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However, the most challenging of all the tasks involved in producing these photo films is to have the models literally become actors in the stories...not only because I want them to look the part of the betrayed lover, of the returning scorned avenger, of the famous singer haunting her past venues, but because I like them to narrate the story itself.
Visit Paris, the magnetic City of Light to explore its iconic attractions. Book tickets to Rome to wonder at its various historical structures - the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, and the Pantheon, to name a few. Go to South Island in New Zealand to marvel at its majestic landscapes at every turn. Heart-pumping activities and historic landmarks awaits you in Dubai. Visit it to experience one of-its-kind attractions, including the Burj Khalifa, the Dubai Mall, and the indoor Ski Dubai. Book flights for Santorini to revel in its breath-taking sunsets, pastel-hued villages, and colourful beaches. Take a trip to Hong Kong for its towering skyscrapers, frenzied street markets, and serene Buddhist monasteries.
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After spending the last 6 years fiddling and learning photography, my wife and I are about to move to Cambridge, UK from Melbourne. We are planning to post and write about our European trips in a capacity that is more than just telling our family what we are doing with the goal of allowing our work to eventually pay for our travel. Our first real post will be up soon, looking at our short weekend trip into the Wimmera/Mallee to visit the new Silo Art in the region. My Wife is a much better writer than I am and is currently editing!
Travel may be local, regional, national (domestic) or international. In some countries, non-local internal travel may require an internal passport, while international travel typically requires a passport and visa. A trip may also be part of a round-trip, which is a particular type of travel whereby a person moves from one location to another and returns.
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It was in 2006 when I traveled to the sacred city of Varanasi for the third or fourth time; this time in search of real sadhus rather than those I encountered on the ghats of the river Ganges. The more photogenically flamboyant of those would "earn" a few rupees from tourists and photographers who sought to augment their inventory of exotic portraits of these characters; perhaps paying them a tidy sum if they agreed to be photographed in a rowing boat or next to a temple.
All the photographs in this gallery were made using the Fuji X-Pro2 and the Fujinon 18mm 2.0 pancake lens. Since I keep camera dangling from my neck as I click the shutter, the lens aperture ring occasionally slips, so I have a small piece of gaffer tape keeping it at 2.8 or 4.0 at all times. I also keep the iso at 640 most of the time. The photographs were processed with Silver Efex; my favorite monochrome software.
Devansh Jhaveri is a freelance photographer based in Ahmedabad, India. He has been published in newspapers across India, and his photographs were used as book covers for books by Penguin Books. He has been widely exhibited by Pix Delhi, at the Delhi Photo Festival, the Chennai Salon, and the Asahi Shimbun in Japan. He has also been part of two personal solo shows named Trespass and Distortions. His latest series "The Red Dress Project" was exhibited at the British Council Delhi and will be traveling to other cities this year.
Long-haul flights are brutal to your body, and jet-lag can cripple your productivity while you acclimate to your surroundings. I was practically giddy this week when I found a flight to South Africa a mere 36 hours long — 12 hours shorter than I had anticipated. After spending two or three days in transit, it typically takes me a day to feel functional again, and a week to feel normal.
My still-embryonic idea is to enlist the help of a local acquaintance who would wear a cheongsam (aka qi pao), and take the role of a sing-song girl. The photo shoot would take place in the streets of Yau Ma Tei, and in the parlor itself. Whether the parlor would allow it or not is an open question that will be answered when I'm there. The owners and clients seemed very laid back when I made these photographs.
Approaching a new client can be a lot easier if you happen to be visiting that region, or if it’s where you are based. Start local and contact businesses who you regularly use or that have less than desirable images on their website…put together a proposal and they’ll more than likely say yes if it benefits them! If they’re just starting out on social media you can offer to create a library of social media images they can use over a 3-6month period to generate interest in their product/region.
For the Aztec and Toltec pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase of life. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit, and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth. Nowadays, people flock to cemeteries to be with the souls of the dead, and build private altars with photographs of the dead, and their favorite foods and beverages. The gatherings are often joyous in tone, and the families remember the lives of the departed.
Knowing how to use your camera is essential to success as a travel photographer because more often than not, it’s those spur of the moment shots that generate the goods. If you can quickly adapt to the surroundings and know what settings to change in a split-second in order to capture a moment, you’re in with a pretty good shot of becoming a professional photographer.
The most interesting sites for people photography in both Taipei and Hong Kong are in and near temples such as Man Mo and Longshan. The night markets are also a trove for photogenic characters such as the tattooed fellow who stood akimbo guarding his inventory of bric a brac items that lay down in Xichiang market...whether this inventory was honestly procured or otherwise is left to the imagination of viewers.
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That would point to the Lakers as another possible destination for a trade. — Brett Martel, The Seattle Times, "Agent: Anthony Davis tells New Orleans that he wants a trade," 29 Jan. 2019 Will and Kate reportedly chose the island of Mustique as the destination for their trip, which coincides with George's fifth birthday. — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, "Prince George Is Reportedly Celebrating His Birthday on a Private Island, NBD," 22 July 2018 The sitter can accompany a child to the airport, on the plane and to a destination. — Kay Manning, chicagotribune.com, "Considering having a child fly solo? Here's what to know," 29 June 2018 According to their leaked Save The Date invitation, the couple have chosen France for a picturesque, destination wedding in 2019. — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, "Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas Were Absolutely the Cutest at the Grammys After Party," 11 Feb. 2019 But clicking though the digital album of a destination wedding has its own distinct appeal. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, "The Most Extravagant and Enviable Destination Weddings in Vogue," 11 Jan. 2019 The jet continued to its destination and landed safely. — Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times, "Lion Air pilots struggled against Boeing’s 737 MAX flight-control system, black-box data shows," 27 Nov. 2018 Following their gorgeous destination wedding in Italy last spring, the couple jetted off to Ecuador to do community-building work for the charity organization WE—and famously invited Drew's twin brother Jonathan along! — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, "Property Brothers' Drew Scott on Balancing Work and Married Life With Wife Linda," 19 Nov. 2018 What has quickly become a year-round destination, Beaver Creek offers the unique experience of a lifetime for anyone looking for adventure, fun, and inspiration. — Discover Magazine, "One-on-One with Executive Chef Kevin Erving," 6 July 2018


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A bearish position topped yesterday's option action in the iShares Hong Kong Fund as it continued to fall.
Total volume in the EWH was 7,885 contracts, compared to a daily average of just 212 in the last month. Almost of the options were in a one trade.
optionMONSTER systems detected the purchase of 3,869 September 17 puts and the sale of the same number of September 21 calls. Both traded for $0.25 in volume that was multiples of the open interest at each strike, clearly indicating that these are new positions.
This combination trade could be a bearish play on the fund, looking for a break below $17 in the next six months, but it is more likely a protective collar on long shares. That would ultimately be bullish up to $21, but the trader would give up any gains beyond that level to protect against a potential pullback.
The EWH has fallen every day this week and was down fractionally yesterday to close at $19.82. Shares were last below $17 in early September.
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Mid-December 2018, Judge Reed O’Connor, a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act last year ending the individual mandate’s penalty, which is the heart of Affordable Care Act, also made Obamacare unconstitutional without it. Nineteen other state attorneys general joined in the lawsuit Texas v. Azar. Likely this is headed to the Supreme Court.
But the Supreme Court essentially resolved this question June 2012 with the same five to four composition of the Court that now exists, when Justice John Roberts changed sides ruling that the individual mandate was a tax, not a fine, therefore making it constitutional, a position denied by Democrats previously. But it saved Obamacare. Justice Roberts could be again the deciding vote. If he betrays original intent of the Constitution, as before, he may again do heavy damage to the Constitution.
Prior to Roberts unanticipated vote, Anthony M. Kennedy had been the unpredictable swing vote on the Court. Justice Kennedy, not happy with Roberts’ switch saving Obamacare, said: “The court majority regards its statutory interpretation as modest. It is not.” Then, not hiding his distain for it, added, “It amounts to a vast judicial overreaching. It creates a debilitated, inoperable version of health care regulation that Congress did not enact and the public does not expect.” He called it “judicial legislation” and accused Chief Justice John Roberts of trying to “force on the nation a new act.”
Judicial activism is when a law of Congress is interpreted by the Supreme Court in such a way as to give it new meaning, which is what Justice Roberts did. George Washington warned in his Farewell Address of the inclination of government to do so. “Let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.” Usurpation, in his day meant twisting things around to extract meaning that was initially not there.
So what did Justice Roberts twist, or legislate, that changed the National Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) as passed by Congress? At the top of the list, his rewrite called it a tax when Congress never passed it as a tax and the political party passing it, and their President, Barack Obama, emphatically resisted any description of it as such.
Rich Lowry, a political commentator, said it best. “Obamacare as passed by Congress had a mandate to buy health insurance and a penalty for failing to comply. Obamacare, as passed by the Supreme Court has an optional tax for those without health insurance. Obamacare, as passed by Congress, required states to participate in a massive expansion of Medicaid or lose all their federal Medicaid funds. Obamacare, as passed by the Supreme Court, makes state participation in the Medicaid expansion optional.” In short, “Obamacare, as passed by Congress, didn’t pass constitutional muster. Obamacare, as passed by the Supreme Court, didn’t pass Congress” (The Umpire Blinks, by Rich Lowry, The Corner, National Review Online, June 29, 2012).
Judicial legislation or activism is not new. The desire for the court to legislate through decisions expressed itself more fully the last 60 years as it attempted to “right” perceived wrongs instead of sending the faulted legislation back to the legislative branch for correction by the peoples’ representatives.
By altering legislative law it has moved into state prerogatives such as education, state residency requirements, and imposed federal standards of procedure on local police, to name but a few. In broadening its power base, far beyond constitutional restraints, it has almost destroyed the idea of two co-equal governments, one federal the other state, known as federalism.
In the National Affordable Healthcare Act, the Supreme Court has effectively restrained further encroachment (mutilation) of the Commerce Clause, formerly used to increase its power, but opened wide the interpretive door that the federal government can control anything it taxes. So, does this mean that if the federal government wishes to control free speech, press, assembly, religion, guns or any other activity, it first simply levies a tax on that activity? Apparently judicial legislation creates a “need” for additional judicial legislation. God help us!!
We must return to our foundation, the U.S. Constitution as written, without all the judicial or executive alterations that go beyond this document. According to Article I Section I, “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
There is no authority for either of the two other branches of government to make law—any law— and law made by Congress is specifically listed in Article I, Section 8 where 18 clauses identify the very limited powers of the federal government. So, even Congress cannot make any law it likes.
The issue of health is not listed and is therefore, as per Amendment 10, entirely a state issue. The Supreme Court majority ruling ignored this long-term clarity and instead chose to violate the document they are charged with upholding.
Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling rendering Obamacare unconstitutional may give the Supreme Court a chance to return to the Constitution as written.
Unfortunately the deciding vote remains again with Roberts, who can’t be trusted constitutionally and so Obamacare could still stand.


