WASHINGTON: Senior White House officials met with a group of Hollywood stars and entertainers on Monday to talk about how to use pop culture to persuade young Americans to sign up for new medical insurance coverage this fall.
For President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare reform law to succeed, the White House needs to attract 2.7 million younger consumers between the ages of 18 to 35, mostly male and non-white, to participate in new online health insurance exchanges.
Obama dropped by the meeting, which included comedian Amy Poehler, actor Jennifer Hudson, representatives for Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys and websites Funny or Die and YouTube.
"The reach of these national stars spreads beyond the Beltway to fans of their television shows, movies, and music - and the power of these artists to speak through social media is especially critical," a White House official said.
Obamacare needs young, healthy people to register for the new health insurance plans to counterbalance older, sicker enrollees and hold down costs.
But first the government needs to overcome skepticism that the new plans are worthwhile.
The artists are interested in helping explain the health care law and the sign-up period, which begins on October 1, the White House said, and met with Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and other officials involved in rolling out the program.
Several stars have already begun to publicize the program.
Funny or Die, a comedy video website with more than 19 million unique users per month and 6.4 million Twitter followers, is already working on several videos featuring celebrities, the White House said.
Earlier this year, the administration sought help from major US sports organizations including the National Football League on advertising campaigns. But Republicans publicly warned the leagues to steer clear of the efforts, and the NFL backed off.
Republicans argue the law is too expensive and confusing, and the Republican-led House of Representatives has voted dozens of times to try to repeal it.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Buy Cheap Earrings Online Are Very Convenient
Earrings Online shopping is not only a convenient way for busy women, but a very easy and simple one too. Women don't need to worry if they don't have good computer skills and if they find it difficult to shop from the e-stores. Almost every web store is designed on straight forward lines and are really simple to navigate. Interactive websites assist you to go at the right page, give you information on the choices made by you and guides you through the process of transaction too.
Before you buy earrings online, you should know that most women need no more than two pairs of earrings. One will be your every day earrings - most women buy diamond earrings or buy pearl earrings online in a stud design for this purpose. These are small earrings that go well with any outfit - formal, casual or ethnic and remove the need for you to change your earrings every day.
You can choose diamonds set in white gold, white pearls set in yellow gold, or just buy gold earrings with a versatile design for everyday use as well. The second pair will be a statement making pair of earrings. You can buy gold earrings in a dangling ethnic design, though today you have the choice to also buy a simple pair of danglers that look equally good with cocktail dresses as well as special occasion sarees.
Sales of online jewellery are growing. Concerns that shoppers in the past may have had about not being able to see products "in the flesh" have largely been diminished. Today, close up inspections of earrings can be done thanks to better magnified images on jewellery websites.
Before you buy earrings online, you should know that most women need no more than two pairs of earrings. One will be your every day earrings - most women buy diamond earrings or buy pearl earrings online in a stud design for this purpose. These are small earrings that go well with any outfit - formal, casual or ethnic and remove the need for you to change your earrings every day.
You can choose diamonds set in white gold, white pearls set in yellow gold, or just buy gold earrings with a versatile design for everyday use as well. The second pair will be a statement making pair of earrings. You can buy gold earrings in a dangling ethnic design, though today you have the choice to also buy a simple pair of danglers that look equally good with cocktail dresses as well as special occasion sarees.
Sales of online jewellery are growing. Concerns that shoppers in the past may have had about not being able to see products "in the flesh" have largely been diminished. Today, close up inspections of earrings can be done thanks to better magnified images on jewellery websites.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tampa woman swallows diamond at charity luncheon
TAMPA — They say diamonds are a girl's best friend. But a guest at a recent fashion show fundraiser might give that distinction to her gastroenterologist.
Miriam Tucker was one of hundreds of women sipping champagne at Fashionollia on April 20, staged for the 65th year by the Tampa Woman's Club.
It cost $20 for a glass of the bubbly — and a chance to win a 1.03-carat diamond. Continental Wholesale Diamond plunked a single stone, a round brilliant cut beauty appraised at $5,000, into one champagne flute. All the rest got cubic zirconias.
The luncheon concluded without any ecstatic shriek from one of the 280 women in the ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel International Plaza. Event organizers and jewelers Andy Meyer and Joy Pierson were puzzled.
"We knew the winner had to be at one of two tables," Pierson said. She was hovering in that vicinity when Tucker, 80, spoke up.
"I thought I'd drink a bit of champagne so I didn't have to stick my finger so far into the glass," said Tucker, a retired real estate broker. "We were laughing and talking when I realized I swallowed it. What a dumb thing."
Meanwhile, roving jewelers, armed with probes and a loupe, examined each stone. Tucker, assuming event organizers would announce a winner at any minute, chose not to draw attention to herself.
Until the room was near empty. Then she confessed.
"She said she swallowed what was in her glass," Pierson said, "but as luck would have it, she was scheduled for a colonoscopy in two days."
That wasn't good enough for Fashionollia chairwoman Gina Roth who insisted Tucker, who lives in South Tampa, follow her to St, Joseph's Hospital for an X-ray.
The diamond didn't show up on the X-ray, so Tucker prepped for her colonoscopy as planned. But as far as she could tell, the diamond remained stuck in her body.
Early the next morning, she alerted Dr. Bruce Edgerton "to be on lookout," briefing him on the case of the missing diamond.
During Tucker's examination, the doctor struck, well, a diamond. With the stone in a biohazard bag, Tucker's daughter drove straight to the jewelry store.
The jewelers confirmed Tucker's bling was the real thing. She took her prize home, cleaned, polished, sparkling.
As my son says, "All's well that ends well," Tucker said.
Champions for Children was the luncheon beneficiary.
Their motto: Protect Our Precious Gems.
Miriam Tucker was one of hundreds of women sipping champagne at Fashionollia on April 20, staged for the 65th year by the Tampa Woman's Club.
It cost $20 for a glass of the bubbly — and a chance to win a 1.03-carat diamond. Continental Wholesale Diamond plunked a single stone, a round brilliant cut beauty appraised at $5,000, into one champagne flute. All the rest got cubic zirconias.
The luncheon concluded without any ecstatic shriek from one of the 280 women in the ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel International Plaza. Event organizers and jewelers Andy Meyer and Joy Pierson were puzzled.
"We knew the winner had to be at one of two tables," Pierson said. She was hovering in that vicinity when Tucker, 80, spoke up.
"I thought I'd drink a bit of champagne so I didn't have to stick my finger so far into the glass," said Tucker, a retired real estate broker. "We were laughing and talking when I realized I swallowed it. What a dumb thing."
Meanwhile, roving jewelers, armed with probes and a loupe, examined each stone. Tucker, assuming event organizers would announce a winner at any minute, chose not to draw attention to herself.
Until the room was near empty. Then she confessed.
"She said she swallowed what was in her glass," Pierson said, "but as luck would have it, she was scheduled for a colonoscopy in two days."
That wasn't good enough for Fashionollia chairwoman Gina Roth who insisted Tucker, who lives in South Tampa, follow her to St, Joseph's Hospital for an X-ray.
The diamond didn't show up on the X-ray, so Tucker prepped for her colonoscopy as planned. But as far as she could tell, the diamond remained stuck in her body.
Early the next morning, she alerted Dr. Bruce Edgerton "to be on lookout," briefing him on the case of the missing diamond.
During Tucker's examination, the doctor struck, well, a diamond. With the stone in a biohazard bag, Tucker's daughter drove straight to the jewelry store.
The jewelers confirmed Tucker's bling was the real thing. She took her prize home, cleaned, polished, sparkling.
As my son says, "All's well that ends well," Tucker said.
Champions for Children was the luncheon beneficiary.
Their motto: Protect Our Precious Gems.
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The playful, charming design of the crystal butterfly necklace is perfect for wearing in the summer or spring. It makes a wonderful Mother's Day or birthday gift. The fluttering butterfly family and the cheerfully colored crystal accents are sure to get plenty of compliments. She will love opening this gift and it will make her smile putting it on every morning. No one will be able to resist wearing this darling crystal butterfly pendant.
All of our jewelry is made from high quality materials and is offered to you for low prices. You can save up to 25% off retail prices by buying with Get Sparkling. We offer low priced shipping with costs starting at $6, and we are able to ship all over the world. You will receive your wonderful gift in about 20 business days. If your necklace is for a gift or special occasion we have optional seven to ten business days shipping available with DHL, UPS, or FedEx.
Monday, July 22, 2013
16 human body facts – Heart Lungs Blood vessels and Senses
A known phrase amongst medical students claims that the more you know – the more you understand how little you know. And so, hundreds of years in researching managed to discover amazing human body facts. We managed to discovered about the mystery that floats over the non stop working machine. from birth to death, here are 60 human body facts.
Heart, Lungs and Blood vessels:
1. Squirting high: The human heart is pumping with enormous pressure, capable of squirting blood up to 9 meters high. No wonder you can feel your heartbeats. It never stops and sends blood against gravity up to the head, and at the same time down to the rest of your body parts.
2. 100,000km: The length of your blood vessels is about 100,000km. To understand this distance – the circumference of earth is about 40,000km. The distance between the earth the moon is about 300,000km. So if we take the blood vessels of 3 people, and connect them edge to edge – we could easily step where Neil Armstrong did.
3. Women’s heart beat faster than men’s: The main reason for this is that women’s hearts tends to be a bit small than men’s, but needs to pump the same amount of blood to the body parts, in the same amount of time.
4. The left lung is smaller than the right: This is to make room for the heart. most people has a heart that tends to lean to the left, which pushes the left lung.
5. You can live without a significant amount of inner organs: The human body may seem fragile, but it can definitely live without the stomach, the spline, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, one kidney, one lung and any productive organ. It wouldn’t feel so great, and you’ll have to be under medication – but it won’t kill you.
6. Saliva at 160kph: During a sneeze the spit particles can reach up to 160kph. the sneeze is very dangerous while driving – there is no way of sneezing with your eyes open, which caused a few road accidents already.
7. Who snores more?: 60% of men and 40% of women up to the age of 60 snore. In most cases a snore can reach 60 decibels. but some people can even reach 80 decibels – same as a concrete drill.
Senses:
1. Who will blink first?: Women blink twice as much as men. The average person blinks around 13 times a minute. Blinking is very important to the eye’s health: It helps cover the eye with liquid that has enzymes and Lubricating fluid, that protects it.
2. The strongest: The outer muscles that moves the eye ball are the strongest muscles in the body, relative to the amount of strength they require: They are stronger 100 times than needed.
3. Blue, but temporary: Many babies are born with blue eyes, but they wont stay that way for long. The reason for that is the pigment called “Melanin” that sometimes sinks in the eyes cornea after birth. This process require exposure to ultraviolet light, which in the end reveals the child’s real eye color.
4. Remember 50,000 scents: Our nose can remember 50,000 different smells, many of them are burnt into our memory for many years. but that’s nothing compared to men’s best friend – the dog’s nose is sensitive 1,000,000 times more than ours.
5. The last to go: The last sense that disconnects while dying is the sense of hearing. The first one being eye vision, followed by taste, smell and touch.
6. See for a distance: The longest distance that you can gaze into without any help is about 2.4 million light years – 225 trillion kilometers. This is the distance to the Andromeda galaxy, which you can see in bright sky.
7. Noise sensitive: The smallest noise can make our pupils dilate - this is one of the reasons why surgeons are bothered by noise - dilation of the pupil might cause to be blinded with light , that can cause a disaster.
8. From birth to old age: Our eyes stay the same size from the moment we are born until we are old age, but the ears and nose does not stop growing. That is why if someone did a nose surgery when he was young – you can see his nose changing over the years.
9. The strongest organ in our body is the tongue: You may not able to lift weights with it, but relative to it’s size, this is the strongest muscle in body that works almost nonstop by talking, eating and swallowing.
Heart, Lungs and Blood vessels:
1. Squirting high: The human heart is pumping with enormous pressure, capable of squirting blood up to 9 meters high. No wonder you can feel your heartbeats. It never stops and sends blood against gravity up to the head, and at the same time down to the rest of your body parts.
2. 100,000km: The length of your blood vessels is about 100,000km. To understand this distance – the circumference of earth is about 40,000km. The distance between the earth the moon is about 300,000km. So if we take the blood vessels of 3 people, and connect them edge to edge – we could easily step where Neil Armstrong did.
3. Women’s heart beat faster than men’s: The main reason for this is that women’s hearts tends to be a bit small than men’s, but needs to pump the same amount of blood to the body parts, in the same amount of time.
4. The left lung is smaller than the right: This is to make room for the heart. most people has a heart that tends to lean to the left, which pushes the left lung.
5. You can live without a significant amount of inner organs: The human body may seem fragile, but it can definitely live without the stomach, the spline, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, one kidney, one lung and any productive organ. It wouldn’t feel so great, and you’ll have to be under medication – but it won’t kill you.
6. Saliva at 160kph: During a sneeze the spit particles can reach up to 160kph. the sneeze is very dangerous while driving – there is no way of sneezing with your eyes open, which caused a few road accidents already.
7. Who snores more?: 60% of men and 40% of women up to the age of 60 snore. In most cases a snore can reach 60 decibels. but some people can even reach 80 decibels – same as a concrete drill.
Senses:
1. Who will blink first?: Women blink twice as much as men. The average person blinks around 13 times a minute. Blinking is very important to the eye’s health: It helps cover the eye with liquid that has enzymes and Lubricating fluid, that protects it.
2. The strongest: The outer muscles that moves the eye ball are the strongest muscles in the body, relative to the amount of strength they require: They are stronger 100 times than needed.
3. Blue, but temporary: Many babies are born with blue eyes, but they wont stay that way for long. The reason for that is the pigment called “Melanin” that sometimes sinks in the eyes cornea after birth. This process require exposure to ultraviolet light, which in the end reveals the child’s real eye color.
4. Remember 50,000 scents: Our nose can remember 50,000 different smells, many of them are burnt into our memory for many years. but that’s nothing compared to men’s best friend – the dog’s nose is sensitive 1,000,000 times more than ours.
5. The last to go: The last sense that disconnects while dying is the sense of hearing. The first one being eye vision, followed by taste, smell and touch.
6. See for a distance: The longest distance that you can gaze into without any help is about 2.4 million light years – 225 trillion kilometers. This is the distance to the Andromeda galaxy, which you can see in bright sky.
7. Noise sensitive: The smallest noise can make our pupils dilate - this is one of the reasons why surgeons are bothered by noise - dilation of the pupil might cause to be blinded with light , that can cause a disaster.
8. From birth to old age: Our eyes stay the same size from the moment we are born until we are old age, but the ears and nose does not stop growing. That is why if someone did a nose surgery when he was young – you can see his nose changing over the years.
9. The strongest organ in our body is the tongue: You may not able to lift weights with it, but relative to it’s size, this is the strongest muscle in body that works almost nonstop by talking, eating and swallowing.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Crew tried to abort landing before San Francisco air crash
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco's airport on Saturday was flying "significantly below" its intended speed and its crew tried to abort the landing less than two seconds before it hit a seawall in front of the runway, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday.
