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Las Iguanas is an immediate neighbour to The O2 which holds large music, stage and sports events. It's a relaxed restaurant offering authentic Latin American food and drink. During arena days the restaurant welcomes large amounts of people through its doors for a quick and easy meal.
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The video for Kendrick Lamar's "Poetic Justice," ft. Drake off of Good Kid m.A.A.d City is a cinematic tale of love and tragedy. The video pans across LA's iconic Crenshaw neighborhood while Lamar and other Black Hippy members like Dom Kennedy and Jay Rock drink 40's and play dice. Gunfire sends the crowd into a chaotic scramble and Lamar rushes to protect his girl, but to no avail. A shot from above pictures the two lovers laid out on top of each other on the concrete streets. The iPhone in the fallen girl's hand shows a missed call from Drake, who is pictured sitting on a hotel room bed next to a different woman sleeping nude.
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"Climate change is not an illusion." — Vivienne Westwood
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It has been quite some time since Google launched its own social networking site, Google+. Though this one may not be as popular as the industry biggies Twitter and Facebook, you still cannot take away points from Google for launching a very creative social network. Google+ any day is much more creative than other social networks, but has somehow not been able to add enough users in its circle.
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For this edition of Brand Experience's CXO series, we sit down with Helayna Minsk, group vice president of Walgreens Retail Brands at Walgreens Boots Alliance. Prior to her role at Walgreens, Minsk was vice president of marketing at Johnson & Johnson Consumer China, Shanghai; vice president of business development, consumer health care, at Johnson & Johnson North America; vice president of global franchise marketing, women's health, at Johnson & Johnson; and marketing director of laundry at Unilever.
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Although Walgreens has left the slogan, "At the corner of happy and healthy," behind, the aspiration remains steadfast in the retailer's DNA. This ethos is part of the reason why Minsk came to work on the retailer's own brand business. "Stefano Pessina [executive vice chairman and chief executive officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance] always says, 'We are a force for good in the world,'" Minsk says, noting that happy, healthier and simply better is still very much part of the Walgreens' brand promise.
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"My last two years at J&J, I was actually in China and I saw that so many women in China working," Minsk recalls. "The baby's often home with the nanny, mother or the grandmother. Mothers want to breastfeed but they aren't going to be able to leave in the middle of the workday and, at that time, giving employees a private place to pump breast milk wasn't part of the Chinese culture. So we created a program that gave her a place where she can pump breast milk and a service that would take the breast milk back home to the nanny or the grandmother." Minsk notes that the benefits of the service were more than just nutritional. Providing breast milk for continuous feeding, Minsk remarks, helps ensure that the child will be more receptive to breastfeeding later in the day when the mom is home. This empowers women in their roles as mothers because it allows them to have that, as Minsk says, one-on-one personal time.
The Pump It Forward program also exemplifies Minsk's approach to product development. "As much as you want to jump directly to the product [when looking at new offerings], you really need to step back and understand how people live," she remarks. "Not even just how they interact with your product or your brand, but in general, how they live. That's really where the green shoots are, where the new opportunities are, is understanding how she lives, how her family lives, where the pain points are, and understanding how you can do a better job of really just making her life easier, better for her and for her family. We start with trends. We certainly did at J&J and at Unilever, and here at Walgreens, we have a global brand team and a trends team as well, who track trends here, in the UK and around the world, and then we try to leverage those findings long before we get into talking about a specific product."
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"One of the most exciting things about coming to Walgreens is you can do a lot more than basic research," she adds. "A CPG can buy Nielsen or IRI data, but you don't get that level of granularity when you work at a CPG in terms of who's bought what, how often, what else they're buying. At Walgreens, I can look at patterns, look at how a shopper uses a product within her family and within her household and what would be meaningful change. I get a very granular look at what increases her basket, what she buys together, and what she's searching for when shopping. The volume and the richness of the customer data that we have, by virtue of our purchase data and our loyalty data, it is just a wealth of knowledge for a marketer. That database is absolutely indispensable to us, and we mine it every day.
