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.
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