Asiana Airlines said the pilot in charge of landing the Boeing 777 on Saturday, Lee Kang-kook, was training for the long-range plane and it was his first flight to that airport with the jet. Asiana Airlines said he had previously flown to San Francisco on different planes and was being assisted by another pilot more experienced with the Boeing 777.
Information collected from the plane's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder indicated that there were no signs of trouble until seven seconds before impact, when the crew tried to accelerate, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said at a news conference at the airport.
A stall warning in which the cockpit controls begin to shake activated four seconds before impact, and the crew tried to abort the landing and initiate what is known as a "go around" maneuver 1.5 seconds before crashing, Hersman said.
"Air speed was significantly below the target air speed" of 137 knots, she said. The throttle was set at idle as the plane approached the airport and the "engines appear to respond normally" when the crew tried to gain speed in the seconds before the crash, Hersman said.
Two Chinese teenagers died in the incident and more than 180 people were injured, local officials said. In a tragic new twist, the San Francisco Fire Department said that one of the teenagers may have been run over by an emergency vehicle as first responders scrambled to the scene.
"One of the deceased did have injuries consistent with those of having been run over by a vehicle," fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said. "Many agencies were on the field yesterday."
Autopsies to determine the cause of death will be conducted by the San Mateo County coroner's office, officials said.
More than 30 people remained hospitalized late on Sunday. Eight were listed in critical condition, including two with paralysis from spinal injuries, according to hospital officials.
The charred hulk of the aircraft remained on the airport tarmac as flight operations gradually returned to normal. Three of the four runways were operating by Sunday afternoon.
Hersman said it was too early to speculate on the cause of the crash. The data recorders corroborated witness accounts and an amateur video, shown by CNN, that indicated the plane came in too low, lifted its nose in an attempt to gain altitude, and then bounced violently along the tarmac after the rear of the aircraft clipped a seawall at the approach to the runway.
Asked whether the information reviewed by the NTSB showed pilot error in the crash, Hersman did not answer directly.
"What I will tell you is that the NTSB conducts very thorough investigations. We will not reach a determination of probable cause in the first few days that we're on an accident scene," she told reporters.
Asiana said mechanical failure did not appear to be a factor in the crash. Hersman confirmed that a part of the airport's instrument-landing system was offline on Saturday as part of a scheduled runway construction project, but cautioned against drawing conclusions from that.
"You do not need instruments to get into the airport," she said, noting that the weather was good at the time of the crash and that the plane had been cleared for a visual approach.
The Asiana flight originated in Shanghai and was flying to San Francisco from Seoul with 291 passengers and 16 crew members on board. Several large groups of Chinese students were among the passengers.
SERIOUS INTERIOR DAMAGE
People on the flight said nothing seemed amiss until moments before the plane hit the ground. Pictures taken by survivors showed passengers hurrying out of the wrecked plane, some on evacuation slides. Thick smoke billowed from the fuselage and TV footage showed the aircraft gutted and blackened by fire. Much of its roof was gone.
Interior damage to the plane also was extreme, Hersman said on CNN earlier on Sunday.
"You can see the devastation from the outside of the aircraft, the burn-through, the damage to the external fuselage," she said. "But what you can't see is the damage internally. That is really striking."
The NTSB released photos showing the wrecked interior cabin oxygen masks dangling from the ceiling.
The dead were identified as Ye Meng Yuan and Wang Lin Jia, both 16-year-old girls and described as Chinese nationals who are students, Asiana Airlines said. They had been seated at the rear of the aircraft, according to government officials in Seoul and Asiana, and were found outside the airplane.
Hersman said the first crew of emergency workers to arrive at the scene included 23 people in nine vehicles. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said a total of 225 first responders were involved.
"As chaotic as the site was yesterday, I think a number of miracles occurred to save many more lives," Lee said at the airport news conference. Appearing later at San Francisco General Hospital, he declined to address whether one of the Chinese teenagers may have been run over.
The crash was the first fatal accident involving the Boeing 777, a popular long-range jet that has been in service since 1995. It was the first fatal commercial airline accident in the United States since a regional plane operated by Colgan Air crashed in New York in 2009.
"For now, we acknowledge that there were no problems caused by the 777-200 plane or (its) engines," Yoon Young-doo, the president and CEO of the airline, told reporters on Sunday at the company headquarters on the outskirts of Seoul.
Asiana said passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 64 Americans, three Indians, three Canadians, one French, one Vietnamese and one Japanese citizen.
Asiana, South Korea's junior carrier, has had two other fatal crashes in its 25-year history.
(Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin, Alistain Barr, Sarah McBride, Ronnie Cohen, Poornima Gupta, Laila Kearney, Dan Levine, Jonathan Weber, Peter Henderson, Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and Jonathan Allen and Barbara Goldberg in New York; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Will Dunham)c
Asiana Airlines said the pilot in charge of landing the Boeing 777 on Saturday, Lee Kang-kook, was training for the long-range plane and it was his first flight to that airport with the jet. Asiana Airlines said he had previously flown to San Francisco on different planes and was being assisted by another pilot more experienced with the Boeing 777.
Information collected from the plane's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder indicated that there were no signs of trouble until seven seconds before impact, when the crew tried to accelerate, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said at a news conference at the airport.
A stall warning in which the cockpit controls begin to shake activated four seconds before impact, and the crew tried to abort the landing and initiate what is known as a "go around" maneuver 1.5 seconds before crashing, Hersman said.
"Air speed was significantly below the target air speed" of 137 knots, she said. The throttle was set at idle as the plane approached the airport and the "engines appear to respond normally" when the crew tried to gain speed in the seconds before the crash, Hersman said.
Two Chinese teenagers died in the incident and more than 180 people were injured, local officials said. In a tragic new twist, the San Francisco Fire Department said that one of the teenagers may have been run over by an emergency vehicle as first responders scrambled to the scene.
"One of the deceased did have injuries consistent with those of having been run over by a vehicle," fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said. "Many agencies were on the field yesterday."
Autopsies to determine the cause of death will be conducted by the San Mateo County coroner's office, officials said.
More than 30 people remained hospitalized late on Sunday. Eight were listed in critical condition, including two with paralysis from spinal injuries, according to hospital officials.
The charred hulk of the aircraft remained on the airport tarmac as flight operations gradually returned to normal. Three of the four runways were operating by Sunday afternoon.
Hersman said it was too early to speculate on the cause of the crash. The data recorders corroborated witness accounts and an amateur video, shown by CNN, that indicated the plane came in too low, lifted its nose in an attempt to gain altitude, and then bounced violently along the tarmac after the rear of the aircraft clipped a seawall at the approach to the runway.
Asked whether the information reviewed by the NTSB showed pilot error in the crash, Hersman did not answer directly.
"What I will tell you is that the NTSB conducts very thorough investigations. We will not reach a determination of probable cause in the first few days that we're on an accident scene," she told reporters.
Asiana said mechanical failure did not appear to be a factor in the crash. Hersman confirmed that a part of the airport's instrument-landing system was offline on Saturday as part of a scheduled runway construction project, but cautioned against drawing conclusions from that.
"You do not need instruments to get into the airport," she said, noting that the weather was good at the time of the crash and that the plane had been cleared for a visual approach.
The Asiana flight originated in Shanghai and was flying to San Francisco from Seoul with 291 passengers and 16 crew members on board. Several large groups of Chinese students were among the passengers.
SERIOUS INTERIOR DAMAGE
People on the flight said nothing seemed amiss until moments before the plane hit the ground. Pictures taken by survivors showed passengers hurrying out of the wrecked plane, some on evacuation slides. Thick smoke billowed from the fuselage and TV footage showed the aircraft gutted and blackened by fire. Much of its roof was gone.
Interior damage to the plane also was extreme, Hersman said on CNN earlier on Sunday.
"You can see the devastation from the outside of the aircraft, the burn-through, the damage to the external fuselage," she said. "But what you can't see is the damage internally. That is really striking."
The NTSB released photos showing the wrecked interior cabin oxygen masks dangling from the ceiling.
The dead were identified as Ye Meng Yuan and Wang Lin Jia, both 16-year-old girls and described as Chinese nationals who are students, Asiana Airlines said. They had been seated at the rear of the aircraft, according to government officials in Seoul and Asiana, and were found outside the airplane.
Hersman said the first crew of emergency workers to arrive at the scene included 23 people in nine vehicles. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said a total of 225 first responders were involved.
"As chaotic as the site was yesterday, I think a number of miracles occurred to save many more lives," Lee said at the airport news conference. Appearing later at San Francisco General Hospital, he declined to address whether one of the Chinese teenagers may have been run over.
The crash was the first fatal accident involving the Boeing 777, a popular long-range jet that has been in service since 1995. It was the first fatal commercial airline accident in the United States since a regional plane operated by Colgan Air crashed in New York in 2009.
"For now, we acknowledge that there were no problems caused by the 777-200 plane or (its) engines," Yoon Young-doo, the president and CEO of the airline, told reporters on Sunday at the company headquarters on the outskirts of Seoul.
Asiana said passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 64 Americans, three Indians, three Canadians, one French, one Vietnamese and one Japanese citizen.
Asiana, South Korea's junior carrier, has had two other fatal crashes in its 25-year history.
(Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin, Alistain Barr, Sarah McBride, Ronnie Cohen, Poornima Gupta, Laila Kearney, Dan Levine, Jonathan Weber, Peter Henderson, Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and Jonathan Allen and Barbara Goldberg in New York; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Will Dunham)c
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Turning the morning news into soap opera
Ann Curry, the second fiddle on NBC’s Today show, is apparently being shown the door. That news was broken yesterday afternoon by Brian Stelter, the prolific media reporter of the New York Times on the newspaper’s website, and that 1,100-word story earned prominent placement on Page One of the business section of this morning’s paper.
I’ll forgive you in advance if you don’t care whether Curry continues on Today or if you don’t care whether she finds a slot elsewhere in the NBC empire, just as long as you forgive me for not giving a fig either. It’s not that I dislike Ann Curry or Today‘s first fiddle, Matt Lauer, or even Today‘s morning-show competition. It’s just that I dislike the shows for being dulled-down messes of news, entertainment and talk. If I watch any of them, it’s by accident.
My lack of interest in the morning-show mix puts me in the majority. Today, which is usually the number-one-rated program, and ABC’s Good Morning America, which took that position a couple of times this spring, draw an average of fewer than 5 million viewers. The third-ranked show, CBS’s This Morning, pulls in a little more than 2 million viewers. In a country of 311 million, that’s minimal interest.
The length and placement of Stelter’s piece, on the other hand, conveys a level of importance to Curry’s rumored departure that’s hard to justify. Stripped to its essence, the Curry saga might justify a 300-word short about Today‘s recent ratings volatility, Lauer’s alleged estrangement from Curry, and NBC’s judgment that she wasn’t as good a co-host as predecessor Meredith Vieira, all leading to her impending exit.
Instead, Stelter serves an extended story packed with anonymous sources – ”some at NBC,” “some staff members,” “people with knowledge of the negotiations, who insisted on anonymity because the matter was confidential,” “several people who know Ms. Curry,” “one of the people” who know Curry, “friends” of Meredith Vieira, and “one of the people with knowledge of the negotiations” between Curry and NBC – that makes the departure of a TV co-host sound like the final days of Richard Nixon. How much of the anonymous dancing is Curry’s people spinning her story and how much of it is NBC framing the ouster as necessary strategy to save the show is anybody’s guess.
Overdramatizing the comings and goings of on-air talent and the hirings and firings of network executives is a traditional part of the TV beat. The People Who Cover Television never have to worry about material: The TV industry defines itself by ratings, ratings produce winners and losers, and from winners and losers flow an endless river of copy to bottle and sell. The People Who Cover Sports have been doing a similar thing for more than a century. The toughest choice in covering the TV industry (or sports) is to decide whether to make the loser or the winner the day’s story. It’s not that difficult a choice. If you cover the loser today, just remember to put the winner in your calendar for coverage in the future.
A case can be made that the fate of Ann Curry constitutes big news because Today is a $300 million profit machine dependent on ratings for its ad revenues. If ratings drop and she’s to blame, the network’s stockholders must know! But Stelter spends little time there. In the worst tradition of TV coverage, he’s writing a soap opera about a TV show.
I pick on Stelter, but he’s only one of the several dramatizers working the TV beat. His Times colleague Bill Carter has been known to indulge this tendency, and a couple of years ago, critic Bill Wyman took pleasure in hosing Howard Kurtz (Washington Post and the Daily Beast) for his inappropriately thorough pieces on the fading of Katie Couric’s nightly news lights. The extreme coverage of Curry echoes Politico’s coverage of the Washington beat: While the outlet routinely breaks legitimate news, it also tends to inflate whatever political lint it collects into giant mainsails.
At least one newspaper reporter on the TV beat keeps a sense of perspective about her work: Lisa de Moraes of the Washington Post. (Here’s my 2003 appreciation of her work.) With her oeuvre more resembling that of a sports columnist than a sports reporter, de Moraes still delivers as much news about the industry as the writers at the Times – only she doesn’t weigh the beat down with high word counts and Timesian puff. And she’s funny. When CNN’s Lou Dobbs Moneyline was renamed Lou Dobbs Tonight, de Moraes explained that it was “because CNN would not let him rename it “I’m Lou Dobbs, Not Some Darn Islamist.”
With no disrespect to Curry, who is an accomplished reporter, if her impending exit from Today is big news, so is every segment on Entertainment Tonight.
I’ll forgive you in advance if you don’t care whether Curry continues on Today or if you don’t care whether she finds a slot elsewhere in the NBC empire, just as long as you forgive me for not giving a fig either. It’s not that I dislike Ann Curry or Today‘s first fiddle, Matt Lauer, or even Today‘s morning-show competition. It’s just that I dislike the shows for being dulled-down messes of news, entertainment and talk. If I watch any of them, it’s by accident.
My lack of interest in the morning-show mix puts me in the majority. Today, which is usually the number-one-rated program, and ABC’s Good Morning America, which took that position a couple of times this spring, draw an average of fewer than 5 million viewers. The third-ranked show, CBS’s This Morning, pulls in a little more than 2 million viewers. In a country of 311 million, that’s minimal interest.
The length and placement of Stelter’s piece, on the other hand, conveys a level of importance to Curry’s rumored departure that’s hard to justify. Stripped to its essence, the Curry saga might justify a 300-word short about Today‘s recent ratings volatility, Lauer’s alleged estrangement from Curry, and NBC’s judgment that she wasn’t as good a co-host as predecessor Meredith Vieira, all leading to her impending exit.