"Another one of the advantages of working on the retail side versus on CPG is we have access to the retail environment," Minsk adds. "If I was still in CPG, I might be able to get immersion to test in 10 stores before a product line rolls out. Here, we can actually walk customers through a real-life looking environment and see how they shop, see what catches their eye, make sure that in fact when we launch it at the store level, it's at its most convenient location. We have a store within our corporate offices. It's a full sized Walgreens store! It is set up with a photo department. There's the pharmacy in back. This is not where the employees shop. This is literally set up to do nothing but see how our shelves are coming across, see where things are located and where the opportunities are. If we put a display here, is that going to be in the way? Is that convenient for somebody? Will that catch them as they're walking out as we reset shelves? As we reset, is everything where it should be? Is that promotion blocking this brand?"
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When I'm not being a writer I work in education, so I'm continually undertaking CPD (Continued Professional Development) and every once in a while I revisit old notes to try to rediscover something I've forgotten. Recently I came across some notes I'd made whilst reading a book by Paul McKenna entitled 'I Can Make You […]
Inspiration from apps
- Jan
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Just before Christmas I realised I had some store vouchers that needed to be spent. So I went online looking for something sensible to spend said vouchers on. To my surprise I discovered I could purchase a Kindle Fire for the grand total of £9.00 (once the vouchers had been redeemed). So I pushed the […]
Cover Story: Meet The Tricksters
- Nov
- 02
Whilst working on my latest collection of short stories I decided I'd ask my talented niece (Sam Davy) to design the ebook cover for me and then I'd also use her design for the print version. When I came to create the cover for the print version I rashly decided to create a cover from […]
Coyote Tales Retold – New Book Released
- Oct
- 20
I'm so pleased to be able to announce my latest collection of trickster character themed short stories 'Coyote Tales Retold' is now released and can be downloaded in ebook format from all Amazon sites (UK – US). It took me just over a year to research and write this latest collection of short stories. It was […]
Book Authors Resale Rights (BARR)
- Sep
- 16
I recently stumbled across an old news piece (16/06/14) released by the ALCS (Authors Licensing and Collecting Society) stating they had teamed up with Book Barn International (a second hand book seller) were launching a pilot scheme that would compensate authors when a second-hand version of their book was sold. This system is known as the Book Authors […]
Rediscovering The Art of Writing
- Jul
- 08
When working on a new article or short story I usually work directly onto my laptop to create my first draft. I think this is because I followed my dad's advice (one of the few times I did during my teens) and learned to touch type, so it feels natural to work this way. However […]
Seven tips for marketing your ebook
- Sep
- 09
In a blog post I wrote for Authors Electric last month (Retelling Tales – It's Been Done Before) I hinted at my latest book. This month I'm pleased to announce my latest ebook featuring the rogue that is Brer Rabbit is now available for download from Amazon (UK – USA). The book contains eight retold tales all […]
How Teaching Is Helping My Writing
- Jun
- 09
The few days ago I was talking to a friend who has just started a new job, which she's loving. She'd come to the conclusion that in her previous job she reached a dead end, hence the move. Once we'd talked about her new job she asked me how my writing was going. "I just […]


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Well don't I feel like a chump. Here I am, chilling with what I thought was the latest and greatest Viliv on the market when somewhere in the world, there is the S10! And it has Windows 7! Damn.
The pictures floating around the Interweb show a similarly designed bezel. The trackpad seems to be located in front of the keyboard now, and it looks thinner if that's at all possiable. Plus, the resistive touchscreen has been enlarged to 10-inches from the S7's 7-incher. The CPU will range from 1.33GHz to 2.0GHz depending on the configuration and a 64GB SSD will be an option along with a 3G modem. Best of all, Viliv is stating that this guy will get a 10 hour battery life.
According to the report, the S10 will start out at $500 which will put it in the S7 range. However, don't hold back your purchase of the S7 if you like it. (I do) It might be months before Viliv imports the S10 to the States. The Korean market generally gets first dibs at Viliv products for a while before we get 'em here.


