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Two workers were taken to a local hospital and another is unaccounted for after an explosion and fire on Thursday at a Phillips 66 pipeline station in a small town in southern Louisiana, parish officials said. The incident has led to the evacuation of about 60 homes in Paradis, Louisiana, a town of about 1,200 residents west of New Orleans, officials in St. Charles Parish said.
Six workers were at the facility when the explosion occurred. Two were taken to a local hospital with injures and one remained unaccounted for, St. Charles Sheriff Greg Champagne said during a press conference aired on local news outlets. Three workers had minor or no injuries, Champagne said. Other workers are now attempting to shut the high pressure line, a spokesman for the parish said.
"It's a very high pressure, high intensity fire," Champagne said. "When you get close to it, it is really singeing."
The source of the product in the pipeline has been shut off, but the fire could burn for hours or at least a day, Champagne said. "It is a loud and scary fire, but it is burning off."
The incident occurred at the Paradis Pipeline Station operated by Phillips 66 about 30 minutes west of New Orleans, a company spokesman said.
"Phillips 66 is in the process of accounting for all employees and contractors who were working at the site at the time," the spokesman said.
(Reporting by Arpan Varghese and Nallur Sethuraman in Bengaluru and Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Bill Rigby and Tom Hogue)


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Adding Default MusicBy: arramus
1. Add a KFMusicTrigger.
2. Configure the KFMusicTrigger with multiple Tracks.
3. Save your map and play test.
1. Open the Actor Classes Browser and select Actor > Triggers > MusicTriggers > KFMusicTrigger
Right click an area on your map in the 3D window to bring up the selection menu and click on Add KFMusicTrigger Here.
2. Double click on your KFMusicTrigger Actor to bring up its Properties and expand KFMusicTrigger and MusicTrigger menus.
Select the names of the default music tracks you want to use from the Killing Floor Music Folder, typically located here: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\killingfloor\Music
Default CombatSong
As the screenshot below shows, I selected KF_Pathogen as my default CombatSong. If only this area is filled in then you will hear that same music track repeatedly for each Combat Wave played in game.
In order to add extra variety you can assign a music track for multiple waves by selecting Add for WaveBasedSongs and manually typing in the name of the music track under its CombatSong. You can also assign a music track for the time players are visiting the Trader by typing in the name of the track under its CalmSong. I added 10 waves of music to my WaveBasedSongs. 10 for individual CombatSong and 2 CalmSong. Some of my CalmSong fields are left bland and at this stage a default music track will play.
You do not need to add a preset music track for CalmSong but if you leave a CombatSong blank in the WaveBasedSongs then you will need to add a track in the main CombatSong to act as default.
Our last setting to make is under the MusicTrigger setting. I add the name of a music track to the Song area and left the rest at default. This music track will play in the final wave when you face the Patriarch as the Patriarch CombatSong.
3. Save your map and play test a few waves to hear multiple music tracks.
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My name is Camille and I'm seventeen years old. I live in Normandy, France. I'm writing here because I'm a member of an association : Les Fleurs De La Mémoire. Last year on November 2010 the association assigned to me the grave of John M. Carroll and I visit his grave to put flowers several time in year. John was killed in action on 18th July 1944, in France. I'm searching his photo because it's important for me and my family to put a face on his name. John was born on 12th June 1923 in Philadelphia. His parent named Elsie and Raymond Carroll. Raymond died on 2nd October 1942. He had brothers (Richard, Raymond Junior, Edward, James and Robert. They had Irish origins. John was in 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th division US. His army serial number is 33584940. He was enlisted on 15th February 1943 in Philadelphia. It was grateful if you have an other informations about him and a photo of him. I have the duty to take care the John's grave all my life. Conctat me please. Thank you. Respectfully, Camille Vauclin.
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Last night I also finished the fourth rosette. I'm going to have to use the teal & gold sparingly - It doesn't really read as a dark to me since the gold reflects light and I haven't used any other gold fabrics yet. Of course, I could solve the problem by using more golds. That would mean I need to buy more gold fabrics. Go on - twist my arm!
I also recently finished my May BOM butterfly. You may recall that I bought the purple shot cotton and the wild circle fabric at the Amherst quilt show back in April. I finally found the perfect project and had a ball working with the shot cotton. The picture just doesn't capture the magenta/blue color variations as you move the fabric back and forth. Can't wait to find some more shots!
Last but not least is a group project for Hexie Club. Every month we play a FQ game where we end up bringing a different FQ home for our stashes. Recently I have been trying to get the girls to do some fussy cutting and it was suggested that we could do a group project this fall. After some brain storming we decided to make a rosette (similar in shape and size to the Value Prop rosettes) with everyone using the same fabric plus what ever else we want to add. At our annual Christmas party we will play the game with our rosettes instead of a FQ. Then we have to make the rosette in to something and bring it back to our March meeting. I'm excited because there is a lot of fussy opportunity in the fabric they chose.
I didn't take a photo but I did work some more on my twisted hexies at lunch today.
The next big decisions will be what hexie projects to take camping this summer. I know I'll over pack but who wants to be hundreds of miles away with nothing to work on? And this year I am also over packing audio books since the library near the campground isn't camper friendly. I might even be able to get ahead on my reading challenges. woohoo!


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The make-or-break road trip to start the second half is breaking them. Who knows? Matter it will shatter them by the time they return home.
The Mets have Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes back, but that hasn't helped their stagnant offense, which is hitting .203 during the Mets last ten games. The Mets have gone 2-8 in that span, including 1-5 since the break.
They've scored just 18 runs in those ten games and 12 in the last six. Two wins is about right.
Once 11 games over .500 and a game behind Atlanta, the Mets are now four over and trail by 6 ½ games. They are behind in the wild-card by 2 ½ games, but have some leapfrogging to do. One of the teams in their way are the Dodgers, whom they'll play in a four-game series this weekend.