Instead, Stelter serves an extended story packed with anonymous sources – ”some at NBC,” “some staff members,” “people with knowledge of the negotiations, who insisted on anonymity because the matter was confidential,” “several people who know Ms. Curry,” “one of the people” who know Curry, “friends” of Meredith Vieira, and “one of the people with knowledge of the negotiations” between Curry and NBC – that makes the departure of a TV co-host sound like the final days of Richard Nixon. How much of the anonymous dancing is Curry’s people spinning her story and how much of it is NBC framing the ouster as necessary strategy to save the show is anybody’s guess.
Overdramatizing the comings and goings of on-air talent and the hirings and firings of network executives is a traditional part of the TV beat. The People Who Cover Television never have to worry about material: The TV industry defines itself by ratings, ratings produce winners and losers, and from winners and losers flow an endless river of copy to bottle and sell. The People Who Cover Sports have been doing a similar thing for more than a century. The toughest choice in covering the TV industry (or sports) is to decide whether to make the loser or the winner the day’s story. It’s not that difficult a choice. If you cover the loser today, just remember to put the winner in your calendar for coverage in the future.
A case can be made that the fate of Ann Curry constitutes big news because Today is a $300 million profit machine dependent on ratings for its ad revenues. If ratings drop and she’s to blame, the network’s stockholders must know! But Stelter spends little time there. In the worst tradition of TV coverage, he’s writing a soap opera about a TV show.
I pick on Stelter, but he’s only one of the several dramatizers working the TV beat. His Times colleague Bill Carter has been known to indulge this tendency, and a couple of years ago, critic Bill Wyman took pleasure in hosing Howard Kurtz (Washington Post and the Daily Beast) for his inappropriately thorough pieces on the fading of Katie Couric’s nightly news lights. The extreme coverage of Curry echoes Politico’s coverage of the Washington beat: While the outlet routinely breaks legitimate news, it also tends to inflate whatever political lint it collects into giant mainsails.
At least one newspaper reporter on the TV beat keeps a sense of perspective about her work: Lisa de Moraes of the Washington Post. (Here’s my 2003 appreciation of her work.) With her oeuvre more resembling that of a sports columnist than a sports reporter, de Moraes still delivers as much news about the industry as the writers at the Times – only she doesn’t weigh the beat down with high word counts and Timesian puff. And she’s funny. When CNN’s Lou Dobbs Moneyline was renamed Lou Dobbs Tonight, de Moraes explained that it was “because CNN would not let him rename it “I’m Lou Dobbs, Not Some Darn Islamist.”
With no disrespect to Curry, who is an accomplished reporter, if her impending exit from Today is big news, so is every segment on Entertainment Tonight.
Beat sweetener The Benjamin J. Rhodes edition
If you’ve ever wanted to see a White House staffer dressed in frosting and candy sprinkles like a gourmet cupcake, pull your Saturday, March 16, New York Times out of the recycling pile and read Mark Landler’s adulating “beat sweetener” about Deputy National Security Adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes, “Worldly at 35, and Shaping Obama’s Voice.”
A beat sweetener, as press-watchers know, is an over-the-top slab of journalistic flattery of a potential source calculated to earn a reporter access or continued access. They’re most frequently composed on the White House beat when a new administration arrives in Washington and every Executive Office job turns over, but they can appear any time a reporter is prepared to demean himself by toadying up to a source in exchange for material.
As a beat sweetener, the Rhodes piece excels on so many levels that I’ll bet the subject’s parents have framed and hung the clipping over the family mantel. Landler portrays Rhodes as a young fella with “old man” wisdom; as possessing a “soft voice” that delivers “strong opinions”; as one whose “influence extends beyond what either his title or speechwriting duties suggest”; and as someone who “cares” to the point of “anguish” but is “very realistic.”
The information content of these testimonials, made by both Landler and his sources, is just about zero. We learn that he “channels Mr. Obama on foreign policy,” as if a 35-year-old deputy who writes speeches for the president would have his boss on a leash. His unnamed friends and colleagues attest that he’s “deeply frustrated by a policy [in Syria] that is not working,” as if anyone could be anything but frustrated by a policy that isn’t working. Indeed, in the article’s next sentence, we learn from anonymous “administration officials” that Rhodes “is not alone in his frustration over Syria.”
Drawing liberally from the reporter’s big book of clichés, we learn that Rhodes wrote Obama’s “landmark address” given in Cairo in 2009 and that the upcoming Israel speech he has composed for Obama will assert America’s “unshakable support” for that nation. The salient fact about Rhodes’s landmark address — unmentioned by Landler here — was that it flopped, at least among the locals. According to a Pew survey, confidence in Obama in Muslim countries dropped from 33 percent in 2009 to 24 percent in 2012.
According to Landler, in “many ways” Rhodes was “an improbable choice for his current job at the heart of the national security apparatus.” Improbable? How so? After a couple of paragraphs of biography, in which we learn that Rhodes has an unfinished novel in his drawer (show me a speechwriter who doesn’t have at least one), that he grew up in Manhattan and that he worked briefly on Rudy Giuliani’s 1997 re-election campaign, we’re told that Rhodes toiled for former Representative Lee Hamilton, a “Democratic foreign-policy elder,” and helped him draft the 9/11 Commission report and the Iraq Study Group report. The latter document was “a template for the anti-Iraq war positions taken” by Obama when he was a senator.
Hiring Rhodes — or somebody with his resume — wasn’t an improbable choice. It was entirely predestined. Unnoted in the Times profile are the facts that Rhodes also wrote policy speeches for former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, that other Hamilton aides joined the Obama campaign, and that Rhodes’s wife, Ann Norris, works for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on foreign policy and defense issues. For more Rhodes details, see this PR sketch published by his alma mater, Rice University: He studied there with novelist Max Apple, double-majoring in English and political science, and later got an MFA in fiction at New York University, where he also taught writing.
Why pretend Rhodes was an outside shot for the job? Did the Times decide the piece lacked sufficient tension to hold reader interest, and inflated the story with the bogus notion that he’s an accidental West Winger? Your guess is as good as mine.
Sucking up to Rhodes won’t necessarily earn Landler or other journalists covering the White House an automatic scoop. But beat sweeteners aren’t written with anything so crass in mind as scoops. They’re designed to keep the information conveyor lubricated (“source greaser” is another term for the practice) with journalistic goodwill. As someone who is inside the White House decision loop, Rhodes is a much better friend than an enemy.
That said, there was no reason for the Times to serve its readers a giant vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting and vanilla jimmies. As your mom used to tell you, too much of anything will give you a stomach ache.
A beat sweetener, as press-watchers know, is an over-the-top slab of journalistic flattery of a potential source calculated to earn a reporter access or continued access. They’re most frequently composed on the White House beat when a new administration arrives in Washington and every Executive Office job turns over, but they can appear any time a reporter is prepared to demean himself by toadying up to a source in exchange for material.
As a beat sweetener, the Rhodes piece excels on so many levels that I’ll bet the subject’s parents have framed and hung the clipping over the family mantel. Landler portrays Rhodes as a young fella with “old man” wisdom; as possessing a “soft voice” that delivers “strong opinions”; as one whose “influence extends beyond what either his title or speechwriting duties suggest”; and as someone who “cares” to the point of “anguish” but is “very realistic.”
The information content of these testimonials, made by both Landler and his sources, is just about zero. We learn that he “channels Mr. Obama on foreign policy,” as if a 35-year-old deputy who writes speeches for the president would have his boss on a leash. His unnamed friends and colleagues attest that he’s “deeply frustrated by a policy [in Syria] that is not working,” as if anyone could be anything but frustrated by a policy that isn’t working. Indeed, in the article’s next sentence, we learn from anonymous “administration officials” that Rhodes “is not alone in his frustration over Syria.”
Drawing liberally from the reporter’s big book of clichés, we learn that Rhodes wrote Obama’s “landmark address” given in Cairo in 2009 and that the upcoming Israel speech he has composed for Obama will assert America’s “unshakable support” for that nation. The salient fact about Rhodes’s landmark address — unmentioned by Landler here — was that it flopped, at least among the locals. According to a Pew survey, confidence in Obama in Muslim countries dropped from 33 percent in 2009 to 24 percent in 2012.
According to Landler, in “many ways” Rhodes was “an improbable choice for his current job at the heart of the national security apparatus.” Improbable? How so? After a couple of paragraphs of biography, in which we learn that Rhodes has an unfinished novel in his drawer (show me a speechwriter who doesn’t have at least one), that he grew up in Manhattan and that he worked briefly on Rudy Giuliani’s 1997 re-election campaign, we’re told that Rhodes toiled for former Representative Lee Hamilton, a “Democratic foreign-policy elder,” and helped him draft the 9/11 Commission report and the Iraq Study Group report. The latter document was “a template for the anti-Iraq war positions taken” by Obama when he was a senator.
Hiring Rhodes — or somebody with his resume — wasn’t an improbable choice. It was entirely predestined. Unnoted in the Times profile are the facts that Rhodes also wrote policy speeches for former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, that other Hamilton aides joined the Obama campaign, and that Rhodes’s wife, Ann Norris, works for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on foreign policy and defense issues. For more Rhodes details, see this PR sketch published by his alma mater, Rice University: He studied there with novelist Max Apple, double-majoring in English and political science, and later got an MFA in fiction at New York University, where he also taught writing.
Why pretend Rhodes was an outside shot for the job? Did the Times decide the piece lacked sufficient tension to hold reader interest, and inflated the story with the bogus notion that he’s an accidental West Winger? Your guess is as good as mine.
Sucking up to Rhodes won’t necessarily earn Landler or other journalists covering the White House an automatic scoop. But beat sweeteners aren’t written with anything so crass in mind as scoops. They’re designed to keep the information conveyor lubricated (“source greaser” is another term for the practice) with journalistic goodwill. As someone who is inside the White House decision loop, Rhodes is a much better friend than an enemy.
That said, there was no reason for the Times to serve its readers a giant vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting and vanilla jimmies. As your mom used to tell you, too much of anything will give you a stomach ache.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
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The long, slow decline of alt-weeklies
Alternative weekly colossus Boston Phoenix cracked and fell yesterday, ceasing publication after 47 years. According to a Phoenix executive quoted in the obituary in today’s Boston Globe, the alternative weekly was losing more than $1 million a year, and a format switch last fall from newsprint to glossy had failed to attract the sort of national advertising it desired.
Once one of the leading alt-weeklies in the nation, the dead paper leaves behind $1.2 million in debt and roughly $500,000 in assets. The fact that its owner didn’t — or couldn’t — sell the publication to cover some of its debt signals the illness of the greater alternative weekly market.
Like its daily newspaper counterpart, the alt-weekly has enjoyed a terrible half-decade of plummeting revenues, circulation and page counts in the 100-plus markets currently served. One large chain that owned papers in Chicago, Washington, Atlanta, Charlotte and elsewhere filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and was eventually spun apart, but that financial disaster was as much about clueless proprietors overleveraging themselves as it was the decay of the alt-weekly business model.
The formula, pioneered by the Village Voice in the 1950s, finessed by the Phoenix in the 1960s and perfected by the Chicago Reader, the Phoenix New Times and others in the 1970s, became such a cinch that know-nothing bar owners and recent college graduates (or dropouts!) eventually made millions off it. Some papers, like the Phoenix New Times, built immense chains from the links they forged and acquired. The formula connected underserved readers with overcharged advertisers in both compact, urban settings like New York and Washington and sunbelt expanses like Phoenix and Dallas. In 2005, the two largest alt-weekly chains, anchored respectively by the Phoenix New Times and the Voice, combined to create a company valued by the participants at $400 million, with annual revenues of $180 million. Newspapers started in bar booths had become big business, but like many of the daily newspaper merger and acquisition deals going down during same period, this deal also proved too rich.
Many former alt-weekly editors would like to persuade you that their cutting take on city politics and the arts combined with their dedication to the feature form won readers. Actually, it was the whole gestalt that made the publications work. Comprehensive listings paired with club and concert ads to both entertain and help readers plan their week. Classified ads, especially the personals, often provided better reading than the journalistic fare in the front of the book. No better venue for apartment rentals existed; even people who had long-term leases used the housing ads to fantasize. Even the display ads, purchased mostly by local retailers and service providers, were useful to readers.
Once one of the leading alt-weeklies in the nation, the dead paper leaves behind $1.2 million in debt and roughly $500,000 in assets. The fact that its owner didn’t — or couldn’t — sell the publication to cover some of its debt signals the illness of the greater alternative weekly market.
Like its daily newspaper counterpart, the alt-weekly has enjoyed a terrible half-decade of plummeting revenues, circulation and page counts in the 100-plus markets currently served. One large chain that owned papers in Chicago, Washington, Atlanta, Charlotte and elsewhere filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and was eventually spun apart, but that financial disaster was as much about clueless proprietors overleveraging themselves as it was the decay of the alt-weekly business model.
The formula, pioneered by the Village Voice in the 1950s, finessed by the Phoenix in the 1960s and perfected by the Chicago Reader, the Phoenix New Times and others in the 1970s, became such a cinch that know-nothing bar owners and recent college graduates (or dropouts!) eventually made millions off it. Some papers, like the Phoenix New Times, built immense chains from the links they forged and acquired. The formula connected underserved readers with overcharged advertisers in both compact, urban settings like New York and Washington and sunbelt expanses like Phoenix and Dallas. In 2005, the two largest alt-weekly chains, anchored respectively by the Phoenix New Times and the Voice, combined to create a company valued by the participants at $400 million, with annual revenues of $180 million. Newspapers started in bar booths had become big business, but like many of the daily newspaper merger and acquisition deals going down during same period, this deal also proved too rich.
Many former alt-weekly editors would like to persuade you that their cutting take on city politics and the arts combined with their dedication to the feature form won readers. Actually, it was the whole gestalt that made the publications work. Comprehensive listings paired with club and concert ads to both entertain and help readers plan their week. Classified ads, especially the personals, often provided better reading than the journalistic fare in the front of the book. No better venue for apartment rentals existed; even people who had long-term leases used the housing ads to fantasize. Even the display ads, purchased mostly by local retailers and service providers, were useful to readers.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Fashion Trend – Neon
Ever since color blocking came over last summer, neon colors are all over the place. But it didn’t do too well after the take off as it can come off as tacky when not put together well. However this season there are plenty of more sophisticated neon fashion items to choose from. Whether you have a bag fetish or you are a jewelry aficionado neons are the go to colors for this season.
For the uninitiated neon are bright fluorescent colors (the ones you see on highlighters like fluorescent yellow, orange, green, pink and blue). These colours are very luminescent in nature and hence can be worn solid as a base or as an accent depending on your style, personality, the occasion and your body type. Neon is not easy to wear and you need to take effort to put them together. Here are some ideas on how you could incorporate neons into your ward robe.
Neon dresses: Neon T shirts are so passe, neon dresses (knee length or shorter) are the latest trend. The shorter ones can be paired with jeggings or fitted jeans and the longer ones can just be worn as a dress, as is or with a blazer if required. Accessorize with some long chains for a smart look.
