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Successful stories
10,000 campaigns have been successfully published thanks to our platform, and we hope that many more are published in the future. Some clients have shared their experience with Cool Tabs:
Bestravel launched a Facebook competition for 15 days called 'Uma Mala Cheia de Sonhos' (A suitcase full of dreams) with only one question: "What are the holidays of your dreams?". It was the first Bestravel contest with Cool Tabs and it got 3,109 entries!The story in detail bestravel
Just Eat
Just-Eat have become the world-leader for online ordering of home-delivered food and are operational in 13 countries. Founded by a group of hungry friends, it started business in Denmark in 2001 and has since grown to have more than 38,000 restaurants working with them, providing a total of 50 million meals per year. Just-Eat Spain have been using Cool Tabs to create and publish their social media campaigns since 2012, also using our applications to integrate some of their services into their fan page, where they currently have more than 129,000 fans.The story in detail Just Eat
Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile Colombia created a competition exclusively for customers that had been with the company for more than six months with the idea of generating engagementbetween them and the brand. The prize was very appealing and closely related to music, the sector that the Virgin brand is best known for: 98 tickets to a Metallica concert for fans that uploaded the most original photos, showing that they were the biggest fans of the band.The story in detail Virgin Mobile
Imaginarium, the toy store known for its two entrance doors –one for adults and a smaller one for kids- launched in May their campaign 500 Exclusive Gifts in 6 different countries. Users had 31 days to register in this promo, which had a very simple system: 500 gifts to give away in six countries to users whose chances were boosted x2 if they became fans of their page, x3 if they gave their Imaginarium member number, and x4 if they did both. The outcome was so good that over 11 000 people participated just in Spain.The story in detail Imaginarium
Eau Thermale Avène's global Facebook page have reached more than a million fans. Avène has managed to make the most of our varied options to customise its fan page and runs promotions regularly, driving some 900 participants and between 2,000 and 3,000 new fans every time. Since they have a considerable experience in social media, we have decided to approach Javier Sánchez from the Communication Department at Pierre Fabre Spain , to learn more about the strategies they usually employ on their social profiles.The story in detail Avene
Don Simón
The wine industry is very active in social media and many wineries and wine brands try to build up their branding online, so as to win new clients among wine lovers. This is the case of the García Carrión Family and Don Simón, one of its brands. They have both carefully built up their presence on Facebook and launch promotions quite often to make their followers get to know their products and encourage them to interact with the brand in social media. Thanks to their constant activity, they manage to attract over 1,000 participants every week in the promotions they launch in their fan pages.The story in detail Don Simón
Hero, a leading company in the Baby food and fruit jam markets has managed to get a great engagement with their followers, obtaining, besides, a huge number of fans and a great participation in their campaigns, in both the Hero España Fan Page and in the Hero Baby Fan Page. That is why we have contacted Hero España, to ask them for an update on their digital strategies when connecting with consumers.The story in detail Hero
On May 8, 2013 Shiseido Spain launched a campaign using our Cool Promo White Label app that lasted one month. They named their app Shiseido Body Creator and the idea was to give away 10 gift boxes with their body slimming and anti-aging treatments. All it took was answering a simple question: What's the difference between SHISEIDO BODY CREATOR and other slimming products you have tried? The outcome: A high engagement rate and new fans.The story in detail Shiseido
Turismo de Aragón
Nearly 4,000 snapshots were part of the #SoñasteAragon competition, a significant figure considering that it was an Instagram competition based on a region and its touristic attractions. For that reason, we contacted Mercedes Arruebo, Responsible for New Technologies at Turismo de Aragón, to tell us which good practices they implemented in order to get such a high number of participants, and learn more about which strategies can be followed on Instagram to achieve success.The story in detail Turismo de Aragón
Viajes Carrefour
The journey of Viajes Carrefour on Facebook dates from a little over one year ago. By then, the company was already one of the major worldwide distribution players, with more than 30 years of experience in the travel agencies sector in Europe. However, it wasn't until October that it decided to strengthen its presence on FB by creating the sweepstakes that marked the beginning of its presence in social networks.The story in detail Viajes carrefour
Metro International
Metro International decided to launch an ambitious campaign with us for St Valentine's day called: "I beliebe in love", which is obviously not a spelling mistake, but a play on words dedicated to Justin Bieber's fans, the "beliebers" (believe+Bieber). Metro chose our Cool Promo White Label and launched it on the 14th of February. The contest went on for two weeks and was very successful in terms of participation. The competition ended on the 28th of February with over 700,000 visits, 6,634 participants, and more than 120,000 new Fans on Facebook. The "I beliebe in love" campaign was created in just three weeks, which is a very short time for an international campaign. Why was it so successful? We are going to give you 4 the reasons why this campaign achieved success.The story in detail Metro International
October the 16th was a very important day for Spanish cakes and pastries producer Dulcesol. They were not aware of it but, from that day on, its fan page was never again what it used to be. This was the day when their first promotion with Cool Tabs was launched. It was a Cool Promo Lite, which is our short version of Cool Promo that can be tried for free. The number of fans started to increase little by little until it reached 20,000 on the 23rd of January. It was there and then when the key promotions were created. Three editions of "Choose your favourite cake" promotion and one of "choose your favourite Dulcesol Swiss roll" promotion were organised. The promos were very simple. Participants only needed to become fans of Dulcesol and choose the product they liked the most. The prize: a box of Dulcesol cakes or Swiss rolls, obviously. This is how they managed to get more than 100,000 fans.The story in detail Dulcesol
La cocina de san antón
La Cocina de San Antón (San Antón's Kitchen) is a space dedicated to gastronomy located on the fourth floor of the Mercado de San Antón (San Antón Market) in Madrid. Their Facebook page has over 11,000 fans and one of their main strategies is to launch plenty of promotions that encourage their community to grow. The first competition that they created with Cool Tabs was just over a year ago, in April 2013.Since then, they have run 10 promotions with which they have managed to entertain their fans, engage them and gradually gain more followers.The story in detail La cocina de san antón


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Libyan commander says his forces are inside IS stronghold
CAIRO – A top Libyan commander loyal to the U.N.-brokered government says his forces have pushed into an Islamic State stronghold in central Libya and are now fighting militants on the streets of Sirte.
Col. Mohammed al-Ghasri said the advance came under the cover of heavy airstrikes. He spoke to reporters late on Thursday.
Libyan forces, mainly militias from the western city of Misrata, have been advancing on Sirte, the main IS bastion in Libya and the birthplace of former Libyan leader Mohammed Gadhafi, for the past 25 days.
Al-Ghasri says the plan is to impose a siege on the city to prevent IS militants from fleeing. He added that Sirte is a warzone and warned civilians to stay away from the troops or they would be considered a target.

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- LATE AND LONG: Little Rock Fashion Week Couture Show.
6:05 p.m.: I was jogging down President Clinton Avenue, five minutes late to Little Rock Fashion Week's finale, the couture show. 7:30 p.m.: I'd bonded with the woman sitting next to me over our mutual frustration that, due to an unknown backstage glitch, the show hadn't begun. We traded snarky remarks and rubbed elbows — literally. Despite the vast auditorium of the Statehouse Convention Center, an audience of only about 200 people was crammed absolutely shoulder to shoulder in chairs that were so close to each other legs were practically tangled.
Finally, nearly two hours after the intended starting time, the lights dimmed and the show began, only to pause for a 15-minute intermission after only the fourth clothing line was revealed. At this point, I wondered what I'd do for my 15-minute intermission, seeing as the only refreshment the $40 to $60 tickets bought came from two large jugs of water on the back row. I suppose it'd be too much to ask for even a Ritz cracker to nibble at a fashion show.
When the lights dimmed again, MTV newsman Sway took the stage, immediately and shamelessly telling all of us to watch MTV and explaining how good Dillard's had treated him by providing his awesome Wallabee shoes and telling all the young men in the audience to get to the nearest Dillard's and buy some quick.
Aside from a few split seams and an abundance of panty lines, the clothing lines were legit. One designer in particular, Mike Stallings of New York City, stole the show with a line of futuristic, Lady Gaga-inspired, mirrored garments and glasses.
I was excited each time hosts Sway Calloway and Beth Hunt stopped bantering and promoting and finally let another line of garments be shown, but, as with all fashion shows, the models and garments are onstage and off again almost before you can blink.
It wasn't the ratio of filler to fashion you'd hope for, and by the time the hosts announced that the end was drawing near, butts started shifting in chairs with anticipation all over the auditorium. Organizer Brandon Campbell took the stage to give Little Rock a big thank you and also to thank the supposed designers from all over the country, who came because they "understand the magnitude of this historic event." But, before sending the over 21 audience across the street to the after party at On The Rocks and sending those under 21 who had paid the same ticket price home, he thanked the models. And the sponsors, one by one. And his family, every member individually. And his staff, offering each of their biographies. And the make-up artists, telling each to come to the stage. And the hair stylists, who also came to the stage one by one. And his pamphlet designer. And each of the entertainers from the previous evenings. And the hosts. And the car service that picked Sway up from the airport. By this time the audience had slowly filed its way out of the auditorium almost completely to breathe the outside air for the first time in four hours.
Go to Rock Candy on arktimes.com to see a slideshow of pictures from Friday and Saturday at Little Rock Fashion Week.