The Mets' listless offense has abandoned Johan Santana all season, and last night it was R.A. Dickey. Jon Niese is in line to be tonight's hard luck starter. Niese has lost consecutive starts despite a 2.45 ERA, getting all of one run.
"I always want to think my team's going to score runs, because we've got a great lineup,'' Niese said. "There's never a doubt in my mind that we can score runs.''
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The Allen Co.'s founders peer dyspeptically from portraits on the wall, as if they can actually hear William Allen, the newest family member in charge, discuss the firm's takeover by a giant, publicly owned corporation.
''No regrets,'' Allen, 33, declares, sitting at his desk at the firm's headquarters in Orlando. The Allen Co., a $78 million wholesale drug distributor, was founded by Allen's great-grandfather, W.G. Allen, in 1906. Allen said the firm's acquisition in September 1984 by Bergen Brunswig Corp., the nation's second-largest drug wholesaler, enabled Bergen to establish a foothold in the fast-growing Florida market while providing Allen the resources to expand and modernize. ''We have a symbiotic relationship,'' Allen explains.


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Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.
In honour of the daily sacrifices that you make and hard work you put in, we've gathered together some of the finest witticisms about your tough job. (That's fathering - not the job you do at the office.)
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Seven Reportedly Injured in Hizbullah-Amal Clashes in South Lebanon
Seven members of the two rival Muslim groups, Hizbullah and Amal, have been injured in a series of clashes in different villages of southern Lebanon, the Lebanese daily An-Nahar reported Friday, quoting police reports.
It did not say when the incidents happened.
Five men were wounded in Bent Jbail, a few kilometers from the border with Israel when their car came under fire in the narrow village streets.
In Jebbain two men were wounded by gunfire, while in Tura a brawl broke out inside the mosque, but no one was hurt.
Supporters of the two groups clashed over the posting up of portraits of their respective leaders, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, and Nabih Berri of Amal, and hanging up their movements' flags in Ras al-Ain, Kfar Fila and Bissariyeh.
Both Hizbullah and Amal, the two most active anti-Israeli groups, have been deployed in force in the former Israeli-occupied zone in south Lebanon since Israel withdrew its forces on May 24th - BEIRUT (AFP)
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Pepper Ann's reflection is a minor character on Disney's animated series Pepper Ann. She is the mirror counterpart of Pepper Ann Pearson who serves as her conscience.
On the show, whenever Pepper Ann is facing a moral dilemma or a tough situation, her reflection comes to life in her eyes and chats with her about the issue. She usually appears in P.A.'s dresser mirror in her room, though she has been known to speak to her through other reflective planes like shop windows.


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77 Operations Charged With Law Violations
In a coordinated attack on business opportunity and work-at-home fraud, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 17 state law enforcement agencies have launched a law enforcement sting and consumer education campaign targeting hucksters who use deceptive earnings claims and paid "shills" to promote their scams or otherwise violate consumer protection laws. Seventy-seven operations have been caught in the sting.
"Business opportunity scams and work-at-home schemes are frauds that can cost consumers their life savings, and destroy their dream of owning a successful small business," said J. Howard Beales, III, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "That's why we launched Project Busted Opportunity, a joint federal-state attack on business opportunity and work-at-home schemes."
Using undercover investigators and special computer tools, the FTC identified business opportunity advertisements that made earnings claims without including cautionary language required by the FTC's Franchise Rule. The investigators posed as prospective investors and listened to sales pitches from operators who hyped the business opportunity and touted the earnings potential. Then the investigators were given "references" - supposedly successful owners and operators of the business opportunity who could verify the earnings claims. In the course of their investigations, the FTC staff uncovered evidence that some of the "references" didn't own or operate a business. They were shills - actors paid by the operations to pose as successful and prosperous owners. Indeed, one of the "references" was actually a shill for three of the defendants named today and another had been a shill in a previous FTC case where he testified, "I was paid to lie."
The operations ranged from envelope stuffing work-at-home schemes to snack and soda vending machine businesses. In some cases, like medical billing work-at-home schemes, the sellers overstate the demand for the services, according to the FTC. In others, like vending machine businesses, the operators allegedly misrepresent the amount of assistance they would provide to the franchisee. All of the operators targeted by the FTC were allegedly characterized by one key element: earnings claims that were unsubstantiated or deceptive.
In 11 cases, the FTC has filed complaints in U.S. District Court seeking a permanent halt to the deceptive claims and, where franchises are involved, court orders requiring the defendants to provide future investors the disclosures required by the Franchise Rule. The agency also will seek redress for consumers. In four related cases, promoters of medical billing, paralegal and craft work-at-home schemes have settled FTC charges filed earlier. The settlement in two of the cases permanently bans the defendants from selling business ventures, employment opportunities or work-at-home opportunities and requires that they post a $1 million bond before engaging in telemarketing. In the other two cases, the settlements require the defendants to post $1 million bonds before engaging in the promotion of work-at-home opportunities.
In 11 cases coordinated with the DOJ Office of Consumer Litigation, the agencies will seek consumer redress, civil penalties, and a permanent halt to the deceptive claims. In a related matter, Robert Ferrara, a defendant in a previous case filed by the DOJ, has pled guilty to violating a court order relating to selling franchises and defrauding consumers.
In addition to the FTC and DOJ cases, 17 state law enforcement agencies have announced 48 actions against business opportunity sellers. Those actions include lawsuits, cease and desist orders, consent agreements, and fines.
The states and federal agencies are also launching an extensive consumer education campaign, including a Spanish language component, to help consumers avoid fraudulent business opportunity and work-at-home schemes. The FTC has four free consumer publications, Net-Based Business Opportunities: Are Some 'Flop-portunities'?, Could 'Biz Opp' Offers Be Out For Your Coffers?, Answering the Knock of a Business 'Opp,' and Can You Recognize a Business Opportunity Fraud. They are available on the Internet at http://www.ftc.gov/bizopps.