Neon Pants: If you have the body type and the attitude to carry it off, then there’s nothing like pairing fitted fluorescent denim with a black/white tank/ Tshirt and a blazer. Accessorize with gladiator styled heels in black/white and you are good to go.
Muted neons: Think neons are too bright for you? Mute them by layering them with a sheer fabric like tulle or lace. Or you could take a cue from Louis Vuitton ads and sport dress with cut work or cut outs in them with neon lining.
Neon accessories: Try your hand at some spring colour blocking by teaming neon shoes with faded pastel clothing. Colourful, oversized clutches are an on-trend choice of accessory. Big totes in neon (esp. green) also do work really well. It is not necessary that all neon bags will be in plastic or coated materials. These days you get neon bags/ clutches made of leather and jute too. But if you like the frosted finish of the water proof bags, then you are in luck, for that is in trend too.
Neon Jewelry: Most big brands in costume jewelry are into neon these days. Big chunky stones in fluorescent green, orange and pink, when put together create quite an impact. Obviously, they are expensive. So the easiest way is to buy white rhinestone jewelry, according to your taste and budget (most local markets and malls stock them) and color them with a few coats of funky nail polish colours. You can even add pieces of neon rope or ribbon to make them look unique. Team such pieces with something simple like a black dress and heels for a truly stunning look.
Don’t like too much of neon, then use it as an accent in your clothes and accessories. A piping here, a patch there is enough to make your clothes look trendy this season. So go on pick up some neon colors and highlight your wardrobe with them.
For the uninitiated neon are bright fluorescent colors (the ones you see on highlighters like fluorescent yellow, orange, green, pink and blue). These colours are very luminescent in nature and hence can be worn solid as a base or as an accent depending on your style, personality, the occasion and your body type. Neon is not easy to wear and you need to take effort to put them together. Here are some ideas on how you could incorporate neons into your ward robe.
Neon dresses: Neon T shirts are so passe, neon dresses (knee length or shorter) are the latest trend. The shorter ones can be paired with jeggings or fitted jeans and the longer ones can just be worn as a dress, as is or with a blazer if required. Accessorize with some long chains for a smart look.
Neon Pants: If you have the body type and the attitude to carry it off, then there’s nothing like pairing fitted fluorescent denim with a black/white tank/ Tshirt and a blazer. Accessorize with gladiator styled heels in black/white and you are good to go.
Muted neons: Think neons are too bright for you? Mute them by layering them with a sheer fabric like tulle or lace. Or you could take a cue from Louis Vuitton ads and sport dress with cut work or cut outs in them with neon lining.
Neon accessories: Try your hand at some spring colour blocking by teaming neon shoes with faded pastel clothing. Colourful, oversized clutches are an on-trend choice of accessory. Big totes in neon (esp. green) also do work really well. It is not necessary that all neon bags will be in plastic or coated materials. These days you get neon bags/ clutches made of leather and jute too. But if you like the frosted finish of the water proof bags, then you are in luck, for that is in trend too.
Neon Jewelry: Most big brands in costume jewelry are into neon these days. Big chunky stones in fluorescent green, orange and pink, when put together create quite an impact. Obviously, they are expensive. So the easiest way is to buy white rhinestone jewelry, according to your taste and budget (most local markets and malls stock them) and color them with a few coats of funky nail polish colours. You can even add pieces of neon rope or ribbon to make them look unique. Team such pieces with something simple like a black dress and heels for a truly stunning look.
Don’t like too much of neon, then use it as an accent in your clothes and accessories. A piping here, a patch there is enough to make your clothes look trendy this season. So go on pick up some neon colors and highlight your wardrobe with them.
Diamand Pendant Are The Women's Best Love
Diamond pendants make for splendid surprise gifts to be presented to your loved ones. If you are not sure of what to buy for your dear ones, diamond pendants can be the best pick. The reason is simple: they never go out of style because their message is universal and timeless. A diamond pendant is brilliant jewelry to be worn at any event.
The diamond pendant necklace has so much to offer for that special occasion with that special somebody. With the unique styles and shapes that the diamond pendant necklace can be found in makes it easy to find just the right style to match that special person in your life personality and style. Depending on your choice and budget, diamond pendant and diamond necklaces are available in a whole array of ranges in a mixture of styles and designs that give unique look. Some of the popular shapes found in pendants are rectangle, round, oval, square and pear that you can select according to your choice.
Our selection of diamond necklaces, diamond pendants and diamond lockets contains a perfect item of jewellery for every occasion. Within this section, you will find unique necklaces as well as timeless diamond pendants and lockets with a contemporary interpretation. Baunat works solely with the best quality materials, guarantees perfection and offers this high-quality diamond jewellery at the best prices.
The diamond pendant necklace has so much to offer for that special occasion with that special somebody. With the unique styles and shapes that the diamond pendant necklace can be found in makes it easy to find just the right style to match that special person in your life personality and style. Depending on your choice and budget, diamond pendant and diamond necklaces are available in a whole array of ranges in a mixture of styles and designs that give unique look. Some of the popular shapes found in pendants are rectangle, round, oval, square and pear that you can select according to your choice.
Our selection of diamond necklaces, diamond pendants and diamond lockets contains a perfect item of jewellery for every occasion. Within this section, you will find unique necklaces as well as timeless diamond pendants and lockets with a contemporary interpretation. Baunat works solely with the best quality materials, guarantees perfection and offers this high-quality diamond jewellery at the best prices.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
How to Crochet Your Own Hair Snoods?
Hear the word "snood" and you might think of an addicting computer game with furry little monster faces. But it's actually an old-school hair accessory that resembles a lacy net or bag. In olden times, ladies sometimes wore a snood attached to a headband or a hat. If you want to re-create the Renaissance in your life, learn how to crochet your own hair snoods. Once you get the hang of the basic pattern, embellish it with beads, pearls or new and different yarns to bring this piece of hair history into the modern age.
1. Start with a few chain stitches; make four of them and join them together with a slip stitch to form a circle. This will be the base of your snood. When you crochet it like this, you will be able to try it on as you go, which will come in handy later.
2. Chain three, which counts as a double crochet stitch. Make 11 double crochet stitches into the center of the circle you made in Step 1, then join to the top of your initial chain-three stitch. This will make the base of your snood.
3. For round two, increase the circumference of your snood. To do this, chain three again to act as your first double crochet. Chain one more and then double crochet into the next stitch; chain one, double crochet into the following stitch. Repeat this pattern around so you have a total of 12 double crochets and 12 chain-one stitches.
4. Work the next round evenly; to do this, chain four, which counts as your first double crochet and chain one. Skip the next stitch, which is a chain stitch, and make a double crochet into the following stitch, which is a double crochet. Chain one and make a double crochet in the next double crochet stitch, again skipping the chain one. Repeat this pattern around.
5. Increase the width again on the next round. To do this, chain four, then double crochet into the next stitch from the previous round. Chain one and double crochet into the next stitch in the previous round. Chain one again and double crochet into the next stitch from the previous round. Continue this pattern around; you are basically repeating the process of Step 4, but you aren't skipping any stitches this time. This will double the total number of stitches in your snood.
6. Crochet evenly around for all remaining rounds. To do this, repeat the process you used in Step 4. This will give your snood height. Try it on as you go by placing your hair into the bag shape the snood is forming. When the snood is long enough to hold all of your hair at shoulder length or just above it and the open top of the snood reaches your forehead, crochet one more even round of double crochets and chain stitches.
7. Finish the snood by making one final round. This time, chain one and make one single crochet stitch into every double crochet and chain stitch from the previous round. Join with a slip stitch and fasten off, then use a large-eye blunt needle to weave in your loose ends. Thread a length of 1/2-inch wide ribbon through the last double crochet round of the snood, weaving the ribbon over and under each subsequent double crochet stitch. Tie the ribbon in a bow. You can use this to hold the snood onto your head when you wear it, so leave plenty of extra ribbon length for it to stretch around your head like a headband.
1. Start with a few chain stitches; make four of them and join them together with a slip stitch to form a circle. This will be the base of your snood. When you crochet it like this, you will be able to try it on as you go, which will come in handy later.
2. Chain three, which counts as a double crochet stitch. Make 11 double crochet stitches into the center of the circle you made in Step 1, then join to the top of your initial chain-three stitch. This will make the base of your snood.
3. For round two, increase the circumference of your snood. To do this, chain three again to act as your first double crochet. Chain one more and then double crochet into the next stitch; chain one, double crochet into the following stitch. Repeat this pattern around so you have a total of 12 double crochets and 12 chain-one stitches.
4. Work the next round evenly; to do this, chain four, which counts as your first double crochet and chain one. Skip the next stitch, which is a chain stitch, and make a double crochet into the following stitch, which is a double crochet. Chain one and make a double crochet in the next double crochet stitch, again skipping the chain one. Repeat this pattern around.
5. Increase the width again on the next round. To do this, chain four, then double crochet into the next stitch from the previous round. Chain one and double crochet into the next stitch in the previous round. Chain one again and double crochet into the next stitch from the previous round. Continue this pattern around; you are basically repeating the process of Step 4, but you aren't skipping any stitches this time. This will double the total number of stitches in your snood.
6. Crochet evenly around for all remaining rounds. To do this, repeat the process you used in Step 4. This will give your snood height. Try it on as you go by placing your hair into the bag shape the snood is forming. When the snood is long enough to hold all of your hair at shoulder length or just above it and the open top of the snood reaches your forehead, crochet one more even round of double crochets and chain stitches.
7. Finish the snood by making one final round. This time, chain one and make one single crochet stitch into every double crochet and chain stitch from the previous round. Join with a slip stitch and fasten off, then use a large-eye blunt needle to weave in your loose ends. Thread a length of 1/2-inch wide ribbon through the last double crochet round of the snood, weaving the ribbon over and under each subsequent double crochet stitch. Tie the ribbon in a bow. You can use this to hold the snood onto your head when you wear it, so leave plenty of extra ribbon length for it to stretch around your head like a headband.
The Beautiful Fashion Crystal Necklaces With Your Fashion Clothes
Today handmade design crystal necklace is in great demand. There is a new style of circle blue crystal flowers rhinestone necklace, it is made by crystal and rhinestones. The blue crystal at the center is highlighted by surrounding colorful rhinestones, which make the crystal necklace become more beautiful. That is the reason why most women like this style necklace.
The crystal necklace collection is every woman’s dream come true. They store everything from the most romantic jewelry for the demure women to the stylish and the trendy designs to the women in vogue. Shamrock crystals and the Swarovski crystals are meant to invoke the image the woman wishes to portray to the people. The heart-shaped blood red Swarovski crystal necklaces surrounded by the white crystals hanging on an alloy chain is perfect for a seductive evening. To give a trendy and smart image, the working women can go for the neckline made of Swarovski crystal that blends perfectly with the formal attire she adorns. From flowery patterns to the vintage designs, you can find what you are looking for at the vipmoderato.com.
Online store is the top most stores where you can have the huge range of the fashion jewelry. The style and design you get in the online jewelry stores all will be very good. Of cause what you pay is what you get; therefore you should focus on getting the best quality jewel so that you will feel comfortable when wearing them on ago. The quality, style, beauty and perfection you will find from online market, and you will buy a perfect price of yourself.
The crystal necklace collection is every woman’s dream come true. They store everything from the most romantic jewelry for the demure women to the stylish and the trendy designs to the women in vogue. Shamrock crystals and the Swarovski crystals are meant to invoke the image the woman wishes to portray to the people. The heart-shaped blood red Swarovski crystal necklaces surrounded by the white crystals hanging on an alloy chain is perfect for a seductive evening. To give a trendy and smart image, the working women can go for the neckline made of Swarovski crystal that blends perfectly with the formal attire she adorns. From flowery patterns to the vintage designs, you can find what you are looking for at the vipmoderato.com.
Online store is the top most stores where you can have the huge range of the fashion jewelry. The style and design you get in the online jewelry stores all will be very good. Of cause what you pay is what you get; therefore you should focus on getting the best quality jewel so that you will feel comfortable when wearing them on ago. The quality, style, beauty and perfection you will find from online market, and you will buy a perfect price of yourself.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
The Truth About Eyelash Enhancing Serums
I have to admit, I didn’t want to take this assignment at first.
Before a few months ago I had never used an eyelash enhancer and when I was asked to review them, I told my editors "I don't feel comfortable reviewing something I've never personally used".
But then something happened... My friend Nancy Leggars was visiting me from San Diego and there was something different about Nancy.. Here eyelashes were huge!
I mean they were so long she could barely wear her glasses.. I totally thought she was wearing falsies.. But no, Nancy told me she had been using an eyelash enhancer!
After that, I was convincd I need to try these for myself and take the assignment. Here's what I found..
As you've probably seen, women are reporting amazing things about eyelash enhancers. Not only are women using them to repair damaged lashes back to their full potential, but also to support new lash growth, making their existing lashes longer, darker and much fuller... and let me tell you.. these things are noticeable.
But the real questions is.. which ones REALLY work? Companies looking to cash in on this cosmetics craze are releasing all sorts of eyelash treatments and many are not what they seem.
Naturally, these incredible claims have caused some women to be skeptical of the products and their promises, and a quick glance at the research shows why:
* They might not work- this is probably the biggest reason why some women are reluctant to try an enhancer, and with good reason: many of the products on the market don’t contain the proper ingredients in the proper concentration to produce results.
* They can be expensive- some enhancers can cost $125+ for a four week treatment!
* Some products can cause discoloration or irritation- thicker lashes aren’t much help if they’re attached to red, puffy eyes.
But how can you know which products are the good ones? How can you tell an eyelash enhancer that works from those that are simply a waste of money?
We know it's not easy to find an eyelash enhancer that works, and we felt like women shouldn’t have to hire a research assistant just to get one that produces results. That’s why we reviewed the products ourselves.
How We Researched
For an eyelash enhancer to work, it has to use the right amount of active ingredients that are responsible for growth.
Now, these ingredients are not cheap and many brands cut cost by only using meniscal amounts.
How do you tell which brands use the right amount of active ingredient?
It's easy. The higher up on the ingredient list the active ingredient is, the more of it is in the formula.
We looked at 47 different brands in all to find out which ones really use the right amount of active ingredient and have also been proven to grow your lashes.
Here's What We Found:
As we thought, the majority of eye lash enhancers do not use nearly enough of the expensive active ingredients required to support eyelash growth.
They claim to get results, but many only use basic mineral oils that that can be bought at any drug store for pennies on the dollar compared to the excessive prices these eyelash enhancers cost.
However, we did manage to find a few brands that do use the right amount of the high quality ingredients proven to be effective.
And boy do these brands work! Upon reading user stories of these products, we heard nothing but amazing results! Women report these products to do exactly what they claim. Many women with damaged eyelashes say these products have caused incredible results and that they would gladly spend the high price to buy them again. Other women say they've used other eyelashes with no result, but these products worked where those did not. Some women even report that these products work so well, they were able to stop wearing mascara to show off their eyelashes.