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Call of Duty: World at War's leisure game, Nazi Zombies, is one of the coolest zombie video games. There are a lot of maps and a lot of weapons. It takes a lot of effort to win a level and you can get money for killing zombies. It's a very creepy game because sometimes you don't even know the zombies are coming at you.
Nazi Zombies looks realistic—like you're actually in the game which is what makes it scary. All of these things are coming at you, and I get scared playing it [and I know you will, too]. The zombie dogs are the scariest part mostly because they're on fire. The dogs jump at you and start to attack. Then they rip open your back and you lay on the ground until someone repairs you.
On a scale from one to five (one being the lowest and five being the highest), I would give Nazi Zombies a five because it's cool and crazy. Out of the six Call of Duty games I would say this is a five out of a five, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is ultimate! Better than a five. The first three get a three out of five.
People should buy Call of Duty: World at War because even though a lot of [my friends] say it sucks, it's cool and has two games in one! When you put it in the game console it's just Call of Duty, but then they have the option for Nazi Zombies.
James is in the third grade and the oldest of five kids. He loves video games, writing, reading, music and sports. When he grows up, James hopes to be an illustrator-writer-basketball player among other things. This is his first publication.


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By David Eggert, Associated Press
LANSING (AP) – Michigan Democrats on Tuesday accused Gov. Rick Snyder's administration of protecting his cousin's furniture company from a proposed cut in a state contract while questioning a top aide's role because he was being paid by the governor's since-disbanded fund of anonymous donors.
Snyder, a Republican, dismissed the charges as election-year politicking.
Emails unearthed by the state Democratic Party through a records request show that Snyder's cousin George Snyder contacted Richard Baird, the governor's transformation officer, in April 2011 to complain about a Senate-proposed change to a contract under which state agencies buy furniture. DBI Business Interiors, which George Snyder co-owns and has offices in Lansing and Jackson, is paid to install new furniture in state offices – cubicles, desks and the like – for contractor Holland-based Haworth Inc.
DBI also competes for furniture refurbishing work with Grand Rapids-based Kentwood Office Furniture and was concerned the Senate budget bill would have limited spending on new furniture to $1 million a year, a clause the Snyder administration says was inserted to guarantee refurbishing business only for DBI's competitor. Baird quickly replied to reassure George Snyder that then-budget director John Nixon's "people are on this. Sit tight." More than an hour later, Nixon emailed Baird to say "we are on it."
The House did not include the furniture change in its budget bill, and it never became law. In July 2011, when George Snyder emailed Baird about a possible meeting with Nixon to discuss the furniture procurement process, Baird forwarded it to Nixon and mentioned George Snyder's relationship to the governor.
"While parents and seniors were being told by the governor they must sacrifice to balance the state's billion-dollar budget deficit, Rick Snyder's family and political friends were being taken care of," Democratic Party Chairman Lon Johnson said.
Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said "there is absolutely zero, zilch, nada to this, period. … George Snyder and DBI have had a well-established and competitively bid contract with the state for a long time, long before Gov. Snyder was ever elected to office."
DBI's relationship with the state dates to the 1990s, said Wurfel, who said Baird and George Snyder met during Rick Snyder's transition from governor-elect to governor.
Nixon, who recently returned to Utah for a new job, called the suggestion of impropriety "ridiculous." He said the Senate provision would have effectively guaranteed Kentwood "sole-source" work, and said he was already aware of concerns about it before he ever heard that George Snyder was worried and that is why he said he was "on it."
"We're not dumb enough to give him preferential treatment," Nixon said, saying DBI received more scrutiny because of the co-owner's ties to the governor. "All he wanted was an equal playing field."
Democrats also questioned why in September 2012 the value of the five-year Haworth contract more than doubled, from $19.2 million to $41.4 million. In May 2013, the value of a separate five-year Haworth contract – for office seating – rose from $4.7 million to $7.2 million, according to an Associated Press review of the state's contracts database.
Until last fall, Baird was paid from Snyder's nonprofit New Energy to Reinvest and Diversify, or NERD, fund. The governor dissolved the fund – used to upgrade a press auditorium and to cover staffers' travel expenses without public dollars – after it came under scrutiny because the money also was used to pay Baird and expenses for Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager.
Democrats said since Baird was paid by the fund, it could have been operating as a "secret lobbying organization on behalf of corporate NERD donors." Snyder has since replaced the fund with a more transparent one.
State budget office spokesman Kurt Weiss said DBI as a subcontractor dealer gets an unspecified cut of the Haworth contracts. The reason the overall contracts' values were raised, he said, is because the Snyder administration is eliminating costly leases by moving employees to buildings the state already owns.
That should save money overall by optimizing space but temporarily raise costs to do work such as clearing entire building floors and "restacking" cubicles, Weiss said.
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TAPPI's Wet End Chemistry Course Tackles Ways to Improve Quality and Efficiency
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Press release from the issuing company
ATLANTA, Ga. – The 2014 TAPPI Introduction to Wet End Chemistry course is a three-day interactive training course focused on innovative wet end chemistry principals and the use of additives to change or create new paper products. It's the only training program available that offers an in-depth focus on additives and what they can and can't do on the paper machine. The 2014 TAPPI Introduction to Wet End Chemistry Course is June 10 -12, 2014, in Peachtree Corners (metro Atlanta), GA, USA
"We specifically added a new section dealing with 'interactions' which considers examples where two different components of the system seem to 'fight' with each other," notes Course Chair, Martin Hubbe, North Carolina State University. "We also rearranged and updated key sections to keep up with the changing scene of the paper industry."
"The most important reason to attend is to gain an awareness of opportunities to improve efficiency of the paper machine and to improve product quality," says Hubbe. "Participants get exposed to a broad range of ideas, and there are frequent problem-solving exercises, discussions and Q/A sessions. They can expect to come away with specific ideas on how to make their mill more profitable."
The course is ideal for engineers involved in training particularly at mills with newer employees or that have lost valuable experience through retirement. Many chemical engineers don't have a background in pulp and paper manufacturing and may not understand how to apply what they've learned to the papermaking wet end process. Attendees will learn about identifying furnish properties, process components and how they interact to affect wet-end chemistry, solutions to process and quality problems associated with wet end additives and chemical deposits, factors affecting first-pass retention, troubleshooting and how to use additives to improve or create new products.
The course instructors are experts with decades of hands-on industry experience. Course Chair Martin A. Hubbe, Ph.D., is a TAPPI Fellow, and Professor in the Department of Forest Biomaterials at NCSU. He has a B.A. in Chemistry from Colby College, M.S. from the Institute of Paper Chemistry and Ph.D. from Clarkson University. TAPPI Fellow Larry Anker, Ph.D., is Sizing and Wet Strength Applications Group Leader for Ashland Hercules Water Technologies has a B.S. in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics from Washington and Lee University and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Penn State. Przem Pruszynski, Ph.D., Global Technical Specialist for Nalco, received his M.S. in Analytical Chemistry and Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from University of Poznan, Poland,
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Cicero, Brewerton Historic Locations
The following historic locations are located in Cicero, Brewerton, New York. Please select a historic place in Cicero, Brewerton to view detailed information including address information, historical signifiance, and much more.
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If African Satellite Installations (ASI) gets its way, starting next month, millions of South Africans will be able to tune in to Porn Satellite TV (PSat) at any time of the day for a dose of visual stimulation. But not if satellite broadcaster Top TV has anything to say about it.
According to iAfrica, TopTV wants to file a lawsuit against the new pornographic channel, accusing PSat of misrepresentation and abuse of the TopTV brand.
"If the launch goes ahead, South Africans will be able to hire an extra decoder and smart card for R99 a month to view the hardcore content. Viewers would then disconnect their TopTV decoder and plug in the Psat one.
John Solomon of ASI claims that TopTV has no grounds for a lawsuit. He also claimed that more than 2,500 interested parties had already contacted him."
This plan was only recently announced, and 2,500 folks are already trying to sign up for 24/7 porn?!! That's a lot of rand.
I predict that, in the end, money will talk and Top TV will balk. And South Africa shall get her freak on in 2012.
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Its that time again, drawings inspired by characters and things
from my favorite games/animes etc.
Gaepora from The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword!
He is very serious indeed!
Oops, I spilt Gaepora on the screen...
Exorcist Geapora animation (click it)
Celty from Durarara
Drawn for my cousin who loves the anime!
'Derpy' Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword characters
Stay tuned folks!
All characters are (c) to their respective owners.