State participants in the sweep include: Alaska Attorney General, Arkansas Attorney General, California Attorney General, Florida Attorney General, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Indiana Attorney General, Iowa Securities Bureau, Kentucky Attorney General, Louisiana Attorney General, Maryland Attorney General, Michigan Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, North Dakota Attorney General, Ohio Attorney General, Texas Attorney General, Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, Securities Division and the Wyoming Attorney General.
The FTC's cases were brought with the invaluable assistance of the following organizations:
FTC v. Accent Marketing, Inc. - Southern Alabama Better Business Bureau, Police Department of Daphne, Alabama, and the United States Marshals Service.
FTC v. America's Shopping Network, Inc. - Better Business Bureau of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Attorney General, and the Jupiter, Florida Police Department.
FTC v. Associated Record Distributors, Inc. - Aventura, Florida Police Department.
FTC v. Komaco International, Inc. - Better Business Bureau of the Southland, Better Business Bureau of Southern Nevada, U.S. Postal Inspector - Southern California Division, U.S. Postal Inspector for Las Vegas, Nevada, California Attorney General, Nevada Attorney General, U.S. Marshals Service, and the Monterey Park Police Department.
FTC v. Leading Edge Processing, Inc. - Florida Attorney General, Central Florida Better Business Bureau, and the Orange County Florida Sheriff's Department.
FTC v. Inspired Ventures, Inc. - Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, and the Miami-Dade Police Department.
FTC v. Universal Greeting Card Corporation - Miami-Dade Police Department. FTC v. Vendco, LLC - Nevada Attorney General.
FTC v. American Vending Ventures Group, Inc.,
FTC v. Century Placements, Inc., Espresso Italia Marketing, Inc., Nationwide Premium Cigar Distributors Corp., and Perfumes Unlimited, Inc. - Florida Attorney General, and the Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services.
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Copies of the complaints, settlements, and the consumer education materials are available from the FTC's Web site at http://www.ftc.gov and also from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580. The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop and avoid them. To file a complaint, or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357), or use the complaint form at http://www.ftc.gov. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
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MAPLEWOOD, NJ - The 7-Eleven at 1712 Springfield Ave., near Tuscan Road, which had been closed for an undisclosed violation of the Township Health Code since July 6, re-opened on Tuesday with a "conditionally satisfactory" certificate displayed in the window.
The re-opening was just in time for Free Slurpee Day on Wednesday, July 11 (i.e., 7-Eleven), at participating 7-Eleven stores nationwide.
Participating stores offer customers a free small slurpee from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., or while supplies last.
The Springfield Avenue 7-Eleven franchise is listed for sale online.
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Dumped in the name of engagement, and under the forces of the world economy and terrorist distractions, Lebanon is quickly finding itself being flushed down the drain.
You've got a super power that tends to create high expectations in the minds of many, and which has its own priorities that folks in the small nation of Lebanon don't get. Or perhaps they do, and instead of fighting it out, they freak out and go beg outside the door of the next-door thug.
Today saw the release of the CBC report that made the UN investigation look more like a colossal waste of time than an investment in justice.
Today was also Lebanon's Independence Day. A silly presidential speech about "Lebanese solutions" was overshadowed by Hizbullah's continuous threats to cut off the hands of those who dare accuse the militia of involvement in the killing of Rafik Hariri five years ago. Yes, they will kill anyone who takes them to a court of law to defend themselves. That's how innocent people act, in Hizbullah's world.
It turns out that even the little bit of mismanaged justice is seen as too much for Lebanese people. Even Walid Jumblatt has described the tribunal, which today emerged as broken, as a plot against the good old rejection front.
So, the bet is now on the "SS"—Saudi Arabia and Syria loving each other enough for Lebanese to be spared the wrath of Iran-powered Hizbullah. Long live kings and thugs.
Down with justice.
I don't blog much anymore, mostly because there is no time, but also because of the absurdity of this situation.
Saad Hariri thinks he can exonerate the Assad regime and at the same time express confidence in the work of the tribunal.
Jumblatt is so scared of the latest world order, he would rather be humiliated in Damascus than acknowledge the disappointment of his own followers.
This is all too painful to watch, let alone comment on.
Happy November 22nd, old country.


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This year, Anita is undertaking a second round of sewing for orphans in Africa through her sewing bee. She has already cut 40+ dresses, and Anita's sewing bee plans to assemble the dresses today using our peasant dress pattern. Interested in reading more about Anita's efforts or contributing to the cause?
Click here for the inside scoop, and please pray for the efforts to outfit orphans in Malawi.
P.S. One of the participants in the bee sent us the nicest note.
After using this pattern all day today at Anita's Sewing Bee, I am excited to buy my own copy and get started on making dresses for my own two girls, ages 6 and 8. Anita and I were talking how hard it is to find modest dresses for our girls(and we both shop thrift stores and second hand). This pattern is great, easy to follow(Ive never made dresses, only bags, before today!) THANK YOU for donating the pattern for us to use for the bee. We got a ton of dresses made and they will be a huge blessing to our missionaries/orphans in Africa. Lord Bless.
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Moon Festival or more properly Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節) is one of the two biggest festivals in Asian culture. It is a time for family, thankfulness, and prayers. Some say it is the Asian equivalent to Thanksgiving in America. Moon Festival is a lunar holiday which is held each year on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month during a full moon.
There are many different stories and traditions which surround Moon Festival. I am going to focus on the ones we participated in this year.
Traditional Stories:In my class, we watched the story of The Ten Suns. It was one of the easier stories for my young students to understand. If you would like to hear more of the traditional stories you can visit my Moon Festival Playlist on Youtube.com.