If you're looking for an eyelash enhancer, these are the products to use.
Before a few months ago I had never used an eyelash enhancer and when I was asked to review them, I told my editors "I don't feel comfortable reviewing something I've never personally used".
But then something happened... My friend Nancy Leggars was visiting me from San Diego and there was something different about Nancy.. Here eyelashes were huge!
I mean they were so long she could barely wear her glasses.. I totally thought she was wearing falsies.. But no, Nancy told me she had been using an eyelash enhancer!
After that, I was convincd I need to try these for myself and take the assignment. Here's what I found..
As you've probably seen, women are reporting amazing things about eyelash enhancers. Not only are women using them to repair damaged lashes back to their full potential, but also to support new lash growth, making their existing lashes longer, darker and much fuller... and let me tell you.. these things are noticeable.
But the real questions is.. which ones REALLY work? Companies looking to cash in on this cosmetics craze are releasing all sorts of eyelash treatments and many are not what they seem.
Naturally, these incredible claims have caused some women to be skeptical of the products and their promises, and a quick glance at the research shows why:
* They might not work- this is probably the biggest reason why some women are reluctant to try an enhancer, and with good reason: many of the products on the market don’t contain the proper ingredients in the proper concentration to produce results.
* They can be expensive- some enhancers can cost $125+ for a four week treatment!
* Some products can cause discoloration or irritation- thicker lashes aren’t much help if they’re attached to red, puffy eyes.
But how can you know which products are the good ones? How can you tell an eyelash enhancer that works from those that are simply a waste of money?
We know it's not easy to find an eyelash enhancer that works, and we felt like women shouldn’t have to hire a research assistant just to get one that produces results. That’s why we reviewed the products ourselves.
How We Researched
For an eyelash enhancer to work, it has to use the right amount of active ingredients that are responsible for growth.
Now, these ingredients are not cheap and many brands cut cost by only using meniscal amounts.
How do you tell which brands use the right amount of active ingredient?
It's easy. The higher up on the ingredient list the active ingredient is, the more of it is in the formula.
We looked at 47 different brands in all to find out which ones really use the right amount of active ingredient and have also been proven to grow your lashes.
Here's What We Found:
As we thought, the majority of eye lash enhancers do not use nearly enough of the expensive active ingredients required to support eyelash growth.
They claim to get results, but many only use basic mineral oils that that can be bought at any drug store for pennies on the dollar compared to the excessive prices these eyelash enhancers cost.
However, we did manage to find a few brands that do use the right amount of the high quality ingredients proven to be effective.
And boy do these brands work! Upon reading user stories of these products, we heard nothing but amazing results! Women report these products to do exactly what they claim. Many women with damaged eyelashes say these products have caused incredible results and that they would gladly spend the high price to buy them again. Other women say they've used other eyelashes with no result, but these products worked where those did not. Some women even report that these products work so well, they were able to stop wearing mascara to show off their eyelashes.
If you're looking for an eyelash enhancer, these are the products to use.
Comfortable Pet Bed Are For Your Pet
Our site provide best quality dog beds and cat beds. It is choosing from a wide variety of popular colors, fashions, shapes, and sizes of pet beds. You can trust the professionals here to have the best pet products at the lowest prices. Detailed introduction of them: our pet beds with the feathures as follows. First, it can give your pets a place to rest; then, it is making your pets comfortable and warming; At last, you also can design the pet beds for your pets.
You will find that our pet bed not only the best bed for any extra large pet, but also extremely comfortable and are offered in designer fabrics and styles. We can make sure that your dog is comfortable on all of our pet bed whether it is the dog couch. What is more, it can make your dog will feel better and it can sleep soundly ,while appreciating our finest durable pet beds and dog furniture is right from puppyhood.Best quality and reasonable price.
You love your dog and consider it a part of your family, a part that is as equivalent as others. But would you ever let your daughter or son sleep on the hard floor on colds and summers? So how can you let your dog sleep there? Special beds are designed for dogs that are quite good, warmth provider as well as they does not cut your pockets too. There is variety of such dog beds in the market with huge range of colors, patterns and designs available.
You will find that our pet bed not only the best bed for any extra large pet, but also extremely comfortable and are offered in designer fabrics and styles. We can make sure that your dog is comfortable on all of our pet bed whether it is the dog couch. What is more, it can make your dog will feel better and it can sleep soundly ,while appreciating our finest durable pet beds and dog furniture is right from puppyhood.Best quality and reasonable price.
You love your dog and consider it a part of your family, a part that is as equivalent as others. But would you ever let your daughter or son sleep on the hard floor on colds and summers? So how can you let your dog sleep there? Special beds are designed for dogs that are quite good, warmth provider as well as they does not cut your pockets too. There is variety of such dog beds in the market with huge range of colors, patterns and designs available.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Selecting The Right Type Of Earrings For Yourself
From Time immemorial earrings have been in trend. Being such a wonderful and versatile accessory, through centuries men and women have used them to adorn themselves, selecting particular designs for particular occasions and face types. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know how to select the best pair of earrings for you? Here are some tips from my side.
Earrings by closure - Earrings come in many different types - studs, hoops, danglers, chandelier and clip-on. Studs and hoops typically have a backing made of metal or plastic to hold the earring in place, while danglers will hook into the hole and hang without a backing. Sling backs or fold backs are danglers which will have clasps that snap into place. Chandeliers and discs can be studs or danglers. Choose stud backing for earrings that are heavy and loop dangles for ones that are light. Heavier ones will need additional backing or a chain that goes over the ears.
Earrings by Face Type - If you have a round, short face, long earrings like chandeliers and chain earrings may look awkward and so will tiny studs. The best type of earrings for you is a stud with a small dangler that will balance out your face. Long faces may dwarf a pair of stud earrings. If you have a long neck chain earrings or tassels that gently graze your neckline will look beautiful on you. Long earrings also help slenderize chubby cheeks and faces. If your face is more on the (inverted) triangular side then flat disc earrings and hoops will look good.
Earrings by hairstyle - Consider some dangles and medium sized studs when wearing your hair up and away from your face. Large earrings might look too clunky with your updos unless you are in very casual, bohemian surroundings. While wearing your hair down, if your hair is long enough (till the shoulders or below) choose a larger earring design. Earrings that are too small will simply get lost inside your hair and not be seen at all. Chandelier earrings are an excellent option when wearing your hair down. Hoops and discs look good with plaits and ponytails.
Earrings by wardrobe - If you have a conservative wardrobe for the office, then you might want to stick with simple studs and small hoops to go with your trousers, skirts and sarees. Here a simple diamond or gold stud is your best bet. On the other hand, dangling and chandelier earrings are fabulous to wear with tunics, dresses or jeans for outings. Jhumkas and earrings that cover the ear are great with Indian outfits like salwars and sarees. Novelty earrings, mismatched earrings (different yet coordinated earrings on different ears) or coupled earrings (a cat and mouse) are best suited for pairing with casual outfits.
Choosing the right earrings will make a great impact on those who see you for they can help draw attention away from blemishes, complement your hairstyle, and help lengthen or slenderize your face.
Earrings by closure - Earrings come in many different types - studs, hoops, danglers, chandelier and clip-on. Studs and hoops typically have a backing made of metal or plastic to hold the earring in place, while danglers will hook into the hole and hang without a backing. Sling backs or fold backs are danglers which will have clasps that snap into place. Chandeliers and discs can be studs or danglers. Choose stud backing for earrings that are heavy and loop dangles for ones that are light. Heavier ones will need additional backing or a chain that goes over the ears.
Earrings by Face Type - If you have a round, short face, long earrings like chandeliers and chain earrings may look awkward and so will tiny studs. The best type of earrings for you is a stud with a small dangler that will balance out your face. Long faces may dwarf a pair of stud earrings. If you have a long neck chain earrings or tassels that gently graze your neckline will look beautiful on you. Long earrings also help slenderize chubby cheeks and faces. If your face is more on the (inverted) triangular side then flat disc earrings and hoops will look good.
Earrings by hairstyle - Consider some dangles and medium sized studs when wearing your hair up and away from your face. Large earrings might look too clunky with your updos unless you are in very casual, bohemian surroundings. While wearing your hair down, if your hair is long enough (till the shoulders or below) choose a larger earring design. Earrings that are too small will simply get lost inside your hair and not be seen at all. Chandelier earrings are an excellent option when wearing your hair down. Hoops and discs look good with plaits and ponytails.
Earrings by wardrobe - If you have a conservative wardrobe for the office, then you might want to stick with simple studs and small hoops to go with your trousers, skirts and sarees. Here a simple diamond or gold stud is your best bet. On the other hand, dangling and chandelier earrings are fabulous to wear with tunics, dresses or jeans for outings. Jhumkas and earrings that cover the ear are great with Indian outfits like salwars and sarees. Novelty earrings, mismatched earrings (different yet coordinated earrings on different ears) or coupled earrings (a cat and mouse) are best suited for pairing with casual outfits.
Choosing the right earrings will make a great impact on those who see you for they can help draw attention away from blemishes, complement your hairstyle, and help lengthen or slenderize your face.
Purchasing Beautiful Crystal Earrings For Your Friends
If you are a lover of jewellery then you must visit the many websites that sell online jewellery in Australia. There are numerous such sites and the deals and offers that you can avail from them are mind boggling. The discounts are huge and there is no way you could get jewellery at that price at any of the regular jewellery stores. There is something to please everyone and to suit every budget. The deals change every day, so it is a good idea to keep checking the websites to see if there is an offer to tempt you.
The crystal earrings made by Swarovski are known for the different colors with unique names that are known to be descriptions of each shade. They come in various designs and shapes that can match outfits and occasions. There are simple but elegant designs and delicate ones that are eye catching. As a woman, you need to understand the essence of wearing earrings appropriately.
When a woman is on a budget while shopping for jewelry, it may be more difficult to find exactly what she wants. Diamond earrings can be quite pricey, and precious gems can be expensive as well. Shopping portal are relatively inexpensive by comparison, but still portray an expensive taste. The sparkle and elegance of crystals give any woman an air of sophistication and can make her feel like she has expensive taste without having to spend more than her budget allows. They also make a great gift and are sure to impress the loved one who is lucky enough to receive such a luxurious present. Crystal earrings are expensive-looking while still being budget-friendly.
Whether wearing a dress for a night out on the town, or a business casual outfit to work, a woman wants jewelry that completes and compliments her outfit. She wants something that is uniquely hers and suits her personal style and aesthetics. She wants jewelry that does not break the budget but yet still looks expensive. Crystal earrings offer all this and more. They add elegance and sparkle and are classy and sophisticated. They can be worn for work or play and truly are a versatile piece of jewelry for any occasion.
The crystal earrings made by Swarovski are known for the different colors with unique names that are known to be descriptions of each shade. They come in various designs and shapes that can match outfits and occasions. There are simple but elegant designs and delicate ones that are eye catching. As a woman, you need to understand the essence of wearing earrings appropriately.
When a woman is on a budget while shopping for jewelry, it may be more difficult to find exactly what she wants. Diamond earrings can be quite pricey, and precious gems can be expensive as well. Shopping portal are relatively inexpensive by comparison, but still portray an expensive taste. The sparkle and elegance of crystals give any woman an air of sophistication and can make her feel like she has expensive taste without having to spend more than her budget allows. They also make a great gift and are sure to impress the loved one who is lucky enough to receive such a luxurious present. Crystal earrings are expensive-looking while still being budget-friendly.
Whether wearing a dress for a night out on the town, or a business casual outfit to work, a woman wants jewelry that completes and compliments her outfit. She wants something that is uniquely hers and suits her personal style and aesthetics. She wants jewelry that does not break the budget but yet still looks expensive. Crystal earrings offer all this and more. They add elegance and sparkle and are classy and sophisticated. They can be worn for work or play and truly are a versatile piece of jewelry for any occasion.
Monday, June 3, 2013
How to accessorize according to body shape
These days, everyone is talking about body types. Pear, apple, diamond, hourglass; people are figuring out the best way to dress as per their body types. It is really good in a way, as once you are aware of your body type and thereby what suits you/ does not suit you, its easy to build a wardrobe and dressing up will not be so stressful. In one of my earlier articles – dressing for your body type, I had described the various female body types in detail and what sort of clothes would suit them. Now I will talk about how to accessorize according to your body types. So gear up for some interesting accessorizing tips!
Jewelry: When trying to accessorize body shape you must focus on all those advantages you want to point out and invest all of your strength into choosing pieces that will make all of your wonderful features pop. Proud of your slim hands? Wear a flattering bracelet and a statement ring! Love your long neck – wear long earrings or a collar necklace to show it off.
Belts: Narrow belts are super hot this season, but wide obi belts are rocking as well. So which ones should you opt for? The choice of a belt should depend on the length of your torso and overall height which means that shorter ladies or ladies with shorter torsos or apple and pear body types look best with a narrow belt and taller ladies or ladies with longer torsos could benefit from wider belts. The in between ones can carry off both. If you have an apple body shape your tunic will look best if you belt it at high waist. Rectangular shaped ladies such need to wear their belts on their natural waistline because this makes the body look curvier while the ladies with natural curves need to find the narrowest part of their waist to point out.
Bags: Bags can make or break your look for there are the determiners of balance and proportion in your look. Petite women should choose small to medium sized bags rather than their oversized alternatives while curvier gals need to stay away from anything tiny and opt for larger pieces. Also choose the handle length depending on your body types. If you are heavy on the hips, you don’t want a heavy bag at the stomach or hip level but a sleek rectangular one. The same holds good in the case of chunky bags lined up at bust level. If you have small busts, then this will balance your look but if you are really busty then it will make look like an inverted triangle.
Shoes: Just when you thought shoes don’t depend on body types, I am going to upset you for a bit and tell you the truth. They Do!! Wide ankle straps make your legs seem shorter and bulkier so avoid them if you are heavy on the bottom. Classic pumps, simple ballet flats and smooth leather boots without any details will slim you down and make you look taller. In case you’re petite avoid chunky boots, and bulky platforms. Strappy sandals and ballerinas will look prettier on you.
Jewelry: When trying to accessorize body shape you must focus on all those advantages you want to point out and invest all of your strength into choosing pieces that will make all of your wonderful features pop. Proud of your slim hands? Wear a flattering bracelet and a statement ring! Love your long neck – wear long earrings or a collar necklace to show it off.
Belts: Narrow belts are super hot this season, but wide obi belts are rocking as well. So which ones should you opt for? The choice of a belt should depend on the length of your torso and overall height which means that shorter ladies or ladies with shorter torsos or apple and pear body types look best with a narrow belt and taller ladies or ladies with longer torsos could benefit from wider belts. The in between ones can carry off both. If you have an apple body shape your tunic will look best if you belt it at high waist. Rectangular shaped ladies such need to wear their belts on their natural waistline because this makes the body look curvier while the ladies with natural curves need to find the narrowest part of their waist to point out.