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Best performance of the season for growing Hornets team
Clear skies over Farnham thawed out the frosty ground in time for the 2pm kick-off. The Hornets welcomed back several players from injury and kicked off into the bright sunshine.
The Farnham forwards absorbed some pressure and then gained territory into the opposition half. From a lineout on the right side of the field the ball was spun out the backs. Pat Kitson sold the dummy line well and then put Ben "Scooby" Crean into a gap in midfield. The Old Whitgiftian players couldn't tackle the determined Crean and he ran through to score under the posts. Fullback Mark Baines converted to take Farnham 7-0 up.
Old Whitgiftians now had a spell of pressure and got into Farnham territory. Strong tackling from debutant winger Daz Hardy forced the knock-on and a scrum to Farnham. From the scrum, Ben Brown passed the ball back to fly-half Pat Kitson, who punted downfield. The ball stayed in play and Old Whitgiftians fullback Les Todd absorbed tackles from the enthusiastic Farnham chase. OWs regrouped well and kicked cross field where the Farnham defence had failed to re-group. Despite scrambling defence from fullback Mark Baines, the Old Whitgiftians number 12 went in to score under the posts. The successful conversion put the teams level at 7-7.
Immediately back on the attack, the Hornets began dominating the scrum with the forwards and making good gains in the backline. Oli Richford made a 40 yard break but scuffed an attempted grubber kick forward (which the defence recovered).
Maintaining position within the OW half, Ben Brown marshalled the forwards onward, controlling the maul well and then sniping when he saw a gap. A few phases later, Pat Kitson went through a gap and then offloaded to hooker Dan Ross who sprinted forward to take the Hornets another try ahead.
The next score came quickly as Farnham increased the tempo and maintained the intensity. Winger Adam Hailstones continued his impressive run of form by getting another try. Mark Baines converted his third successive attempt to put the Hornets ahead 21-7 at half time.
After a strong half, Ben Brown went off to preserve himself for the academy games on Sunday and Jemi Akin-Olugbade came on in the centres. Jemi immediately made an impact running for 30 yards down the left side before being forced into touch.
The Farnham scrummage was now truly in ascendancy, with props Graeme Black and Jules Joris enjoying themselves. Second rower Dan Greene played one of his most physically dominant games of the year, especially in defence.
Capitalising on this forward momentum, the backs began to create big holes in the OW defence. Bouyed by his first run, Jemi got another chance with the ball in hand and scythed through to score under the posts. Baines scored another conversion, four from four on the day, and then made way for returning player Tom Coussins to come on.
Fran Meagher, Tom Foster and Deane Chiverton did the unseen work from the back row all day long, battling in the rucks and mauls, and making lots of tackles.
A pass went wayward from the back of the scrum, however emerging from chaos, Ben "Scooby" Crean carved forward for 50 yards. He couldn't decide which way to go to beat the fullback, so offloaded as he was tackled. Running in support, Oli Richford dived over to score.
The final fifteen minutes of the game saw the referee penalise Farnham repeatedly and the players on both sides start to get a bit more edgy with each other.
The final score of the game was another for Jemi in the centres who proved once again that the opposition defenders couldn't live with his pace. Neither of the final to tries were converted so the final score was 38-7 to Farnham.
Playing out of position at number 8, Fran Meagher earned the man of the match accolade with recognition also going to Ben Crean for an outstanding contribution in the backline.
Next week the Hornets travel to Old Emmanuel for their final league game before Christmas.
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Curried Quinoa & Pear Salad
This post is going to be quick, since I just cooked and cleaned up for like 3 hours - on a Tuesday. The goal was to make dinner (amazing Vegetarian Corn Chowder), while also cooking something healthy to bring for lunch this week (roast chicken and a quinoa concoction).
A few weeks ago I played with some red quinoa. It was super easy to make and I enjoyed the pilaf all week. I decided to try classic white quinoa this time, but I find it extremely annoying that you have to rinse it. I tried using a strainer, but the quinoa is so tiny, like sand, that it fell right through. I tried placing a paper towel in the strainer to hold them in, yet it was impossible to unstick them all from the towel. What a mess, little dry quinoa rolling all over the kitchen.
I decided to go the opposite direction that I took with the red quinoa, and try a cold salad with sweet flavors. You might think it better to wait for summer for a cold meal, but in my office, the line for the one-and-only microwave is a totally out-of-control 15 minute (or longer) wait. I'm pretty sick of that game. So, cold curried salad it is, starring some tart dried cherries and juicy red-skinned Starkrimson pears from Fresh Direct. It's not completely cold yet, but it tastes awesome. You can't find lunch this delicious and healthy in the midtown 30's, that's for sure!
Curried Quinoa & Pear Salad
Approx. 4 servings
¾ C quinoa
1 ½ C water
½ tsp salt
*optional: 6-7 fennel seeds
1 pear, diced (such as the red-skinned Starkrimson)
¼ C dried cranberries
¼ C dried cherries
¼ C almond slices, toasted
1/4 C walnut oil
2 T cider vinegar
4 tsp lemon juice
1 T honey
¼ tsp curry powder
1/8 tsp dried mustard
Pinch of salt (preferably Pink Salt or Sea Salt)
1. Rinse quinoa and place in a saucepan with water, salt and fennel seeds if desired. Bring to a boil and lower to a simmer, loosely covered, for about 10 minutes. When water is absorbed, fluff with a spoon and set aside to cool.
2. Meanwhile, prepare dressing by whisking all ingredients together.
3. In a large bowl, toss quinoa with pear, cranberries, cherries, almond slices and dressing. Serve at room temperature, or cool.