Pomelos:Other popular Moon Festival traditions center around the Pomelo. Pomelos are a citrus fruit which can range in size from a grapefruit to as large as a human head! The majority of Pomelos are harvested around Moon Festival and are very, very common. This is part of the reason that they are used to symbolize good luck/good fortune, bountifulness, family/fertility, and more. According to China Post, this is how you know you are picking a good pomelo: "Old farmers say choosing a delicious pomelo is like finding a good wife - it should be cute, not too big, have an oval face and round bottom."
Mooncakes:Mooncakes are very common gifts to give and receive during Moon Festival. They symbolize family unity and togetherness. Traditionally, mooncakes were made by you in your home and then given to friends. This tradition has given way to commercialism and most mooncakes are now purchased but the meaning is still the same.
My students and I made a very simplified version of mooncakes (more like cookies) in class this week. It was a fun activity for them, and according to one of the Taiwanese teachers it is a unique experience that they may never have again. If you watch the making of a traditional mooncake video on my playlist, you will know why we did a simplified version in my kindergarten class! If you are interested in making mooncakes with your children, you can find the recipe we used on DLTK.
Lanterns:Lanterns play a minor role in Moon Festival versus their major role during Lantern Festival. However, you can see lanterns and lantern parades during Moon Festival. One of the traditions is to write a riddle on a paper lantern, go around, and try to have people solve your riddle. My class made lanterns but skipped the riddles :)
BBQ!:Moon Festival is a major BBQ holiday in Taiwan! Families and friends get together, eat, and enjoy one another's company. It's not like BBQ in the United States but it is definitely delicious--plus it's lots of fun! This is our family's favorite part of Moon Festival because we love nothing more than spending time with all the friends we have made and love here in Taiwan.
What I'm Thankful for this Moon Festival:
This is a tradition that I have carried over from my family back home. I wanted to stop for a moment and remember to be thankful on a holiday that was originally designated to that purpose. So before digging in I want to share what I am thankful for this year...
#1 My Family - Jimmy and I are so blessed to have Noelle. We waited for her and prayed for her for a long, long time before she actually came into our lives. Now we don't know what we would do without her. We are also thankful for our family back home who support us as we live and teach in Taiwan.
#2 New Opportunities - Jimmy and I both started at a new school this fall. So far we love it! It's nice to see Jimmy actually be happy at his school and not miserable. It's really nice that he has finally found a good fit.
#3 A Bright Future - We don't know what the future holds for us but we know it is full of endless possibilities and we look forward to each and every one of them!


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Lubbock City Council Approves Moving Funds from 34th Street Reconstruction to North University
At their meeting Thursday evening, the Lubbock City Council approved moving a sizable amount of bond funds from the 34th Street Reconstruction Project to an area around North University.
District 1 Councilman Victor Hernandez offered the budget ordinance, which moved $765,978 from the $21,490,998 set for the 34th Street Reconstruction Project from Indiana Avenue to Avenue Q.
The funding, originally appropriated in bonds for the North University Gateway Project in 2004, was later moved to the 34th Street project.
There was no impropriety in doing so, because the bond language which the voters approved simply said "The issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $9.2 million for street improvements," with the North University funds as part of that total measure.
"Legally, what the City did was allowed," said Hernandez.
"But, what's sold to the public is not a lot more specific, and that's where people get upset. They said 'you came to my elementary school, you came to my neighborhood association, and you touted specific projects, and now you're telling me you don't have to comply with it?' Legally, we don't," Hernandez continued.
The changes to be made to North University include drainage, curbs, sidewalks, and general improvements to the street and the public access areas.
The Council also approved moving $414,169 from a capital improvement project originally slated to construct a pavilion near Llano Estacado Lake, located in the Buddy Holly Recreation Area at North University and Cesar Chavez Boulevard.
The funds will go to refurbish the Landwer House, also located in the Buddy Holly Recreation Area. The Landwer House was built as a Spanish Mission-style home for Dr. and Mrs. Landwer in 1936. The City of Lubbock purchased it in 1972, and it now serves as a party house and community meeting place.
The Council unanimously approved the first reading of both the measures.
District 6 Councilwoman Latrelle Joy also offered a budget ordinance adding three positions to City Hall.
The three positions cost $182,522, and are being covered financially by increasing the sales tax revenue forecast for the year.
In the 2012-13 budget, the City has now budgeted for sales tax revenue of more than $52,760,000.
The new positions include two senior auditors to Internal Audit, and one executive assistant to the City Council. The City Manager's office did not request for these positions to be added.
Mayor Glen Robertson did not agree with this measure, saying that he believed that other positions in the police department need to be filled first. City Manager Lee Ann Dumbauld was asked where she would prefer to see more employees, and specifically said that she believed that the City needs more building inspectors and animal control officers.
The first reading of that measure passed 5 to 2, Robertson and District 5 Councilwoman Karen Gibson voting against the creation of the new positions.


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Thursday, 17 December 2015
Searching for Roy G Biv - 2015 Blogger's Choice
This spectacular piece of craftsmanship with such exquisite details and colour which have jewel tones is to be found in St. Stephen's Church in Ooty, the church where we went to each Sunday from boarding school. This piece must be at least a hundred years old and was probably crafted in England.
It's been a wonderful year of discovery with Roy in 2015. Thank you Julie and Jennifer for the opportunity to participate and share.
Wishing all of you a blessed Christmas and a new year which will usher in peace and harmony.
Julie and Jennifer will have links to posts all those participating this month in Roy if you're curious to see what colour others have chosen to showcase.
If you shop on line I would appreciate it if you would click on the Amazon link here or the Flipkart link here to browse and make your purchases.