Bags: Bags can make or break your look for there are the determiners of balance and proportion in your look. Petite women should choose small to medium sized bags rather than their oversized alternatives while curvier gals need to stay away from anything tiny and opt for larger pieces. Also choose the handle length depending on your body types. If you are heavy on the hips, you don’t want a heavy bag at the stomach or hip level but a sleek rectangular one. The same holds good in the case of chunky bags lined up at bust level. If you have small busts, then this will balance your look but if you are really busty then it will make look like an inverted triangle.
Shoes: Just when you thought shoes don’t depend on body types, I am going to upset you for a bit and tell you the truth. They Do!! Wide ankle straps make your legs seem shorter and bulkier so avoid them if you are heavy on the bottom. Classic pumps, simple ballet flats and smooth leather boots without any details will slim you down and make you look taller. In case you’re petite avoid chunky boots, and bulky platforms. Strappy sandals and ballerinas will look prettier on you.
The Beautiful Girl Hair Accessories
No matter how old your little girl is, the hair accessories are a key element in keeping hair tidy as well as expressing personal style. But for the really little ones–who often times don’t have a lot hair to work with–this can be a challenge. Soft headbands are great–especially those with fun, girlie embellishments like flowers, pompoms or crystals. But clips are it!
Most of the women want their hair long and silky while others find it hard to support and opted a short hair for convenience. Noticed that you cannot go out without even stopping by in front of the mirror and see if everything are in place, that is because women are so conscious in the way they look. There are many ways girl hair accessories comes to an aide especially for women with unruly hair, the best way to get away with such dilemma is either you clip it to the side or wear a cloth band for that matter. Even in sport event hair gets in your way. That is why most athletes who wants to keep their long hair uses head band. Hence it is imperative that you keep a variety of hair accessories in your drawer, you will never when you will need it badly.
We'd like to welcome you to our page filled with great values and high quality, selection of hair accessories. We strive to offer only the best available options. Hair accessories are important items, meant to be beautiful and long lasting. We strive to be top-of-the-line amongst all of our competitors, giving you, the customer, exactly what you hope for and deserve. We appreciate your business and taking the time to visit our website. Thank you for stopping by.
Most of the women want their hair long and silky while others find it hard to support and opted a short hair for convenience. Noticed that you cannot go out without even stopping by in front of the mirror and see if everything are in place, that is because women are so conscious in the way they look. There are many ways girl hair accessories comes to an aide especially for women with unruly hair, the best way to get away with such dilemma is either you clip it to the side or wear a cloth band for that matter. Even in sport event hair gets in your way. That is why most athletes who wants to keep their long hair uses head band. Hence it is imperative that you keep a variety of hair accessories in your drawer, you will never when you will need it badly.
We'd like to welcome you to our page filled with great values and high quality, selection of hair accessories. We strive to offer only the best available options. Hair accessories are important items, meant to be beautiful and long lasting. We strive to be top-of-the-line amongst all of our competitors, giving you, the customer, exactly what you hope for and deserve. We appreciate your business and taking the time to visit our website. Thank you for stopping by.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
What are crop circles?
Sometimes, the patterns are simple circles. In other instances, they are elaborate designs consisting of several interconnecting, geometric shapes.
Farmers have reported finding strange circles in their fields for centuries. The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back to the 1500s. A 17th century English woodcut shows a devilish creature making a crop circle. People who lived in the area called the creature the "mowing devil."
In an 1880 issue of the journal Nature, amateur scientist John Rand Capron reported on a formation near Guildford, Surrey, in the south of England. He described his finding as "a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots." He went on to say, "... I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field ... They were suggestive to me of some cyclonic wind action..."
Mentions of crop circles were sporadic until the 20th century, when circles began appearing in the 1960s and '70s in England and the United States. But the phenomenon didn't gain attention until 1980, when a farmer in Wiltshire county, England, discovered three circles, about 60 feet (18 meters) across each, in his oat crops. UFO researchers and media descended on the farm, and the world first began to learn about crop circles.
By the 1990s, crop circles had become something of a tourist attraction. In 1990 alone, more than 500 circles emerged in Europe. Within the next few years, there were thousands. Visitors came from around the world to see them. Some farmers even charged admission to their mysterious attractions.
Comfortable Pet House For Your Sweet Pet
Most people treat their pets like members of the family, but when they are really treated as members of the family (i.e., they have their own room) things can get pretty wild. Some of the coolest pet habitations are seamless integrations between the non-bipedal members of the family’s habitations, and the rest of the house.
Most cat owners don’t get very creative with their pet’s play area. Those that do, however, can have quite the imagination. Wacky cat trees are just the beginning, and the end looks something like a cat city (or at least, complex). Of course, the pet houses also is the important area as well for the animal. Fortunately we have all kinds of comfortable pet house here to your pet, just like Pink Idyllic Flower Pethouse, Printing Pethouse, Pink Notes Pethouse and so on.
ALL the curtains of the bed are made of comfortable and soft cloth, it can protect your pet better. In addition, the bed of the pet house are the another components. As mattress is not affixed to the ground,effective cold insulation and moisture proof. And mattress cover is convenient to clean. What is more, the mattresses is made from the best cloth, which can be washed by washing machine. However,it is convenient to install the bed,because bedstead is a metal bracket as a whole can be removed with screws.
Most cat owners don’t get very creative with their pet’s play area. Those that do, however, can have quite the imagination. Wacky cat trees are just the beginning, and the end looks something like a cat city (or at least, complex). Of course, the pet houses also is the important area as well for the animal. Fortunately we have all kinds of comfortable pet house here to your pet, just like Pink Idyllic Flower Pethouse, Printing Pethouse, Pink Notes Pethouse and so on.
ALL the curtains of the bed are made of comfortable and soft cloth, it can protect your pet better. In addition, the bed of the pet house are the another components. As mattress is not affixed to the ground,effective cold insulation and moisture proof. And mattress cover is convenient to clean. What is more, the mattresses is made from the best cloth, which can be washed by washing machine. However,it is convenient to install the bed,because bedstead is a metal bracket as a whole can be removed with screws.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
How to Start Decorating Your Home
Starting home decorating can be full of so many emotions. On one hand, you can’t wait to get started and on the other, you can. There is a lot of work to be done and all of it is before you. Sometimes, there is no way of knowing where to start or what to do or even how to decorate.
Still, you are at the starting gate and soon you will have all your questions answered. Before you actually begin decorating your home, I would recommend looking through home design magazines and browsing through some wonderful sites; starting with freshome.com if I can be so modest.
That being said, it is important to take all those ideas that you love and make a little scrapbook with them. Don’t worry, everyone does this and it ensures that you won’t forget an idea or accidentally toss out the magazine.
Once you have some ideas as to what you would like and colors you would enjoy using, it is time to get down to business. Now most people will tell you to start with a notebook and sketch out your room and write down all of your ideas but before you do that, put that notebook to a different use.
First, before anything else, you will need to look at a budget. As much as we would all love to have an endless supply of funds to decorate with, that just isn’t realistic. You will have a cap on your decorating budget so actually look at what it is now before you shoot for a design that is just out of your price range. Once you have your budget, add a few hundred dollars on top of that for mistakes or finds that you just couldn’t pass by.
Now that you have your budget, start making a list of rooms in your home that needs to be decorated. Obviously, if your budget is limited, you are not going to be able to do all of them over the course of a few months so you will need to prioritize your rooms. Generally, the first rooms that you will want to focus on are the high traffic rooms. These are, after all, the rooms that most guests see when they come over so you will want to have them looking their best.
The other rooms can be decorated at a later time and as money allows so don’t stress if you can’t get them done right away. I have heard stories of homes taking several years to get from point A to finished.
Okay, so you have your budget, your ideas and your priority list. Now it is time to get decorating. The first thing that you will want to do is decide on a design for your home decor. Generally, when you design your decor you will keep the same design throughout the home especially in rooms where you can’t close the door to the theme. The last thing that you will want to do is have a country-style kitchen with an Asian themed dining room. There are several different types of design styles and really it is a matter of personal choice. Lately, there has been a real shift to eclectic and modern decor and you can add elements of both into just about any style.
Once you have decided on your style, you can pull out that notebook once more and start sketching out the room. Make a few notes on what furniture are a must have for the room and also identify which items must be brand new and which items can be refurbished pieces. Both can make wonderful statements to a room but you can find some wonderful quality pieces through garage sales, auctions and flea markets for only a fraction of the cost to buy new. Trust me, when it comes to meeting a budget, used can be your best friend.
Color is one of the most important areas for launching your decor and it should be one of the first steps that you take when starting to decorate your home. Many people feel that your starting place should be your floors and walls but it isn’t the only rule for creating your color palette. Instead, you can start with an accent piece and work out from there, choosing your colors for your flooring and walls after you have pulled out the colors from the accent. The end result is really what you are going for so it doesn’t matter how you started the journey.
After you are finished with the walls, it is time to start decorating the space. Hopefully, by this point you have been going to auctions and flea markets and you have the furniture bought and refurbished the way that you want it. You can set up the room, and then add the accessories. Remember that you don’t need to go with traditional accents or furniture. An old chest can work well as a table, and an old door can be refurbished into a headboard. Feel free to experiment and find some great articles on using unusual pieces in your decor for inspiration.
So now that you have your budget, your idea and your style theme, there shouldn’t be anything stopping you from starting your home decor…except, of course, finding the time to do it all.
Still, you are at the starting gate and soon you will have all your questions answered. Before you actually begin decorating your home, I would recommend looking through home design magazines and browsing through some wonderful sites; starting with freshome.com if I can be so modest.
That being said, it is important to take all those ideas that you love and make a little scrapbook with them. Don’t worry, everyone does this and it ensures that you won’t forget an idea or accidentally toss out the magazine.
Once you have some ideas as to what you would like and colors you would enjoy using, it is time to get down to business. Now most people will tell you to start with a notebook and sketch out your room and write down all of your ideas but before you do that, put that notebook to a different use.
First, before anything else, you will need to look at a budget. As much as we would all love to have an endless supply of funds to decorate with, that just isn’t realistic. You will have a cap on your decorating budget so actually look at what it is now before you shoot for a design that is just out of your price range. Once you have your budget, add a few hundred dollars on top of that for mistakes or finds that you just couldn’t pass by.
Now that you have your budget, start making a list of rooms in your home that needs to be decorated. Obviously, if your budget is limited, you are not going to be able to do all of them over the course of a few months so you will need to prioritize your rooms. Generally, the first rooms that you will want to focus on are the high traffic rooms. These are, after all, the rooms that most guests see when they come over so you will want to have them looking their best.
The other rooms can be decorated at a later time and as money allows so don’t stress if you can’t get them done right away. I have heard stories of homes taking several years to get from point A to finished.
Okay, so you have your budget, your ideas and your priority list. Now it is time to get decorating. The first thing that you will want to do is decide on a design for your home decor. Generally, when you design your decor you will keep the same design throughout the home especially in rooms where you can’t close the door to the theme. The last thing that you will want to do is have a country-style kitchen with an Asian themed dining room. There are several different types of design styles and really it is a matter of personal choice. Lately, there has been a real shift to eclectic and modern decor and you can add elements of both into just about any style.
Once you have decided on your style, you can pull out that notebook once more and start sketching out the room. Make a few notes on what furniture are a must have for the room and also identify which items must be brand new and which items can be refurbished pieces. Both can make wonderful statements to a room but you can find some wonderful quality pieces through garage sales, auctions and flea markets for only a fraction of the cost to buy new. Trust me, when it comes to meeting a budget, used can be your best friend.
Color is one of the most important areas for launching your decor and it should be one of the first steps that you take when starting to decorate your home. Many people feel that your starting place should be your floors and walls but it isn’t the only rule for creating your color palette. Instead, you can start with an accent piece and work out from there, choosing your colors for your flooring and walls after you have pulled out the colors from the accent. The end result is really what you are going for so it doesn’t matter how you started the journey.
After you are finished with the walls, it is time to start decorating the space. Hopefully, by this point you have been going to auctions and flea markets and you have the furniture bought and refurbished the way that you want it. You can set up the room, and then add the accessories. Remember that you don’t need to go with traditional accents or furniture. An old chest can work well as a table, and an old door can be refurbished into a headboard. Feel free to experiment and find some great articles on using unusual pieces in your decor for inspiration.
So now that you have your budget, your idea and your style theme, there shouldn’t be anything stopping you from starting your home decor…except, of course, finding the time to do it all.
Beautiful Brooches For The Charming Girls
Nowadays, beautiful brooches are the woman's best love, they can be used as different decorations. Get ready for a new and unusual crop of brooches on your sweater, handbag and even hairdo. The jeweled pin has shed its stuck-in-the-past reputation.
Years later, the brooch saw even more improvements as its size grew which meant there was more surface area for designers to work with. Very intricate designs were finally possible and artists and craftsmen used it to the fullest extent. For some people, symbols, family crests and other meaningful patterns were made into brooches which also boosted its reputation amongst the people and most especially the elite.
There is no other occasion in the life of a lady as special as her wedding day! Wedding accessories are highly valued by brides. Endless planning goes into making the occasion as memorable as it can possibly be. cryflower brooch are a must to make your wedding gown all the more stunning. One of the items that can add to the beauty and elegance of a bride, her dress, and her day, is being beautifully adorned in exquisite bridal brooches.
Did you know that you could also use these brooches on your bridal bouquet and even on your wedding cake too? This is fast becoming a common practice in weddings. With the help of bridal brooches, you can make a flower that is totally unique to you and also later turn your bouquets into a monumental ornament in your home.
Years later, the brooch saw even more improvements as its size grew which meant there was more surface area for designers to work with. Very intricate designs were finally possible and artists and craftsmen used it to the fullest extent. For some people, symbols, family crests and other meaningful patterns were made into brooches which also boosted its reputation amongst the people and most especially the elite.
There is no other occasion in the life of a lady as special as her wedding day! Wedding accessories are highly valued by brides. Endless planning goes into making the occasion as memorable as it can possibly be. cryflower brooch are a must to make your wedding gown all the more stunning. One of the items that can add to the beauty and elegance of a bride, her dress, and her day, is being beautifully adorned in exquisite bridal brooches.
Did you know that you could also use these brooches on your bridal bouquet and even on your wedding cake too? This is fast becoming a common practice in weddings. With the help of bridal brooches, you can make a flower that is totally unique to you and also later turn your bouquets into a monumental ornament in your home.
Monday, May 20, 2013
How to Coordinate Shoes to Your Outfit?
Lesson 1:
Before we talk about how to match shoes to outfits, it is important to emphasize the word "MATCH". Why? When no matching effort shows, the whole look is out of tune.
Just look at Victoria Beckham: Her wind coat is well cut and classic. So are her shoes. However, the hard coal-like black shoes look heavy against the light color and texture of her wind coat. Furthermore, the warm gold-colored buttons look like a clique of honey bees swarming against her heavy shoes full of sorrow.