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That's right kids! It's the 2nd Annual 'Illegal Rock Music Festival' at The Double-O Salon in Eagle Rock! On Saturday October 1st, while the Eagle Rock Music Festival is happening outside, It's BRAINS BEFORE BEAUTY inside as THE BLOODY BRAINS will blow the curlers out of your hair! This is a free, all ages event so bring the kids, grandparents and most of all EARPLUGS! If it's like last year, plenty of parking on Eagle Rock Blvd. south of Colorado. BE THERE!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
7:30PM - 9:00PM at the
DOUBLE-O Salon
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October 29, 2010
HSI Gives Aid After Indonesian Volcano Erupts
Farm animals, wildlife affected
On October 26, 2010, Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia erupted, sending volcanic mud throughout the surrounding villages. The human death toll continues to rise, while the animal casualties are also horrific. Farming is a staple of life in the region, so thousands of farm animals, including cows and goats, were affected by this disaster.
Humane Society International responded to a plea for support by ProFauna, a local Indonesian animal welfare organization, whose field team took action immediately to determine how they could help animal victims of this event. Hundreds of animals are dead, but those who survived are now in need of veterinary care, food and clean water. Not only farm but wild animals, mainly the local long-tailed macaques, are suffering. The monkeys will need a supplemental food source for some time, as their habitat was devastated.
ProFauna is working on procuring and distributing food and medication as quickly as they can. They have also been in touch with local authorities, including the Livestock Department and the Office of Merapi Volcano National Park. Staff of both have both expressed appreciation for ProFauna's efforts.
The chairman of ProFauna Indonesia, Rosek Nursahid, stated, "Helping the animal victims is also helping the humans because if we don't help them, the animals can suffer zoonotic diseases that can be also be transmitted to humans." And in many cases, the surviving animals may be all that people have left.
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Author: Leah Cypress
Publisher: Greenwillow
Pages: 320
The Shifter is an immortalcreature bound by an ancient spell to protect the kings of Samorna. When the realm is peaceful, she retreats tothe Mistwood. But when she is needed she always comes.
Isabel remembers nothing. Nothing before the prince rode into her forest to take her back to the castle. Nothing about who she is supposed to be, or the powers she is supposed to have.
Prince Rokan needs Isabel to be his Shifter. He needs her ability to shift to animal form, to wind, to mist. He needs her lethal speed and superhuman strength. And he needs her loyalty—because without it, she may be his greatest threat.
Isabel knows that her prince is lying to her, but she can't help wanting to protect him from the dangers and intrigues of the court . . . until a deadly truth shatters the bond between them.
Now Isabel faces a choice that threatens her loyalty, her heart . . . and everything she thought she knew.
This review is going to, probably, sound mostly negative. But I do not want to give the wrong impression to people reading this review. I did enjoy this novel, quite a lot. I couldn't stop reading it, and when I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it. This book was fast pace, and enjoyable. But in the end, I came to conclusion of giving it three stars. Now onto the review!!
Something in Mistwood that bothered me, was Isabel (protagonist) knew things that were never mentioned before. The best way to describe this is, there are scenes were she'll just randomly start thinking about someone (or talking). She'll say there name and all about them, and as a reader your thinking: when did she meet this person. I felt this story biggest problem was the timing. It was rushed way to much, to the point where I was getting confused.
Now for anyone who hasn't read this novel, Isabel comes to this castle as a shapeshifter. But she has no previous memory of her life. Now I believe that this rush in the story, made me feel that her loss of memory was unbelievable. I think that if the story weren't so fast paced, and spent more time going through the days when the main character first got there then it would be a bit more realistic.
The characters were all strongly built, my favorite being Rokan and his sister Clarisse. Even though the story is told in third person, which by the way was magnificently done, Isabel was the character you as a reader felt more in touch with. At first I found her character development quite slow, and really saw none. I really didn't notice any change in her until the very end, and somehow that worked out really well. Especially with the romance element, which is very distant in the novel. It's obvious, but you don't really feel it until mid way through. But when the scene comes for romance between protagonist and love interest you'll be happy and disappointed.
Which leads me to my next point, I hope there is a sequel. This novel would feel incomplete without it. Some of the mysteries are still yet to be resolved/found out.
The plot twists were mostly predictable, there was only one that shocked me.
Overall it was a good book, but I thought it could of been developed in some areas. The writing is beautifully done, and it will be easy for readers to get into the world of Mistwood and become attach to it.
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La Sombra en el Norte
Ceawin el Generoso
Líder de la gente de Ensenada Este
Ceawin is chieftain of a tribe of men who once lived in the West Nether Vales of Anduin. When word reached them that the Dragon was dead, Ceawin's father led them east, around the southern edge of Mirkwood and through the Brown Lands to the East Bight. There, they have settled and begun to farm.
Ceawin is close friends with the Woodmen of Woodmen-town and Rhosgobel, and intends
to unite his people with them. After the fashion of the Woodmen, he has built his hall under the shadow of the trees of the Narrows, and intends to wed the daughter of an elder of Woodmen-town.
En el año 2951 le negó la futura entrada a Vron por haber querido robar el Yelmo de la comunidad que estaba destinado a honrar a los viejos antepasados de los hombres del bosque.


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Let The Good Times Roll
For The First Time
After many years
We get to do something we all love
Enjoying each others company
No time to waste
We all have busy schedules
So the time we do meet
It's even more important than ever
I feel the significance of each moment
The truth of the matter is
In the near future one or all of us may not be here
So this is one day of three hundred and sixty five
We get to put work aside
Share laughs and joke
Missing the right exit
Taking the long way around
Going out to eat topped the great day off
The food was delicious
We have left overs for another night
It was your treat
Next time it's our turn
You pick the place and time
We would love to do it again
Looking forward to a lot more fun
Even though you have beat by sixteen years
Our family bond that is the glue in our body
We can't escape
It''s our friendship and your two good lungs that brought us together
No matter how hard
We strive to do the right thing
Living life and giving back to others
As often as we can
Good times will temporary fade
One thing is for certain
Even though we pass our memories on
We have to admit
Our bodies won't last forever
So nice to see all these years combined
Brought us to this very day
Where lady luck would be nice
But it is not neccessary
Sure you can add it to your hub. I think that's good idea. Hope you and yours are having a lovely autumn weekend.
As time goes on for each smile exchange life gets better and better. Here's my favorite version of Let the Good Time Roll for your listening pleasure.
How clever to make 'full' time good time, here and now. Life gets better when tasteful experiences applied, and two are better than one. Our hope is extended to longest possible...


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|Pic Of The Day.
Morning Drive.
( Grant & Herold.)
Leopard ( Kuhanya) / Motswari – Seans Clearing.
Rhino ( Female & Calf)
Elephant ( Kambaku) / Peru – Hippo Rocky Rd.
Buffalo ( Dagha Boy) / Mbali – White Syringa Rd.
Lion ( 2 x Mafikizolo Males) / JayDee – Civet Rd.
Afternoon Drive.
( Grant, Herold & Chad.)
Elephant ( Kambaku) / Motswari – Motswari Northern Access.
Elephant ( Kambaku) / Buchner – River Rd.
Elephant ( Kambaku) / Buchner – Camp Pan.
Elephant ( Breeding Herd) / Buchner – Buchner Access.
Leopard ( Umfana Male) / Kings – Hyena Rd.
Leopard ( Rockfig Jnr) / Kings – Little Ridge.
Lion ( Machaton Pride) / Kings – Leisha's Link.
Rhino ( Male)
Daily Synopsis.
Our morning started as any other winters morning, crisp clear skies with fog settling on the ridges. With no real agenda for the morning we set off East to look for Zebra in the mist and any other secrets that may be hidden in this not often driven area. Herold was keen to follow up on the Lions from yesterday afternoon and headed out West but only after checking around Argyle Dam where we could hear Baboons alarm calling from before drive. While sitting at the dam Herold could only hear a Hyena on Phiva Plains and thought that must be the cause of the disturbance and continued his journey West.
While heading to the plains in the East we received a request from our guests to see Buffalo again as their pictures had not come out nicely from the day before. So adding them to the Christmas List we kept our eyes peeled for any tracks or signs. Finding our Zebra in the light and conditions we wanted, we were unfortunately let down by their position as they were some way from the road and in amongst a Mopane thicket. It also did not help that the stallion kept chasing a particular female and her foul which dragged the entire herd deeper into the thicket where we eventually lost all sight of them. Being close to the Kruger boundary we decided to visit this spot of interest and it was just as well we did as we found relatively fresh tracks for a herd of Buffalo entering into our traversing area from the Kruger. We now set about tracking them as they slowly made their way to the West and a nearby dam. While we were on the trail of the Buffalo, Herold was now on the trail of his Lions and by the sounds of things was not far off finding them. While they set off on foot to check a drainage line we continued our working away at our tracks that now had turned South after visiting the Dam. Unlike the morning before it appeared we would be in for the long haul on this one as we moved further and further South. The disadvantage of the area we were working in is that the blocks created by the roads are very big and it makes the tracking very difficult, not to mention time consuming. With the clock winding down the bush sprung to life with the South extending us an invitation to visit the Machaton Pride that were hot on the heels of another herd of Buffalo. Having had a good sighting of Lion the evening before we chose to continue our search as did Herold, as half the excitement and challenge is in finding your own animals as opposed to responding to sightings. Our resolve was only tested when Chad and Patrick, who were on bush work at the time, found Kuhanya near camp. I approached our guests with the options of continuing our search for the Buffalo or to respond to Kuhanya who was not to far away. This was answered unanimously in favour of visiting Kuhanya, maybe I'm wrong when it comes to the art of tracking but I did not mind much as it has been nearly five weeks since I'd last seen her and we were long overdue our visit. Herold however stuck to his guns and was rewarded in finding his two male Lions on foot unfortunately when the Lions saw them they disappeared in the opposite direction and Herold was unable to relocate them with the car.
We arrived to find Kuhanya showing some interest in a couple of Kudu but soon lost interest and returned to the road and headed South marking her territory along the way. Lets hope this is a sign that she intends to hang around the area for a while. I noticed while she walked that she seems to be crab walking as if she had dislocated a hip or something. On closer investigation I discovered a large lump, almost like an abyss, on the back left inside thigh. It did not seem to bother her much and only affected her style of walk as she now seems to swing her hips a little, very much like a runway model, which I guess she is the bushes equivalent of anyway! We witnessed her mobility when she heard the snorting of Impala off in the distance and immediately darted off in their direction at lightening speed, so I guess she is all good but we'll keep a close eye on it and her progress.
Having enjoyed a great sighting of her we headed off for morning coffee after which we decided to walk back to camp as it was such a beautiful morning. Our walk was uneventful and apart from the Hippo's in Argyle Dam, the many Waterbuck around it and a lone Wildebeest we were able to concentrate more on the flora and the smaller things that one often overlooks while driving.
While we were sweating it out on the walk, Herold turned on his magic once again and whilst responding to Kuhanya he found himself our other relaxed female Rhino and her new born calf. We do not see them as often as the other two but on the few occasions that we have seen them now it would appear that the youngster is becoming more relaxed and hopefully with a little more exposure to the vehicles it will become as relaxed as its mother is. Adding Buffalo and Elephant to Herolds tally and he had himself a Big Five morning, clearly the Mgiba Magic is back!
Afternoon drive saw a number of guides return to the mix and with our guests having seen a fair amount we took the opportunity to visit places less travelled and thus avoid the hustle and bustle. Our drive got off to a good start with an Elephant Bull on Motswari's entrance road but he was somewhat shy and when we tried approaching he disappeared off across a drainage line clearly not wanting to be seen. Leaving him we continued our journey to the North East.
Herold headed off to the East following our tracks from the morning but like ourselves he did not have any luck with the breeding herd of Buffalo but instead found himself a large male Rhino drinking at one of the pans in the area. Chad got off to a later start so he checked around the camp and Argyle Dam while he waited for his late arrivals. With everybody being on board and receiving an invitation to visit the Machaton Pride down on Kings both he and Herold turned South and headed in their direction.
We in turn continued in the opposite direction for our date with the best sundowner spot in the entire Timbavati and with clear skies all around it was sure to not disappoint. Although we did not see a whole lot on this occasion we did find tracks and signs that the area is a hive of activity. I guess it's all about being in the right place at the right time. There were fresh tracks for Lions which we did follow North along the riverbed but with them approaching the Kruger boundary and the sun sinking fast we regained focus and continued towards our sundowner spot. Along the way we had ourselves a nice little encounter with a Hippo that was resting in a shallow pool. While sitting watching, it became uneasy with our presence and decided to let us know by sinking below the surface of the water before bursting out, mouth wide open running towards the car. At the time it felt like it was bearing down on us and would collide with the car any second but in reality it must have only travelled a couple of metres towards us before stopping. This created a large bow wave that came rushing up towards us and lapped against the tyres of the car. It was also enough to make one of my guests calmly utter, " I think we should go now," all be it a little higher pitched than normal.
With everyone's adrenalin slightly raised we continued on to our drinking spot which we now had to speed up for as yet again I had mistimed our arrival. Scrambling up the rocks we made it just in time for the sun to begin melting into the horizon and painting the sky in pastels. Its not only a great spot for 360 degree views as far as the eye can see but also a place that you can hear the slightest noise. So we sat and took in the beauty of the bush. Towards the end of drinks we heard the distant rumble of a Lion calling across the boundary in Kruger, a near perfect way to end another tough day in Africa.


