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Doctor Who Recap: Another Point of View
By Ross Ruediger
The Power of Three
Editor's Rating 4 stars ****
If you didn't find yourself humming the tune (and theme song to Weeds) "Little Boxes," after watching this week's episode of Doctor Who, you're made of much stronger (or are at least less pop culturally obsessed) stuff than I. Too bad that isn't the worst thing that can be said about "The Power of Three," which was a mighty letdown after the last three installments, and only one week before the big Pond finale.
"It's Doctor Who from Amy and Rory's point of view. We're in the last days of the Ponds as everybody keeps saying, and it was really a chance to see where they've got to in their lives since "The Eleventh Hour," and to see what it's like to be them. And I think what's interesting is that the companion/Doctor relationship in this series is very different to any we've seen before because really, they're part-time travellers. They're living at home, and the Doctor pops in and goes, "Shall we go somewhere?", and they're off. That's very new, because they're not permanently with him, and I wanted to see what that would mean. I think it's very different to pretty much any other episode of Doctor Who ever, which is both wonderful and terrifying." - Chris Chibnall, writer of "The Power of Three"
Let's start by addressing the "it's different than any other episode" claim, which is simply not true. "The Power of Three" is all but a carbon copy of the Gareth Roberts penned episodes, guest starring James Corden, of the last two seasons, except that instead of the Doctor hanging out with Craig, or Craig and his baby, he's hanging out with Amy and Rory. That formula was novel the first time in the form of "The Lodger," but had the serious stench of "been there, done that" surrounding it once "Closing Time" came around, and by now it just smacks of desperation, and the need to make an episode which will save the season some money. That last part is perfectly understandable, but couldn't something better than this have been devised?
A problem with "Three," and the Craig episodes before it, is that Doctor Who is all about crouching behind the couch in fear, not sitting on it, bored out of your skull. This is a series with a pretty flexible format, but these lounging-about-the-flat episodes are exactly the sort of places it shouldn't go – and certainly not three times over in as many seasons.
It got the whole "seeing it from the Ponds' point of view" sort of right, and yet so many of those moments left me feeling as though these sorts of scenes should've dotted the landscape of the series for a while now, rather than saving them all up and showing them at once. Really, did Chibnall do much here that he hadn't already accomplished in about eight minutes via the web series "Pond Life" just a few weeks ago?
Here we are, one episode away from the end of Amy and Rory's travels with the Doctor, and this episode, which seemed as though it might be something of a character game-changer, did nothing particularly noteworthy for the Ponds. What we've been seeing for the past couple episodes is some good A plot, with some fairly lackluster characterization of the Doctor's companions, and "Three" really hit that home, because if there was one episode that should've nailed their characters and delivered something well and truly special, it needed to be this one.
Unlike Rose Tyler or Sarah Jane Smith, it doesn't seem as though their travels with the Doctor have made the Ponds better people. Indeed, quite the opposite, they seem self-involved folks, who don't care about trying to make the world a better place. How utterly ordinary, for a series that's supposed to a celebration of the extraordinary and amazing.
So, most of that didn't work too well, but the slow invasion itself was even worse. Goodness, what an ill-thought out affair that turned out to be. It simply made no sense, on any level. It was impossible to believe that the government wouldn't have rounded up all of the boxes (or at least as many as possible) within days of their arrival, and the realization that nobody knows what they are, where they came from, and what they might be capable of, and most importantly, that they're indestructible. Even the Doctor says, late in the game, that he should've had them all rounded up at the start.
But they didn't and weren't, and on top of that, the whole world just accepted these boring magic boxes containing the unknown into their homes and lives? Exactly how much contempt does this series have for humanity at this point? Of course, in the end, the boxes were potentially lethal, and mankind could've been wiped out if not for the Doctor waving the sonic screwdriver across a screen, at which point insult was well and truly added to injury. Last week we had some magic sonic screwdriver as well, but at least it wasn't wholly pivotal to the resolution. (Speaking of the screwdriver, apparently the one thing it can't be used for is a Wii control.)
