because people inspired by those ideas take turns trying to govern the country in a way that pleases the voters.What Matt's describing here is a system where long-term policy is decided through, essentially, competition in the political marketplace. Two sides tugging as hard as they can in opposite directions, and the solution ends up falling somewhere in the middle.
At the other extreme, there's the benevolent dictator model. Whoever runs the country sits down, attempts to synthesize a bunch of competing ideas, and ultimately come up with a single solution that represents, as much as possible, the best of both worlds.
Both approaches have something to be said for them. The former is perhaps more traditionally democratic, while the latter is a certainly less contentious and more efficient way to find something approximating an optimum solution -- assuming the people in charge know what they're doing.
But what's interesting here isn't the tension between these abstract ideas, but how that tension manifests itself in the US government.
The Republicans play the government game as if we were living in a purely competitive, majoritarian system -- the British system, more or less. They rarely or never compromise, they pursue their few motivating principles to the point of absurdity and excess, and generally behave like diehard partisan demagogues whenever they get the chance.
The Democrats, on the other hand, govern like the Kings of America that they all wish they were. Very often, the Democratic proposal for a particular policy problem will include ideas that run counter to the most basic demands of the Democratic base (Medicare cuts, for instance). That's because many Democrat leaders acknowledge that unyielding pursuit of their party's interests doesn't necessary create optimal policy outcomes, and those acknowledgments find their way into policy debates.
The result is that we're stuck with an absolutist Republican Party that would be a strong counterweight to a Democratic Party -- if the Democratic had any interest in absolutism or demagoguery, which it rarely does. It's little surprise, then, that policy debates are perpetually getting dragged to the right.
The second and more fundamental point I'd make is that the US federal government is not designed in a way that facilitates either of these systems. As the Republicans are finding out in the debt ceiling debate, an utter refusal to compromise quickly goes nowhere, because the system includes a multitude of veto points. On the other hand, because of those same veto points, an intransigent minority can easily frustrate any and all attempts to carefully construct the optimal solution to any problem. Instead, our political process is irrational and chaotic, and progress is only possible in moments of political serendipity.


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Written By: Chris Jones
You've likely never heard of or, at a minimum, you've forgotten about Edward Kleban, the one-hit-wonder lyricist for "A Chorus Line" who died from a cancer at age 48 with his lyrics known but without ever realizing his long-held ambition of hearing music he composed played on a Broadway stage.
Kleban was a nebbish and a neurotic, famous for not speaking to his friends. But he was a theater person's theater person. Civilians may flock to celebrities and flashy, TV-ready songwriters like Andrew Lloyd Webber. Theater people tend to prefer characters, especially oddballs with a dry sense of humor who can't help but pour their souls into their work.
"A Class Act," a musical (music and lyrics by Kleban) that enjoyed a brief sojourn on Broadway in 2001, thus posthumously fulfilling Kleban's ambition, was penned by Kleban's friends Linda Kline and Lonny Price, a creative outlet, you might say, for their sorrow at their loss of a friend. The Kleban songs were originally written for other things, even if most of them sat at the bottom of his trunk. It is set at Kleban's memorial service and then moves through his life: his early years struggling with his mental health; his middle years struggling with his songwriting; his later years weighed down by the pressure of following up on a mega-hit; all his years spent in complexities with women. The writers fell over themselves to avoid making this a sentimental hagiography, and Kleban's caustic personality provided much assistance there. But their love shines through.
"A Class Act" is finally getting its first Chicago production — Kleban was never a name to light up the hinterlands — by the Porchlight Music Theatre. Since the recently deceased composer Marvin Hamlisch is a character in this piece, the sense of loss is doubled and timeliness re-established. Still, in Chicago in 2012, this show will live or die based on how successful it can be in making Kleban a metaphor for the average Joe or Jane, struggling, not least against their own doubts and tendency to self-destruct, to realize their own ambitions or, as the political conventioneers prefer to say, their own dreams. This show is more honest than the Republicans or Democrats, probing the reality that just because we dream of doing something does not mean someone wants to pay us good money to listen.
Thanks in no small measure to a remarkable performance from Bill Larkin, who throws himself into the role of Kleban with the kind of weirdly compulsive relish Kleban surely would have understood, Stacey Flaster's intimate staging manages precisely that (a small, off-Loop production feels apt, given the material). By the end of the night, whether you're a bricklayer or a trader, you'll surely see yourself in Kleban's struggles in life and love.
This is not a perfect piece of dramaturgy by any means; some of the repeated devices and motifs clunk along, and there are gaping, awkward holes in some of the dialogue sections that Flaster does not fill with sufficient veracity.
So "A Class Act" takes a good while to kick in. It's like slowly opening a rusty trunk. But once revealed, the score is full of gorgeous music, as well sung by this Porchlight cast as any Porchlight show these past two decades has been sung. Many putting-it-together shows of this type rely on stringing together songs that people already know. "A Class Act" is about the discovery of songs you don't know. Songs like "Paris Through the Window," "I Choose You" and, especially, "The Next Best Thing to Love" thus arrive in lush, melodic waves. If you're a fan of serious musical theater, you'll recognize both the quality of their form (Kleban was a notorious perfectionist) and their inherent sense of longing, their constituent desire to make sense of the world.
Flaster has cast the piece exceptionally well, with actors of strikingly different types. The spunky Dana Tretta, at her considerable best here, gets "Broadway Boogie Woogie," the Kleban song that most anticipated his work on "A Chorus Line." The former Second City performer Jessica Joy, a very decent singer, gets the sexy fodder. And Tina Gluschenko is an understated presence as Sophie, the smart girl Kleban most loved in his crazy world, but when she opens her mouth there's a kind of moral intensity that fits this character wonderfully.
But this is Larkin's show. As this deeply empathetic performance unfolds, you feel both his desire for success and the crippling insecurity that made him undermine anything that was finally going well. In the end, of course, you come to see, as did his bereaved friends, that his talent resided in that very paradox, as is so often the case with the great, misunderstood ones.
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Marvin Hamlisch and Michael Bennett are household names to anyone even remotely interested in the Broadway musical. But Edward Kleban? Who was HE?
Well, HE, as it happens, was the guy who wrote such unforgettable lines as "Everything was beautiful at the ballet," and "One singular sensation" and "What I did for love." HE was the lyricist who spent a good part of his all-too-short life writing lyrics (and music) for what he hoped would be a slew of hugely successful Broadway shows, though finally he had only that one singular sensation known as "A Chorus Line."