text: The Staggers 16 March 2010 Clegg's bold move on spending cuts Lib Dem leader's promise not to ring-fence departmental budgets will split the Tories. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up I'm rather impressed by Nick Clegg's confirmation that the Lib Dems will not ring-fence any departmental budgets. It's one stance, along with his party's pledge to raise the income-tax threshold to £10,000, that deserves serious attention. He told Radio 4's The World At One: We're not entering into this Dutch auction about ring-fencing. Good outcomes aren't determined by drawing a red line around government departmental budgets. This is shrewd politics as well as good economics. The line that all government departments should share the pain equally is likely to appeal to voters and it gives the Lib Dems a chance to split the Tories. David Cameron's pledge to ring-fence spending on international development ("we don't hate foreigners") and the NHS ("it's not a 60-year mistake") has angered many on the right of his own party. And with good reason. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has estimated that the Tories' promise to protect spending in these areas, combined with their pledge to reduce the deficit faster than Labour, means that all other departments face cuts of 22.8 per cent by 2014-2015. As the implications of this (especially for defence) become clearer, we can expect Cameron to come under a great deal of pressure to change his stance. Follow the New Statesman team on Twitter. › Web Only: the best of the blogs George Eaton is senior online editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe For daily analysis & more political coverage from Westminster and beyond subscribe for just £1 per month!


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Price: $20.00 USD
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Fair
Apparently a later book, written substantially by "A.M." near or after the death of her husband and co-author, "C.N." Numerous EP scribbles in ink, PON, front hinge broken, and spine faded. 355 pp. plus brief ads.
Title: The Brightener
Illustrator: De Maris, Walter (Front.)
Categories: Fiction,
Publisher: N.Y., Burt: 1921
Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Fair
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Item: 1.00 Item
Seller ID: 000033
Keywords: Fiction. NOISBN


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Highway Hunter
Tags: Driving Games / Police Games
Publisher: Mausland.de
Video Walkthrough
Highway Hunter is a Top Down Driving Game. You are racing down the 7 lane Highway. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy other cars on the highway while avoiding the police as they shoot back at you. Create as much destruction and chaos as possible. Just don't get caught and cross the finish line while driving recklessly.
· Control The Car = Use Arrow Keys · Shoot On Right or Left = Use A Key or S Key
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Punch Brothers' Chris Thile talks tiki bars, dark angels, and tackle boxes
Listening to All Ashore, the new album from bluegrass band Punch Brothers, is like riding an inner tube down a lazy river—all you have to do is surrender.
While Punch Brothers can pluck feverishly with the best of 'em, singer-songwriter Chris Thile's lullaby falsetto and fabled lyrics are at their loveliest when set to the band's elegant, symphonic instrumentation. The latter comprises much of All Ashore, which sounds more like one long piece of music in nine movements rather than disparate, differentiated tracks. Thematically, the album finds mandolinist Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjo player Noam Pikelny, and violinist/fiddle player Gabe Witcher all grappling with the weight and responsibilities of committed relationships and/or parenthood in a tumultuous socio-political climate.
Grammy-winning Thile, who moonlights as radio variety show host of A Prairie Home Companion reboot Live From Here, spoke to us ahead of the band's Palace Theatre show Saturday night.
City Pages: The new Punch Brothers album was inspired by tiki bar culture. Explain that.
Chris Thile: Heh heh heh. It was harvested while in the midst of enjoying tiki bar culture, that's for sure. I think there's a certain productive aspect of escapism, even in the most shameless variety, and tiki is certainly that. Going to these bars that look like you've been invited to a round by one of the pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, you sit down and you have a drink and right about the time the second round hits the table, you stop escaping from whatever it is you're escaping from and you start talking about it. That's what I think can be healthy about those grand, shameless gestures of escape, that once you escape from that thing, you're able to actually hold it out for analysis and discussion.
Whenever the boys and I were out at one of these places, we'd start talking about the real stuff and how difficult it is to balance family and work, newish fatherhood, the difficulty of love, the work of staying in love, and all of these kinds of thing in the context of the most politically tumultuous time of our lives. We're all in our mid- to late-30s. These are the craziest times of our lives and that's when the rubber really meeting the road as far as our family lives are concerned and our professional lives. The record kind of swirls around all of that activity and the conversations that led to that were held primarily in tiki bars.