Lesson 2:
Now we can talk about HOW to match shoes to complete the outfit instead of ruining it.
Shoes are not supposed to match the top, but the bottom. Otherwise, the whole look appears to be "chopped up". Nicky hilton is "chopped" into three pieces here: the top black part (a Jack the Ripper sweater), the grey middle part (Saran Wrap leggings), and the black bottom part (regulation issue commando boots). Since the color of her pants are lighter than her top, she should, for example, wear a pair of shoes of a lighter grey color than her pants. In this way, the continuation of the color lightening from top to bottom is not disrupted. Unfortunately, Nicky abruptly compressed herself betwee top and bottom with two black heavy-weight bookends: her black top and her black Gestapo parade boots.
Similarly, Kesha should wear a pear of silver shoes to match the lower end of her dress to let the color change FLOW (like a rainbow's chromatic continuum) instead of throwing patches of one color here and there like a child randomly spreading bread crumbs from one end of the table to the other end instead of keeping the bread well behaved on one corner of its plate.
Again, dear Nicky, what you need is a pair of shoes that match your pants, and to let the color continuum of your entire outfit and accessories flow SMOOTHLY. Nicky has already done a good job matching her cardigan with her pants, now she just needs a pair of purple or grey shoes to match her pants.
Victoria's dress is beautiful, but wearing an outfit of entirely one color is "elementary level" fashion style. Since she has a beautiful red leather bag, she can match her shoes with it instead of wearing a pair of BLACK shoes with a BLACK dress to make herself look like a black widow with red blood stain on her hands.
Lesson 3:
Foot Shape VS Shoe Shape:
After you choose the right matching shoes, it is crucial that you double check whether the shoes actually look good on you.
This may sound redundant: Of course I'll check whether I look good in something!
It is actually an easy slip for people to miss. For example:
Kate coordinated her shoes with the black buttons on her suit. However, these pointy Wicked Witch of the West shoes do not match the shape of her feminine feet. Hence, her feet look too wide and flat -- like mini cone-head snow shoes on the red carpet.
Lesson 4:
Finally we have talked quite about the NOT TO's, now let us talk in detail about HOW TO coordinate shoes.
(1) Match your shoes with your leggings/ stockings:
Jameela's outfit is fun, explorative, daring and well coordinated. Her shoes look almost like part of her stockings. There is no abrupt discontinuation in color or texture at all. And her gold necklace matches her yellow jacket, and her red lips match her red lady-bug-like ring and red fingernail polish.
(2) Match your shoes with the details on your outfit (buttons):
Janet's black shoes above match her buttons and clutch easily yet classically. To avoid wardrobe malfunction, it can be as simple as this.
(3) Match your shoes with the details on your outfit (color/texture):
The beige color detail on Jessica's shoes not only match her cardigan and purse in color, but also match them in texture. The dry-grass fuzzy texture of the beige detail on her shoes echoes well the fluffy texture of her cardigan. Meanwhile, the base color of her sandals (black) match her black pants.
(4) Match your shoes with the details on your outfit (patterns):
Kim Kardashian's dress is detailed by the black atavistic abstract patterns echoing decorative geometric designs dating back 4,000+ years. Her black shoes act as the concentrated essence of the black petroglyph mimics on her dress.
Similarly, Michelle Obama's outfit is detailed by the little black squares here and there. Her black shoes match well this detail on her clothes, as well as her black belt / sash.
(5) Match your shoes with skirt/pants (color):
I am just glad to see Nicky not matching her shoes with her top again as we just mentioned above.
Likewise, the color of Odette's shoes match her black skirt. Plus, the straps on her shoes reflect the vertical lines on her skirt. She should get extra bonus points for this!
(6) Match your shoes with skirt/pants (tone):
We don't have to always wear shoes the exact same color as our skirts/pants. What we really look for is not tooth for tooth or eye for eye, but butter for bread and fries for burger. That is, the essence of coordination is echoing with the right parts. Echoing is not limited to patterns and colors, but also tone, because at the end of the day, color is just part of tone. Jennifer's shoes are not grey but a greyish beige color. Since the tone of the color is grey, the shoes match her skirt well, and thus coordinates smoothly with her whole outfit.
(7) Match your shoes with accessories (belt, purse, jewelry, etc):
Lauren Conrad's outfit is one of my favorites so far. I do not know what she is dressed up for -- a party, a date, etc? But her belt, purse and shoes are impeccably coordinated both in color and in material/texture. She did not fall into the stereotypical vanity trap of over decorating herself with more than one flower. Thus, how can anyone not smile at a young female flower awesomely color coordinated to the roots of her toes?
Before we talk about how to match shoes to outfits, it is important to emphasize the word "MATCH". Why? When no matching effort shows, the whole look is out of tune.
Just look at Victoria Beckham: Her wind coat is well cut and classic. So are her shoes. However, the hard coal-like black shoes look heavy against the light color and texture of her wind coat. Furthermore, the warm gold-colored buttons look like a clique of honey bees swarming against her heavy shoes full of sorrow.
Lesson 2:
Now we can talk about HOW to match shoes to complete the outfit instead of ruining it.
Shoes are not supposed to match the top, but the bottom. Otherwise, the whole look appears to be "chopped up". Nicky hilton is "chopped" into three pieces here: the top black part (a Jack the Ripper sweater), the grey middle part (Saran Wrap leggings), and the black bottom part (regulation issue commando boots). Since the color of her pants are lighter than her top, she should, for example, wear a pair of shoes of a lighter grey color than her pants. In this way, the continuation of the color lightening from top to bottom is not disrupted. Unfortunately, Nicky abruptly compressed herself betwee top and bottom with two black heavy-weight bookends: her black top and her black Gestapo parade boots.
Similarly, Kesha should wear a pear of silver shoes to match the lower end of her dress to let the color change FLOW (like a rainbow's chromatic continuum) instead of throwing patches of one color here and there like a child randomly spreading bread crumbs from one end of the table to the other end instead of keeping the bread well behaved on one corner of its plate.
Again, dear Nicky, what you need is a pair of shoes that match your pants, and to let the color continuum of your entire outfit and accessories flow SMOOTHLY. Nicky has already done a good job matching her cardigan with her pants, now she just needs a pair of purple or grey shoes to match her pants.
Victoria's dress is beautiful, but wearing an outfit of entirely one color is "elementary level" fashion style. Since she has a beautiful red leather bag, she can match her shoes with it instead of wearing a pair of BLACK shoes with a BLACK dress to make herself look like a black widow with red blood stain on her hands.
Lesson 3:
Foot Shape VS Shoe Shape:
After you choose the right matching shoes, it is crucial that you double check whether the shoes actually look good on you.
This may sound redundant: Of course I'll check whether I look good in something!
It is actually an easy slip for people to miss. For example:
Kate coordinated her shoes with the black buttons on her suit. However, these pointy Wicked Witch of the West shoes do not match the shape of her feminine feet. Hence, her feet look too wide and flat -- like mini cone-head snow shoes on the red carpet.
Lesson 4:
Finally we have talked quite about the NOT TO's, now let us talk in detail about HOW TO coordinate shoes.
(1) Match your shoes with your leggings/ stockings:
Jameela's outfit is fun, explorative, daring and well coordinated. Her shoes look almost like part of her stockings. There is no abrupt discontinuation in color or texture at all. And her gold necklace matches her yellow jacket, and her red lips match her red lady-bug-like ring and red fingernail polish.
(2) Match your shoes with the details on your outfit (buttons):
Janet's black shoes above match her buttons and clutch easily yet classically. To avoid wardrobe malfunction, it can be as simple as this.
(3) Match your shoes with the details on your outfit (color/texture):
The beige color detail on Jessica's shoes not only match her cardigan and purse in color, but also match them in texture. The dry-grass fuzzy texture of the beige detail on her shoes echoes well the fluffy texture of her cardigan. Meanwhile, the base color of her sandals (black) match her black pants.
(4) Match your shoes with the details on your outfit (patterns):
Kim Kardashian's dress is detailed by the black atavistic abstract patterns echoing decorative geometric designs dating back 4,000+ years. Her black shoes act as the concentrated essence of the black petroglyph mimics on her dress.
Similarly, Michelle Obama's outfit is detailed by the little black squares here and there. Her black shoes match well this detail on her clothes, as well as her black belt / sash.
(5) Match your shoes with skirt/pants (color):
I am just glad to see Nicky not matching her shoes with her top again as we just mentioned above.
Likewise, the color of Odette's shoes match her black skirt. Plus, the straps on her shoes reflect the vertical lines on her skirt. She should get extra bonus points for this!
(6) Match your shoes with skirt/pants (tone):
We don't have to always wear shoes the exact same color as our skirts/pants. What we really look for is not tooth for tooth or eye for eye, but butter for bread and fries for burger. That is, the essence of coordination is echoing with the right parts. Echoing is not limited to patterns and colors, but also tone, because at the end of the day, color is just part of tone. Jennifer's shoes are not grey but a greyish beige color. Since the tone of the color is grey, the shoes match her skirt well, and thus coordinates smoothly with her whole outfit.
(7) Match your shoes with accessories (belt, purse, jewelry, etc):
Lauren Conrad's outfit is one of my favorites so far. I do not know what she is dressed up for -- a party, a date, etc? But her belt, purse and shoes are impeccably coordinated both in color and in material/texture. She did not fall into the stereotypical vanity trap of over decorating herself with more than one flower. Thus, how can anyone not smile at a young female flower awesomely color coordinated to the roots of her toes?
Converse Shoes Are The Fashionable Brand In This Time
Converse shoes have been in business since 1908 and over the past century, they have given the world some excellent footwear. High in design, performance and style, these shoes have captured the imaginations of the younger generation with a combination of style and comfort. You can now buy converse on one of the online portals at discounted rates and enrich your wardrobe with some nice and comfy shoes.
All you need to do is to go to the websites of these sellers on a constant basis and see what's there in store for you. After so many years of ups and downs, a lot of things have changed, especially in this change rapidly era. But the style of Converse is as in the past standing mighty, which is a very good interpretation of classic continuation. Converse shoes have never lost their popularity or their strong hold on the footwear market and the converse sale is very good all the time.
Converse Rubber Shoe Company, in the year 1917, introduced its most famous brand, the Converse All Star Basketball Shoe. This footwear invention became a rage in the world, and it continues to be one of the most sought-after sports shoes in the world even today. In 1949 the Oxford, converse running shoes a low-cut version of the All Star, was developed which was not only worn by basketball players but people everywhere wanting a casual, yet cool look. Up till then the All Star was only available in black or white but due to its ever growing popularity, Converse added 7 more colors to the range in 1966. Ten years later they introduced the One Star trainer which went on to become the favorite shoe of skaters the world over.
If you want to know more information about Converse, welcome to visit our Converse store. You can see every series products as well as detailed information about them. Here’s more information about converse 2012 and converse sale.
All you need to do is to go to the websites of these sellers on a constant basis and see what's there in store for you. After so many years of ups and downs, a lot of things have changed, especially in this change rapidly era. But the style of Converse is as in the past standing mighty, which is a very good interpretation of classic continuation. Converse shoes have never lost their popularity or their strong hold on the footwear market and the converse sale is very good all the time.
Converse Rubber Shoe Company, in the year 1917, introduced its most famous brand, the Converse All Star Basketball Shoe. This footwear invention became a rage in the world, and it continues to be one of the most sought-after sports shoes in the world even today. In 1949 the Oxford, converse running shoes a low-cut version of the All Star, was developed which was not only worn by basketball players but people everywhere wanting a casual, yet cool look. Up till then the All Star was only available in black or white but due to its ever growing popularity, Converse added 7 more colors to the range in 1966. Ten years later they introduced the One Star trainer which went on to become the favorite shoe of skaters the world over.
If you want to know more information about Converse, welcome to visit our Converse store. You can see every series products as well as detailed information about them. Here’s more information about converse 2012 and converse sale.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Beautiful Bracelets For Women
Fashion bracelet is very popular among people nowadays. Most girls, teens and other women like to wear bracelets but everyone wants to try a newer style than before every time. Floral bracelet looks much elegant and sophisticated. Various floral designs are applied in the latest collections of bracelets that show that floral design bracelets would go rocking around in 2013. There is a flower colorful crystal bangle with golden for women. It is so voguish and trendy in 2013. Most of women like it very much.
The use of pearls in jewel making is quite voguish this season. It as quality fashion jewelry is very important for you to have. Whether you want them for daily wear or for some special occasion, the fashion pearl jewelries are vital for you to complete you personality. Freshwater pearl earrings are one of women's favorite so you can have these pearl earrings for formal and night events. This long style pearl dangle earrings are simple and easy, but it is also can make the earrings even more beautiful.
Bracelet is one of the best accessories for people who attention to fashion, especially the bracelets for girls. Our website mainly offer crystal bracelets, diamond bracelets and leather bracelets. crystal bracelets are elegant and beautiful, diamond bracelets are classy and noble, and leather bracelets are trendy and fashionable. You will never regret to shop on our website, because there must be opened for the every beauty who are creazy for the jweary!
The use of pearls in jewel making is quite voguish this season. It as quality fashion jewelry is very important for you to have. Whether you want them for daily wear or for some special occasion, the fashion pearl jewelries are vital for you to complete you personality. Freshwater pearl earrings are one of women's favorite so you can have these pearl earrings for formal and night events. This long style pearl dangle earrings are simple and easy, but it is also can make the earrings even more beautiful.
Bracelet is one of the best accessories for people who attention to fashion, especially the bracelets for girls. Our website mainly offer crystal bracelets, diamond bracelets and leather bracelets. crystal bracelets are elegant and beautiful, diamond bracelets are classy and noble, and leather bracelets are trendy and fashionable. You will never regret to shop on our website, because there must be opened for the every beauty who are creazy for the jweary!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Fan Bingbing The Chic Life of a Cannes 'It' Girl
The actress and international fashion icon, with roles in "Iron Man 3" and "X-Men," is the gatekeeper to China's luxury and film market.
This story first appeared in the May 17 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Fan Bingbing really knows how to make an entrance. For the opening ceremony of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, the Chinese actress chose a one-sleeved, imperial yellow silk gown embroidered with dragons and cascading ocean waves, instantly declaring her proud heritage (no more shouts of "Where are you from?" on the red carpet) and flooring the fashion press even more than usual. The Laurence Xu creation was no fluke: Shifting fluently between indie designers and European haute couture, Fan already had established herself as one of fashion's most intriguing figures with her bold, flamboyant choices. But her Cannes debut launched her into the style stratosphere.
STORY: Fan Bingbing Earns THR's Inaugural International Star of the Year Award
American audiences finally will see Fan on the big screen in summer 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past as the teleporting mutant Blink. She's "extremely focused," says director Bryan Singer. "She inhabits the screen like a true star." (Fan also appears in the Chinese version of Iron Man 3, which scored a $63.5 million opening weekend.) At home, Fan has been an A-lister for much of her 15-year film and television career. And as her acclaimed films such as Lost in Beijing and Chongqing Blues made the festival circuit, Fan built a reputation for her chameleonic and dramatic looks.