Kleban did leave behind a trunkful of other clever, gemlike, deeply heartfelt songs when he died of cancer in 1987, at 48. And about two dozen of them find their way into "A Class Act," the funny, poignant, expertly crafted homage and "musical portrait of the artist" crafted by Linda Kline (Kleban's longtime companion) and actor-director Lonny Price.
This show, which began Off-Broadway in 2000, arrived ON Broadway the following year and is now receiving a knockout of a Chicago debut by Porchlight Music Theatre, can easily be added to the long list of self-reflective musicals that includes "42nd Street," "Follies," "tick, tick...BOOM!," and, of course, "A Chorus Line" itself. But more than any of those it is about process (with Price no doubt picking up a few pointers from Stephen Sondheim, whose shows he has frequently directed). The lyricist's art — the way a fictional story can so often be laced with the personal — is beautifully rendered here in shorthand form. So is the battle of egos that resolves into collaboration mode in the creation of any musical.
The Porchlight production is the work of many such collaborating talents, but it is Bill Larkin, the actor who plays Kleban, who makes the whole thing explode with life. A relative unknown, Larkin seizes hold of the composer-lyricist's soul in the most uncanny way, capturing the genius, the mental illness, the self-destructiveness, the perfectionism, the insecurity, the sweetness, the nerdiness and the sadness of this man who was often his own worst enemy, but who had that engine of creativity and that irrepressible ego that can keep an artist at work. Larkin gives an unforgettable performance.
The show unfolds in the form of a memorial service for Kleban, with the songwriter gleefully popping into the story to replay himself. The guy, to use an ideal Yiddish word, was meshugenah. You wouldn't want to be his girlfriend, and he was never secure enough to make anyone his wife. But he was a personality, and he left his mark on all who knew him.
Stacey Flaster, one of the several high-flying women who both direct and choreograph on Chicago's musical stages these days, nails things here, and her casting is ideal. Tina Gluschenko plays Sophie, the childhood friend who becomes an oncologist and, for better and for worse, never fails to tell Kleban the truth. Dana Tretta plays the singer who champions his songs and dotes on him 'til the end. Jessica Joy is the adorably sexy little songwriter, Mona, with whom he has a very brief fling early on. And Sharriese Hamilton is the record company executive who fails to boss him around.
Zach Spound plays Marvin Hamlisch in a zany scene that suggests how two talents can simultaneously chafe and inspire each other. John Francisco is spot-on as choreographer Michael Bennett. So is Michael Glenn as Lehman Engel, whose fabled musical theater workshop was Kleban's home. Beckie Menzie supplies the fine musical direction, as well as the splendid onstage piano accompaniment.
Throughout the show there are excerpts from an intriguing unproduced Kleban musical titled "Gallery." If it fully exists, Porchlight might just be the perfect place to give it a first hearing. Meanwhile, we have what is truly "A Class Act."
Where: Porchlight Music Theatre at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont
Info: (773) 975-8150; www.theaterwit.org
Edward Kleban deserved a second chance at fame, said Hedy Weiss in the Chicago Sun-Times. The Tony-winning lyricist of A CHORUS LINE, Kleban mostly labored at his craft in obscurity before his death, in 1987, at age 48. A decade later, his longtime companion, Linda Kline, teamed with Lonny Price to use the "clever, gem-like, deeply heartfelt songs"� Kleban left behind to anchor a bio-play celebrating his tumultuous life. The challenges of songwriting for the stage are, in the musical's Chicago premiere, "beautifully rendered in shorthand form."
Yet it's Bill Larkin's portrayal of Kleban that "makes the whole thing explode with life."� He "seizes hold of the composer-lyricist's soul in the most uncanny way,"� capturing the many complexities of this angst-ridden artist. The show's success depends, ultimately, on whether Kleban's artistic and personal trials feel universal enough, said Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune.
Happily, they do. "By the end of the night, whether you're a bricklayer or a trader, you'll surely see yourself in Kleban's struggles in life and love."� This is due less to the sometimes spotty dialogue than to Kleban's "gorgeous"� music. Musicals celebrating songwriters are usually greatest-hits collections, but A CLASS ACT is "about the discovery of songs you don't know."
Though you've probably never heard the tunes "I Choose You"� or "The Next Best Thing to Love,"� their "inherent sense of longing"� and "desire to make sense of the world"� will linger in your memory long after the last curtain. Perhaps Edward Kleban wasn't a one-hit wonder after all.
Obie AwardsJanuary 01, 2001 — Award for Best Music and Lyrics
Drama Desk AwardsJanuary 01, 2001 — 3 Nominations
Tony AwardsJune 03, 2001 — 5 nominations: Best Musical; Best Score (Edward Kleban); Best Book (Linda Kline and Lonny Price); Best Actress (Randy Graff); Best Orchestrations (Larry Hochman)
Jeff Awards (United States)November 07, 2013 — Award for Best Midsize Production, Porchlight Music Theatre, Chicago, IL (2013)
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"Linda Kline, my collaborator, had these songs ... actually years before that, Ira Weitzman had sent me a bunch of Ed Kleban's songs on some tapes which I really loved and didn't know what to do with... So, I went over to Linda's apartment and listened to the songs and fell in love with them again and got very excited about the idea of putting them on the stage. The conventional wisdom, of course, was to do a revue, but I actually don't like and/or understand revues, it's just not a form that I admire particularly. Though I admire people who do them well, I don't understand why they work, so I felt I was the wrong guy. I like book songs, I like songs that are about characters. So, I said what about a book show, and she said great, she was very excited about it.
Written By: Lonny Price
As we got into the material, it occurred to us that Ed's material was so idiosyncratic, so specific, so urban, it had a unified voice. You couldn't do this kind of show with Stephen Sondheim's music, for instance, because PACIFIC OVERTURES does not sound like COMPANY which doesn't sound like NIGHT MUSIC, I mean, he's so chameleon-like, and Ed really was a very specific kind of guy. I never met Ed. And Linda, I think wisely, wanted somebody to work on the material who had never met him. She wanted a fresh voice, someone who would freshly respond to his material. So, essentially, that's how it came about and we did six years of readings at Musical Theatre Works and it was terrible for a long time and my best friends told me to abandon it, and no one liked it, and then, finally, it just sort of took shape and we did yet another reading, the Manhattan Theatre Club and they liked it, and Marty Bell came, and rest, as they say, you know. That's how it all happened.