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Summary: Love the game play etc. but there are graphics glitches in this game that were never addressed and patched or corrected that can lock it up or make it jump back to the deckstop and ruin a good roll you might be having in combat. If it does not flake out on you, it is really a kewl approach that would have been great to see sequals to. Especially with all of the voices from actors from the DP9 TV show. Could have been great!
Summary: Let's just start by saying I am a Trekkie at heart. That said, this game makes me embarrassed to admit to loving Star Trek. This game takes place during the Deep Space 9 Star Trek series and, much like the series it is based on, is absolutely the worst thing to ever happen to Star Trek. The plot is weak, the voice acting is paper thin, the gameplay is worse than a second grade play, and the game suffers from what I call "too much, too soon" syndrome.
Hard to make work, but once you get it working... it's a lot of fun.
Cary L. Brown, Amazon
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Summary: There have been many Star Trek games over the years, and while a few have been outstandingly fun, others have been terrible, and still others had great potential but were hobbled by flawed presentations. This game falls into the last category. I'm going to write this in two sections. First, some basics on on the game and on gameplay, and second, a "how to" about how to make the game run properly.
Summary: This game was a great game. It had a great story line for the Federation and dominion. It provided you with a what-if story if the federation had lost. The importing ships from creator was a nice touch. you could upgrade the ships, import them, and watch them fight in instant action, and if you have an endless supply of credits in creator warp 2, and upgraded your ship well, you can watch it take on the entire AI fleet.
Summary: This game is not perfect but it is loads of fun. The graphics are excellent and so is the gameplay. However, I will get to the point regarding the glitchy mouse control. Don't bother getting patches 1.05 or whatever some people here have been suggesting. My computer runs on Windows XP and I had the same problems when I first ran the program. The solution: 1. go to the Dominion Wars shortcut. 2. right click on the icon. 3. select properties. 4.
Summary: I will only say that I've never played a worse game in my life. I'm a huge ST fan but this software creation (if that's what it can be called) is a smack across the face. To be more specific... Highly unstable with countless software glitches, the game isn't even ripe for a beta test.

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The Travel Diary in the Closest Farway Land is the tale of 7 successive encouters with archetypal figures, as the traveler is making her way into the depths and back to the surface.
They were turned into a set of 7 cards and completed with Florence Devereux's set, to become the Loba Cards: A conversation between Taïs and Florence in the form of a 14 Tarot Card set and a show : Turn Around in the Nipple Dome, during which members of the audience could get a personal reading.
The Loba Cards
The Loba Cards were made by two women.
As they walked together on a moist forest floor, they met a strange man who had been sleeping in their chest.
He showed them their life was a vast land of many stories. And like all stories, theirs had been sung before and would be sung after.
He invited them to walk through their kingdom of tales, find comfort in ancient echoes and the fertile soil of dreams.
With coulours and shapes pre-existing them, the women and the sleeping man played on the moist forest floor.
Like an infinite puzzling recipe, they built, destroyed and rebuilt stories in which they saw themselves move like water.
Their dreams endlessly morphed into new and old ones,
resonating with others or surprising them with novelty.
But mostly they found Joy and decided to make a set of cards to keep playing once they’d return from the moist forest floor.
How To Play
Sit down. Feel your bum on the chair, the taste in your mouth and everything in between.
Hold the pack in your hands. Close your eyes.
Imagine your life story strung along a piece of thread.
Behind you the thread stretches out,
along it all the events of your life so far hang.
In front of you, the thread stretches out,
with your future story woven in.
Pay attention to what is attracting your imagination.
Select a moment along the thread to focus on.
Try to inhabit fully the way this moment makes you feel.
Then pull three cards from the pack. Turn them over.
What can you see in each card? What can you read from the way they relate to each other and do they weave a narrative?
Just like you would interpret your own dream,
let the cards float in your mind and open a new window in your story.
You can take a look at each card's description in this book whilst letting any links, connections and new associations come to you.
The 7 Archetypes
The Diver or The Fearfull Child
The diver is going into the depths to meet death. She is blind and unconscious of how much she needs to learn to truly see. She is blind and unconscious and this is why she dares to dive into the depths. The diver is high vulnerability as well as pure courage. Her blindness mirrors the death the diver experiences when she reaches the depths. Her body and mind abandon her, she is shed from her identity, she experiences a complete amnesia. Death as a purge, a release. Her own depths pulled out by the depths, she’s emptied. As the limits of her being break down, as she looses the sense of what she is, she visits freely what lies beyond herself, the pure essence of reality. She is one with it for she is nothing and all at the same time. That is what allows her to fully experience an atmosphere of complete infinity, whilst also taking her to the limits of what she is capable of: Her mind and body being shut down, her eyes being blinded and her soul out of reach, she can’t comprehend, grasp, conceptualise and bring back this knowledge with her. The diver is profoundly fearful and ignorant. She lies in a terrifying void, a new space for new knowledge. She has lost her sense of self and does not know what to hold on to. She seeks for help outwards and inwards but there is nothing to be found. She is left to drown until she reaches the limits of her own essence. The diver is severely humbled yet offered the precious gift of truly experiencing herself.
This is when she becomes
The Lioness orThe First Island
The Lioness is a rooting protection and peace. She is the encounter with the pure, untouched, divine part of the soul, the one that can never be taken over. She lives in the depths of the soul and stays there.
She is still. Once she’s awaken, she never falls back to sleep completely. The more we listen to her calm breathing, the more we get to know her. Her protection and peace simply steams from being undoubtfully aware of her own soul and existence. She confidently fights the primitive fear of death, the fear of no longer existing, the doubt in one’s own sense of self. She is sitting eyes closed, looking inwards, embraced by the deepest roots of the soul. After meeting the Lioness, she start climbing up the ladder, slowly reintegrating parts of her self. She is still disembodied, but the mind wakes up
and she becomes
The Insomniac or The Thought Manufacturer
The insomniac is born from the primitive force dwelling in the part of the mind that responds to fear with a fight or flight mechanism. It is in constant alert. The insomniac is highly gifted for conceptualisation. She is creative and thirsty to understand whatever comes her way. She can define, analyse and rationally define anything. Beyond her high intellectual intelligence, she is the sentinel. She always make sure that the self is safe. Even when everything else is asleep, she can always be relied on. She calculates, anticipates, uses strategies and foresees. Like a guardian angel, she often acts without our knowing, protects us without expecting anything in return. Although she is useful and should be respected she is not to be constantly fully trusted or listened to since her only agenda is to avoid anything that could be unsafe. Thus she can lead us to miss important experiences or discoveries. When disembodiesd, disconnected from the heart, she gets lost in her creations and looses sight of what is conceptualized, intellectualized, imagined, and what is actually experienced. When disembodiesd, disconnected from the heart, the fears are short circuited in the mind without any way out. The insomniac is locked in and rulled by them. Her panic keeps the mind awake and the body away, and she nurtures the fears through an incessant dialogue with them. The insomniac’s state of panic is exhausting, she is in a constant battle for sleep, the mind refusing to let go, refusing to shut down in order to not be vulnerable or taken over by the constant threat. When the mind finally opens to the heart, when embodied again,
the insomniac quietens, tenderly carried by the strong arms of
The Corpo Real or The Sleep Walker
The Corpo Real is a return to the body, an awakening of emotions and sensations in their entirety. The Corpo Real is empowered by owning and honoring her physicality and emotions. She feels the body, understands where it starts and stops. Thus she knows what are her boundaries, what is hers, whats is not. The Corpo Real teaches the language of dreams as well as the ability to perceive her sensuous environment. She holds the sacred symbolic language of the body, the body as conscious, living, intelligent physical matter. The Corpo Real can explore bodily memories transmitted from generations to generations. She can store and evacuate anything. Her knowledge is as old as her DNA, her ability to feel as strong as all the hearts of her ancestors brought together. She discreetly protects the mind and soul, keeping secret wounds silent until there is enough strength to face them. The Corpo Real is an unconditional friend. She knows what to do without needing any instructions. She has knowledge of things the mind isn’t conscious of. She teaches let go of analysis, she teaches that everything doesn’t need to be rationally understood or measured in order to have a true existence and effect. She teaches to trust, for she knows what she is doing. She knows how to heal. If we ask her with the language of the heart, the language of love, and let her do without trying to intervene, the sleep walker can transform and dissipate any fear, thanks to the intelligence of the body and the unconditional tenderness of the heart. When she is not heard or spoken to, the sleep walker leaves a sense of lack of love. For she holds the key to the heart, without her we can’t fully access the feeling of loving, nor the feeling of being loved. Without her we are not fully physically present to ourselves. Thus it creates a feeling and fear of absence, of abandonment. The Corpo Real whispers : The fear of abandonment and lack of love is be resolved inwards. It is not a thirst that will find a river outside of oneself. She knows that any pain finds resolution in the land of the body and heart. The Corpo Real knows that as long as the mind lives in the body, as long as the heart can speak and be heard freely, she will always feel loved by the love she herself carries.
And a dialectic unfolds with
The Dancer or The Humble and The Proud
The Dancer is moved by the Humble and Proud. The Humble - Faith in Love - and the Proud - Ego’s Fear-. The Dancer is in a constant movement going from one to the other. The Humble is pure love, an embracing compassion. Although she doesn’t ignore its existence, she can overcome darkness simply by refusing to converse with it. She is not afraid of what she is or isn’t. She’s focused on making peace. She seeks refuge in the heart. But she becomes the Proud when she is fearfully seeking Love. The Proud is constantly vulnerable to her own judgment towards herself. She doesn’t know trust nor acceptance. She is vulnerable to her own desires, she is vulnerable to her own fears, she is vulnerable to her own darkness for she is ashamed of them all. She feeds of anger for she thinks it can protect her from fears. She tries to hold on to permanence for she can’t find stillness in herself. She is possessive for she doesn’t feel she owns her own heart. The Humble and the Proud exist through their dual nature, but if the Dancer is not aware of their existence, they easily fall out of balance and the dance out of rythme. The Dancer finds life energy in the friction between the humble and the proud. Her movement opposes death. Giving in the beauty of her dance teaches the imperfection and impermanence of her nature.
She keeps dancing up to the surface and she becomes
The Singer or Inward Love
The Singer is reaching back to the surface, pulling light out of darkness. She seems to be doing so effortlessly, for she knows how to let go of what is out of her control. The Singer is not possessive nor attached, but she trusts and nurtures her wishes and intentions. The Singer is a movement from inwards to outwards The Singer holds and nurture a sacred space within herself from which she can draw strength, hope, energy and motivation. Yet she can also accept paralysis, stagnation, discouragement. drought. For she knows that singing is breathing, that inspiration requires expiration. That music is silence and life is death. The Singer sings for both darkness and light with detachment and self preservation. She has a multitude of different faces and melodies but she sings from one single heart. In her inward movement, the singer unconditionally accepts all of what she is. Thus she knows unconditional love. And in her outward movement, she can sing to others what she sings to herself. Yet she knows how to draw boundaries and protect herself. She is fierce and kind, she has self respect and compassion, for she knows anger, she knows pain, she knows her own darkness and sees the necessity of their existence. She is ready to fight and embrace She is ugly and beautiful She is a stream and a stone at the same time She is in constant movement, but holds stillness.
She reaches the surface, walks the land and becomes
The Explorer or Outward Love
The explorer is a full movement outwards. She has a solid but flowing essence, trusting a tangible sense of self, walking through unexplored lands. The land is dream like, it is constantly in movement, shaped and shaped again. Nothing is still nor fixed in the explorer’s land. Everything can be sculpted constantly. The outward movement of the explorer is in constant dialogue with the impermanence and responsive nature of the unexplored land. The explorer seeks mystery and poetry The explorer holds a lantern but has no eyes Her light is her sight She seeks truth in impermanence She seeks friction in stillness. She knows the true essence of fear and thus she is fearless. She faces the unexplored land with joy candor, elegance and respect for what is out of her comprehension. The explorer does not know anything about the land she travels. But she trusts her outwards movement, in which she finds joy and bliss.
She goes on for the sake of playing what is to be played.