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text: Hugh Pues, 73, 1005 Alford St., Titusville, died Sunday. Born in New York City, he moved to Titusville in 1974 from the Bronx, N.Y. He was a retired foreman with Consolidated Edison, New York City, and was an Army sergeant during World War II. He was a member of St. Andrew's Unity Methodist Church in Titusville. Survivors: son, Buddy, Edgewater; two grandchildren; two great- grandchildren. Settle-Wilder Funeral Home, New Smyrna Beach.


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Thursday, July 1, 2010
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
That is what I call a sentence! Dickens knew that if a thing was worth saying, it was worth saying up to eight times, with building flourishes.
How to celebrate the man who gave us "Great Expectations" and "A Christmas Carol," "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield" and that other book that isn't "David Copperfield" that few people still read?
Run around the house in a wedding dress, lighting things on fire?
Have a horrible nightmare about your former business partner and wake up several days later with a totally altered personality?
Knit, allegorically?
Offer to be beheaded to save the life of your romantic rival?
None of these options being open to me, I'm opting to write a tribute of excessive length.
Dickens has come in for general calumny lately because everyone thinks that he was paid by the word. This is untrue. Still — "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the season of light. It was the season of darkness" is not quite how one writes if one is under any sort of word constraint. Consider Hemingway, whose masterpiece, "A Farewell to Arms," is only eight words long. Six of the words are grunts, and the other two are the simple declarative sentence, "Goodbye, Arms."
Dickens, by contrast, took an awfully long time to say whatever it was he was going to say. And he had an incentive to do it. He published his books in installments, in the pulp form of the serial — cheaper than full-bore novels, and far more addictive. On the bright side, this makes his books useful for stopping doors and ironing recalcitrant skirts. On the downside, you really feel, upon emerging, that you know everything that can possibly be said on the subject of allegorical knitting.
He had an ear for melodrama and for memorable, quirky characters who could stand reintroducing a few times with epithets. To call a work Dickensian is both praise and accusation. The word describes a whole range of things — awful workhouse conditions or sprawling, colorful, frequently melodramatic scenes of bustling life.
As writers go, some impress by their lucidity and precision, some by their sheer scale, some by their vivacity and color, some by their warts. Dickens was a warty writer. One has the sense, on reading him, that he could have weathered a serious edit without any readers taking notice. But that is half his charm. These days, some strive for clarity and brevity. Others write online fan-fiction about rabbits in the first person. Dickens wrote elastically — he could expand and contract time and space, prolong an evening for a chapter or skim through a whole revolution. He built people the old-fashioned way, by accumulation of sayings and epithets. Some of his characters can breathe off the page. Others thrive only in his peculiar atmosphere of angels and hobgoblins and repeated phrases.
To say that some of his books are cheap soap operas would be putting it mildly. Oscar Wilde noted that you would have to have a heart of stone to read of the death of Little Nell — without laughing. But they have vibrant, beating hearts and ample laughter, and if a Lucie Manette or an Estella is occasionally insufferable, there are more than enough Biddies and Herberts to compensate for her.
Dickens recognized and embodied the delight of taking the long way 'round. We live in the age of TL;DR — "Too long; didn't read." Try starting "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times" today and see where it gets you, unless of course you are Newt Gingrich, who has been doing this sort of thing for years.
One thing worries me about Dickens. When Victorian readers slummed it and put down their Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and whatever else it was they were expected to be reading, they picked up Charles Dickens in the grocery-store checkout aisle. If only we were so lucky. When I glance there nowadays, I see first the "Twilight" series and then something called the "Greek Millionaire's Virgin Bride."
Ogden Nash said he'd rather be a great bad poet than a bad good poet. That's what Dickens was — a great bad poet.
The first time through, of course.
The Evelyn Waugh novel "A Handful of Dust" concludes with the book's protagonist, Tony Last, trapped in the jungle forever reading the complete works of Dickens aloud to a psychopath.
That's the other side.
Nothing more closely approximates my vision of Hell than being forced to read his works over and over again. "It was the spring of hope. It was the winter of despair." By the thirty-fifth repetition or so, they might grow stale.
But until then, happy birthday to a man, like his work, received "in the superlative degree of comparison only."


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Ewa Plantation, 1891: An Overview of the New Plantation Operations and Railroad Access
Little more than a year after the debut of the Oahu Railway & Land Company, the new Ewa Plantation Mill at Honouliuli was up and running, and major changes were underway in land use, population makeup, and loss of cultural landscape.
In 1891, a number of men interested in the sugar business visited the Ewa Plantation. The excursion included a trip on the Oahu Railway and Land Co.'s line, and a tour of the new mill.


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Foreword from ShareInvestor
This article "US Stocks Ripe For The Picking / Key Stocks And Risks To Look Out For" by Grace Leong was first published in The Straits Times on 08 Feb 2015 and is reproduced in this blog in its entirety.
An upbeat outlook for the US means it is time to study counters with better returns, equities
The United States economy is powering ahead while much of the rest of the world slows. So the time may be ripe for Singapore investors to grab a slice of that American pie, especially in the light of a recent share correction there.
It's not as if there are that many alternatives.
While the US economy is rolling along at the fastest clip in a decade, Europe is on the brink of its third recession since 2008, China is still restructuring its economy and a consumption tax hike has crimped Japan's recovery.
Outlook For The US
US equities kicked off the year on a negative note as large-cap multinationals disappointed on the back of the strong US dollar, although Amazon and Apple did beat expectations.
In addition to the challenge of an appreciating greenback, potentially higher labour costs represent headwinds for US corporate margins over the next few quarters, despite the benefits of lower energy costs, notes Mr Sean Quek, head of equities research at Bank of Singapore.
But this presents buying opportunities. The stronger dollar should boost firms whose revenues are derived primarily from within the US, more than export-based companies, he added.