CP: Is music a form of escape for you? Or is it something you have to escape from? Or a bit of both?
CT: [Laughs] Oh, wow. That's a great question. I think it's a little bit of both. I love music to death. I'm a person of big appetites for everything. I like experiencing the world. I want to experience the world and see if there's a way in which I can experience the world in a way that helps me gain perspective on why this is all happening and why we do what we do. The big questions. Music is the thing that I have some aptitude for and so it does often help me make sense of my feelings about various things, or maybe more than that, it gives me a place to put those feelings even if I can't make sense of them. When I was little, I used to be kind of obsessed with tackle boxes, just loved tackle boxes, seeing a full tackle box with all of its various fishing lures and weights and extra fishing line. The best part of fishing was having a tackle box because it seemed so organized and beautiful. I've never been good at organizing anything really except for maybe musical thought. I feel like music can be kind of like this tackle box for my life.
CP: In your press release, you say this album is "a meditation on committed relationships in the present day, particularly in the present climate." What are the challenges of committed relationships that you think are unique in the current socio-political climate?
CT: I think one part of it is the amount of distraction that we are bombarded with day in, day out. The amount of noise. How do you even hear your partner talking over the noise of this circus act news cycle? The attack on the dissemination of information, the propagation of the relativity of facts, I think all of these things makes it harder to have a relationship – not just with a romantic partner, but with anyone. There's just so much noise. We are being bombarded by information that is so disturbing and then being bombarded by people telling us that information is false. What's a human being supposed to think when they get back home after their day's work and you're talking to this person that you're in love with? Or you're trying to raise a child and you're trying to give your child a sense of the beauty of humanity and of the world at a time when it's easy to believe there's not a whole lot of beauty left?
CP: There's a lot going on in the song "The Angel of Doubt." Demons…even adultery? Unpack that one.
CT: There are those nights when, just in the moments before sleep, something is there that causes you to call into question every decision you've ever made, or at least most of them. I liken that to the angel of doubt, who is clearly a dark angel, a demon. I was raised in a pretty fundamentalist Christian household. I hasten to point out my parents have since moderated in what I consider to be a really beautiful way. I find religious imagery creeping into my lyrics often, or that those sorts of analogies come pretty readily to me. So late at night, lying awake, wondering the unmentionable things: "Why am I doing this? Maybe I should have just locked myself in a room and made music my whole life, maybe that's all I'm good at. Maybe I should never do that. Maybe that's the vainest. Maybe I shouldn't even bother with this. Wouldn't it be better if I just got a 9 to 5 and was there for my kid growing up every weekend, morning, and night?" Just all that kind of stuff that can keep you awake for that last hour before you finally exhaust yourself, wake up in the morning, and go to work again – and by that, I mean: go to work at just being a person. The demon in the first part is inviting the protagonist to do another round of "What ifs?" with it, this communion with the angel of doubt, the imagining of the various alternate paths to a life that could be taken. The second part of the lyrics, the protagonist resists, tries to refocus the thoughts on what's going on and to basically soldier on. Then the demon kind of comes screaming back into the fore for part three of that vocal.
CP: In addition to playing with Punch Brothers, you're also the host of "Live From Here." Now that you've been in that role for a couple of years, do you feel like you've made the show your own? Or will there always be that Garrison Keillor taint to it?
CT: [Laughs] I'm really having a wonderful time. It's like everything else: it's a process. It's hard work. There are always things that you're doing that you feel you could do better. There are decisions that you make that you maybe wish you'd made a different decision. But overall, I'm very happy with where we're headed. The opportunities to commune with the country…not to get all grandiose, but if you have a radio, you can come to our show every week, which is a tremendous opportunity for someone like me who delights in audible art and entertainment – loves to make it, loves to consume it, and loves to share it. I really do feel like we're on track as far as making it what it needs to be and what it needs to be is going to be in constant flux as the world evolves.