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I like this idea a lot, let's see some more drawings. Show us some profile sketches so we can see its shape.
I love it and I would keep the blank "smoothie" wheels, they look awesome.
My 1988 Chevy S10, 2001 Chevy Silverado, and 1976 Chevy K10
overall fantastic, and the front is perfect. Great job...
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Looks really good, but if it weren't for the grille I would have said it's a baby Cadillac.
I like it, but I do have to agree with Slidways. I think the hockey-stick C-pillar needs to be incorporated more to be more Saabish.
O and if you can't come up with wheels to put on for a Saab, their turbine wheels that debuted on teh Aero-X is always a good backup.
2012 Range Rover Evoque
Past: 2004 Saab 9-3 Aero, 1985 Mercedes-Benz 300D
I messed witht he C-pillar a lot on this car. I wanted to make it strong but not a direct rip off of their ither models.
As for the wheels, I was going to try some three spokes.
Great design! Yeah I was going to say use three spoke wheels-I like their new version... it's real retro.. I definitely like the rear and how well it incorporates with the rear. I personally think the C pillar is great, but maybe could expand a little more so there's not a Huge Malibu-like blind spot. Other than that, it looks awesome.
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There’s a hole in my sock (dear Liza, dear Liza)…
It was a pair of socks that were given to me for Christmas a couple years ago. They were one of my favorite pairs, as they were easy to get on, warm, and comfy.
But, since I have to use a grabber to get my socks on, it finally happened.
There were holes in both of my socks. So last night, I said goodbye to that pair of socks.
Those socks, they reminded me of my body.
The socks are put together, in some fashion that makes them stay together as a sock, but are subject to destruction at any time. They could be washed too much, they could be stretched out too far.
In the same manner, my body, that is a complicated mess of nerves, veins, blood, organs, and bones, all kept together as a body, is constantly teetering on the brink of destruction. Not enough water can lead to problems with my kidneys. Falling down can lead to broken bones. A respiratory infection can lead to death.
And so, I try to take care of my body in the best possible way every day. As I feel really good now, it can change in an instant.
Speaking of Falling Down
I did. Last week.
I went to pick up Sam from A Spa 4 Paws after his spa day. We were going to visit Papa Thor and Momma Marilyn over the weekend, and didn’t want Sam to smell us out of house and home.
Sam gets so excited when we leave, he has to pee all over everything after he runs out the door.
Being the good doggie parent that I am, I had him on a leash. He likes to run when he can – thankfully it is only about two to three times a year that he does, and he typically ends up at Mother Janet’s house about two miles away.
He weighs 108 pounds, and he is one strong dog. I knew enough to let go of the leash when he pulled away, but he already had me off balance, and down I went, on my knees, in the parking lot.
It is a painful process to get from my knees to standing. Through the little bit of snow on the ground, I slid myself over to the large decorative rocks that I had parked next to, and pulled myself up slowly.
It was a moment of tears. Sam knew he had done wrong, and had already jumped into the back of the truck, ready to go home.
I slowly pulled myself up into the truck. Two small decorative stones fell out of my sweatshirt sleeve.
I tearfully called the hubs, and asked him to come home. It was close to time for him to be done with work anyway. I was tired, and I was hurt.
An hour later, after a couple morphine that I popped into my mouth, off we went to Fleet Farm to finish our Christmas shopping.
The next morning wasn’t the most pleasant, for sure.
I’m hoping I didn’t leave a crack in the parking lot…
Love to you all ~Erika