What I hate about the British shows is they seem as though an audience's involvement is not necessary. They're like these big machines that start, and I always think the building could fall down and they would still go on. That they're very machine-like, they're like these steamrollers, they're very powerful and they're very loud, they're very mechanized ... What I wanted to create was a show where Sara [Ramirez, the original Broadway Felicia] could stop the show. That there were laughs that would change the timing. That there would be a kind of flow that the audience's participation was important, that you weren't just watching it as a bystander. You were part of the night by their reaction to it. A lot of these shows, I find, are very like a wall in that, I could cough or throw up or laugh or not laugh, and it would come in. I think the stage managers must get it in at the same time each night, because there's no kind of life in them in that way, and I believe in theatre where, if it's going to be live, I want it to be influenced. The show is also built very definitely on everyone having a moment. Everybody in that show had a moment to shine, where it was their ten minutes, and I felt really strong about coming from the factor that there would be no bad part in the show. And I worked really hard on that. I think part of that—maybe why it changed so much—is that people are hotter one night or not, or the audience liked this guy more than they liked this guy. I very much wanted it not to be mechanical, and I had a great company of actors who never phoned it in, I just never felt anyone walked through that show ever.
[On how the show translates to audiences not part of the New York theatre culture] That's what's interesting. I think really well. The audiences there are enormously responsive. We got a lousy review in the L.A. Times. They sent the dance critic so that was upsetting. But the Hollywood Reporter was great, and Variety was great, and the radios were all great. It's only theatre people who seem to feel it's inside. People on the outside seem to find it universal. It's a weird position to be in. You think, "Well, the people they're worried about are fine with it, why doesn't everybody just be fine with it?" I actually think the show has much more universality than some people think. I'll tell you, people are very moved by it, it seems to me, wherever we play. When we were playing downstairs here in 70-seat theater, a year and a half ago for seventy people, they were crying. I don't know ... It's a show that seems to speak a lot of kinds of people, so I don't think it's inside.
The Ambassador [where the show played on Broadway] has a particular problem in that it's very wide, and when you don't have a spectacle ... I loved the way it looked there, but I come from a world where ... I saw COMPANY when I was a kid, and it was eight or ten people or whatever it was on a single unit set. I don't go to the theatre for spectacle, I go for relationships and material and good songs and stuff, I'm in that minority. What I like just doesn't exist much anymore. I am hoping that A CLASS ACT will bring about a renaissance in that kind of show."
Written By: Linda Kline
It was a long journey from 1993, when I began to catalogue more than one hundred of Edward Kleban's unpublished "trunk" songs, to the 2001 Broadway production of A Class Act, which tells the story of Ed's life, with a score comprised of twenty of the best of these songs.
Edward Kleban wrote the brilliant lyrics for one, single Broadway musical: A Chorus Line, in 1974, when he was thirty-six. He won the Tony, the Drama Desk, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Olivier Award. A dozen years later he died, without ever having another Broadway show.
In his Will, Ed entrusted me with these "trunk songs", and I was determined to bring them to the stage. I enlisted director/actor Lonny Price to work with me. We took a rough draft of an autobiographical script that Ed had abandoned, titled Light On My Feet, and used Ed's own words as the footprint of the show.
At first, Lonny and I passed drafts of scenes back and forth to each other on floppy disks. The advent of e-mail, a year or so after we began, was a huge help to our collaboration. Most importantly, our fledgling script was brought to life when Lonny became the artistic director of Musical Theatre Works, which was the only developmental theatre in New York devoted exclusively to incubating musicals. We had meetings in Lonny's sunny office opposite The Public Theatre where A Chorus Line began. It felt as though Ed was watching over us, encouraging us to solve seemingly unsolvable problems in out script.
A Class Act, was first produced at The Manhattan Theatre Club in the Fall of 2000. Lonny directed, and also played the role of Ed. We opened at The Ambassador Theatre on Broadway on Ed's favorite holiday, Valentine's Day, February 14, 2001. A Class Act received five Tony nominations, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score.
Since then, A Class Act has been produced at innumerable theatres across the United States – including Pasadena, California; Houston Texas; Boston, Mass, and Washington D.C. It has been produced at many college and universities. I was particularly touched when I found out that A Class Act was produced at the college my mother attended in the 1930's: Montevallo College, in Birmingham, Alabama. A recent production at The Porchlight Music Theatre in Chicago, Ill. received four-star national attention. Internationally, A Class Act, was produced in Tokyo, at the Akasaka Act Theatre, in 2002, and at The Landor Theatre in London in 2003. Rob McWhir of The Landor recently directed A Class Act at The Landor once again. Our first international revival! I am thrilled that both Rob, and John Barr who played Ed Kleban, have been honored with "Offie" nominations.
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- CLASS ACT Orchestration (9 Books/9 Players)
- 1 – Keyboard I/Piano Conductor
- 1 – KEYBOARD II (Synthesizer)
- 1 – PERCUSSION (see "Materials Notes", under "Production Information")
- 1 – REED I (Flute, Alto Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax)
- 1 – REED II (Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Tenor Sax)
- 1 – TRUMPET I (Flugelhorn)
- 1 – TRUMPET II (Flugelhorn)
- 1 – BASS (Electric and Acoustic)
- CLASS ACT Perusal Package (1 Lib., 1 KB)
- 1 – Libretto
- 1 – Keyboard I/Piano Conductor
- CLASS ACT Rehearsal Set (22 Books)
- 10 – Libretto
- 1 – Digital Logo
- 12 – Keyboard I/Piano Conductor
- 1 – Libretto
- 1 – Keyboard I/Piano Conductor
4 Women
4 Men
Doubling is used for all characters except the roles of Ed Kleban, Lehman Engel and Sophie.
Ed Kleban - an aspiring songwriter
Lehman Engel - leader of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop
Bobby - a drummer and would-be songwriter
Michael Bennett - charismatic choreographer and director
Charley - an aspiring songwriter
Marvin Hamlisch - the composer at age 29
Dr. Nodine - a phychiatrist at a mental hospital. (non-speaking role)
Jean-Claude Chevray - Sophie's boyfriend, suave and confident
Sophie - Ed's first love
Felicia Lipshitz - an aspiring songwriter
Second Girl in 'Light on my Feet'
Tap Dance Students (2)
Dancer Two in 'A Chorus Line'
Lucy - an aspiring singer/songwriter
Dancer One in 'A Chorus Line'
Mona - an aspiring songwriter, seductive and kittenish
First Girl in 'Light on my Feet'
Dancer Three in 'A Chorus Line'
A CLASS ACT takes place in New York City between 1958 and 1988.