Last week I mentioned how many drafts Toby Whithouse must have gone through before arriving at his finished script. By contrast, "The Power of Three" felt like a first draft at best; perhaps even just a smattering of ideas jotted down, to be thought through later on. And the invocation of the title of the episode at the close was well and truly the direst moment of the season thus far. How the actors filmed that with a straight face is beyond me.
So, what did work? Only two things really leap to mind. Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) was a lovely, classy addition to the cast as the Brigadier's daughter, as well as the newly reformed UNIT, with an emphasis on science. Surely we'll be seeing more of her and her troops further down the road, in a much better script. The scene between the Doctor and Amy outside the Tower of London was perfect. That is the sort of thing that the entire episode should've been comprised of. It was so mind-bogglingly lovely in comparison to pretty much everything else, one wonders if Chibnall even wrote it.
Heck, even Brian Williams, who was such a wonderful addition to the cast two episodes ago, here was reduced to be being little more than comic relief, in an episode that was already extremely heavy on the comedy, though the conversation he had with the Doctor about the fates of previous companions was rather touching, and appeared as if it was going to be paid off, if not for the terrible aforementioned ending.
Across the pond, great hay was made about the Alan Sugar cameo on a fake mock-up of the U.K. Apprentice, but since we don't know him over here, it's something that didn't translate too well for Americans (nor did it make any sense that this show would revolve around the selling of these stupid cubes). Surely it was far more exciting to see Professor Brian Cox?
"Twitter!?!," uttered by the Doctor in disgust, was a great line, that will someday be terribly dated.
The Doctor has been in the lives of Amy and Rory for about 10 years, and Amy is now a travel writer. So, there are those things.
"What you do, isn't all there is," was a poignant line from Rory to the Doctor. More of this, less of everything else.
Wouldn't four days feel like a few seconds to a 1200-year old Time Lord?
The return of fish fingers and custard had to happen sooner or later.
It felt as though the entire finale, and the plan of the generic aliens, was built around the gag of one of the Doctor's hearts stopping.
Speaking of generic aliens, did the series actually waste the considerable talents of Steven Berkoff under all that makeup? (Though wasn't he a dead ringer for Anakin Skywalker, beneath the mask, from the end of Jedi?) Please bring him back someday, playing a real part.
Clever Zygon reference. Apparently producer Caroline Skinner mentioned their possible return in an interview. Was this it? Or was this just setup for more Zygon action later on? (Likely the former.)
Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" made yet another appearance after having been used several times throughout the Davies era.
A sinister little girl?! Are you shitting me?! That's emblematic of everything that was wrong with this episode. It's as though the least amount of thought was put into everything. Next week had better be phenomenal.


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This tutorial illustrates the use of the Label Wizard to import fields from a CSV file and then applying Functions to format the imported fields. The aim is to create a Product Label with Product Name, Description, Currency Formatted Price and a Product ID barcode. An Excel spreadsheet can also be used as the data source with very similar steps described below.
1. Download NumbersSample.csv from https://www.barcoderesource.com/NumbersSample.csv. This is the CSV File (comma separated) that we are going to use as our data source.
2. Click on the "+" button on the top app bar of Barcode & Label and select "New Label Wizard". The Label Wizard enables you to select label templates and the data source. The wizard will also generate objects that correspond to the column fields in the CSV file.
3. In "Select Label Template", select the "Standard SLE002 - 3 x 2" label template. This is illustrated in the screenshot below.
4. In "DataSource", select "CSV File" and click on the "Create Label and Select CSV". When prompted to "Create New Label", click on the "OK button.
5. Next, select the NumbersSample.csv file downloaded in Step 1. The app will import the data from the CSV file and create a label with objects corresponding to the column fields in the CSV file.
By default, Barcode & Label creates 5 objects corresponding to the first 5 column fields in the CSV file. You can easily add more fields by copying and pasting the generated Text objects and then changing the "Type" property.
6. Double click on the "Product ID" object, scroll down to the "Function Options" property and select the "PadLeft" function. Change the "Total Length" to "6" and leave the "Pad Character" as "*". We are padding the "Product ID" with the "*" character up to a total maximum of 6 characters.
7. Next, double click the "Weight" object, scroll down to the "Function Options" property and select the "Round" function. Change the "No.of Decimals" to "1" and leave the "Number Format" field as "Use System". We are rounding the "Weight" field to 1 decimal point. When you save your label design, all these settings will be saved as part of the label.