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This is the case of a lady who came to me for treatment of chronic vertigo and headaches. Her first visit was at 10th of March 2015. She was a thin woman in her early forties, with yellow complexion and dark hair. Her manner of speaking was snappish and she was talking rapidly but she had mild tone to her voice. She was also impatient on her chair, sitting with her arms crossed before her chest. In the course of case-taking she briefly revealed a list of complaints which showed general miasmatic derangement of her nervous system. My first prescription proved to be close but it was not the simillimum. Her true chronic remedy became obvious to me a few months later, due to an acute condition.
She reported periods of dizziness, starting suddenly and increasing to violent vertigo. It was a congenital complaint, all women in her family had suffered from it. She started to feel it from time to time, after having her elder child born 13 years ago. The last two years it had increased to a severe intensity, causing her to stop functioning until the subsidence of paroxysms. She had tried allopathic treatment with temporary alleviation; she had also tried some pseudo-homeopathic therapy with combined preparations, again to no permanent avail.
“It starts out of nowhere, usually while I am stooping for something. I lose my balance, each stooping aggravates. Rising from stooping is awful. I must sit at the table and support my head with my two hands, and it feels as if everything is falling from above on my head. Lying makes it worse. I must take some combined homeopathic preparation from the pharmacy in order being able to fall asleep. On the next day I usually have a severe headache starting in the nape of my neck and embracing my occiput.”
“Other times the room turns over, all of the sudden. I feel as if I am riding on a merry-go-round and will fall sideways, on the right. I also try not to move my head and to stand with my body upright; I try to move the entire body but not my head, at any cost. I have the feeling as if there is a ball on top of my head, and if I bend the head to any side that ball would roll down to that side.”
“These attacks come periodically. I cannot say if they depend on something. They just happen suddenly.”
“Sometimes I wake up with a very strong headache in the morning. It happens periodically. The pain is at the back of my head, sometimes on one side; sometimes it is dull; and sometimes is lancinating, as if someone is driving in a nail with hammer. And often this pain is attending with nausea and vomiting, and sometimes with high blood pressure – 160/120. Sometimes it starts after my period but not each time.”
“I often feel heaviness in my head, which continues for days. Drinking coffee brings but little help.”
PALPITATION OF HEART & UNSTABLE BLOOD PRESSURE
“I have had slight arrhythmia periodically, since my school days in puberty. But last two years it starts suddenly, and very violently. My entire body is shaking, my heart beats so strong, it’s rumbling, as if it will jump out of my chest. I must lie down, this always helps. The palpitation continues after lying, and gradually stops. I then feel very weak. My mother and my husband say that my face becomes extremely pale while I’m just lying flat on my back; they even called an ambulance last time; but till it arrived all was passed and doctors found nothing.”
NERVOUS & EMOTIONAL EXCITABILITY
“I am very nervous, very impatient, and very emotional. I easily get impressed by trifles really, and make a mountain out of molehill. I cannot stand clamor; but at the same time I often shout for nothing, especially before my periods. I’m so worried about my obligations; about not being on time with my kids’ school; about my work. I’m anxious whether I could cope with so many obligations. I feel unable to adjust myself to the changes in my routine.”
“I feel anger in front of injustice but I never express it. I leave it unsaid and I feel apt to weeping. Often I just begin to weep while I sit and do nothing” – and at this point she started to cry and wipe her tears.
“I’m not very apt to clean and tidy up my house. I like being with people, part of big company, I like to go out and laugh.”
“It is very difficult when I have to make a choice or decision. I need support.”
BACK & EXTREMITIES
“I have exostosis on the thumb of my right hand, inner side, which gives me much pain from time to time, in periods. Sometimes it is movable: periodically it’s protruding and then again sinks. I noticed it about two years ago. The pain is sharp and I cannot work (she works on a computer). Pressure and external cold make the pain worse, external warmth alleviates it. I tried to bandage it, pain got worse.”
“My neck is numb, stiff. I feel it stiff there, in between, above the shoulder blades. When I lie down on my back it ameliorates.”
SUPPRESSION OF MYOMA
Her period had been extremely painful prior to her first pregnancy. Severe pain in the entire abdomen and sacral region leading to inability to stand or walk. After the labor all gone, menses regular and painless, pure blood without clots.
During her first pregnancy she was diagnosed with cervical ulcer and HPV negative cervical dysplasia of third degree (CIN III). After birth it decreased to CIN II, and few months later to CIN I. No interventions.
She reported heavy hemorrhage in 2013. In hospital they diagnosed her with myoma in the uterus. She had it surgically removed right away because she was frightened from the intensity of hemorrhage.
“One week before each period I become highly irritable. I shout at any occasion. My breasts are painful and enlarged, and also my abdomen is distended.”
On my question, had she noticed any leucorrhea, she answered: “I notice it all the time, for as long as I have periods. Menses stops, and in a few days leucorrhea starts, then again menses comes and so on. The leucorrhea is thin, watery, of transparent to white or light-yellow color. It becomes stronger before and after periods, and decreases a bit in the middle. Sometimes, just before blood starts to flow, a large quantity of mucus drops out.”
Here I also asked her about the color of her face. “It’s always been yellow” – she said.
She is very chilly with aversion to meat and fat, salt and sour foods. She hates swimming in the sea and generally aggravates at the seaside. She’s been prone to constipation all her life.
THE FIRST PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW UP
It was apparent that I needed to find a remedy with deep miasmatic action on the nervous and female genital system. A few points made me dwell in reflection as to which miasm I had to direct my efforts first. The myoma, and later the exostosis, were signs of typical sycotic expansion. The cervical dysplasia showed danger of cancerous affections, indeed in latent form but perceivable. On the other hand, the general derangement of nervous system, which caused her inability to function properly at all levels, affecting CNS and causing general imbalance, affecting heart action and causing fluctuations in the blood pressure, together with the increased nervous and emotional irritability – all these made me see the underlying latent psora which started to manifest during her first pregnancy but became fully unfolded due to the suppression of the sycosis (see S. Hahnemann, ‘The Chronic Diseases’, Symptoms of Latent Psora).
Though it is true that miasmatic layers must be treated one after another starting from the most pronounced one, it is quite difficult to distinguish such fine characteristics in a patient, which leads us to the simillimum and at the same time has anti-miasmatic action. One may, of course, insist and ask the patient to share more details about his/her personality in an attempt to see the reasons underlying the manifesting symptoms and thus to arrive at the precise prescription. I however have discovered at my own account, that people tell only things they are ready to tell and if I insisted they would lead me in the wrong direction. Moreover, this particular lady was so nervous and disinclined to speak that I had to deal with what she had willingly shared to this point.
When I put her symptoms into my repertorization software, Sepia forced itself to my attention due to its close relation to patient’s morbid sensations and miasmatic layers. Indeed, her case looked pretty much a Sepia case; I had only one doubt: she had an aversion to sour food. Nevertheless I decided to prescribe Sepia because of its deep antipsoric action and its deep influence on the female organs, nerves and circulation. There was also one particular observation I had, which was also key feature of Sepia: her yellow face, together with her constant leucorrhea. In Complete Repertory there are seven remedies in that particular rubric:
Face; yellow; leucorrhea, in: caul caust chin ferr LYC NAT-M SEP.
Hering writes about Sepia in his “Guiding Symptoms”: “Hemicrania in hysterical women; pains stitching, pressing, tearing or twitching with passive congestion of head; in chronic cases where the nervous system has long been disordered; leucorrhoea between menses; sudor hystericus, peculiar sweet-smelling sweat, particularly in axillae and about soles of feet; face pale, dirty yellow, slender built.”
I will not go into details about my reflections about not choosing some of the other six remedies because none of them covered my understanding of the essence of my patient’s personality; though Natrum muriaticum and Lycopodium looked very closely similar to the case, both in the general and local symptoms. The same was valid for Pulsatilla (not present in this rubric) and Ferrum metallicum. Neither one of those remedies nor Sepia were the right choice. Sepia however helped the lady to manifest other important characteristics, which belonged to the chronic totality of symptoms. My point in this article is to show how the very similar remedy works to remove a layer in the patient’s diseased condition but has no power to bring deep cure. We shall see below how Sepia lead me to the true simillimum.
I also want to mark here that I took the rubric ‘Generalities; periodical’ in my first repertorial analysis. But I neither should have taken it nor to underline it. Indeed she often used this word ‘periodically’ while telling her symptoms; but actually in her case there was no real marked periodicity. I was unable to determine the periods of appearance of her symptoms. The latter appeared more chaotically than periodically.
There follows a snapshot of my first analysis chart as of March 2015 (analysis copied and patient’s personal data removed):
FOLLOW-UP FIRST PRESCRIPTION
Gradually, for three months after Sepia 200c the lady felt general amelioration. The remedy was given once on 10/03/2015 and repeated on 19/05/2015. Her paroxysms of vertigo steadily became less intense and less frequent (about 60 per cent amelioration). The exostosis on her hand stopped aching. The leucorrhea substantially lessened in quantity and duration but still appeared two weeks before her periods.
She reported less irritability and better management of her daily obligations and lack of anger attacks. No heart palpitation appeared during this period. However there remained the heaviness in her head and headache still appeared unexpectedly in the mornings, less intense but still disrupting her day. She made blood tests on my request and they showed that levels of hemoglobin were very close to the lower margin. Her face was still yellow, and her anxious expression – face and manner of speaking was not gone. Constipation was better but still present. The blood pressure was stable.
Summer passed without news from her and in the middle of October she called for appointment.
RELAPSE & NEW TAKING OF THE CASE
“I was doing well”, she said, “And then we went on vacation at the seaside. At first nothing in particular was happening but my head was gradually becoming heavier each day. Also my right ear gradually became stopped with some unclear irritation; not real pain but as if there was water inside, or I was feeling something like gnawing deep in the internal ear.”
“Then in the beginning of September we came home and in the next morning I woke up with terrible headache as before we started this treatment. I didn’t call you, just repeated the remedy you gave me because lots of time had passed and I decided it had stopped working. On the next day I felt okay and I was okay for two-three weeks, except for the heaviness in my head and the stoppage of the right ear which did not go away. And while I was thinking that I’m better, one evening, I think a week after I repeated the remedy, suddenly my arrhythmia came back. It was the most severe heart palpitation I’ve had for a long time. My entire body was shaking. It passed relatively quickly in about 15 minutes, after I lay down. Since that evening, I often feel as if palpitation would start again – during the day while I’m at work – but haven’t had such severe attack again.”
“Then I caught up some virus. It was fluent coryza at first, rivers of yellow discharge flowing at the back of my throat, which was hurting, and I had dry irritating cough. I had heaviness in my occiput and in my forehead, my nose was stopped. The headache came back with pulsating and feeling as if someone is driving in a nail with hammer. The coryza went away for a week but I cannot stop coughing, it’s been another week already. I feel pain under my diaphragm every time I cough, it is pain as from the cough itself, sore bruised sensation.”
H: What more can you tell me about the cough?
P: “Dry and irritating cough; I constantly feel irritation inside my larynx as from a feather. When I start to cough, it can’t be stopped. It comes in paroxysms and I’m coughing to suffocation. It’s not happening outside but only in closed premises – at work, at home, in the transport. This cough I have each time when I catch some flu, and it becomes almost constant for weeks after the acute have come to pass. It’s increasing in the evenings at home to an impossible degree, until I go to sleep. As my head touches the pillow, the cough stops and I sleep all night. But when I get up in the morning it starts all over again. I feel very tired from it.”
WHAT TO DO NOW?
I took the entire case again. After careful questioning she brought in only two further details to the above chronic picture; the rest were symptoms characterizing her acute condition as well as relapse of her chronic complaints.
The first symptom not mentioned during the first case taking was the stoppage of her right ear. “I’ve had forgotten about that ear. Periodically I was feeling it as if there was water inside and I hear as if from a distance. This stoppage was appearing from time to time with my vertigo attacks, or with the heaviness in the occiput.”
The second symptom was the cough. It became obvious that each time she had acutes, this dry suffocating cough appeared and would not go away for weeks after the acute. The most important modality about the cough was its disappearance from lying down in bed. And that lead me to her remedy, for it’s a key feature of the latter.
There was one other circumstance which also suggested to me the mineral kingdom remedies. That was her threatening anemia.
I made a new repertorial analysis adding the newly discovered chronic symptoms plus one symptom belonging to the acute condition; the latter I gave no weight, I just wanted it visible for comparison. Of course, Nat-m and Sepia were still heading the list of remedies. But now I was searching to see which remedy was embracing all peculiar characteristics of my patient’s disease, while having the following characteristics itself: action on the internal ear, action towards anemic conditions, action on the larynx and trachea. That remedy was Manganum aceticum, and it cured my lady patient completely.
Our Materia Medica is a bit confusing about manganese remedies Manganum metallicum, Manganum carbonicum and Manganum aceticum. We all know that Hahnemann’s proving was made by triturations of acetate and carbonate of manganese. The Complete Repertory contains many rubrics of Mang-acet but still the remedy doesn’t show itself without applying some filters to the analysis. I chose Manganum aceticum not only on the account of its close similarity with the key features of my patient’s disease; but also because it fit most to her weak anemic pre-disposition; I also considered its close relation to Aceticum acidum. My leading source of MM was Hahnemann’s MM Pura. I will only add two quotations here, one from J. H. Allen and one from R. Hughes:
Allen, J. H., The Chronic Miasms: “Indicated in waxy, chlorotic, pallid, sickly, tubercular women who have great anxiety and fear as if something were going to happen; sad, low-spirited, silent also. Leucorrhoea in chlorosis or pernicious anaemia (Ferrum, Ars.)”
- Hughes, A Manual of Pharmacodynamics: “Triturations, or in the case of the acetate aqueous solutions, are made for homoeopathic use. A pathogenesis of Manganese, obtained from the acetate, appears in the sixth volume of the Materia Medica Pura. It contains 89 symptoms from Hahnemann, and 242 from ten fellow-observers. A second pathogenesis was published in the second edition of the Chronic Diseases, adding to these the 124 symptoms recorded as obtained from the drug in Hartlaub and Trinks’ Arzneimittellehre. Hahnemann’s provings led him to think that Manganese would prove indispensable in some of the most troublesome chronic diseases, especially some insupportable pains in the periosteum and joints, some weaknesses of the senses and some affections of the larynx and trachea. The provings of the native black oxide and the chloride since instituted by Dr. Lembke, of Riga, on his own person-an account of which is given by Hempel and Allen-confirm the first and last of these actions, and show it to affect the head much like Ferrum. The hoarse cough it causes is characterised by being relieved on lying down.”
Manganum aceticum is not frequently used today, which is indisputably a mistake, for it has deep antopsoric action and stands very close to Ferrums, to Aceticum acidum, and – as my case shows – to great polychrests like Sepia, Natrium mur and Lycopodium. It proved to be efficacious even in acute conditions; which is not at all surprising if we turn to our old classical sources of Materia Medica more often – as we really should.
On October 15th 2015 I gave Mang-acet 200c in water solution to be taken several times for one day. The lady reported severe aggravation of the cough on the same evening and during the next day. Then gradually the cough disappeared. She called one more time on the phone and said that all is well, only her heart sometimes beats not rhythmically. I asked her to come for a follow-up about mid-November.
On that last follow-up she said that sometimes she feels as if palpitation would start while she’s at work. The stoppage of right ear had disappeared. No signs of vertigo, no heaviness or pain in the head. Constipation gone. Leucorrhea better on 80 per cent. She felt calmer, and, while she was speaking I suddenly noticed that her face had turned from a deep yellow color to a pinkish nuance. I asked her if she had noticed that, and she confirmed: “For the first time since – well, I don’t remember when, but yes, my face is not that yellow now.”
I prescribed Manganum aceticum in LM6 potency for three consecutive days, and told her that she can take the remedy again if some of her symptoms should return. She called me once more a few weeks later, to say that she feels very well – no arrhythmia, blood pressure normal. That was our last talk.