This is especially so for companies that source inputs from outside the US as a stronger dollar helps lower raw material costs.
Take Starbucks, which buys coffee beans from Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific, and yet derives more than 70 per cent of its revenue from America. It is benefiting from the stronger US economy.
Conversely, companies with large revenue exposure outside the US could be hit by the stronger dollar.
Procter & Gamble, which derives 60 per cent of its revenue outside the country, disclosed that global currency devaluations resulted in a US$1.4 billion (S$1.9 billion), or 12 per cent, plunge in net profit for the last fiscal year.
Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Argentina, Japan and Switzerland accounted for more than US$1 billion of that drop.
Why Buy Now?
With the US dollar strengthening against the Singapore dollar, capital gains or dividends will be worth more when converted back to the Singdollar.
In addition, some US blue chips – many are household names here – have seen price corrections recently, says Mr Benjamin Goh, retail market strategist with CIMB Research.
"Some of the biggest names that have underperformed – Microsoft, Caterpillar, P&G and Pfizer – are companies that have large overseas exposure," he notes.
"Investors can still consider these stocks because they are now cheaper than a few weeks back. For investors with lower risk appetites, they can look at companies which make most or all of their revenue domestically, such as telcos and utilities."
What Are The Risks?
But Mr Goh warns that one risk is that the current US earnings season may throw up more negative surprises, indicating that the strong US dollar is cutting into earnings more sharply than previously thought.
If this happens, the profit-taking may be more pronounced, he adds.
Mr Ronnie Liew, DBS Bank's vice-president of business development, equity products, notes: "As with any foreign investments, investors should be mindful of risks such as currency fluctuations, political and economic and social developments.
"Investors should monitor for changes in the legal and taxation systems.
"For example, if a tax was introduced on stock exchange transactions by foreigners, this would affect your returns and impact the value of your investments."
What To Buy?
The more defensive health-care and consumer staples did well last month despite increased volatility. On the other hand, energy and finance sectors were hit by the oil price slump and disappointing results so far from the US banks, Mr Quek says.
But he is upbeat on the consumer discretionary segment: "The improving US economy and labour market have started to translate into higher wages.
"These would in turn boost consumer spending, especially as household balance sheets have improved significantly over the past few years. Lower energy costs would boost disposable income."
Among its key picks are Ford Motor and Las Vegas Sands, he said.
He notes that sentiment for energy plays remains poor even though value has started to emerge.
"In particular, we see further near-term volatility for oilfield services and equipment players as capital expenditure cuts set in," Mr Quek says.
Nonetheless, investors with a longer-term investment horizon should see the pull-back as a buying opportunity for quality energy plays such as ExxonMobil and BP, he says.
Bank of Singapore has maintained a neutral call on financials, saying US banks, led by Bank of America, came under selling pressure last month, triggered in part by disappointing fourth-quarter results, says Mr Quek.
"Despite the pull-back in US banks, we continue to prefer European and UK banks over their US peers as we see the former benefiting from the recently announced quantitative easing programme by the ECB.
"Buy-rated names here include BNP Paribas and Lloyds Banking," he says.
How To Buy US Stocks
Singaporean investors can invest in US stocks by setting up an equity trading account with financial institutions or any of the nine retail brokerages here.
They will have to fill out a W-8BEN form for the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
It establishes that the investor is neither a US citizen or resident and is not connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the US.
They must also fill out the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) form to certify their citizenship and tax residency status.
All foreign investors trading into US stock exchanges have to declare their tax residency to US authorities.
Singapore investors who are not US residents will not be taxed, but they will be subject to transaction fees when they trade stocks.
They will also have to acknowledge receiving a copy of the Risk Warning Statement from their broker and that they understand the risks associated with such products. They will have to pass a competency check if they want to trade in more sophisticated products.
What Are The Fees And Charges?
Investors using OCBC to trade on US exchanges pay a minimum commission of US$30, or 0.415 per cent, of the contract value, whichever is the higher, for broker-assisted transactions.
Using OCBC's online brokerage costs US$20 or 0.3 per cent, whichever is the higher.
Investors going through DBS Vickers for phone-assisted transactions pay a minimum commission of US$35 or 0.45 per cent, whichever is the higher.
Online costs US$25 or 0.3 per cent of the trading principal, whichever is the higher.
In addition, when investors sell stock, they must pay a transaction fee of 0.00221 per cent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It is computed based on the gross contract value (before inclusion of brokerage fees).
These fees are charged each time you buy and sell stock.
If investors use OCBC, they also need to pay a foreign share custody fee of $2 per counter per month. But this may be exempt under certain conditions, including if they make at least six transactions per quarter.


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Symposia 2009-10
The first year of this series of high-profile
research and debate symposia featured events on cosmopolitan citizenship, law and
security, the economics of global migration, and the portrayal of post-conflict
migration from the Balkans in contemporary film. The events brought together
scholars from across the wider academic and public policy community to
debate key issues of global migration.
10 March 2010
Prof. Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College, US)
Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas
Chair: Dr Claire Dwyer (Migration Research Unit, UCL Geography)
Discussant: Professor John Eade, Director of CRONEM, University of Roehampton and Visiting Professor in the Migration Research Unit
Exhibition: Accompanied by an exhibition by artists Liz Hingley and Saad Qureshi
Abstract: Cosmopolitanism today is no longer the exclusive province of elites.
Labor migrants, sojourners, religious believers, and refugees are also
open to the world, although they interact with it differently than
their professional counterparts. In fact, in today's world,
cosmopolitanism is a necessity not a choice. What are the rights and
responsibilities of global citizenship? How can we begin to imagine a
community that extends beyond national borders and where do the
elements come from with which to create it?