The Stage of the Shubert Theatre
Hillside Hospital
The BMI Musical Theatre Workshop
Ed's Apartment
A Recording Studio at Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Outside the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto
Sophie's Laboratory
Central Park
Michael Bennett's Studio
The Public Theatre
St. Vincent's Hospital
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2 large ripe tomatoes
2 large bell peppers (yellow / orange - more vitamins and more anti-inflammatory than green and red ones)
60ml (4 tbsp) olive oil
2 onions, chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed (obviously I miss this out since I can't eat garlic)
50g (1/2 cup) blanced almonds, chopped (I used cashews since I found I have an intolerance to almonds)
75g (just under 1/2 cup) cooked long grain rice (I actually use brown rice)
15g mint and 15g parsley, roughly chopped (you'll be surprised how much mint this actually is, but once it's chopped then it suddenly looks like a very small amount)
2 tbsp sultanas (or raisins)
25g (2 tbsp)
Salt and pepper
2/3 cup boiling water
Chopped parsley to garnish
1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees centigrade (375 fahrenheit, gas mark 5).
2. Cook the rice ready to use later.
3. Cut tomatoes in half, scoop out pulp and seeds with a teaspoon (keep them!) and leave tomatoes to drain on kitchen paper with cut sides down.
4. Roughly chop the tomato seeds and pulp.
5. Half the peppers through the stalk (keep the stalk attached for presentation) and scoop out the seeds to hollow them out completely.
6. Brush the peppers with 1 tbsp of the oil and bake (cut side up) in an ovenproof dish for 15 minutes.
7. While the peppers are chargrilling, fry the onions in the remaining oil for 5 minutes then add the garlic and nuts and fry for another minute.
8. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the rice, chopped tomatoes, mint, parsley and sultanas - season well.
9. Take the peppers out of the oven and add the tomatoes (cut side up) in the dish.
10. Season the peppers and tomatoes with salt and pepper.
10. Season the peppers and tomatoes with salt and pepper.
11. Spoon the rice mixture into the peppers.
12. Pour 2/3 cup of boiling water around the tomatoes and peppers and bake, uncovered, for 20 minutes.
13. Serve garnished with fresh herbs.


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Well well.. it's been a while since I last blogged.. ahh!
Sooo Kanye West dropped his 'Season 2' footwear collection on Monday 6 June (excluding the anticipated Yeezy 750 'Light Grey/Gum' sneaker, which was released yesterday).
I love how Season 2's (and the upcoming Season 3) footwear edit incorporated women's shoes as well as unisex styles e.g. the 'Crepe Suede Boot'. To my relief, I was able to get my hands on a pair of my fave style, this khaki "glove fit" bootie when they released (also comes in light beige). Super happy as these babies were just too gorge to pass up and the knock offs provided on the high street right now just aren't cutting it (such a shame as I love a good knock off!)
To be honest I'm not a fan of the man himself or the last 2 seasons of clothing though when it comes to a number of his footwear styles, I'm actually impressed. Impressed enough to put my hard earned coins towards the styles I really like! …I'm now the proud owner of both my fave Yeezy styles – the 350 'Turtle Dove' sneakers and now these cuties.
Major big up/shout out to the specific people in Yeezy's footwear design team who produced the designs for Season 2's ladies shoes. The well-known "insta famous" online shoe stores including UK based Public Desire are becoming infamous for their designer shoe knock offs. Their ankle boot 'Kori' that comes in khaki, black and beige are meant to be an affordable alternative/version of the knitted ankle boot featured in this post though their version is hideous (sorry, not sorry). The material used is a poor match and obviously cheaply sourced and the wood-look (not actually wooden) heel is only around 4.3 inches. All heel lovers know that certain shoe styles require a 4.5-5+ inch heel for that "wowza" effect we all want lol.
AWESOME NEWS! Quite a few styles are still available on MyTheresa.com! (Access directly through the link.) If you snagged a pair of any style in this almost sold out collection, let me know! 🙂


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It would be easy to say that Enda McEvoy's Aniar restaurant in Galway is Ireland's answer to the latest restaurant craze, that new culinary wave that trumpets itself as "Where the Wild Things Are". But Mr McEvoy's work is more subtle than that. Yes, there are wild things on the plates here in this lean, smart room - sea buckthorn; sorrel; chickweed; hazelnut; seaweeds; meadowsweet - to name just a few on the menu from Saturday night. But emphasizing the wild things overstates their importance and understates Mr McEvoy's sensibility, and it is that sensibility that counts. McEvoy works out of a sympathy that crosses Ballymaloe House with Gregan's Castle, which is to say that he mixes his avant garde ideas with the wealth of tradition.
The food is wild, both in its source and in its imaginative ambitions, but the wildness is so disciplined, so intuitive, that the food comes across as not just gimmick-free, but also as timeless. Anyone, anywhere in Ireland, could have cooked a first course dish like "glazed sweetbreads, buttermilk, hen egg, girolles" at any time over the last half century, but it is Mr McEvoy's brilliance to take these natural ingredients and to render them according to his own template that makes the traditional so contemporary, yet with such a seemingly simple plate of food.
That the food is wow! isn't a great surprise. The surprise is that all the food is wow! The kitchen didn't miss a beat in serving virtually the entire menu, five plates to start, five mains, five desserts, for a table of six, and all we missed out were a main course of salt-baked celeriac with whey, sorrel and toasted barley and a plate of artisanal cheeses with rye crisp bread.
Every dish showcases colour, craft and creativity - a smoked potato and oyster emulsion with scallops; pickled green elderberries with monkfish; spruce syrup with beetroot in an outstanding dish with wild venison; the incredible texture of slow-cooked beef short ribs with chickweed. And every mouthful is both arresting and enlivening, as the shower of crushed hazelnuts crashes into the smoothest buttermilk pannacotta, or smoked fresh cheese allies with sour-sweet pickled carrots, or the watercress purée with pan-fried fillets of plaice with sea purslane.
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Musings on a Southern Snowfall
Every summer I question my decision to live in the south. Cooler temps and short summers call like a siren's song as I note – with more than a hint of envy — the high temperature in Madison Wisconsin will be 74 degrees on July 17.
Then, sometime during the following winter, we get 3 inches of snow here in Arkansas.
As it dwindles away a day or so later, I mutter a prayer of thanks. Thanks for the glimpse of winter beauty. Thanks for the chance to build a snowman with my daughter. Thanks for making me one of the chosen, born south of the Mason-Dixon Line, where snow rarely hangs around for more than a few days.
I know, I know, nothing rivals the heady feeling of preparing for coming snow before the roads get bad. The proverbial grocery store run in search of milk, bread, and eggs – staples of humanity that no doubt fed us through the ice age. The sudden addiction to Weather Channel radar. The relentless scanning of school and business closings. Part of our winter storm ritual involves stacking firewood on the porch so dear ol'dad can feed the fire without getting out of his house slippers. It's a bucketful of fun due entirely to its novelty. But after a day or so the newness wears off.