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The two first met this past April, and Corrales stopped the long time WBA super featherweight champion Uchiyama in the second round after sending hinm to the canvas three times. The loss was the first of his career for Uchiyama and it ended a six year title reign. For the 24-year-old Corrales, it was a breakthrough win in his first fight outside of his native Panama. Before he can move on however, Corrales grants the repescted Uchiyama a rematch.
New Year’s eve is usually met with several boxing, MMA and pro-wrestling cards as part of the festivities in Japan, and Uchiyama has been a headline act on December 31st for the last six years. Could that run be coming to an end this Saturday?
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- On a flat slab of asphalt, a powerful edition of Dodge's revamped 2011 four-door sports sedan rips down the road at way-fast speed.
This modern muscle car -- flashing the menacing face of a bulldog with shapely body bulges and the sleek profile of a coupe despite a pair of doors hanging off each flank -- runs so swiftly it becomes a blur of red paint in a shade aptly labeled "Redline."
It carries the credentials of a race car: A taut suspension tweaked for performance, big and black Michelin MXM4 tires, and a powerful V8 engine that's a high-tech rendition of Chrysler's fabled Hemi plant with hemispheric combustion chambers.
It even bears the badge of a race car: Dodge, employing the nameplate of the 1966 muscle car icon and past NASCAR stock racer, calls this one the Charger.
The original Charger, stuffing a 426 Hemi V8 behind that rocket-shaped prow, ranks among the swiftest of street-legal cars, which perhaps is why TV's Duke brothers -- Bo and Luke -- always out-gun Boss Hog the sheriff in their souped-up "General Lee" Charger on "The Dukes of Hazzard."
And it was a Charger stock car -- #88, the Charger Daytona steered by Buddy Baker at Talladega Superspeedway in 1970 -- that first ran over 200 mph for a closed-course lap.
A modern race car called Charger competed in the NASCAR Nextel Cup, and in 2006 Dodge rolled out a street-legal version conformed as a four-door sports coupe.
Now for 2011, Dodge reinvents the Charger with a pair of powertrain choices and trim designations of Charger SE and Charger R/T.
The new version has a long wheelbase for big-car scale with the engine mounted up front and all torque applied to the back tires for a classic rear-wheel-drive (RWD) arrangement, although Charger R/T adds the option of electronic all-wheel-drive (AWD) traction.
Charger SE serves as the price-leader entry edition.
It scores the new Pentastar dual overhead cam (DOHC) 3.6-liter aluminum-block V6 engine mated to a five-speed electronic automatic transmission with AutoStick shift-it-yourself side-tap gear control like a manual.
The Pentastar six-pack delivers some impressive power numbers -- 292 hp at 6350 rpm and 260 lb-ft of torque at 4800 rpm.
Despite high output of the Pentastar V6, the EPA fuel numbers look good -- 18 mpg City and 27 mpg Highway.
Charger's top trim sports the R/T badge, with the initials abbreviating a designation of "Road and Track" in recognition of Dodge's muscle car heritage.
Charger R/T totes the modern Hemi engine, a 5.7-liter V8 which produces 370 hp at 5250 rpm and 395 lb-ft of torque at 4200 rpm through the electronic automatic five-speed transmission with AutoStick.
And this Hemi comes with a multi-displacement system (MDS) which can switch seamlessly and transparently to fuel-saving four-cylinder mode when all of that horsepower is not needed for romping.
Fuel scores for the 5.7-liter plant net to 16/25 mpg (City/Highway) with the RWD version and 15/23 mpg (City/Highway) for the AWD R/T.
The re-do of Charger 2011 starts with a new E-segment chassis architecture which creates exceptional structural stiffness and torsional efficacy to deliver tight and precise handling characteristics.
Charger's standard suspension consists of an independent front SLA arrangement with high upper A arms plus coil springs over gas-charged monotube shock absorbers and stabilizer bar. The rear independent five-link design has coil springs and gas-charged monotube shocks plus stabilizer bar and an isolated rear suspension cradle.
Tires vary by trim designation.
Charger SE rolls on 215/65R17 Michelin Energy Saver BSW all-season touring tires.
Charger R/T RWD stocks 235/55R18 Michelin MXM4 BSW all-season performance tires and Charger R/T AWD scores 235/55R19 Michelin MXM4 BSW all-season performance tires.
Measures for passenger safety in the cabin extend from the sturdy safety-cage construction to front seatbelts with pretensioning apparatus, backseat restraints with anchors to mount two child seats, reactive head restraints and the cabin surrounded by hidden air bags -- up-front inflators for front seats plus seat-mounted side air bags and one more to shield the driver's knee, then curtain-style air bags mounted in headliners above side windows for the two rows of seats.
And Charger contains active safety systems to avoid accidents, including a big brake disc at each wheel linked to an anti-lock brake system (ABS) with electronic brake-force distribution (EBD) and brake assist (BA), plus a traction control system (TCS) and anti-skid electronic stability control (ESC).
Fresh sheetmetal shapes apply.
Charger's stub-nosed aluminum hood with dual scallops stretches long and the body's beltline on flanks seems high, with a roofline tapering toward the rear and shaping window glass to trapezoidal proportions. At the rear new taillights feature vivid LEDs ringing the width of the body.
The wheelbase is ten feet long so Charger's passenger compartment is of sizable scale. Layout of the cabin consists of two seats in front and a rear bench split 60/40 with 40 inches of legroom. Up front, the driver fits in a bolstered sport bucket which adjusts in multiple directions.
Charger SE edition stocks the 3.6-liter V6 engine and 17-inch alloy wheels with automatic headlights and air conditioning system, cloth upholstery, power controls for windows and door locks, a trip computer, cruise control, keyless ignition/entry and an audio kit with six speakers and AM/FM/CD/MP3/WMA plus a 4.3-inch Uconnect touchscreen interface.
Charger R/T edition packs the Hemi V8 and 18-inch alloy wheels (19-inch for AWD), xenon headlamps and foglamps, automatic twin-zone climate controls, heated front seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, auto-dimming rearview mirror, Bluetooth connectivity and a 276-watt Alpine sound system with 8.4-inch Uconnect touchscreen, voice control and Sirius satellite radio service.
Optional packages put more gear aboard, such as the Rallye Plus Package, Driver Confidence Group, Navigation Group and the Super Track Pak (with 245/45R20 Goodyear Eagle F1 performance tires and high-performance suspension and brake hardware).
Dodge sets the MSRP for 2011 Charger SE at $25,180, with Charger R/T RWD starting at $30,180.