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Over at Paper Players - they always have great challenges.
They are usually simple or just an idea that lets you run with it!
One week they gave a colour palette another it had to have a dog or cat.
If you haven't been there - go check it out!
This week is:
I was playing around and found an image I coloured ages ago,
I don't even recall where it came from.
So there it was , spring theme & in to time at all I was done!
I believe that I did a card pretty close to this one before & loved it,
funny how you can all most redo what you love.
To my scrappy friends, if you gave me this image, Thanks ! love it.


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Jennifer Lawrence as The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen Cover for the Entertainment Weekly May 2011 issue has premiered. The Entertainment Weekly Jennifer Lawrence Katniss Everdeen cover photo is a prelude to more photos of the 2012 film to be released in the Entertainment Weekly May 20, 2011 issue. The Hunger Games is the first of a trilogy of dystopian books about children forced to fight to the death written by Suzanne Collins.
If you have not read The Hunger Game books and are not familiar Katniss Everdeen:
Katniss and her family live in District 12, one of the poorest districts in the fictional nation of Panem, formerly the United States. District 12 was a coal-mining district, located in Appalachia. In the novel "The Hunger Games", the 13 districts had rebelled against the capital approximately 75 years previously, and had been crushed. In retaliation, District 13 had been destroyed, and the annual Hunger Games had been instituted. In the Games, 1 male and 1 female between the ages of 12 and 18 were selected annually from each district and were known as tributes. The tributes were transported to an arena, where they would fight to the death, with the last surviving tribute as the victor. The annual selection was known as the Reaping, and the day of the annual lottery was called Reaping Day. As further punishment for the districts, Reaping Day was regarded as a national holiday and watching the Reaping and the Games themselves was mandatory.
Gary Ross' The Hunger Games plot synopsis:
In the remains of North America lies the country of Panem, where there are 12 districts that must choose one girl and one boy between the ages of 12 to 18 to compete in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death in an arena on live television as punishment for the 'Dark Days' when the 12 districts rebelled together against the country's government, the Capitol. When 16 year old Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to takes her sister Prim's (Willow Shields) place in the Games, she will leave behind her family and her friend Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), meet her fellow tribute Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), and be pitted against other tributes from fellow districts who have trained for this their whole life. Katniss must try her hardest to do the unthinkable—win the Hunger Games.
Regarding Jennifer Lawrence transformation into Katniss Everdeen:
The blonde-haired blue-eyed Lawrence has been transformed to play Katniss, who is described in the books as having olive skin and dark hair; it's unclear if Lawrence is wearing contacts, but her eyes certainly look darker in the photo. She also looks even thinner than her normal Hollywood starlet self, at least in her face– it's important that Katniss be thin, since the character has grown up poor and fighting for every meal, so this is one instance of a female star slimming down that actually makes a lot of sense. Her costume may be the biggest selling point for fans though– she's wearing the gold Mockingjay pin that she wears during the Games, and is sporting the bow and arrow that's her best and most deadly weapon. The bow and arrow look really shiny, which suggests it's the set that Katniss picks up during the Games, and not the bow she used to hunt to feed her family while growing up in dirt-poor District 12.
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Reality behind hiring and firing: To create a reserved army of labor!
A shadow of recession is also felt in the IT sector of India. A lot of highly paid middle class IT professionals (who don't think that they are workers!!) are getting affected from the impact of economic slowdown and recession in European countries.
Impact of this slowdown is reflected in the life of middle class people because money companies are going for job-cut to save their profit.
Now, even if recession may not be there, but still many IT companies time by time terminate some of their employees to "maintain" (!!) the standard of their work force!!
It is what IT companies tell to their employees and we all are told till now...
Now, from the point of Marxist analysis, the situation is totally different.
Now we see what the reality of job-cutting is, and maintaining the work "standard" of employees. It can be understood with a very simple example. Suppose a company need 100 workers to some work, so it hires 100. After some time it terminates 10 out of them on the name of "not up to mark work quality"!! Now, there remain only 90 workers. So, what will be the situation of these remaining 90 workers? As 10 workers were fired due to "not up to mark work", remaining workers will feel a pressure to maintain their work quality "up to mark". Why these workers feel pressure? Because they don't have any guarantee of employment to earn high wages. What does it mean? It means that they have to work overnight to maintain the "quality of their work", attend office in weekends, take less leaves etc. It means, indirectly they are forced to do more work in the same wages. So, practically these 90 workers will be doing the work of 100 workers or in many cases more than 100 workers.
So, in one statement we say about management process, "Hire 100 workers, terminate 10 out of them on the name of 'bad performers', and then let the work of more than 110 workers done by remaining 90 workers." This is the reality of reserved or surplus labor force (either physical or intellectual) in any capitalist system.
As quantity of intellectual work cannot be measured and there is no proper way to judge day to day productivity of intellectual labor. In this case IT companies cannot put direct supervisory pressure on their workers to increase productivity, as it is done in other industries. So termination of "under performers" and announcing it in front of other workers is a good, and only, way for these IT companies to develop fear and create an indirect psychological pressure on their workers to regulate the productivity. This also disciplines workers, and profit generation goes on smoothly and uninterrupted.
This indirect pressure on the workers, which is not clearly understandable to them, is one of the reasons why a lot of working population around the world is suffering from the decease of depression. And, now this pressure is also experienced by newly developing middle class of our country, because impact of recession in developed countries like Europe and USA is also impacting the employment of IT professionals in India.
In the words of bourgeoisie "philosophers" it is called management of labor (to make profit). And this is the truth behind success of businessmen like Narayan Murty, Ajim Premji etc. But many workers ask why no one talk about it? The answer is simple that present education system, social institutions and other sources of knowledge and propaganda try to create an illusion in the mind of people to hide the reality. It is a reason why individual "successful" personalities who are making great profit, are promoted by whole media and newspapers, and praised by bourgeoisie ideologue so that they become role-model for all workers and workers keep dreaming to become Murty-Premji. This illusion is necessary for the capitalist class and capitalist society to exist. This is a way how intellectual class of the society is so very well politically fooled.
It is also true because under capitalist production relations intellectual production in the IT industries is exactly same as in the other production industries. So the social position of these intellectual workers (IT professionals) is almost same as other physical workers who are working overnights 12 to 16 hours day and night to earn very little, not enough to maintain themselves and their family. Except intellectual workers are paid more wedges than physical laborers due to higher "value" of their work. But, the tragedy with this section of the society is that neither they have much political awareness nor their class character allows them to join working class in their struggle for liberation of whole mankind from the slavery of capital.
There is a lot more to be exposed about IT industries. This is just a corner of the real picture of the conditions of working class, but there is a whole picture to unfold.