8. Double click on the "Price" object, scroll down to the "Function Options" property and select the "Currency" function. Change the "Currency" field to "Sterling - United Kingdom" (or any other currency that you prefer). This will format the "Price" in Pounds.
9. Next, we are going to create a barcode. Click on the "Barcode" icon on the bottom app bar. Drag your mouse or finger across the canvas to create the barcode. Double click on the barcode object and change the "Type" to "CSV Column 01 : CSV01 (Product ID)". This will create a barcode that uses the Product ID from the same CSV file as the input data. The label should look like the screenshot below. "fnc" characters on the label is used to indicate that a function is applied on an object.
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10. Click on the "Save" icon on the top app bar to save the label for future use.
11. Finally, click on the "Preview" button to preview and print the labels. You see the following output. The "Product ID" is left padded with "*" up to a total maximum length of 6 characters. The "Weight" object is rounded to 1 decimal point and the "Price" object is formatted to Sterling (United Kingdom).
You can refresh the CSV file at any time by clicking on the "..." (Ellipsis) button on the top app bar and select "Setup Fields". In "Variable Type", select "CSV File" and click on the "Select" button. When you are done, the updated CSV File will be used as the data source of your label.
Barcode & Label supports the import of a CSV (Comma Separated Files) file in a format where the comma "," character is used as a column separator. The table below illustrates a sample format of a CSV file supported by Barcode & Label.
In some countries, the "," character is used as a decimal point and this may have an impact on the format above. To resolve the issue, simply place the numbers in quotes (") as shown below. This will enable Barcode &Label to import the file successfully.
81004,Note Book,8 inch x 4 inch,"3,511","5,50"
If a "Round" function needs to be applied on a number field such as the "Weight" column shown above, simply set the "Number Format" to a Locale (Country) that supports "," as the decimal point. This is illustrated in the screenshot below where the "Number Format" is set to the "Germany" locale.
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Lili Reinhart Shares Why She Only Writes Love Letters for Cole Sprouse
Lili Reinhart isn't just an actress. She's a poet now, too.
By Simone Thomas
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Lili Reinhart doesn't write poems for just anybody. There's one specific person who gets that honor, and it's none other than her beau and Riverdale costar Cole Sprouse.
"I write poems for Cole. But to be honest, I don't really write them for anyone else. I think it's a romantic thing. It can be quite intimate," the Riverdale actress told InStyle at the Tiffany & Co. Men's launch party in Los Angeles Friday night.
The 23-year-old actress, who has said she views writing as a form of therapy, penned a poem to Sprouse for his birthday on Instagram in August. Earlier this week, Reinhart announced that she'll be releasing a poetry book called Swimming Lessons on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, the book shot to the number one spot on Amazon's new releases list for American Poetry. Reinhart said she found out about the news on Friday while she was on a plane and could not be more grateful to her fans.
"They don't even know if I can write. They just put their faith in me, and I couldn't ask for anything more. It's very kind," she said.
Reinhart described her book as a "work of fiction" that will touch upon falling in love, dealing with heartbreak, and coping with mental-health battles in the public eye.
One year ago, I decided I wanted to share my poetry with the world. It's scary to reveal a part of myself that I don't often show, but I like to consider this book as more of a story rather than a confession of thought. Strangers, songs, films, fictional characters, love in various forms, and of course my own experiences were my inspiration throughout the creation of Swimming Lessons. This book means a lot to me and I'm very grateful to be in the position to finally share it 🌷 pre-order link is in my bio if you're so inclined
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For the event, the actress accessorized with plenty of jewelry from Tiffany & Co., saying that she was happy to support the "iconic brand" during her few days off from work. Tiffany Men's, which debuted October 1, features men's jewelry, watches, and home accessories.
Justin Theroux, Jeff Goldblum, Victor Cruz, Karrueche Tran, A$AP Ferg, Rowan Blanchard, Debby Ryan, and more also showed up to celebrate.
Theroux talked about his admiration for Tiffany & Co., sharing how happy he was about the brand creating a whole collection for men. When asked about his accessory aesthetic, Theroux said that simplicity is key, revealing that he typically reaches for watches and rings.