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A retinoid called all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), which is a vitamin A-derivative, is already used successfully to treat a rare sub-type of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), however this drug has not been effective for the more common types of AMLs.
Team leader Arthur Zelent, Ph.D., and colleagues at the ICR have been working to unlock the potential of retinoids to treat other patients with AML. In a paper published in Nature Medicine, they show that the key could be an antidepressant called tranylcypromine (TCP).
"Retinoids have already transformed one rare type of fatal leukaemia into a curable disease. We've now found a way to harness these powerful drugs to treat far more common types of leukaemia," senior author Dr Zelent, from the ICR, said. "Until now, it's been a mystery why the other forms of AML don't respond to this drug.
Our study revealed that there was a molecular block that could be reversed with a second drug that is already commonly used as an antidepressant. We think this is a very promising strategy, and if these findings can be replicated in patients the potential benefits are enormous."
ATRA works by encouraging the leukaemia cells to mature and die naturally. The team thinks the failure of AML to respond to this drug may be due to genes that ATRA normally targets becoming switched off. In their search for a drug that could be used to reboot the activity of ATRA, the team looked to an emerging area of research called epigenetics.
Epigenetic drugs do not target genes directly but instead target whether genes are switched on or off. They discovered that inhibiting an enzyme called LSD1, using TCP, could switch these genes on again and make the cancer cells susceptible to ATRA.
The drug combination
Along with collaborators at the University of Münster in Germany, the team have already started a Phase II clinical trial of the drug combination in acute myeloid leukaemia patients.
Co-author Kevin Petrie, Ph.D., from the ICR says, "Both the retinoid ATRA and the antidepressant TCP are already available in the UK and off-patent, so these drugs should not be expensive for the health service. AML remains very difficult to treat and sadly is often fatal, with rates of the disease projected to increase significantly as the population ages, so it is particularly pleasing to have identified this new treatment approach.
Importantly, we believe these drugs are targeting only the cancer cells and leaving normal healthy cells largely untouched, so we are hopeful that they would have fewer side-effects for patients than standard drugs. We look forward to seeing the results of the clinical trials."
Samuel Waxman, M.D., the Founder and the Scientific Director of the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation added, "The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation has supported the work of Arthur Zelent for more than a decade. This major finding is the direct result of years of collaborative research to better understand the mechanism of action using a combination therapy of drugs that are already available on the market today, which may lead to faster cures for patients."
(EurekAlert, March 2012)


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Ventura has won the Woodbine Mile to become the first female to win the $1 million race at Woodbine Racetrack.
The 5-year-old mare rallied from well back in the field for her second victory of the year following a 4-year-old campaign in which she won the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.
Ventura was sent off as the 2-1 co-favorite with Metropolitan Handicap winner Bribon, and covered the seven furlongs over a firm turf course in 1:32.04.
The win in the 13th running of the Woodbine Mile gave Ventura an automatic berth in the Breeders' Cup Mile on Nov. 7 at Santa Anita. Ferneley was second and Sterwins finished third.
Ventura, ridden by Garrett Gomez, is owned by Juddmonte Farm and trained by Bobby Frankel.
Also, 15-1 long shot Princess Haya upset 1-5 favorite Forever Together by a nose in the $300,000 Canadian Stakes and Just As Well won the $750,000 Northern Dancer Turf via disqualification of first-place finisher Marsh Side.

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Yamaha Stryker Asembled Front Turn Switchback Bar with Rings
Give your Yamaha Stryker motorcycle a custom look with our new front Daytime Running Light and LED Turn Signal Light Bar. Mounts neatly up under the Stryker lower triple tree with pre-installed 3M double-sided tape. The new dual color, single chip LEDs feature all white DRLs along with amber turn signals. This Stryker front turn signal kit features 48 surface mounted LEDs that will all illuminate white as daytime running lights and then when a turn signal is activated, that side with switch to blinking amber.
LED Fork Lights are sleek LED strips that wrap around your motorcycle forks and function as your turn signals or daytime running lights (DRL). Now you can remove your front "lolli-pop" style motorcycle turn signals for a clean, custom look. Our new design has a zip tie built into the light strip to ensure the strip won't come off in the hottest of conditions.
These front turn signal bars come assembled, ready to plug in and ride with the rings. You have a choice of a smoke or clear lens for each LED. The signal bar has 48 total LED's- 24 each side. All variants comes with resistors to fix the hyper flash.
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Almost like any other city in Thailand, Chiang May has thousands Buddhist temples. Local words call those wat. Wat Lok Molee is one of the biggest wat in the down town.
These pictures has taken in June 2010 in the evening, when the days turn to dark. It’s a night of Wat Lok Molee! In the middle of taking pictures, suddenly somebody turn off the light. It was something really rare, because I never see this wat without lights at night. But thanks to him who turn off the light because I can get the comparation pictures before and after the light.
Another temple in Chiang May: Wat Prathat Doi Sutep
Temple of A Golden Mountain in Indonesia: Vuar Masbaat Temple

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It is an ancient custom to face Jerusalem when praying. For centuries, the direction of Jewish prayer has been towards the East. Mizrach, (East), is customarily hung on the eastern wall to mark the direction of Jerusalem. This piece is suitable for any wall and makes a perfect house warming, wedding, or Bar/Bat Mitzvah gift.
You have the option of having copper and silver leaf applied by hand to this Mizrach print.