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After my rant a couple of weeks ago about local audiences missing chances to see wonderful theatre, simply because it was outside their comfort zone, I thought it was only fair that I shared my thoughts once I'd actually seen the production. I assure you that it came well up to expectations. The review (which has been published in the appropriate theatre Newsletter) can be found below.
There is another 'unusual' play - a curious sounding plot, a playwright of whom I've never heard - lined up for the next slot at the Sewell Barn. Once again, it doesn't sound like we're in for a predictable evening. Goody, I say. I wouldn't want it to be.
So if my review of the glorious Airswimming inspires you to feel a little braver about how you might choose to spend an evening away from the telly-box, for the princely sum of £8, please book soon for the fascinating-sounding When The Rain Stops Falling. Step outside the box. Go on - you might even enjoy it.
Airswimming by Charlotte Jones
Reading the publicity material, this sounded like a challenging show to attend, and so it proved. Consider the situation. Two women are institutionalised in the 1920s for the crime of producing children out of wedlock (even if the child was as a result of rape, it was still considered proof of mental instability). They are erased from family memory, and spend the next fifty years – fifty years – cleaning bathrooms and deprived of the basic human right of freedom. The heart and head go into revolt at the very idea. We know that laughter will be underscored with pain, with fear, with challenges; and we know that we, the audience, will not escape unscathed.
It was also a technical and artistic challenge. I've been fortunate enough to perform in shows of all cast sizes, and each has their different dynamic, pressures and rewards. I've never been in a two-hander, though, and appreciate just how intense that pressure must be for all sorts of reasons. There is no distraction for the audience, no letup in the goldfish-bowl scrutiny (always the case at the Barn in any case), no room for error.
So Mandy Kiley and Kirsty Hobson, and their director Carita Liljendal, began this show with a huge challenge before them. A relatively bare set, plain institutional costumes, and just them. Two women, a challenging and difficult script, and nowhere to hide. In less accomplished hands, this could have been a painful experience: but it was a triumph on all levels.
Both actresses displayed consistency, integrity and a deep understanding of their characters; neither was guilty of over- or under-acting (both too easy a trap to fall into), maintaining the level of convincingly natural stagecraft (insofar as it's possible to be 'natural' about such an unnatural situation), histrionics being completely believable as emanating from the characters rather than from the actresses. Whether whispering childishly or shouting furiously, every word was audible and comprehensible; and their physical changes as they aged were strikingly well-observed. Carita's direction was clear and sympathetic, her concepts carried through consistently and stylishly, with exquisite use of movement, shadow puppetry and a glorious simplicity of staging and musical enhancement. Like the extraordinary beauty of the shadows of the developing foetus that opened the show, this was a creation of precise and sensitive beauty.
The script is not easy to tune into at first; the chronological chopping-and-changing is tricky, given that only the actresses' voices and words are able to indicate the change from, say, the 1920s to the 1950s. However, once the audience has 'tuned in' to this oddity, we became alert to references to entertainers and news items of the day which helped us to keep track of the passage of time – in much the same way as, of course, the women themselves struggled to do. It was painful to witness Dora's distress when she realised that she was no longer able to tell what year it was, and we realised that the script had effectively done the same to us.
We left the theatre, in many cases, in floods of tears. In the final scene, when we realise that the women are finally being released much too late - when they have experienced far too many years of confinement to be able to gain happiness from 'liberty' – the words "I think they're putting us in council accommodation" and "I don't know that I can be bothered" were a knife in the gut when we'd spent the last two hours mentally waving placards for their freedom.
I wrote a blog posting after the first night of this show had attracted a sadly small (though very enthusiastic) audience, expressing my disappointment at the inability of the local theatregoing public to take the risk of going to see an unconventional and/or unfamiliar show. I was relieved and delighted to find that the show was well worth taking such a stand over, and indeed exceeded my expectations. However, that's not really the point. As I said at the start of this review, this looked on paper to be (and indeed was) a challenging evening: not likely to be a relaxing, feel-good, take-me-away-from-all-this experience. It promised, and delivered, challenge and difficulty and indignation and tears and food for thought. And not enough people chose to share in such a banquet: the theatre should have been full to capacity every night.
Maybe non-attenders don't want to be challenged. Maybe they want to attend the theatre only when they know exactly what's going to happen, like picking up a well-worn novel from the bookshelf which you could recite by heart. But if that's the case, I feel great sadness for what they are missing. The theatre is there to make us feel happy, of course (and this show did that as well, in spades); it's there for bellylaughs and familiarity and beautiful sets and glorious lighting effects. But these are experiences that relate to life "as we know it, Jim". To ignore the other stories, what's happening outside our own little box, the off-beat, the quirky, the unusual, is to view life only in primary colours, ignoring the rest of the spectrum.
Miss Kitson and Miss Baker were real women. They were denied the human experiences of choice and variety: they were confined within an asylum for fifty years, never again to have the option to taste and try, to listen and learn, to question and to understand – although they did an amazing job with what was in their own heads. If we, who have our freedom, don't take the chance to experience life, and theatre, of this calibre, we dishonour the memories of those who never had, or have, the choice.


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Saturday, November 12, 2016
Another Shirt for the Hubby
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Myra you are quite the shirt maker. That is a gorgeous shirt. If I could get with handling the collar stand maybe I could do this. Really nice, I know he loves it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2016 at 6:18 PM
I love that shirt. JanieReplyDelete
Love the shirt, Myra...hubby is a lucky fella!!ReplyDelete
That looks great and I can just imagine his surprise! What fun you had making that. Win win!ReplyDelete
Your hubby sure is one lucky guy, Myra! The shirt is really sharp. If you have fabric left, maybe you can make a top for you, and you two can match. ;)ReplyDelete
Love the shirt! He is indeed a lucky man! :-)ReplyDelete
What a nice looking shirt - all the better for the love that went in it!ReplyDelete
You are so talented! I know your hubby was pleased with his new shirt!ReplyDelete
Myra - the shirt is gorgeous! Is the back a different fabric or is the different fabric only for the collar and cuffs? As I was reading your post I thought that would make a great shirt for me! LOL! So don't be surprised if one "like" it shows up on my blog!ReplyDeleteReplies
Awww! Thank you Ms. Carolyn! The collar, back, sleeves and cuffs are all black cotton shirting (link to the fabric in post). The two front section panels are a "leather" look fabric. I think you would look great in a top like this too! Go for it! LOL and Good Luck!Delete
What a beautiful shirt and surprise! Your love shines through, Myra!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness Myra! This is so gorgeous! I really wish I could make shirts for my hubby.ReplyDelete
You did a great job! I should really give this a try for my husband.ReplyDelete
Wow! This shirt is beautiful and fun! :-)ReplyDelete
Awesome shirt and love the use of two different fabrics. I purchased that pattern for my guy, but sadly have yet to sew it.ReplyDelete
Wooow great job, I love the fabric combo....ReplyDelete
Wow - gorgeous shirt!ReplyDelete