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Inside the bash, Goldblum (who was wearing a sparkly pineapple brooch from the collection) treated party goers to a performance on the piano.
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Seamus Conneely joined Stanley on a free transfer in January 2015 after leaving Sligo Rovers, where he had previously worked under John Coleman.
The former Republic of Ireland U21 and U23 international began his career in his native Ireland with Galway United before getting a move to England with Sheffield United.
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The Old Guard of the City of New York is a veterans group that has existed since the early 1800s when cities saw the need for local militias. At the beginning, the Old Guard was composed of two rival groups, the New York Light Guard and the New York City Guard. In 1868, they joined forces under the name "the Old Guard." Whereas the New York Light Guard and the New York City Guard had both fought during the Civil War, the Old Guard mainly existed to perform ceremonial duties, such as marching in parades.
Today, the landmark building that houses the Old Guard is in need of refurbishing. Many members of the group are hoping to install an elevator for its older members and do some floor repair and rewiring, but there is a contingency that would prefer to sell the house. As it stands, the townhouse remains in the Old Guard's possession and is filled with memorabilia such as military medals, muskets, photos, and letters from Eleanor Roosevelt, whose uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, was a member of the Old Guard.


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Episode 67: Lies, Authority, And Assessments With Chris Chittenden [The Amiel Show]
by amiel · May 15, 2017
How is a lie different from an ungrounded assessment, and why does this matter in leadership? Where does a leader's authority come from? What happens when you provide a well-grounded assessment that doesn't matter to anyone listening?
I have a hunch that your answers to these questions will help you understand the peculiar and disturbing state of politics in the United States today.
This week on the podcast, Chris Chittenden joins me to make sense of these questions. Chris and I previously spoke about real accountability. This time, he helps me use his powerful ontological lens to understand the age of Trump and simultaneously provide clarity about leadership in organizations.
12:00 It's easy to mix up assertions and assessments. Don't do it!
17:00 Assessments help us see what's good or bad for us
20:00 Five steps to grounding an assessment
30:00 Obamacare, shifting standards, and the meaning of words
43:00 Certainty, autonomy and the fall of empires
50:00 The President's conditional promises
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1:05:00 The role of "fake news" in shaping assertions and assessments
1:25:00 When a country's executive function has a damaged prefrontal cortex
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NLB - Olivier Horak, head coach of SC Langenthal, has decided to step down with immediate effect. Assistant coach Jason O'Leary will coach the team until further notice. Horak, however, stays in the organization.
Currently on 7th rank in the National League B championship, SC Langenthal is without a doubt underperforming so far. Head coach Olivier Horak has now taken matters into his own hands and steps down: "Of course I'm disappointed that we've come so far," the 49-year-old says. "But my resignation now opens up new possibilities for the team."
As Stephan Anliker, Chairman of the Board of Directors, says, the goal remains the same: "Now it's the team's responsibility - there are no more excuses. We want to qualify for the semi-finals." While assistant coach Jason O'Leary will coach the team until further notice, Olivier Horak will now lead SC Langenthal's youth organization.


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The Religious Affiliation of
Andromeda Attumasen
Religion: Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion
Name: Andromeda
Alter Ego: Andromeda Attumasen
Other Names: Andrea McPhee; Genevieve Cass; Lady Andromeda; Andromeda the Sword
Classification: hero
Publisher(s):
First Appearance: The Defenders (vol. 1) #143 (May 1985): "Another Runner..."
Creators: Peter B. Gillis, Don Perlin, Kim DeMulder
Super? (Has Super Powers/Special Abilities/Technology): Yes
Number of Appearances: 46
Teams/Affiliations: Dragon Circle; The Defenders
Nation: Atlantis
This character is in the following 15 stories which have been indexed by this website:
The Avengers (vol. 3) #43 (Aug. 2001): "Global Presence"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #143 (May 1985): "Another Runner..."
The Defenders (vol. 1) #145 (July 1985): "Five Women"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #146 (Aug. 1985): "Fun!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #147 (Sep. 1985): "...and Games"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #149 (Nov. 1985): "Lonely as a Cloud"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #150 (Dec. 1985): "The Stars in Their Courses"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #151 (Jan. 1986): "Second Degree Manslaughter"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #152 (Feb. 1986): "The End of All Songs"
The Defenders (vol. 2) #2 (Apr. 2001): "The Curse"
The Defenders (vol. 2) #11 (Jan. 2002): "Vengeance!"