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May 20, 2015, 5:59 PM EDT
We predict Okafor to Minnesota, Towns to the Lakers, Russell to Philadephia, then it gets interesting.
Apr 27, 2015, 11:03 AM EDT
Isaiah Thomas played, um, creative defense
Apr 23, 2015, 10:55 PM EDT
Cleveland wins Game 3, 103-95
Apr 22, 2015, 1:10 PM EDT
Turner took issue with two close calls that went against his teammate, Avery Bradley.
Apr 20, 2015, 1:26 PM EDT
Smith committed four fouls in 19 minutes in Cavaliers-Celtics Game 1
Apr 3, 2015, 3:59 PM EDT
They would never get that much.
Mar 31, 2015, 1:38 AM EDT
Also, is Kyle Korver human?
Mar 29, 2015, 3:30 PM EDT
Obviously, the Spurs will match any offer he gets.
Mar 16, 2015, 3:57 PM EDT
It’s still Warriors and Hawks 1-2, but the Cavaliers and Blazers are lurking.
Mar 12, 2015, 2:24 AM EDT
Has Denver found its coach?
Mar 11, 2015, 9:09 PM EDT
Injury looked serious
Mar 4, 2015, 10:40 AM EDT
Nifty but necessary move by LeBron to earn the easy two points.
Mar 3, 2015, 5:08 PM EDT
What kind of team are they trying to build.
Feb 23, 2015, 9:43 AM EDT
Avery Bradley forces overtime with buzzer-beating 3-point, but Lakers win in overtime
Jan 5, 2015, 3:03 PM EDT
Yes, the Knicks still own the cellar.
Jan 2, 2015, 4:20 PM EDT
“I’ve been able to hide it a lot with Avery Bradley on the ball. He’s helped me out, the young guy. But here they expect me to play defense.” —Rajon Rondo
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Dec 18, 2014, 6:03 PM EDT
The Mavs send three players and two picks to Boston.
Nov 12, 2014, 9:20 PM EDT
Thunder center doesn’t mince words when it comes to pending free agent
Nov 6, 2014, 9:55 PM EDT
Yes, they have sleeves.
Nov 4, 2014, 1:44 AM EDT
Not a good night for Fabulous, however.
Oct 27, 2014, 9:30 AM EDT
Celtics upgrade talent around star point guard
Oct 3, 2014, 9:30 AM EDT
With Rajon Rondo out, someone must step into the role
Sep 29, 2014, 2:50 PM EDT
Can he fit in the Celtics’ system better than he did in Indiana?
Sep 17, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT
Rajon Rondo looms over everything – on and off the court
- Who is left: 15 best free agents still on the board 5
- Report: Detroit Pistons sign restricted free agent Reggie Jackson for five-years, $80 million 35
- Report: Lakers near deal to sign Brandon Bass, may trade Nick Young 32
- Spurs reset franchise for post Tim Duncan life in one impressive week 19
- Report: Lakers, Pacers reach deal to trade Roy Hibbert to LA 58
- LaMarcus Aldridge has chosen to sign with Spurs 85
- Who should Clippers get to replace DeAndre Jordan? How about Blake Griffin. 43
- Report: Tobias Harris reaches four-year, $64 million extension to stay with Orlando 25


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Or in Malay, Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan di Surabaya, Indonesia – Hari Pertama.
HOLLAAAA!!!!! Yes, my first overseas food journey by me although it was just in Indonesia, hehe~ Yeah, Indonesia was such a great country you know. I’m not very sure about other place like Jakarta or Bandung, but Surabaya is a good place to visit. Despite all the bad image I get before going about the condition in Indonesia, the trip did make the things clear for me. Yes they live in the hardship, poverty is everywhere here, but yet they live happily. How can they live happily like that? From what I see, there are Give and Take attitude and respecting each other among their peoples. =)
Well, that’s what I think about them, you’ll need to go there by yourself to experience it yourself. And most importantly for this blog, my trip to Surabaya or Soerabaia did give me an opportunity to eat some of Indonesian food. Well, in Indonesia, the most famous things in their dishes, is rice. So in my trip, we eat rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And most of the food here is Halal. This may be because of it status as Islamic Country.
Another thing I want to tell you before I made the review, is that all the restaurant that included here was set by our tours agency, therefore I don’t know whether there are other good restaurant here. But I think the food from all the restaurants we visited was good enough to try. Or maybe this review will gives you some thought on what dishes to eat here.
Ok, lets go for the review. So, our arrival at Surabaya in afternoon had made us to go straight for lunch. Our first destination?
Ayam Bakar Primarasa Restaurant, Surabaya Indonesia.
So, what waiting for us in this restaurant? Enjoy the picture below~
P/s: Massive amount of pictures below, hope you can wait patiently. =)

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City Rain Walker, Seattle, Washington. An iconic scene in Seattle – a business person walking to work or perhaps seeking an afternoon latte. This very fine art image is based on minimalist design elements. It features a very limited color palette to better emphasize the subject and structure of the image. Sophisticated art collectors will debate the merits of this image for a very long time. It will make a very strong visual statement where ever it is displayed.
The Title of this Print is “Portal to the Sea.” This Fine Art Print is of a portal window on one of the many fishing boats berthed at the Fisherman’s Warf. Many of these boats fish the waters off of the Northwest Pacific Ocean and the cold waters of Alaska. This print will be an excellent addition to any art collection. It is an original by Greg Sigrist and is copyrighted.
This print is my tribute to all of the wonderful National Park Posters of the – when ink, pastels, pencil and a limited color palate were in vogue. It features the Old Faithful Geyser, it’s most recognizable and iconic image of Yellowstone National Park.
This is a very nice art print of Seattle in the early spring. This print shows the view from the Waterfalls Park area of the Interstate 5 chain of parks that go right through Seattle. This is a wonderful and unique print that will make a strong impression on any friend, family member or visitor. This would make a great art statement in a waiting area, lobby, entry way, work area, board room and such.
Fine Art Photograph evokes the printing style popular in the 1940’s and 50’s linen postcards. The colors are very primary and eye catching. This is a cascade on Mt Rainier. This photograph was taken in the spring and by late summer it will disappear! Cascades like this are what defines the mountains and especially Mt Rainier. This dramatic print will be a unique addition to any collection of art especially vintage color prints.

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The amount of dishes is still OK, friends are also very good, come here, eat a special food is still very good!
[Location] On the foreigner street, a coconut tree sticks out, very conspicuous.
[Environment] You can sit in the courtyard and have a meal with mosquitoes and geckos. It's normal here.
[Dishes] The better one here is the Lao cuisine set menu. Even if you come alone, you can also taste a few more dishes.
Food and beverage consumption in Luang Prabang is obviously higher than in Vientiane.
The taste is good. After hesitating at the door, I went in. Fortunately! The authentic Lao food is obviously different from Malaysian tea and Thai food, and it is delicious! The grilled chicken and fish are wrapped in banana leaves. I thought: They are all originally They live in the woods, and the food taken from nature is wrapped in banana leaves and burned and eaten. This is a food culture that has developed. The coconut milk soup is also unique. It contains small pieces of coconut. Of course you can’t eat it, but it can improve the taste of the soup. Try it and recommend it. However, I found 10000kip less at checkout, pay attention!
Recommended by locals, cost-effective Lao cuisine
The local brother gave me a list and said that the restaurants on the list are all restaurants that Luang Prabang people would go to. At a glance, I saw the Laos hot pot Dyen Sabai where I went, and I was delighted. The other is Coconut Garden. According to him, it is more cost-effective and less crowded than many restaurants that do Lao cuisine. You must try it.
Entering the restaurant is a small courtyard, which should be very beautiful when the lights are on at night. The restaurant has a very rich variety of dishes. In addition to Lao cuisine, there are also a lot of Western dishes. If two people eat, it is enough to choose 3-4 dishes. The salad and curry taste good, and the rice or purple rice is very Q. very chewy. However, I still can't get any good points for the selected stew. Maybe I am at odds with the Laos stew. The spice flavor is too strong.
Coconut Garden is very close to the Royal Palace Museum. It only takes about 3 minutes to walk. It is recommended that you can come directly to have a meal after the visit, and have a coconut to cool down~
Address: Sisavangvong Road, Luang Prabang, Laos
The influence of food, I feel very good, everything is good. It tastes good.

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As car 4 is currently road worthy jobs at the moment are small,
There were some issues with the wiring in the dash that meant some things didn’t work or needed something else on to work. For example the heater blower would only work if the side lights were on, so things like this have been resolved and generally neatened up.
A small adaptation to the bull bar has allowed for the fitting of 2 Hella lamps that should help with driving during the winter.
A spare wheel has been mounted to the pickup bed and a coat of paint applied to the rear cross member and floor of the pick up.
Plans for the next couple of weeks include a repaint which will be done with a brush rather than a spray for now.
Well carrying on with the progress of work again now, we did some work on 2 of the cars today.
Car 2 : Today we mounted the fuel tank and plumbed it all back in and also took the inlet and exhaust manifolds off the 200tdi so that we could route the dip stick pipe correctly after we rebuilt it a couple of years ago. not an essential task but one we have wanted to do. so while we were at it replaced the gasket with one we purchased a couple of years ago.
Car 4 : We tidied up the cabin a little bit, the previous owner had the glow plugs controlled by a switch on a metal plate in the dash, this was relocated into the dash, similar with the ignition barrel, this had previously dangled by the column so it was relocated in to the dash.
The plan is to do a bit more work tomorrow so will do more updates and get pictures of the work done then.