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The pressures of life are hard to cope. At times we go crazy handling even the most stupidest of tasks just because our mind is so worked out, or we tend to throw away all our diet and exercise regimes because we are just too frustrated everything around us. All we need is a break. But unfortunately the break too gives no relief, we only tend to over-think, cluster our head with mindless crap and the tummy with calorie loaded trash.
So is there a way out from such a situation? Sure there is- Meditation! Meditate to soothe your nerves and bring back the lost peace.
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There are a host of other reasons why you need meditation in your life. We are listing them down for you:
1. Meditate for healthy food habits:
It has been established that people who meditate find it easier to adopt healthy food habits than those who never go for meditation. Regular meditation goes a long way in helping curb food cravings. This in turn helps in eating good which helps in our physical well being.
2. Meditate for a sound sleep:
Modern day lifestyle has given rise to disturbed sleeping patterns among a large number of people. While one requires 7-8 hours of sleep every day to revitalize the body functions, the quality of sleep is a crucial aspect to ponder about. Stress can often snatch the peace from your sleep, and meditation can bring it back for you.
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Meditation recharges the body's batteries. It instills calm and peace as well as renewed energy. As it eases the pressure on our nerves, there is a natural upliftment of mood and a few minutes of meditation can pep you up instantly.
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California USA has been trying without much luck to introduce legal online poker in that jurisdiction for some time now. Debate over the wording and fairness of previously unsuccessful proposals regarding online poker introduced in the Californian legislature has been described as fierce and intense.
PokerStars has been part of the ongoing debate that sparks much of the controversy with regards to the PokerStars determination as a bad actor in online poker's history in America. The reintroduction of Bill AB 167 by Assemblyman Reggie Jones Sawyer into the Californian legislature includes a few modifications over the previous proposals. One change is that there will be no eligibility for the horse racing industry to offer online poker, and the bad actor clause will also be taken out allowing PokerStars to take part in the online poker offering in California. It was noted that the Department of Justice and the California Gambling Control Commission were consulted on the wording of the reintroduced bill.
PokerStars and its coalition, which includes three Californian card rooms, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians are all now in support of the reconstructed online poker bill for the Golden State. There is still some opposition from the other side such as the Pechange tribe, who are disappointed that the restructured legislation disregards important principles.
The coalition issued a statement aimed at making a positive change in California's online gambling law, "In place of previous attempts to use the legislative process to provide competitive advantages to a few operators, Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer's bill brings parties with diverse interests together to move legislation forward. It is time to move on, and move forward. We are pleased that Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer recognizes this. We applaud his efforts to shift the discussion in a new and hopefully more fruitful direction."


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Survey shows 71% of HB Voters want Desal Plant Built
The proposed Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Facility is supported by 71% of registered voters in the City of Huntington Beach according to a scientific survey conducted this summer – a six point jump since the question was last put to voters in 2004.
While support is on the rise, opposition to the project continues to drop. In 2004 slightly more than one out of four (27%) Huntington Beach voters opposed the project. Today that opposition has plummeted almost in half with just 14% opposing this proposed new drought-proof water supply.
"As imported water costs continue to rise, residents will increasingly look toward new locally-controlled water supplies that offer enhanced reliability," said Poseidon Vice President Scott Maloni. "The proposed seawater desalination facility in Huntington Beach will provide enough high-quality, reliable water for 300,000 Orange County residents, which is about eight percent of Orange County's overall water needs."
Other findings from the survey include:
- More than three out of four voters responded favorably when told the project will make Orange County less reliant on imported water from Northern California.
- 77% of Huntington Beach voters said they'd be more likely to support the project knowing that the City will benefit from approximately $70 million in tax revenue over the lifespan of the project.
- Two out of three (63.4%) voters are more likely to support the project once they know about Poseidon's voluntary Energy Minimization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction plan, which will make the project net carbon-neutral.
- Three out of four (73.9%) voters consider the pipeline construction a short-term inconvenience that is outweighed by the benefit of a new water supply for the community.
- By about a three to one margin, Huntington Beach voters are more likely to support than oppose a City Council candidate that supports the desalination project (56.2% more likely to support vs. 17.7% more likely to oppose a candidate supportive of the desalination project).
- When told about the project's potential impacts to fish and other marine life, 71.9% of Huntington Beach voters found the level of impacts to be insignificant and still supported the project.
A total of 402 registered voters from Huntington Beach were surveyed. A survey of this size yields a margin of error of +/- 4.9% with a 95% degree of confidence. Appropriate ratios were obtained such as for gender, age group and party registration. Interviews were conducted in English and the average interview took 22.9 minutes to complete.