The flooring at the front door has sunk into a permanent puddle. Yeah, the roads are better, but our car is pasted with sand and muck. And, as an Arkansan, the thought of going three days in row without wearing flip-flops and shorts outside sounds like heresy. This winter wonderland thing is getting old.
Those grumpy thoughts crawl through my mind as my socks soak up that icy puddle in front of the door. My mood sours even more from the frigid dampness.
I change socks.
Since I had already changed into a fresh pair of socks, I decide to go ahead and put the rubber boots on and step out into the frosty night. I'd meet the antagonist head on with a move of defiance.
The cold is startling at this late hour. As I step off the porch into the snow, silence greets my ears. It's an unearthly quiet, as if the snow has muffled every sound. I don't even hear the northern breeze as it flows around naked oak branches. The arctic air feels fresh as peppermint as it picks up additional chill from the blanket of snow.
Chilled air is best for viewing the moon and stars as well. Not many stars this night though because the moon is putting on quite a show with its frosty halo. Apparently, the stars know the competition is just too stiff. The spicy smell of hickory smoke mixes with the icy breeze. I stand there looking at the moon, smiling in the cold, with thoughts of the warm fire and steaming mugs of cocoa that wait for me inside.
Maybe it would be ok if the snow hung around. Maybe just for one more day.
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We are back in Germany, trying out some other cities that don't claim to be as world-class as Berlin.
We are staying in a very stylish yet inexpensive hotel in an extremely hip neighbourhood in the northern part of the St. Pauli area of Hamburg. The Guardian newspaper named St. Pauli one of the five best places in the world to live. I couldn't find any reason to disagree.
Oma's features a great location right on a corner, and an awesome softwood bar set on old desk drawers. I ordered a Duckstein Weizen, but had to settle for a Duckstein Original. A nice beer. A great pub in a very interesting neighbourhood.
Highly recommended.


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Many people engage in some form of physical activity. If your recipient is one of them you can give him/her a cool gift basket based on his/her favorite sport.
The secret to inexpensive sports related gifts is concentrating on the peripheral equipment rather than the sport's main accessory (for example, see how many great items you can get a golfer instead of one expensive golf club).
Browse though the below gift basket ideas, pick one and put together a sporty gift basket, or scroll down to read some more about these sports gift ideas.
Some items on the above gift baskets are sport specific.
Other items may repeat themselves throughout most of the sports gift baskets, simply because they are good for any type of sport activity.
In case you are curious what kind of affordable sports specific items can be included in sport gift baskets, here is a glimpse into a few of the ingredients:
A runner's gift basket can be filled with essential running accessories such as reflective straps, running socks, shoe odor eliminator and other cool practical items.
Golf gift basket ideas include golf balls, ball retriever, swing trainer, divot repair tool and more....(here is a link to the golf gift basket page).
Swimmers gift basket will include goggles, swimming cap, ear plugs, nose clip, swim fins, mesh bag and more...
Click on each of the sports gift basket links to see a complete illustrated ingredient list packed with great ideas for each gift basket.
What if your recipient is into many types of sports?
if you are not sure what's his/her favorite sport activity?
if your recipient is a couch potato and you want to motivate him/her to start exercising?
Go for the general "sports kit" gift basket filled with handy sport related items anyone can use.
Didn't find what you are looking for under sports gift baskets? check out these other great gift basket ideas


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Chennai Open: Jeevan Nedunchezhian bows out after Ramkumar Ramanathan qualifies for singles main draw
Left-handed Jeevan lost 5-7 2-6 to another left-hander and world number 85 Jiri Vesely of Cezch Republic in the first singles main draw match of the tournament at the centre court.
Indian wild card entrant Jeevan Nedunchezhian crashed out of the Chennai Open after a bright start soon after Ramkumar Ramanathan stormed into the singles main draw with a superb win over higher-ranked Slovakian Norbert Gombos, here on Monday.
Left-handed Jeevan lost 5-7 2-6 to another left-hander and world number 85 Jiri Vesely of Czech Republic in the first singles main draw match of the tournament at the centre court.
Before Jeevan took court, Ramkumar, ranked 526, ousted Gombos, who is ranked 197, 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3 after two hours and six minutes battle.
However, he has been pitted against India's best singles player Somdev Devvarman in his first round match.
Others to qualify today were Swiss Henri Laaksonen and Russia's Alexander Kudryavtsev.
In the doubles main draw, Indian wild card Saketh Myneni and his Russian partner Karen Khachanov progressed to the quarterfinal with a hard fought win over Spanish duo of Pablo Carreno Busta and Albert Ramos 6-1, 7-6 (7).
In other singles main draw matches today, 30-year-old top Taipei star Yen-Hsun Lu, ranked 66, defeated 89th ranked American Tim Smyczek 6-4, 6-2 and 28-year-old Dudi Sela of Israel, a regular to this tournament, got past Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-4 6-2.
In the last match of the day, Canadian fifth seed Vasek Pospisilbrushed aside the challenge of British wild card Kyle Edmund 6-3 7-5.
In the match between Nedunchezhian and Vesely, named ATP star of tomorrow Award for his performance this season, the Czech whipped away the Indian after assessing his rival.
25-year-old Nedunchezhian, ranked 305, opened up a 4-1 lead in the first set but the Czech won the next three and broke the momentum and confidence of the local lad, who was now making a lot of unforced errors.
Having made it 4-4, the Czech broke Nedunchezhian in the 11th game and then steamrolled the Indian in the next set.
At the post match media conference, Nedunchezhian said he had a long road ahead to able to do well at this level.
"I need to work harder on my backhand and the moment that I can find it and improve upon my physical and mental strengths. I am sure I can progress to the next levels. Of course, I will be concentrating on playing in Challenger events events and gain more ATP points," he said.


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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
MCT September Release Sneak Peek Day 3 ~ thankful!
39 comments :
- Charity Chamberlain said...
Beautiful cards! Love the colors! I love how you decorated the band with the leaves to match the card front! Wonderful!
- September 16, 2015 at 1:16 AM
- Monica said...
Liz, your cards are amazing! From the stamping to the water coloring, this is genuinely amazing! Thank you for sharing this with us! I am grateful to have had the opportunity to check out all the amazing talent this DT has.
- September 16, 2015 at 2:21 AM
- GlendaLea said...
Liz, Your card with band is Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
- September 16, 2015 at 2:50 AM
- Joan Smith said...
Oh WOW Miss Liz Your card is so Gorgeous!! Love the colors you did a fabulous stamping and coloring job...WOW!!