Iron Man Annual #10 (Aug. 1989): "Two If By Sea"
Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #121 (Early Feb. 1993): "Civil Disabilities" (lead character)
Thunderbolts (vol. 1) #57 (Dec. 2001): "Storm Clouds Gathering" (cameo)
X-Factor Annual #4 (1989): "I Must Go Down to the Sea Again..."
Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
- http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Andromeda.html
- http://www.comicvine.com/andromeda/29-15784/
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Andromeda_Attumasen_(Earth-616)
- http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=1426
- http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=23532
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/anaanf.htm
- http://www.comicboards.com/marvelguide/a2.html
- http://www.chronology.net/default.pl/cited/rd_defenders/2
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Defenders_Vol_1_143
- https://www.comics.org/issue/40007
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=4546
- http://www.comicvine.com/the-defenders-/37-25484/


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On July 22, the Summer School of the Constitutional Court of Georgia was completed, which was held with the support of EU/CoE co-funded Programme "Support to the Judicial Reform in Georgia" and EWMI/PRLoG Promoting Rule of Law in Georgia. The President of the Constitutional Court of Geor...
Official Opening of the Summer School of the Constitutional Court of Georgia
Today, the Summer School of the Constitutional Court of Georgia was officially opened. The participants were greeted by President of the Constitutional Court of Georgia Prof. Dr. Merab Turava, Deputy Head of Head of the Council of Europe Office in Georgia Mr. Vahagn MURADYAN, Chief of Party of the U...
Closing Ceremony of the Summer School – ""Right to Fair Trial: Institutional Guarantees of Judicial Independence and Impartiality."
Today, the President of the Constitutional Court of Georgia Prof. Dr. Merab Turava took part in the closing ceremony of the Joint Summer School of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, Free University Tbilisi and Washburn University (US) on the topic of "Right to Fair Trial: Institutional Guara...
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Xenedocheionology owes its origin to the Greek language and according to Phrontistery means the love of hotels. I loved this word a lot and it made writing my X post for #atoz quite easy as there are a number of places which I must mention for their uniqueness in terms of hospitality and the wow factor of being "different".
We had quite loved our desert stay at the Damodar Desert Camp in the Sam dunes at Jaisalmer which I covered in my previous post.
I saved the most memorable for last and that was this heavenly stay at the famous Taj LakePalace in Udaipur. Situated on lake Pichola, this white marble gorgeousness is simply brimming with great hospitality and efficient staff. The food was to die for – both in terms of variety and the flavours. The rooms were exquisitely done up and have huge windows to gaze across the waters of the lake. I will leave you with some of the pics from there to decide for yourself if this isn't a decadent place to stay in!!!!!
Inner courtyard with its beautiful pond and fountains. All the rooms are situated around this restful space.
The special floating restaurant that comes with the honeymoon suite and is priced exorbitantly for the experience it offers!!!
What are the best places you have ever stayed in?
Y will bring in some exciting post!!!
I have never heard that word, and decoding it, I can't come up with 'hotels' or 'travel'. I guess because it's from the Greek!
This is gorgeous. And you are right. It is a phenomenal word.
I know I should be supporting my Kerala hotels but damn! That Udaipur hotel is amazing!!! Actual palaces!
I know Doc – I worked with the Taj group of hotels for sometime as rennovating these palaces was a huge job – I used to love visiting them and staying there. Not to mention work on their interiors and architecture. You must look up Umaid Bhawan in Jodhpur – thats one of the most magnificent palaces in India – hands down!!!
Wow! All unique experiences. I always wanted to stay in the Taj Lake Palace.
Beautiful pictures Shalz. Will definitely try the first one when in Wayanad.
Thanks so much Ramya – pls pls do try Wayanad and then tell me how was it!! My detailed post on it is somewhere there on my blog too!!
Loved all of them .The tree house is being stored in my memeory.Your adventures are superb,Lake palace hotels I am looking out for .