"My style depends on my mood," says Fan, 31, of her sartorial philosophy. "Having something to say is the most important part." (The star, who grew up in a middle-class family in Shandong province before attending Shanghai Theater Academy, is studying English; THR interviewed her in her native Mandarin.) Her fearlessness has attracted top designers, particularly those seeking a foothold in China's $50 billion luxury market -- the world's largest, according to Brian Buchwald, CEO of Bomoda, a website focused on Chinese luxury consumers.
"She has this interesting duality," notes Buchwald of Fan, who has been a L'Oreal brand ambassador for three years and signed with Chopard and Louis Vuitton this year (she's attending Cannes for L'Oreal and Chopard). "She represents products that a Chinese consumer would want to buy because she wears them, but also she represents a girl's individuality and ability to stand out."
STORY: Fan Bingbing Joins Jackie Chan Action Comedy 'Skiptrace'
Beijing-based Fan had no problem standing out when she attended the 2013 Oscars with producer Bill Mechanic and Chopard's Caroline Scheufele. Having arrived in L.A. undecided on what to wear, Fan fell for photos of a Marchesa gown that was in New York. Her friend Harvey Weinstein (they met at the 2010 amfAR dinner in Cannes) called his wife, label co-founder Georgina Chapman, who sent the dress on a private plane. Fan's hair and makeup were done before the gown arrived, and she slipped it on just in time for the red carpet. "I loathe fittings," she says. "When you do a fitting, it's because your heart has no plan."
Marchesa isn't the only brand eager to dress Fan. Later that night, she hit the Vanity Fair fete in a black-and-white Oscar de la Renta and the Elton John AIDS Foundation party in beaded Elie Saab Couture. She isn't sure what she'll choose for this year's Cannes kickoff. Up to now, she's worn a Chinese-style gown -- the most recent two designed by her stylist, Christopher Bu -- but her X-Men schedule might not allow time for an original creation. "The designers are good to me," she says of her access to the festival fashion suites. "The clothes I want, they'll hold on to them."
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"[Compared to other Asian stars], Fan seems to have the most fun with fashion," says Catherine Kallon, founder of the U.K.-based blog Red Carpet Fashion Awards. "She's more of a risk-taker." Fan understands her influence -- she recently was named No. 1 on Forbes China's Celebrity 100 -- but says luxury brands can't take Chinese consumers for granted. "There was a period when China was very label-conscious. But now I think Chinese women will use more of their creativity," says the star, who once showed up in the front row at Elie Saab with one of the designer's beaded cardigans wrapped around her head like a turban. "There are more people who really know fashion as a lifestyle, an attitude. China is catching up."
Fan's expanding film career -- she founded her own production studio in 2007, signed with WME in 2012 and just has been cast opposite Jackie Chan in the upcoming action comedy Skiptrace -- will only amplify her voice as the unofficial Chinese ambassador to the fashion and beauty realms. But her off-duty look is T-shirts, jeans, flats and no makeup: "When I wear makeup, it's to go out and make money," she jokes. "Otherwise, no way."
East African Rift Valley, Kenya
On one side of the rift lies the Nubian (or African) tectonic plate, which includes the older continental crust of Africa. The Somalian plate—which is moving away in the other direction—lies to the other side and includes the Horn of Africa. (Note that the image is oriented so that north is to the lower left.) Together with the associated Ethiopian Rift, the tectonic boundary stretches from the southern Red Sea to central Mozambique.
Landscapes in the rift valley can appear confusing. The most striking features in this view are the numerous, nearly parallel, linear fault lines that occupy the floor of the valley. Shadows cast by the late afternoon Sun make the fault scarps more prominent. These steps in the landscape are caused by slip motion along individual faults and are aligned with the north-south axis of the valley (lower left to top right). A secondary trend of less linear faults cuts the main fault at an acute angle, with the fault steps throwing large shadows.
The Eastern Branch of the East African Rift is arid. (By contrast, the Western Branch lies on the border of the Congolese rainforest). Evidence of this can be seen in the red, salt-loving algae of the shallow and salty Lake Magadi (image center). A neighboring small lake to the north (to the left of Magadi in the image) has deeper water and appears dark. The white salt deposits on the dry part of the Lake Magadi floor host a few small commercial salt pans. The lakes appear to be located where the main and secondary fault trends intersect.
The East African rift system is marked by substantial volcanic activity, including lavas erupted from fissures along the rift in the region. Much of the faulting observed in this image cuts through such lavas. Elsewhere along the rift system, individual volcanoes form. Some of those volcanoes are very large, including Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya. In this image, a volcano (Lenderut) appears to be superimposed on the faults, indicating that it is younger than the faults it covers. Deeply eroded slopes also suggest that the volcano has not been active for a long time.
The largest vegetated area is the green floor of a valley that drains an area large enough for water to exist near the surface. For a sense of scale, the vegetated valley floor is 17 kilometers long (10.5 miles).
Astronaut photograph ISS030-E-35487 was acquired on January 14, 2012, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 1800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 30 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs/ESCG at NASA-JSC.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Life Span of a Giant Panda
About 300 giant pandas live in captivity; no more than 3,000 exist in the wild. The endangered species is not uncommon in pop culture, though, evidenced by animated films such as DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda, news stories every time a cub is born in a zoo, and stuffed animals on beds the world over. Vegetarian bears with black-rimmed eyes and fluffy coats, giant pandas are as peculiar as they are rare.
Infancy
A giant panda cub is ready to enter the world after gestating in his mother’s womb for 95 to 160 days. Because a newborn giant panda is born hairless, nearly helpless and the size of a stick of butter, his mother devotes every waking moment to her baby; she doesn’t even leave the den, usually a hollow tree trunk or cave, to eat or drink for days after the birth. However, mother begins to leave the comfort of the den when the cub’s teeth appear around 14 weeks. He begins walking at 21 weeks. He'll nurse until the ripe old age of 18 months. It's time to go off on his own so mama can prepare for her next cub.
Habitat
The giant panda’s natural habitat is the high bamboo forest of western China; 45 percent of the total wild population of giant pandas lives in China’s Minshan Mountains – the highest density of pandas in the wild (see ref 5). This region once provided an abundance of their only food source – bamboo, and the mountains made a protective barrier between the cold northern climate and the wet southern half of China. Unfortunately, the giant panda’s natural habitat has rapidly shrunk since the early 1900s due to human population growth, hunting, logging and land clearing.
Adulthood
Giant pandas are solitary mammals, preferring to spend their days moving about in search of bamboo. One of the only times during the year they will encounter and interact with other pandas is during the brief mating season between the months of March and May. With all of their “me” time, they eat. Up to 14 hours a day they spend noshing. The average adult panda consumes 25 to 40 pounds of bamboo each day.
Life Expectancy
Giant pandas live between 14 and 20 years in the wild and up to 35 years in captivity. A 2004 study by the Chinese Department of Forestry estimated the population of wild pandas to be around 1,600. Other estimates figure the population between 2,000 and 3,000 giant pandas. Conservation and preservation efforts are in place to protect this extremely endangered species from extinction.
Infancy
A giant panda cub is ready to enter the world after gestating in his mother’s womb for 95 to 160 days. Because a newborn giant panda is born hairless, nearly helpless and the size of a stick of butter, his mother devotes every waking moment to her baby; she doesn’t even leave the den, usually a hollow tree trunk or cave, to eat or drink for days after the birth. However, mother begins to leave the comfort of the den when the cub’s teeth appear around 14 weeks. He begins walking at 21 weeks. He'll nurse until the ripe old age of 18 months. It's time to go off on his own so mama can prepare for her next cub.
Habitat
The giant panda’s natural habitat is the high bamboo forest of western China; 45 percent of the total wild population of giant pandas lives in China’s Minshan Mountains – the highest density of pandas in the wild (see ref 5). This region once provided an abundance of their only food source – bamboo, and the mountains made a protective barrier between the cold northern climate and the wet southern half of China. Unfortunately, the giant panda’s natural habitat has rapidly shrunk since the early 1900s due to human population growth, hunting, logging and land clearing.
Adulthood
Giant pandas are solitary mammals, preferring to spend their days moving about in search of bamboo. One of the only times during the year they will encounter and interact with other pandas is during the brief mating season between the months of March and May. With all of their “me” time, they eat. Up to 14 hours a day they spend noshing. The average adult panda consumes 25 to 40 pounds of bamboo each day.
Life Expectancy
Giant pandas live between 14 and 20 years in the wild and up to 35 years in captivity. A 2004 study by the Chinese Department of Forestry estimated the population of wild pandas to be around 1,600. Other estimates figure the population between 2,000 and 3,000 giant pandas. Conservation and preservation efforts are in place to protect this extremely endangered species from extinction.
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Monday, May 6, 2013
The History Of Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty is an animated cat that was created by Sanrio more than 30 years ago. Since her creation, she has become the most popular of the Sanrio characters and the idol of millions of young females in Asia and everywhere else...
Hello Kitty is an animated cat that was created by Sanrio more than 30 years ago. Since her creation, she has become the most popular of the Sanrio characters and the idol of millions of young females in Asia and everywhere else. Today she appears on thousands of different things ranging from teddy bears over toothbrushes to pink electronics .
Hello Kitty was born on the drawing board of Sanrio in Kobe, Japan in 1974. She was designed by the Sanrio employee Ikuko Shimizu, but later the responsibility for her was given to first Setsuko Yonekubo and later Yuko Yamaguchi. In 1975 did she appear for the on her first item, a small plastic coin purse and soon other small items for young girls followed.
The Hello Kitty items was a big success and started to sell very well. Soon after followed American Sanrio shops with Hello Kitty and other popular characters. The first Sanrio shop in America appeared in 1976. Today there are more than 120 official Sanrio shops and more than 3000 affiliate shops.
A special team at Sanrio lead by Yuko Yamaguchi takes care of Hello Kitty, introduces new designs with her image and removes old designs. Every year thousands of new items appear, while an equal number of old items disappear. Most of the items feature Hello Kitty, but it’s also possible to find items with her family and friends.
There are several films, books and more about Hello Kitty and she also have her own fan club. In 1990 did she open her own theme park, Sanrio Puroland, in Japan and there she currently receives around 1.4 million visitors a year. She has even become so popular that she has been named junior ambassador to UNICEF.
Today there seems to be no limitations to the popularity of Hello Kitty. Famous western pop starts and actors have recently started wearing Hello Kitty jewelry, so might easily become in more popular in the coming years. Some of the western pop stars and actors that have been seen with Hello Kitty jewelry include Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Cameron Diaz and Paris Hilton. Even famous men like Ricky Martin and Steve Tyler have contributed to Hello Kitty’s popularity.
Hello Kitty is an animated cat that was created by Sanrio more than 30 years ago. Since her creation, she has become the most popular of the Sanrio characters and the idol of millions of young females in Asia and everywhere else. Today she appears on thousands of different things ranging from teddy bears over toothbrushes to pink electronics .
Hello Kitty was born on the drawing board of Sanrio in Kobe, Japan in 1974. She was designed by the Sanrio employee Ikuko Shimizu, but later the responsibility for her was given to first Setsuko Yonekubo and later Yuko Yamaguchi. In 1975 did she appear for the on her first item, a small plastic coin purse and soon other small items for young girls followed.
The Hello Kitty items was a big success and started to sell very well. Soon after followed American Sanrio shops with Hello Kitty and other popular characters. The first Sanrio shop in America appeared in 1976. Today there are more than 120 official Sanrio shops and more than 3000 affiliate shops.
A special team at Sanrio lead by Yuko Yamaguchi takes care of Hello Kitty, introduces new designs with her image and removes old designs. Every year thousands of new items appear, while an equal number of old items disappear. Most of the items feature Hello Kitty, but it’s also possible to find items with her family and friends.
There are several films, books and more about Hello Kitty and she also have her own fan club. In 1990 did she open her own theme park, Sanrio Puroland, in Japan and there she currently receives around 1.4 million visitors a year. She has even become so popular that she has been named junior ambassador to UNICEF.
Today there seems to be no limitations to the popularity of Hello Kitty. Famous western pop starts and actors have recently started wearing Hello Kitty jewelry, so might easily become in more popular in the coming years. Some of the western pop stars and actors that have been seen with Hello Kitty jewelry include Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Cameron Diaz and Paris Hilton. Even famous men like Ricky Martin and Steve Tyler have contributed to Hello Kitty’s popularity.
Luxury Pet Houses Are Ready For Your Lovely Pets
Nowadays, more and more people especialy for the woman and old like to keep a pet, just like the cat, dog, rabbit, bird and fish and so on. But just like the fish and bird, they can live in the cage to feed on, but the dog and cat how to keep them on a normal life, this a important question! Please don't bother for this! We have some beautiful pet houses for your lovely pets.
Traditionally, pet houses were where pets actually lived, separate from the family. But now that pets are increasingly considered members of the family, their homes are becoming more like second homes — and in some cases, they’re entirely ornamental. Sure, there are still plenty of pet houses built for dogs to live in.
Most of pet houses are made of wooden, it's very hard to live in and so unwell, ours pet house not only luxury but also comfortable, and it will make your pet lived so health and comfortable. The pet house are all made of fabric, and it is filled with fine silk floss inside, there are also have many style vipmoderato pet houses to choose, just like Little Color Bear Pethouse, Pink Notes Pethouse, Printing Pethouse, Leopard Pethouse, Dark Pattern Pethouse, Yellow Stripes Pet Beds, Pink Circle Pet Beds, Delicate Pet Beds and so on.
As we all know, house is important to human beings,and the same is true on pets, pets also want pet housing.Cat want cat house, and dogs would like to own pet dog houses. So if you like pets, just give them a warm house. If you love someone, give them pet housing, because these are really terrific and innotitive gifts.
Traditionally, pet houses were where pets actually lived, separate from the family. But now that pets are increasingly considered members of the family, their homes are becoming more like second homes — and in some cases, they’re entirely ornamental. Sure, there are still plenty of pet houses built for dogs to live in.
Most of pet houses are made of wooden, it's very hard to live in and so unwell, ours pet house not only luxury but also comfortable, and it will make your pet lived so health and comfortable. The pet house are all made of fabric, and it is filled with fine silk floss inside, there are also have many style vipmoderato pet houses to choose, just like Little Color Bear Pethouse, Pink Notes Pethouse, Printing Pethouse, Leopard Pethouse, Dark Pattern Pethouse, Yellow Stripes Pet Beds, Pink Circle Pet Beds, Delicate Pet Beds and so on.
As we all know, house is important to human beings,and the same is true on pets, pets also want pet housing.Cat want cat house, and dogs would like to own pet dog houses. So if you like pets, just give them a warm house. If you love someone, give them pet housing, because these are really terrific and innotitive gifts.
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