I became host at a pretty bizarre moment in our country's history. There's been a fairly urgent need for a variety show on Saturdays. Our show can be something of an escape, but again, you don't want to just ignore the stuff that's going on; it's going to be one of the things that propels us through those two hours. As the host, certainly I'm up there doing some of the stuff that you're hearing, but I also get to step aside and listen to some of the stuff that you're hearing and have been lifted up at times – lifted up and out of my concerns and fears about the direction we're headed as a people – by some extraordinary bit of comedy or a musical performance. Just being up there making music with my friends, actively partaking in the art that's being made, sometimes there has been an unexpected collaboration or a moment that can lift me up and out of the stuff that's going on. I feel, ultimately, like the show is becoming itself.
Punch Brothers
With: Madison Cunningham
Where: Palace Theatre
When: 8 p.m. Sat. Aug. 11
Tickets: $ 30-$50; more info here


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I Love Me Some Stencils! {Part 2}
Ok, so you've seen part 1 of the video for different techniques to use with stencils, here's part 2 of the stencil videos which means 5 more techniques for you, this time I'm using the 201 Stencil Collection from Faber-Castell!
I seriously had fun playing with these! If you missed the first video using the 101 Stencil Collection from Faber-Castell, you can check it out here.
Disclosure: Erin is a paid consultant for Faber-Castell and has received products from them to evaluate. However, the opinions expressed are entirely her own and based on her use of the products.
This post contains affiliate links. If you buy from these links it won't cost you a penny more but Erin will make a little bit of money (not enough for a pony).


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While After Burner II is a fairly good port of Sega's classic arcade game, the mobile controls hinder its playability. The original After Burner II was a third-person flight shooter by designer Yu Suzuki, in which you navigated an F-14 Tomcat jet through a number of environments, taking out waves of enemy planes and avoiding their incoming fire. There were several different versions in the arcade, the most spectacular of which was a hydraulic sit-down cabinet that would physically move along with your steering. Even though the arcade flight stick that was present in all of the arcade cabinets largely contributed to the game's popularity, After Burner II was ported to practically every home system at the time, regardless of whether it had a flight stick controller or not. If you're familiar with After Burner II, this version will certainly jog old memories, but they will most likely be bittersweet due to the way it feels on the mobile phone.
For a mobile arcade flight shooter, After Burner II is fairly sound. In the game, you can move in eight directions to steer away from oncoming and trailing enemy aircraft. Your ship automatically fires a basic machine-gun attack, but you can choose when to launch any of your 99 missiles, which are especially effective against distant aircraft. The missiles lock on if you hover over and then remain aimed in the general vicinity of an enemy plane. As with the arcade version, it's often better to simply get out of the way, especially when a single shot from enemy planes will kill you. To the detriment of the original game, you could avoid returning fire and only be punished with a low score. Since this version's 10 continues are a necessity, and your score resets at the use of each one, there's little harm in paying no attention to your score, especially in the beginning, unless you're the most talented of After Burner II fans.
The game moves fairly quickly, and you must navigate accordingly to stay alive. Enemy aircraft will pass you from your rear, come up from ahead, or linger directly behind you. Since staying out of harm's way is crucial, you'll typically spend a lot of time flying from one diagonal to the other or executing a barrel roll in order to dodge the attack. This is exciting enough to make the game worthwhile, especially because it runs at a solid frame rate on the LG VX8000. The smooth frame rate is due in no small way to the minimalist graphics, which haven't changed much in the last 20 years, but the presentation works well regardless. The game switches up the environments at almost every level, most noticeably by changing the time of day. You can opt to listen to either the music or the sound effects during gameplay. The music is by far the better choice, since the theme is quite catchy and subtle, while the sound effect of the launching missile, for example, sounds like a little bell.
Every few levels a ship will restock your missiles, so you'll rarely run out. You can approach the game offensively or defensively, and you'll find that either option is quite challenging, remaining true to the difficulty of the original game. Though After Burner II is translated fairly well, it suffers most at the hands of the control scheme, which loses a lot of value on the scaled-down mobile system. If you're in the market for a mobile flight game, you'll find that this game is one of your best options, but despite looking and running quite a bit like the original, it just doesn't feel exactly like the same game.