Absolutely gorgeous hotel photos. I don't know anybody who doesn't have xenodocheinology. Hotels are such fun to be in. Thanks for this wonderful resource of Phrontistery.
So generous of you to share it.
Thank you!! Added another word to my vocabulary. I have my love for hotels very much intact and will look out for these when I visit the above mentioned spots. Nicely written!!
Loved this post the most buddy of your entire series . Not only the word but each experience is unique and entices me to check in in atleast a few.
What a wonderful post!! That's a jaw breaking term, I'll have to look up the pronunciation option online to get it right. Lovely shots and hotels of grandeur I must say.
Now I want to get away and experience Xenodocheionology!!!
Great choice for the tricky X and I like this word. Lovely and unique experiences you have had. I have stayed in a tents at camp sites at Rishikesh, Shoghi and Uletokpo near Leh. It's amazing to stay in basic as well as luxurious tents.
I would rate Oberoi's WildFlower Hall at Shimla and Jaypee Greens Golf and Spa Resort, Greater Noida the best for the most luxurious and fab service, so far.
That hotel room in Udaipur is straight out of a fairy tale! You must have felt like a princess!
New word and udaipurs been on my list too.
Oo.. I didn't know this word! Learned a new word here! And you are a quite a traveler, aren't you? Look at the variety of hotels you've stayed in!
Brilliant word and Udaipur? Wow! Stunning stay!
Simply fantastic! My most memorable hotels would be the Kumarakom resort by the Casino group at lake Vembanad . We loved our four day stay in a Tharawad.
Another hotel I'll never forget is a boutique hotel in Madrid that had a transparent clear glass walled bathroom cubicle in the bedroom space!


Are you trying to figure out how to get rid of varicose veins? More than 50% of those over the age of 50 have varicose veins according to Healthline.com. I definitely understand the issue as I come from a family that have to deal with the issue! And my likelihood of getting varicose veins was compounded by a health issue that's made them worse. This is why we are so excited to share how to reduce varicose veins with this home remedy option.
1What Are Varicose Veins and What Causes Varicose Veins?
Probably the biggest risk factor for developing the issue of varicose veins is, of course, genetics. So if they run in the family, there's a good chance that you will have to deal with them. In our family of five, two of the five of us have to deal with the issue and three don't. Whether that holds true across most families, I don't know but thought that I'd share how it is in our family.
Varicose veins usually start to appear in the late 20s. Pregnancy is also a time that can have varicose veins appear as well. During pregnancy there is an increase in the volume of blood in your body, but a decrease in the flow of blood from your legs to your pelvis. This circulatory change is designed to support the growing fetus, but it can produce an unfortunate side effect — enlarged veins in your legs. The condition can become more aggravated if it is not treated properly and on time. Women are more prone to varicose veins, even though men can suffer from it as well.


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Yes, beard acne is very real. But, the right grooming routine can prevent skin irritation and beard acne, no matter how long your beard is.
Beard acne is not the same acne you struggled with through puberty. It's called pseudofolliculitis barbae. It occurs when shaved hairs get trapped underneath the skin and become ingrown. These little ingrown hairs can turn into bumps, pustules, or even cysts. For a better explanation, check out this piece from Allure.
How Do I Prevent Beard Acne?
The short answer: fixing your grooming routine. There is a right way, and a wrong way, to shave and maintain a beard.
Step by Step Routine-The right way.
You don't need to become a dermatologist overnight to prevent acne. The routine itself is fairly simple! It's definitely worth the extra few minutes to take care of yourself and your beard.
Step 1: Exfoliate and wash your face.
Every morning, especially before shaving, use a facial wash that also exfoliates. For those of you who don't know what that means, look for a bottle that says face scrub. This will help keep your pores clear and remove excess dry skin. Oil-free is always a safe bet, no matter your skin type.
Step 2: Do you need to change your razor?
Remember those ingrown hairs we were talking about? A sharp razor will prevent those by providing a clean shave. We recommend changing your razor every three shaves. Plus, Man Bundle will keep you stocked, so there's no excuse.
Hopefully, you already know how to shave. But, if you are not sure if you're using the right technique keep reading. Only shave in the direction of hair growth! Avoid a completely flat, close shave to prevent ingrown hairs or if you have curly hair.