I so love your clever and creative idea for the belly band and then stamping the sentiment too on the card...definitely you did a super outstanding creative job. I can't wait to get this new set. YOU ROCK!!
- September 16, 2015 at 3:32 AM
- Joann Williams said...
Wow Liz.. what a gorgeous card! Love the fall colors and the gorgeous sentiment but it all looks stunning with that belly band! Lovely! TFS!
♥ Jo's Scrap Shack ♥
- September 16, 2015 at 3:41 AM
- Birgit said...
This is so sweet and so clever! I love how the sentiment is revealed when you remove the band.
- September 16, 2015 at 3:57 AM
- Marilyn said...
- September 16, 2015 at 4:03 AM
- Lady Fair said...
Very pretty card, clever to stamp the sentiment twice. :)
- September 16, 2015 at 5:23 AM
- Crafting Katie said...
Stunning card and a stunning band to match! Love your watercoloring and the gorgeous colors!
- September 16, 2015 at 5:49 AM
- MeMe said...
Very pretty. firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 16, 2015 at 6:06 AM
- VICTORIA said...
I love----- your card project for today and great water coloring btw
- September 16, 2015 at 6:06 AM
- CathyinMN said...
Wonderful card! I like that you also stamped the belly band to make it more interesting and to blend in with the rest of the card.
cathyscreationstation at gmail dot com
- September 16, 2015 at 6:13 AM
- Amy McCue said...
It looks beautiful!
- September 16, 2015 at 6:52 AM
- Cassandra said...
How pretty! This is so getting me in the mood for fall! What a fun release. Can't wait to get my hands on it!!!
cassandracauble at yahoo dot com
- September 16, 2015 at 7:46 AM
- Jen said...
Wow! I adore this card you made. It is beautiful. I love the fall colors, the sweet sentiment, and the beautiful card with or without the band! You did an amazing job!
- September 16, 2015 at 7:47 AM
- quilt4fun2 said...
The leafy layers are beautiful and I like the sentiment stamped on and behind the belly band. Such a fabulous job stamping, inking and coloring. Love the leaves stamped on the band too.
quilt 4 fun 2 at hot mail dot com
- September 16, 2015 at 8:51 AM
- Roxanna said...
Very pretty fall color, love all the colors that you chose. Great Job!!!
- September 16, 2015 at 9:01 AM
- Verda said...
What beautiful fall cards. Great new set of dies and stamps.
- September 16, 2015 at 9:30 AM
- CA Scrapper said...
Wow, gorgeous cards. The belly band works perfectly on your card and the colors are so beautiful. Love this new release.
cascrapper at gmail dot com
- September 16, 2015 at 9:47 AM
- Christine_sz said...
i love your card! the colors are amazing and it is so unique! cszekeres at hotmail dot com.
- September 16, 2015 at 9:53 AM
- jean said...
extraordinary!!! love your stamping on the band!!! the band is awesome!!! firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM
- monica Stickles said...
WOW!!! Your creation is soo beautiful, i love the watercolor look:)
- September 16, 2015 at 11:44 AM
- Marla said...
Wow amazing coloring and lots of detail in your card. TFS firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 16, 2015 at 11:47 AM
- lindagk23 said...
What an absolutely beautiful card! And love how you stamped the imagine twice. You did a wonderful job on this card! And I can't even tell you how excited I am for this whole release! Thanks so much for sharing! lindagk23ataoldotcom
- September 16, 2015 at 11:59 AM
- Mary Holshouser said...
Love the fall colors.
Beautiful card.
thanks for sharing
- September 16, 2015 at 12:01 PM
- katieo said...
I love your beautiful fall card both with and without the bellyband.
- September 16, 2015 at 12:59 PM
- cm said...
Your leaves and acorn clusters are stunning, but the addition of the belly band certainly escalates the impact. I've completely 'fallen' for your card and this new release! Gorgeous!
~c (email@example.com)
- September 16, 2015 at 2:12 PM
- Sue D said...
Very pretty for Fall. I like that you stamped the sentiment twice.
slrdowney at hotmail dot com
- September 16, 2015 at 2:49 PM
- Mindy said...
FANTASTIC I love the design of this card you are so creative. firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 16, 2015 at 3:04 PM
- Mimi said...
Liz, camouflaging your card is genius!!!! How beautiful is this? Girl you have got it going on with this set. I'd love to receive that as a gift.
- September 16, 2015 at 3:06 PM
- snappy scrappy said...
- September 16, 2015 at 4:08 PM
- Ester said...
I love your cards. Yours are my favorite of the day. The colors look truly beautiful. TFS firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 16, 2015 at 5:54 PM
- jessica said...
Gorgeous project Liz! I just LOVE your watercoloring!!!
- September 16, 2015 at 6:06 PM
- Linda Hott said...
Love your thankful card, very pretty. email@example.com
- September 16, 2015 at 6:23 PM
- Sherrie K. said...
Gorgeous card Liz! I Love the watercoloring and the stamping on the belly band is fabulous! Super pretty card design! Love the release!
Sherrie K
- September 16, 2015 at 6:38 PM
- Roberta Stevenson said...
So clever! Making the sentiment below the tag the same! Awesome idea, and you thought of it! Love how you stamped the band with the leaves stamp too! So creative. Beautiful card.
- September 16, 2015 at 8:03 PM
- Kristi Poling said...
Beautiful stamping and coloring.
kidshomelove at yahoo.com
- September 16, 2015 at 8:40 PM
- Suzanne said...
Hi Liz!
OMG Your card is so GORGEOUS! I love the design and colors of your fall leaves....it's a stunning card with or w/o the belly band! Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful day Liz! :)
- September 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM
- Kim H said...
GORGEOUS!! I mean GORGEOUS!! I LOVE how you masked the leaves, the whole background is AMAZING then to lift the belly band ~ again CLEVER!! Beautifully done!
- September 19, 2015 at 8:04 AM


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Unique Performance Customers Listed
Just a small post but an interesting one. Have you ever wondered how many people were fleeced out of money by the whole Unique Performance drama? Well wonder no more. The full list of some 143 people swindled out of their hard earned money is available HERE.
It's interesting for me to see that there are actually quite a few Australian customers in there, even Sydney-siders.