About the speaker: Peggy Levitt is a Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. She was the Willie Brandt Guest Professor at the University of Malmö in Spring 2009, a visiting lecturer at the University of Limerick in Fall 2008, and a visiting professor at the University of Bologna in summer 2008. In 2010-2012, she will be a visiting international fellow in the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. Her books include God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (New Press 2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (Routledge 2007), The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (Russell Sage 2002), and The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001). She has also edited special volumes of International Migration Review, Global Networks and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
23 March 2010
Prof. Gordon Hanson (UC San Diego)
Managing Immigration Policy in High Income Countries
Co-hosted by the UCL Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM)
David Coats, Associate Director Policy, The Work Foundation
David Goodhart, editor Prospect
Jonathan Portes, Chief Economist, Cabinet Office
Abstract: Immigration is changing the composition of high income countries.Between 1970 and 2008, the share of foreign born residents in the populations of Britain, the United States, and other rich nations increased from less than 5 percent to over 10 percent, with individuals from low income regions accounting for much of the growth.What objectives guide current immigration policies in Europe and the US? Are there alternative policies that would raise national welfare in these destinations? Which countries have been most successful in attracting skilled workers as immigrants? In this presentation, Prof. Gordon Hanson reviews the state of play in the global immigration policy debate and examines ideas under consideration for reforming these policies.
About Gordon Hanson: A professor of economics at UC San Diego and director of the Center on Pacific Economies, Gordon Hanson also holds a faculty position in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. An Exernal Research Fellow at UCL's Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), he is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior research fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. His current research examines the international migration of skilled labor, the economics of illegal immigration, the relationship between business cycles and global outsourcing, and international trade in motion pictures. In recent work, he studied the impact of trade and immigration on wages, the origins of political opposition to immigration, and the implications of China's growth for the export performance of Mexico and other developing countries.
David Coats, Associate Director Policy, The Work Foundation. He is responsible for The Work Foundation's engagement with the public policy world, seeking to influence the national conversation about the world of work. He is recognised as an expert commentator on employment relations and quality of working life issues.
David Goodhart, founder and editor Prospect magazine. The magazine is a respected London based intellectual monthly, known for its insightful analysis of current affairs. He was formerly a senior correspondent of the Financial Times.
Jonathan Portes, Chief Economist, Cabinet Office. He advises the Cabinet Secretary, Gus O'Donnell, and Number 10 Downing Street on economic and financial issues. He is recognised as the UK Government's leading expert on labour markets and migration.
13 May 2010
Prof. Elspeth Guild (University of Nijmegen; Partner, Kingsley Napley)
Examining the Relationship between Migration and Security
Discussant: Anneliese Baldaccini, Executive Officer Amnesty International EU
Co-hosted by the UCL Centre for Law and Governance in Europe
Accredited with 1.5 CPD hours
(Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board)
Migration and security have a troubled relationship both in law and
politics in Europe today. As the UK General Election looms, the debate
in the UK around migration - both within the EU and from outside it -
seems destined to attract much attention. In this presentation I will
examine the multiple meanings of migration in the UK and EU: what does
it mean to be a citizen, a foreigner or a migrant, where and why? In
this inquiry the question of security becomes central: what security
concerns are revealed by the way in which individuals are categorised
and to what ends?
About the speaker: Elspeth Guild is an internationally acknowledged expert in the field of European immigration law. She is Professor of European Migration Law at the University of Nijmegen, a Partner at Kingsley Napley and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies. She is also a visiting professor at the LSE in London and at the College of Europe, Bruges. She previously acted as Special Advisor to the House of Lords Inquiry into Economic Migration in the EU, and is involved in training judges in EU law. She is frequently requested to make submissions to parliamentary committees on the subject and she acts as an expert to international organisations such as the European Commission, UNHCR, and the Council of Europe. Her most recent monograph is Security and Migration in the 21st Century (Polity, 2009).
About the discussant: Anneliese Baldaccini is Executive Officer Asylum and Immigration at Amnesty International EU in Brussels. She was formerly a committee specialist for the House of Lords European Union Committee and JUSTICE's human rights legal officer
7 June 2010
Mitko Panov (filmmaker)
Film screening "The War is Over" (2009) and conversation with director Mitko Panov
Followed by a Q&A with director Mitko Panov, script consultant Gareth Jones and film critic Prof Nevena Dakovic.
The event was co-hosted by the UCL Mellon Programme and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Venue: The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
About the event: This film by award-winning director, producer and screenwriter Mitko Panov is a fictionalised account of a family exiled to Switzerland during the Kosovo crisis. It is an intimate narrative that explores the experience of forced migration: the fraught decision to leave; the process of integration and adaptation to a new country; the impact on the family; and always, the yearning for homeland. Join us at the Frontline Club, a media club and venue championing independent journalism, for the screening, a panel discussion and a Q&A with Panov, film professionals and critics.
About the director: Mitko Panov was born in Macedonia and now lives and works in Switzerland. He studied Directing at the Polish National School for Film, TV and Theatre in Lodz. He has received a number of international awards for his films including the 1991 Cannes Golden Palm for best short for his reconstruction of the Warsaw ghetto in WITH RAISED HANDS, a special jury award at the Clermont Ferrand film festival 2000, and a Best Balkan Film Award at the Drama Short-Film Festival in Greece. Panov has taught at the New York University Graduate Film Department, the German State School for Film and TV in Munich, and the University of Texas at Austin-RTF. He is a founding member of the New York Film Academy, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Sundance Institute Fellow. The War is Over is his feature fiction debut.
The event was kindly supported by The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
Find out more
To find out more about the UCL Global Migration Network – or to register your own activity – please contact: Dr Pablo Mateos (UCL Geography): +44 (0)20 7679 7552 (internal x27552).


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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
Corresponding author.