I think I already have acne, how do I get rid of it?
For minor cases, the implementation of a good skincare routine should resolve any breakout on it's own. But, if you continue to struggle with skin irritation around your beard-talk to your dermatologist.
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I know. Big surprise, right? After all, SL isn't limited to buying hair. In your search for a unique appearance, en route to becoming you, you need a lot more than hair!
There's skins, for example. And a great place to find one is at Lara Hurley Skin, in Magic Valley. Besides a huge variety of skins, there's also a fairly large selection of quality free skins.
NCI Kuula (New Citizens Incorporated – Help/Classes/Freebies) also offers tons of freebies, including a huge selection of eyes of various colors. Clothes, skins, shapes, hair—if you need it, they've got it!
New to SL? Need to learn things quickly? Then either NCI Kuula or Caledon Oxbridge Gateway is for you. In fact, I'll be there later today to take a class in scripting. Maybe I'll see you there!
And after all that hard studying, I'm going to head on over to The Blarney Stone, an authentic Irish pub, and toss back a few Guinness's or Harps. After all, woman shall not live by bread alone!
Are you female? Want a great place to hang out with other women? Then look no further than Girltown at Sansara Annex. It's an extremely safe place to make your home, since men are not only forbidden, but are actually automagically ejected if they do show up.
These are just a few of the places I like to visit. In my next post, I'll give you links to a few NSFW places.


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Sex for a Cause
By Meghan Walsh
Linda Wilson (aka Lulu), now based in Boulder, CO, has had severe rheumatoid arthritis since she was 3 years old. She is in her early 50's and was still a virgin until recently when she hired a sex surrogate in CA to help her experience this type of intimacy.
SourceCary Jobe for OZY
Because it's time for women to find sexual satisfaction.
When Shai Rotem first met Katrina Marshall*, he asked if she'd like to take a seat on the futon in the corner of the room. Her initial response was no. The petite, blue-eyed blonde has severe rheumatoid arthritis, and she didn't want the good-looking stranger to see the awkward choreography that lowering herself would require. Then she remembered how much her best friend was paying for her to be in that room with that good-looking stranger and decided to ask for help. "I knew if I didn't open up then, it would never happen," she says.
But when the bald, trim and olive-skinned Rotem asked if she wanted help taking off her suede knee-high boots, Marshall just couldn't bring herself to say yes.
Marshall, who's had 42 surgeries in her 52 years of life, has struggled to perform everyday tasks like laundry for as long as she can remember. Bending over is impossible. Even sitting hurts. And taking off a shirt is hardly sexy. "When I was a teenager I didn't want to leave the house," she says. As an adult, Marshall couldn't imagine how anyone could ever be attracted to her warped body, which is why at the time she met Rotem, Marshall was a midlife virgin.
Sex surrogacy — when a client hires a licensed partner to physically overcome his or her issues around sexuality — is a provocative idea that's gained notoriety with movies like The Sessions, in which Helen Hunt helps a disabled man lose his virginity. But it's rarely been seen as a legitimate avenue for women, who face a range of sexual dilemmas — from midlife virginity or being inorgasmic to more nuanced intimacy inhibitors, such as lack of a sexual identity. That perception may be changing, though.
Almost one in two women face some sort of sexual dysfunction.
It's difficult to know how many women have worked with surrogates since there are no official records, but if the rise in certified male surrogates is any indication, the number is on the way up. Ten years ago there were perhaps one or two in the country; now there are roughly a dozen. It's still a small number, of course, especially when compared with the number of certified female surrogates in the U.S., which is upward of 60. While both sexes face erotic anxieties — a National Institutes of Health study estimates almost 1 in 2 women faces some sort of sexual dysfunction — men have used surrogate therapy far, far more often. Some have estimated the difference to be as broad as 97 percent to 3 percent. But as veteran sexologist and professor Dr. Marilyn Volker notes, more ladies are "learning if they're not satisfied there are things they can do about it." Which is why Marshall was in Venice Beach, 3,000 miles from her home in Florida, forcing herself to sit down on a futon next to Rotem.