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Make one good movie and maybe it's an accident. But two? With the bold, unsettling Nocturnal Animals, menswear's most cinematic designer proves he's just as potent in the world of cinema.
Tom Ford thinks about death all day, if you want to know the truth. "I look at a puppy and I think, 'Oh my God, that puppy's so beautiful. Oh, it's just going to be old and die.' And that makes that puppy even more beautiful." He leans forward. "I like flowers. They're beautiful. I think, 'Well, they're going to be dead in three or four days, but my God, aren't they beautiful now?' " He leans back and exhales. "Everything's so transient," he says. "Everything dies."
He sits in his office, which is nothing but shades of white, black, and stainless steel, and he thinks of death in there, too. Years ago, the thumbprints on the steel would have bothered him. Years ago, he tells me, he would have sat up straighter and made sure his suit was falling exactly right. Years ago, he gave wild interviews. He said he wanted to live in an adobe in the desert with his dog and make sculpture; he suggested, in this very magazine, that all men should be sexually penetrated, and then he maybe (definitely) propositioned his interviewer. But it's not years ago. It's now, and now he's more interested in having a good talk than a wild time. He's sober now; our interview will take no such turns. Maybe it's age that has mellowed him—he's 55—or maybe he just has less to prove these days, now that virtually everything he's tried has turned out not just okay, not just successful, but singular and exquisite. He's still a perfectionist, of course, but Tom Ford at 55 has decided that he can survive a thumbprint or two.
He has now made not one but two movies that are devastating and beautiful to watch. First there was 2009's A Single Man, a quiet and gorgeous film about a man in mourning for his partner. Now Nocturnal Animals, which on its surface seems like a story of revenge. But if you look harder, Ford says, it's about something more elemental than that—something more nouveau Tom Ford than that: "It's a movie about finding the people in your life that mean something and not letting them get away." He speaks from his diaphragm, his voice aspirating out deeply like the last part of a breath. He waves his hands around like a traffic cop in a music video—stop, now go go go—but then he makes it his own with a graceful wristy flourish at the end. "That's the whole point of it."
In 2011, on a friend's recommendation, Ford read the book that Nocturnal Animals is based upon and he bought the rights immediately, even though he didn't know what he'd do with it. He put it into one of the art galleries in the back of his mind, letting it incubate. That's how he works. Three years later, when he was finally ready to write the screenplay, it took only six weeks. It's the story of an art dealer in Los Angeles whose ex-husband sends her a copy of the novel he finally wrote—the one he says she inspired. The movie goes back and forth between her story and the story in the novel—a violent, unsettling allegory about their own lost love—until they align in a way that still had me thinking about it more than a week after I saw it.
"People see billboards with my face on it, [then] they come to meet me and I feel like they're expecting the real-life Kate Moss to be lying across the table naked and somebody would be doing lines of coke."
Tom Ford has much to lose. He's always had a lot to lose. He's been with his husband, Richard Buckley, for more than 30 years. He has a successful career as a fashion designer for his own house after leaving a successful career as a fashion designer for other houses (upstarts Gucci and Saint Laurent). For a certain generation of cool people—Jay Z and Russell Westbrook, to name a few—a crisp and perfect Tom Ford suit is still the gold standard. But now he has a 4-year-old son, Jack, and maybe in one small way he's just as boring as the rest of us: the way we only start considering all we have when our hearts reach a tipping point. So he has work to do.
"I look at my son and he's so happy and joyful and I say, 'Richard, it's because he hasn't learned the secret yet. And the secret is that he's going to die.' " This focuses him, reminds him he has only a short amount of time to create new worlds. "Jack doesn't yet feel the pain that humans, all of us, feel and will feel." It puts you in a mind to think about those things—the urgency of existence coming down on you like a foot on your throat.
Tom Ford takes the first of his three to five daily power baths at 6 A.M., rising before Richard and Jack, in order to rouse himself from the sleeping pills that have made him nearly comatose. He sits in the bath with his eyes closed, sipping iced coffee through a straw like he's in the ICU being brought back from anesthetized abyss. He helps Jack dress, and he allows Jack to pick his own clothes. Granted, the only clothes Jack owns are clothes that Tom Ford, who is his father, has pre-selected for him; he has little access to items that his father finds unacceptable. So Jack wears his Lacoste shirt and his jeans, and he tops off the look with Velcro Stan Smiths. He's just gotten out of a phase in which the only color he would wear was camel—"Camel, camel, camel, camel," Ford grouses, "all he wanted was camel"—a monochrome 2-year-old. Now all he wants to wear is black. "Jack," his father tells him, "black doesn't really look good on little children. You need to wear some color." Grudgingly, the toddler says, "Okay, gray." Ford throws up his hands and retrieves some gray.
A sore subject in the Ford household: Jack has some light-up dinosaur shoes, and sometimes he tries to wear them to school, and when Ford catches him doing this, he has to step in. "What does Dada say about the dinosaur shoes?" "They're tacky." "And when are we allowed to wear them?" "On weekends." And so the Velcro Stan Smiths go back on Jack's feet while he looks achingly at his light-ups, counting the days until they can have their brief, private, unphotographed moment in the sun.
Meanwhile, his father is dressed today in what all fathers wear to work: a jillion-dollar suit with a white shirt open to the navel, so that all who face him will be greeted with a gift bouquet of chest hair. "Are you going out later?" I ask, foolishly. Ford says no, then shakes his head no, then says no again, clearly perplexed. "This is a daytime suit."
(It gets worse: At one point, I asked Tom Ford if he owns sweatpants, and that did not go over well. He looked hard at me, trying to ascertain if I was kidding, and furrowed his brow; he has a great dermatologist and despite some filler and some Botox, he has a full range of movement in his face. I looked at him with wide eyes and an expectant smile, and once he determined that I was serious, he said no in a way that made me not follow up, then also "I mean, really, no" and "No, absolutely not." But Tom Ford is kind and doesn't want me to have a bad experience during this interview, and so he concedes that he's a member of a tennis club in London that only permits its members to wear white, and yes, sometimes he does get into the car in this one pair of white sweatpants, since it's required, but no one on the street sees him because his driver pulls him right up to the club. This seamlessly transitions into a conversation about how men should never ever wear shorts unless they are within very close proximity to a pool, but literally like the deck of the pool, not the eating area. In the eating area, you pull yourself together and put on some pants, for Christ's sake—you're eating. "It's a very American thing—that weird thing where you go to the Hamptons and people are in shorts, loafers, and blazers. No.")
By the time he arrives at work—though when Tom Ford is Tom Ford's brand, Tom Ford never really leaves work—he puts death to the back of his mind, though not so far back that it is disconnected from his life now. He is known for his meticulousness, and that meticulousness has paid off with a quality of experience down every vertical he has: Roni Brunn, a fashion designer, was familiar with the general excellence of a Tom Ford product. When she heard he'd entered the cosmetics space, she perhaps took a deep breath at the $80 tag for an eye shadow—but then she tried it, and she thought, "Fuck you, Tom Ford, this stays on all day!" He'd done something no one else had bothered to do with eye shadow, which is to make it not just a different color, but a better product; Brunn says he's the Elon Musk of film and fashion. His clothing is indestructible and timeless—not classic, because even classics go in and out, whereas Tom Ford pieces can be worn forever. It's vintage from day one.
This is Tom Ford considering your experience. The eye shadow should last longer. The clothing should be wearable immediately, but also forever. The movie should be so riveting that you can't look away from it long enough to check your phone. Everything must hold up under the pressure of now. Is it perfect right now, in the moment you need it?
Tom Ford begins Nocturnal Animals with a montage of fat naked women dancing. He's sad that one reviewer saw this as fat-shaming, and whether that reviewer is right is something you can discuss among yourselves once you've seen the film. For what it's worth, he says the actresses laughed throughout filming and that he's never seen people so happy and free.
"We had so much fun that day," he says. "And when I watched the film, I was just struck by the beauty of it, by the beauty of them and by their energy. I just love that sequence. They are the representation of people who have let go of what society says you're supposed to be. And what are they? Joyful. And what is Susan"—the film's protagonist, played by Amy Adams—"who's being everything society says she should be? Miserable."
When the film begins, Susan, a Los Angeles art dealer, receives a galley for a novel from her first husband, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. The action of the movie toggles between lonely shots of Susan's life while her current husband is away and the plot of her ex-husband's novel as she reads it. The juxtaposition between the two—a civilized, art-directed life in the Hollywood Hills versus a chaotic, violent one in remote West Texas—is disparate enough that it's hard to believe both settings can coexist in one movie. There are many ways that Ford excels as a moviemaker, but already his most unique talent is how well he occupies both worlds—the sad and cold one, and the hot and vile one.
Yes, he says, all men should be penetrated at some point. And not as in emotions.
He set the movie in Los Angeles because that's where he wants to be right now. Jack is enrolled here for the school year. The alternative was London, but the whole reason he got an office here in L.A. was so he could make movies. He doesn't have a place in New York anymore. New York is over, as far as he's concerned. "I find New York too frenetic," he says. "I mean, I have to take Valium when I'm in New York, and the energy doesn't seem focused at anything because everything's so difficult. You get back at the end of the day and you feel like this. And you think, 'Oh God, I did this and I did that, but what did I really do? I went downtown. That was exhausting.' "
The Buckley-Fords live in a Richard Neutra house built in 1955, but Ford feels as if he's existing in an era even further gone. "I live in the Hollywood of the 1930s. I don't actually live in the Hollywood of 2016," he says, and that's how he copes with the fact that L.A. is a harder city for style, in that so few people have it. As Ford puts it: "Here is the city of Los Angeles"—he holds his hands up, one above the other, about two feet apart—"and above them is an oil slick. The oil slick are the interesting, smart, intelligent people who are stylish, who you could have a conversation with, who'd want to be friends. Then"—and here he indicates the rest of the space—"you have morons."
L.A. in toto is hard on the basis of the faces alone. Ford wants to look at interesting faces, and often that is difficult in Los Angeles because so many women here make their faces monuments to their old faces. He just wants to see a decent expression sometimes, you know? You can't find a decent expression below the oil slick.
But other than that, he likes L.A. He likes the ocean and the trees and the sky. If you focus on those things, it's easier to cope. He is not who the world thinks he is, really. "People see billboards with my face on it, [then] they come to meet me and I feel like they're expecting the real-life Kate Moss to be lying across the table naked and somebody would be doing lines of coke and whoo! Just going everywhere and everything just so wow." In reality, though, he just wants to go home and put on his evening suit—or whatever the opposite of sweatpants is—and watch an episode of something with Richard.
He sighs. This has been quite a talk. I tell him it had a lot to live up to, considering his last GQ interview—the one during which he propositioned the (heterosexual male) writer. I had no such expectations, but, well, does he stand by what he said? That every man should be penetrated? He sighs again. He doesn't want to get into all of that. "I was just taking the piss out of him," he says, adding that he read the article through his fingers when it came out, the whole time wondering, "Oh God, what was I thinking?" He was drunk, he says. He didn't mean it, he says. Okay, he did mean it, he says, but he shouldn't have said it.
But Tom Ford is still in there, so he can't stop himself. So he says this next thing, and it doesn't come off as lascivious, the way it might have years ago, but thoughtful and aware: Yes, he says, all men should be penetrated at some point. And not as in emotions. He means: All men should be fucked. "I think it would help them understand women," he argues. "It's such a vulnerable position to be in, and it's such a passive position to be in. And there's such an invasion, in a way, that even if it's consensual, it's just very personal. And I think there's a psyche that happens because of it that makes you understand and appreciate what women go through their whole life, because it's not just sexual, it's a complete setup of the way the world works, that one sex has the ability to literally—and is expected to and is wanted to—but also there's an invasion. And I think that that's something most men do not understand at all."
But he doesn't like that we're talking about this. He asks if I'm going to include it in my article, and when I say yes, of course, he closes his eyes. He has a son now. He doesn't want him reading this kind of stuff from his father. But he also understands, as though he wishes he hadn't said it but doesn't exactly regret it, because in the end, Tom Ford wants your experience of Tom Ford to be authentically Tom Ford. It is not easy to have his particular particularities and to exist among us regular people, in our shorts/loafers combinations, in our sweatpants and dinosaur sneakers. He is teaching us how to be perfect. When will we finally catch on?
Someone once told Ford that the Chinese say to always leave something undone, because the moment you're done with your life's work, you're done with life. Tom Ford's cure for that is never thinking anything is perfect. But it's only a temporary cure, and he knows it. Which is why, in a Tom Ford movie, the moment the protagonist accomplishes his goals, he dies.
This piece originally appeared in the December 2016 issue with the title "Tom Ford's Wild Kingdom."


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