There are few commonly used clinical techniques to quantify the rotational stability and joint contact kinematics in knees in vivo. A magnetic-resonance-imaging-compatible device capable of applying axial and torsional loads to the foot was developed and used to measure in vivo knee kinematics in 14 healthy volunteers. The device was used to apply an internal torque and an axial compressive load at the foot, with the thigh held in place. Sagittal scans were made of the knee with and without an applied internal torque, and three-dimensional geometric representations of the knee joint were constructed from the images. Repeat scans of four volunteers were performed to assess precision, and phantom scans were performed to assess accuracy. Rotational measurements had a root mean square error of 0.1 deg, and precision errors for repeat measurements were 1.6 deg for internal tibial rotation, 0.3–1.1 mm for contact centroid translations, and 24.5 mm2 for a contact area. Results indicated that the device induced significant internal tibial rotation with respect to the femur and significant translation of the medial and lateral contact centroids. A preliminary study on five anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-deficient patients did not detect any rotational difference between ACL-deficient and contralateral knees under an isolated internal torque. This method is able to calculate rotations and centroid translations out of the scan plane and has potential applications in investigating the effects of knee injury and recovery of function.
Experimental setup and rotational device. Top: The MRI-compatible rotational device applies an internal torque and an axial compressive load to the foot while the femur is held in place. The axial weight is attached to the rotational device via a loading strap that passes underneath the patient and applies an axial load to the foot. The torsional weight induces internal rotation via the rotational device. The surface coil is attached to the medial and lateral sides of the knee using a medical tape. Bottom left: photograph of the rotational device. Bottom right: schematic of the rotational device and load directions.
Coordinate systems used for the analysis of knee kinematics. Spheres were fit to the posterior aspects of the femoral condyles, and the line connecting them was used as the ML axis (left). The ML axis of the tibia was defined by connecting the two most posterior points on the medial and lateral sides of the tibial plateau (right).
Analysis of the cartilage-on-cartilage contact area. Left: Points along the contact region were defined on sagittal slices. Right: All points were connected with a set of triangles to compute the 3D contact area and centroid locations.
MR images of rotational phantom. The axis connecting the sphere centers (left) was used to define the ML axis of the "femur" in the phantom. The axis connecting the most posterior points of the test tubes (right) was used to define the ML axis of the tibia in the phantom.
In a representative subject with 3 deg internal tibial rotation, the lateral contact centroid moved 2.6 mm in the posterior direction, and the medial contact centroid moved 0.2 mm in the posterior direction
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Felt were a band from Birmingham, England. They existed for 10 years (more or less the 1980s), and put out 10 albums and 10 singles (that has to have been on purpose, right?). The singer of the band went by the name Lawrence (a much humbler-sounding mononym than, say, Prince or Madonna or Cher, don't you think?). According to the Internet, they were named after the way Tom Verlaine sings the word "Felt" in the song "Venus," by Television. Even if that's not true, it's a great band name origin story. Listening to Lawrence's vocals, though, I can believe it.
Ignite the Seven Cannons was Felt's fourth album. It was produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, and contained guest vocals by his bandmate Liz Fraser, which must have been a bit of a mixed blessing. I mean, her voice is gorgeous and immediately grabs you, but at the same time, it's going to become the focus of any song she's on, and of course the songs on the album that don't feature her are going to suffer (see the comments below, if you don't believe me). "Primitive Painters," which features Ms. Fraser's wonderful vocal stylings prominently, went on to become the band's most successful single. Here's hoping their every live show after this album wasn"t filled with people hollering "Primitive Painters! Primitive Painters!" — and then, once the song was played, being disappointed because of course Liz Fraser wasn't there to sing it, and without here it just wasn't the song they remembered.
But! Felt are a very well regarded band in their own right, with or without Guthrie and Fraser. We would all do well to dig into their catalog and see what we've been missing.
"So so slick, but still really good. P.S. Stay away from Primitive Painters if you can."
"Why? It's good."
"It was overplayed because Liz sang on it."
[Giant lipstick kiss mark.]
"Stephie, you're a strange girl."
"Well, bought this, listened to it a dozen times. Doesn't do a thing for me. 'Primitive Painters' is the only song that I like."
"Sounds a bit homogenous to me…"
"You know, I find this a trifle pretentious."
"I like 'primitive painters,' too."
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After just coming to terms and finally feeling might be getting some control over newly diagnosed endo, I went to see my new endo specialist on wed and he has told me he thinks lots of my symptoms is probably because i may have adenomyosis too.
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Im confused as my ct showed normal endometrioum, not enlarged.
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Many men enjoy being cuckolded by their wives; many more enjoy the fantasy of being cuckolded by their wives or girlfriends. Being cuckolded consists of wives, or other romantic partners, having intercourse with other men.
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|I do like the top of this look, it looks very simple which is 100% my style. The pants are...not.
Chalayan loves to play with contrasting silhouettes and shapes, one piece being very free with minimal structure, worn with something tight and well fitted. A couple of looks in, an outfit consisting of a black shirt, worn with a denim skirt. She wore simple suede boots to finish the outfit.
Graphic prints were also very big on the Parisian runway, the prints were seen on dresses, blazers and coats. These looked very youthful and wearable. The prints provided a unique element to his collection.
The most memorable part of the Fall/Winter show, the convertible dresses. These had rather interesting designs, until the model pulled on the dress, revealing another beneath. His designs are very innovative and rather scientific. Check out the images below!
|I love the jumper with the feminine touch of the scarf. Both colours contrast very wel.
|The shirt looks amazing, but I would've preferred it with the trousers seen on the runway.
|Casual at it's best, this would look amazing on Joan Smalls.
|I love these trousers! They look amazing!
|Mmm, that print is so modern. I love it!
|This dress definitely caught my attention, I love both versions of it!
|Now this is how you close a show, this dress is phenomenal.
What did you think of the Chalayan show?
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