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Designing a bathroom is a rewarding yet challenging project. Our guide to planning a functional and beautiful bathroom layout will help you configure a comfortable space that meets your family’s needs.
Whether you’re remodeling or building, designing the perfect bathroom layout is an exciting and thoughtful process. To help bring your dream bath into focus, take time to assess your needs and devise an efficient layout. With a smart strategy and bathroom dimensions in place, it’s easier to set a budget, hire contractors, and shop for beautiful finishes.
A functional floor plan is the key to building and remodeling success. To determine space-planning requirements, answer the questions below to shed light on how you’ll use the space. For an existing bath, assess the pros and cons of the current layout. For a new bathroom layout, think about how your dream space would function.
Questions to Ask Yourself When Planning a Bathroom Layout
Who will use the bathroom?
For example, will two adults share the master bathroom during the morning rush hour? Is the bathroom limited to occasional guest usage? Are children who need assistance the primary users? Will you bathe a pet in the tub?
How will it be used?
What activities will be done in the various parts of the room? For example, will you require a place to sit and apply makeup? Will the room also house laundry facilities? What activities can be done in a shared space and which require a private area? Do you prefer separate shower and bath areas? Would you like a tub that accommodates more than one person? Do you want the water closet in its own compartment?
Where will things go?
What items need to be stored in the bathroom, and where should they be located for easy access?
The answers to these questions can shed light on how much open floor space is needed for navigation around the room, what size tub or shower makes sense, whether two sinks are necessary, and more.
When crafting the perfect bathroom layout, don’t underestimate the importance of storage. Even in a petite bath you can find more storage solutions than just the vanity cabinet by adding a toilet surround, over-door shelving, or a recessed medicine cabinet.
With that information in mind, you can begin to place the key elements in the room: the tub, shower, toilet, and sink(s). Not sure where to begin with your bathroom layout? Check out the three popular bathroom designs below and see which one fits your home and needs best.


GREENVILLE — Edison State Community College students delivered a presentation on the signs, types and effects of bullying at the Greenville Public Library Tuesday evening.
Five students took part in the presentation, including Dawn Cleere, 41, a social services major at Edison; Hope Byrum, 18, a nursing major; Renee Netzley, 19, who studies early childhood education; Baylee Petry, 17, who is studying to become a physician’s assistant; and Chris Bucklew, 19, who studies art. The students completed the presentation as part of a requirement for a Fundamentals of Communication class.
A bully, according to the presenters, is someone who uses superior strength to intimidate someone else into doing what the bully wants. About one-third of children admit to being bullied, research suggests, while one in seven admit to being a bully himself or herself.
A large percent of bullying takes place in schools, meanwhile, including in class and on the playground, and more than half of bullying incidents overall are thought to go unreported. Kids are most often bullied as a result of their weight, race or other aspects of their physical appearance.
“Bullying can happen at any time,” Bucklew said. “It can happen at school, at work or even at night on your phone or computer.”
The four main types of bullying, presenters said, include acts of physical assault or intimidation, such as hitting someone or stuffing them inside a locker; verbal harassment or humiliation; acts of social exclusion or ostracism, such as spreading rumors or excluding someone from taking part in group activities; and, of course, the increasingly popular cyber-bullying now prevalent on many social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
The students put on a pair of short skits to illustrate some unexpected ways that bullying can occur: in one, a woman berates a man for sitting in front of her at a sporting event and blocking her view, leading to an exchange of insults and name-calling between the two; in another, instructor Bob Robinson took part in the presentation, playing a man who was taunted, called names and cruelly prevented from taking part in a group activity.
Effects of bullying can include depression, anxiety, insomnia and changes in mood or personal habits, such as staying in one’s room all day or becoming withdrawn and refusing to speak. Unexplained bruises and conspicuously falling grades also can be indicators that something is amiss. Bullied children are also twice as likely to suffer headaches and stomach pains, the presenters said.
“Bullying is a repetitive and purposeful act used to hurt or embarrass someone,” Bucklew said. “And it can continue to affect people well into adulthood.”
Another serious aspect of bullying is the prevalence of bystanders: children, or even adults, who witness acts of bullying but don’t speak up, whether as a result of social pressure, simply not wanting to get involved or fear of becoming a target of bullying themselves.
The presenters urged both victims and witnesses of bullying to avoid striking back physically, becoming involved in verbal arguments with bullies or avoiding school or work as a result of bullying. Instead, they should report the activity to authorities, including parents, school officials or even the police, if need be.


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The first few days of life for a leatherback turtle are no easy walk on the beach.
As hatchlings attempt to make their way from their nesting site on the sand to the ocean, where they will find food and eventually meet a mate, they face predators at every turn.
The ocean isn’t much kinder than the beach, as fish attack the baby turtles, and pollution and fishing nets threaten their survival as they grow.
But a new study suggests that where the turtles are born may be as important for their chances of survival as how good they are at dodging life’s obstacles.
The study, conducted by marine biologist George Shillinger at the Stanford-affiliated Center for Ocean Solutions in Monterey, Calif., and a team of colleagues, indicates that strong currents off the coast of Costa Rica may help whisk the baby turtles to safer habitats.
“The turtles are on edge. They’re being slammed at every turn,” Shillinger said. “It’s useful to find out what happens to the turtles when they leave the beach and if there are factors that help them survive.”
Shillinger said the study showed a so-called “hatchling highway” off Playa Grande beach in Costa Rica, where winds create large eddies that provide shelter and nutrients for the turtles. The highway appears to transport the turtles into warm offshore waters where they can grow quickly.
“The study shows that there are areas in this world that are special for the leatherback and if you destroy the nesting beach, you take away from the turtles a very important launch pad,” he said.
Very few turtles – only about 1 in 1,000 – return to the beach where they were born, about 10 years after they leave. The time between their departure and return is not well understood by scientists. Baby leatherbacks are hard to track because of their size – about equal to a computer mouse.
Shillinger’s study seeks to shed light on that period, which scientists have dubbed the “lost years.”
“To effectively manage an animal that is highly migratory you need to look at where it lives during different phases of its life,” said Shillinger, who is now the executive director of another Stanford-affiliated organization, the Tag-a-Giant Foundation. “If you just focus on protecting adults, you may miss a chance to improve the situation earlier on.”
Because the baby turtles are so small, Shillinger and his team used computer models to simulate the path of the turtles rather than deploying satellite tags or radio transmitters.
The researchers entered into the simulation physical oceanographic characteristics such as water temperature, sea surface height, winds and currents across the eastern Pacific region, spanning from Mexico to Panama, where leatherbacks are known to nest.
They used this data to simulate hatchling dispersal from four different leatherback nesting beaches during the peak hatchling emergence periods (January through April) between 2000 and 2008. Thestudy was reported online Wednesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a British scientific journal.
Shillinger said now that researchers have an idea of where the baby turtles disperse, they can seek them out through surveys and potentially through tracking studies to test their hypotheses in the real world rather than just through a computer model.
“Once we put all of this together we might start to really understand the life history of these turtles from emergence to adulthood,” Shillinger said. “And that information helps us develop conservation strategies that link leatherback nesting beaches, hatchling highways and nursery habitats with migration corridors and foraging hotspots for juvenile and adult turtles across the Pacific.”

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Colour mixing can be fun, but not when one garment bleeds onto another or turns your whole load of whites pink. But there is hope to get your original colour back if you follow these tips to get rid of dye transfer stains from Tide.
Pre-treat:Using a bucket, a sink or a bowl, create a soaking solution by adding 28 grams or 1 ½ tablespoons of Tide Plus Bleach Alternative Liquid per 4 litres of warm water. Allow the garment to soak for up to 5 minutes, weighting the item with a white towel to keep it totally submerged.
Dose:You can use the cap to ensure you use the right amount of laundry detergent. Just fill it with the correct dose of Tide laundry detergent, and pour it into the laundry detergent dispenser if you have an HE washing machine, or directly into the drum before loading the clothes if you have a non-HE washing machine.
Load:Without rinsing off the laundry detergent, place the garment into the washer with other items. Leaving Tide laundry detergent on the stain will give your wash that extra boost of cleaning power.
Wash:Wash on the usual cycle, on the hottest wash temperature indicated. Always check the instructions on the garment’s laundry symbols.
Unload:When the cycle is complete, unload the garments immediately.
If the stain persists after washing, pretreat using Tide HE Turbo Clean Liquid. Pour Tide on to cover stain and let set for 20 minutes. Then, rewash in warm water with 1 use of Tide before drying.
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A dye transfer stain is hard to remove, but it's not the only tough stain out there. Dingy white can also pose stain-removal problems. The good news is that Tide can tackle the toughest laundry challenges. With a few of our tips and tricks, you can get even the most stubborn stains out of your favorites.