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Seniors saved $11.5 billion on prescription drugs since 2010 — GAO: States relying on other funds to finance Medicaid
With help from Joanne Kenen
FOR SENIORS, $11.5 BILLION IN DRUG SAVINGS SINCE 2010 — HHS announced today that 8.2 million Medicare beneficiaries have saved an average of $1,407 on prescription drugs through donut-hole discounts and rebates since the ACA's enactment in 2010. The data follow the release Monday of the annual Medicare trustees' report, which found that the program's main trust fund should have enough cash to cover its needs until 2030 — four years longer than was previously expected. A new HHS report finds that per capita, Medicare spending growth averaged 2 percent over 2009-2012 and barely grew at all in 2013. The Pro story on the trustees' report: http://politico.pro/1AqSccE
Story Continued Below
— The "center-right" American Action Forum did a deep dive into the trustees' data, and it says Medicare shouldn't be celebrating. AAF points out that Medicare's cash shortfall in 2013 was $289 billion, and making up that shortfall would "prove devastating to seniors," requiring such actions as increasing payroll taxes 21 percent. More: http://bit.ly/1l7SXhc
Welcome to PULSE, where I'm happy to report that the Silver Line seemed to be functioning much better than I was on a Monday morning. AC blasting and no tourists clogging up the escalators. What more could a gal want? http://bit.ly/1uBUANq
"And I was your silver lining, as the PULSE goes. I was your silver lining, but now I'm gold."
EARLY LOOK AT GAO REPORT — Katherine Iritani, the GAO's director of health care, will testify today before a House oversight subcommittee that states are increasingly relying on funds from health care providers and local governments to finance Medicaid. This effectively shifts costs from the state to the federal government, according to GAO's work in three states. It found that states' reliance on funds from providers and local governments increased by over 21 percent from 2008 through 2012, largely attributable to revenue from taxes on providers. The findings suggest a need for better data for oversight over Medicaid payments, according to GAO. Cindy Mann of CMS and John Haag of the HHS Office of the Inspector General will also testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements. The hearing starts at 10 a.m.
MEDICAID ENROLLMENT HALFWAY TO 2016 PROJECTIONS — States enrolled 6.7 million new people in Medicaid and CHIP through the end of May, according to a report released Monday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That figure represents 52 percent of the projected 12.8 million new Medicaid/CHIP enrollees by 2016, up from 45 percent at the end of April. But progress varies: Medicaid expansion states have reached 60 percent of 2016 levels while non-expansion states are at 26 percent. Enrollment rates were also higher in states operating their own exchanges. The report: http://bit.ly/WKjaNf
V A DEAL ANNOUNCED — Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Jeff Miller announced a $17 billion agreement Monday to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs. The legislation would give the VA secretary more authority to fire or demote senior officials accused of mismanagement and would enable veterans to seek private care if VA doctors can't treat them within 14 days. The deal would allocate $5 billion to hire new providers and remove bureaucratic barriers that slowed hiring. The POLITICO story on the deal: http://politi.co/1ApFPO1 And how it was reached: http://politi.co/UyjhtB
HOUSE PASSES SUNSCREEN INNOVATION ACT — When members hit the beach during the August recess, they'll be soaking up some sun after passing the Sunscreen Innovation Act. By a voice vote Monday, the House agreed to streamline FDA's approval process for new sunscreen ingredients. It's been 15 years since the agency approved new ingredients, and several applications are pending for ingredients that have used safely overseas for years. Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) have introduced similar legislation in the Senate.
— Today, the U.S. Surgeon General's office will outline a national plan to prevent skin cancer. The "Call to Action" outlines five goals to reduce skin cancer rates nationwide and details the health and economic impacts of skin cancer on society. More: http://1.usa.gov/1l8OrPn
BEHIND THE CBO CURTAIN — On his blog, Director Doug Elmendorf explained a bit more about how CBO has revised health care spending projections. It's now projecting that net federal health care spending in 2039 would equal 8.0 percent of GDP, down from a forecast four years ago of 9.6 percent. The latest number reflects a mix of changes to the health law (including the Supreme Court making Medicaid optional), an updated economic outlook, and technical changes, he explained "In the case of the major health care programs, actual federal spending in recent years has been lower than we had anticipated, and analysis by CBO and others suggests that such spending will grow more slowly in the future than we projected several years ago." His post (with charts): http://1.usa.gov/1pxhBZS
FLORIDA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR MEDICAID EXPANSION — The Florida Medical Association is no longer standing on the sidelines of the expansion debate. Several hundred members approved a resolution supporting expansion at FMA's annual conference Sunday, the Miami Herald reports. It also calls for higher payment rates to incentivize physicians to participate, anticipating that more physicians will be needed to care for an enlarged Medicaid population. The Herald story: http://hrld.us/1qHGh8g
**A message from the Partnership for the Future of Medicare: Medicare is celebrating another birthday, but without moving away from our current fee-for-service model, Medicare will become insolvent by its own 65th birthday. Bi-partisan consensus exists around ways to move us from volume to value. Read more about the path forward: http://bit.ly/YbmEYT **
END-OF-LIFE WISHES — A survey of Americans age 50 and up found that 65 percent favored withholding payments from medical providers who do not respect "known end-of-life wishes." Sixty-one percent favored paying doctors for the time they spend talking to patients about advanced directives. Ninety-three percent said they would talk to family or friends about their wishes, and 84 percent said they would talk to a physician. Nearly one in four said they or a family member have experienced either "unwanted" or "excessive" medical treatment. The telephone survey of 1,007 people was done by Purple Insights for Compassion and Choices from Jan. 31 to Feb. 7. The results: http://bit.ly/1lSJtXb
E&C DEMANDS MORE DETAILS ON LAB SAFETY LAPSES — House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent letters to CDC, FDA, NIH and HHS Monday requesting for more information about recent lab safety lapses. "Since part of CDC's epidemiology work is detecting or recognizing patterns of disease outbreaks, how could CDC not recognize the pattern of select agent incidents that was recognized by the OIG in 2010?" leaders write. In the letter to NIH, the members ask for the latest on the National Science Advisory Board, which hasn't met in two years. They're curious about what led to the recent dismissal of 11 of the board's 23 members. Read the letters: http://1.usa.gov/1rwpOjA
HERITAGE FOUNDATION LOOKS AT EROSION OF EMPLOYER COVERAGE — Because of cuts to employer-sponsored coverage, the private health insurance market grew by just 520,000 people during the first Obamacare open enrollment period, according to a new analysis by the Heritage Foundation. However, the data do not account for the final month's surge in enrollment, which could have added 3 million to 4 million people to the individual market. Assuming that all of those individuals actually paid their premiums, Heritage pegs the upper bound for the net increase in the private market at 5 million. More: http://herit.ag/1mW5uE7
PHYSICAN GROUPS EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT SUNSHINE ACT — The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, along with 24 other groups, sent CMS a letter Monday expressing concerns about the release of data required this September by Physician Payments Sunshine Act. They're worried that the data will be provided without any context for the public, and they're asking Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to give them a preview of the release plans. They're also concerned that many physicians don't know about the Sunshine Act and are getting bogged down by the burdensome registration process necessary to see what's being reported about them. They hope CMS will streamline this process and increase physician education and outreach. The letter: http://politico.pro/1zoqIDj
PATIENT GROUPS URGE BURWELL TO REDUCE CARE BARRIERS — Over 300 patient groups have sent HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell a letter asking her to address problems that patients with chronic conditions are encountering as they use their Obamacare coverage. They want Burwell to enforce the ACA's non-discrimination provisions, address high-cost sharing and insufficient provider networks, and increase plan transparency so consumers know what they're buying. The signatories include The AIDS Institute, American Lung Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The letter: http://bit.ly/1qa7taW
AMA DISAPPOINTED ABOUT GUN COURT RULING — The American Medical Association isn't pleased about Friday's court ruling upholding a 2011 Florida law that restricts doctors from advising patients about the risks of guns. "This law poses real harm to patients as it interferes with physicians' ability to deliver safe care, and hinders patients' access to the most relevant information available," said AMA President Robert Wah. "In addition to putting patients in harm's way, the Florida Privacy of Firearm Owners Act infringes on a physician's right to free speech and puts physicians in the untenable position of risking disciplinary consequences or abandoning ethical obligations."
PREMIER APPLAUDS BILL ON POST-ACUTE CARE — Premier health care alliance sent a letter Monday to Senate Finance and House Ways and Means leaders expressing support of a bill requiring standardized data collection from post-acute health care providers. The Improving Medicare Post — Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 would help CMS to assess the quality and efficiency of post-acute care. This information would enable officials to determine how to amend payments to improve outcomes and increase value. Premier's letter: http://bit.ly/1rxlTTz
D.C. seems to be in midst of a post-government shutdown baby boom, the Washington Post reports: http://wapo.st/1qI7IPB
Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute writes about Jonathan Gruber's flip-flopping on the ACA subsidy question in POLITICO Magazine: http://politi.co/UyKA7f
Mindfulness treatment and life coaching for parents of children with developmental disabilities leads to reduction in stress, anxiety and depression among these adults, the New York Times reports: http://nyti.ms/1kkcOic
The Philadelphia International Airport is the first in the country to install stationary bikes, allowing passengers to exercise for free while they wait for their flights, also from the Times: http://nyti.ms/1tUXb11
Employer-sponsored health coverage is a bargain compared to government insurance programs, according to a new study from the American Health Policy Institute, writes Sally Pipes for Forbes: http://onforb.es/1rVA8ni
A new study finds that hormone-replacement therapy begun soon after menopause appears safe and lowers some markers of heart-disease risk while majorly freezing hot flashes, the Wall Street Journal reports: http://on.wsj.com/1nPvw1C
POLITICO presents Morning Money Breakfast Briefing: Join POLITICO's Chief Economic Correspondent Ben White as he takes his daily newsletter Morning Money live interviewing Tim Massad , the chairman of U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, on the intersection of Washington and Wall Street. Find out more and RSVP at politi.co/1zdixcI, or join the conversation on Twitter using #MorningMoney.
**A message from the Partnership for the Future of Medicare: For every birthday that Medicare celebrates, the program gets one year closer to bankruptcy. Transforming the system to reward value instead of volume and creating strong private-public partnerships is critical for Medicare's future. Read more about bi-partisan solutions for sustaining Medicare so it can celebrate for generations to come: http://bit.ly/YbmEYT **


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Estee Lauder Double Wear All-Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup
Price: $50.00
Size: 30ml
About: first long-wear BB cream from Estee Lauder designed to cover, protect, even and brighten skin. Contains SPF 30, it offers light/medium coverage and is oil-free. Packaged in a plastic squeeze tube with twist lid.
Review: BB creams are all the rage right now and in my opinion Estee Lauder's products are some of the best on the market. Estee Lauder Double Wear All-Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup is no exception. The first BB cream to be released by Estee Lauder is just beautiful, in my opinion needing only a little room for improvement. Let's start with the colour range: All-Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup comes in six shades ideal for most skin types but it is important to know they are pink-based. What does this mean to you? Well most makeup artists tend to prefer yellow-based foundations because they appear more natural on the skin whereas pink-based foundations can make skin appear dull, tired and dare I say sick. Personally I too avoid pink based foundations from my own personal experience and as my skin throws warm tones I was left with a beautiful foundation that failed to flawlessly match my skin tone. Whilst only I would have probably been the only one to notice this, I was sure to press a yellow-based powder over the foundation to set the look and colour correct the application.
BB Moisture Makeup really does hydrate skin thanks to its lovely fluid formula which blends over skin with ease and sets nicely to a satin finish and is perfect for those seeking light to medium coverage. Although I don't need to cover my skin, on work days I like to achieve a medium/full coverage. All-Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup is best suited to a medium coverage at most and I discovered that by adding more can make this BB cream ball up and separate. The formula lasts all day long but requires a touch up though the day to ensure skin stays looking fresh and its scent is soft, subtle and barely there. If All-Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup was to appear in yellow-based shades and offered fuller coverage then I would purchase it without hesitation, butif you are not as picky with your foundation/BB creams I would certainly still recommend and rate it highly - I am just choosy with foundation because to me a good base is everything. Skin certainly feels hydrated through ongoing wear of this product but I still urge you to use a skincare routine as you would. All-Day Glow BB Moisture Makeup receives a round of applause for offering an SPF 30+ coverage because this is a must-have attribute for health-conscious women and for offering a varied range of shades for a good majority of skin tones. From fair to dark, Estee Lauder is known for embracing cultural diversity whereas many brands only offer 2-3 shades in a BB cream.
Tip: Avoid layering this product for fuller coverage as it can ball up.
Purchased? No.
Official Product Page.


text: The 2018 MA market is comprised of national health plans, Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, prominent regional health plans and specialized Medicare companies. Seven new insurers will enter the MA market in 2018, including start-ups as well as insurers that will offer Special Needs Plans.4 With MA enrollment reaching an all-time high,2 premiums for 2018 are expected to decrease by about 6% from last year. Members have more options and greater variety in their Medicare coverage choices.


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Goldsborough Family History
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Goldsborough Name Meaning
English: habitational name for someone from either of two places in North Yorkshire called Goldsborough. One, near Knaresborough is named from the Old English (or Old German) personal name Godel + Old English burh 'fortified place'. The other, near Whitby, is named from the Old English personal name Golda + burh.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Goldstone, Malbrough, Holdsworth, Brough, Dodsworth, Molesworth