That first session, Rotem began with a sensate focus exercise, which is about learning to be present and to touch for your own pleasure, not someone else's. To that end, Marshall closed her eyes and the good-looking stranger she'd just met placed a smooth stone in her hands. She spent a few minutes fingering the cold, hard surface before moving on to the channels of a silk scarf and then several more items. Finally, Rotem declared he was going to place one more object in her palm. "I was so nervous," Marshall recalls to me. "I was just waiting for him to put his penis in my hand." Instead, it was his fingers.
After their initial introduction, the two began meeting at the beach house Marshall was renting. Because there were no surrogates in her hometown, Marshall had signed up for a two-week intensive program, which her best friend had paid around $8,000 for as a birthday present. And since sex surrogates are only one prong in a therapeutic threesome, she spent two hours a day with Rotem and then one debriefing with a talk therapist. In other situations, a client might meet with a surrogate anywhere from eight to 50 times. (Surrogates certified by the International Professional Surrogates Association, the field's only governing body, won't work with anyone unless a licensed therapist is directly involved.)
After several days of stroking limbs and doing body image work in the mirror, it was time to get naked.
As the sessions progressed, so did the sensate focus exercises, going from the hand, up the arm, over to the chest, and down to the … "I didn't touch him to make him feel good; I was touching for the sensation," says Marshall. "Of course, what ends up happening is there is always someone receiving that touch."
Most people, says sex therapist Cynthia McReynolds, base their sexual identities on their partners — who they say yes to, who they say no to, how those partners judge them. She likens it to the way children construct their identities based on how their parents see them. This chain reaction, she says, has resulted in a "completely distorted view of sexuality," where people are wrapped up in satisfying their partners rather than themselves. Or they get into a trading mentality. Working with a surrogate is meant to give women an opportunity to discover and define their sexual preferences in a safe environment. Sure enough, it's been almost eight years since Marshall flew to Southern California to lose her virginity, but it turns out that was the easy part. Being able to ask for what she wants, or even identify what she wants, has been the real challenge.
Interestingly, Israel — which is Rotem's native country and where he did his initial surrogate training after studying psychology — is a pioneer of partner surrogacy work. Rotem says it's because women talk more openly with each other there. If a female isn't sexually satisfied, she won't hide it — she'll look for help figuring out why. In the United States, on the other hand, he says, women bury their frustrations. "They start businesses and put all their energy into work or family rather than sexual relationships."
Case in point: Marshall. She is energetic, charming and has no problem making friends; and while her disability makes working full time difficult, she holds certificates in holistic health and integrative nutrition. Because she focused all her energy on friends, family and her physical health, it wasn't until she began seeing a psychologist at the age of 44 that she began to grudgingly acknowledge the hole in her life. "I was so filled in my heart with other things, I didn't miss anything in my vagina," she says.
With a lifetime of doctor's appointments and hospital rendezvous behind her, Marshall knew her experience with Rotem couldn't feel prescribed. And it didn't.
After several days of stroking limbs and doing body image work in the mirror, it was time to get naked. Rotem showed her his penis, then talked about his first memories of feeling aroused, what he likes, what he doesn't like. When it was Marshall's turn, she at first felt timid and didn't know what to say in her own introduction; but by the end of the two-hour session, when Rotem asked if he could take a picture "down there," she didn't hesitate. "The person who came in was not someone who would have said, 'Hell yes, take a picture of my awesome vagina,'" says Marshall, who uses lots of words like "delicious," "exquisite" and "sacred" when describing her experience. She keeps that snapshot in a hot-pink sex journal.
Psychologists William Masters and Virginia Johnson introduced the concept of surrogacy in 1970. The duo pioneered research on sexual disorders and were the first to suggest a treatment regimen that prescribed partner work, rather than just psychotherapy. The purpose is to build self-confidence, communication skills and a better understanding of sensuality and intimacy.
Marshall didn't only lose her virginity; she fell in love.
Marshall recalls about halfway through the two weeks when they did a sensate exercise giving each other footbaths. After being on the receiving end, it was Marshall's turn to wash Rotem's toes. The woman, who had always been self-conscious about her bony feet and who had been embarrassed to lower herself onto a futon, rolled on her side and slithered off the couch onto the floor, where the washtub was, without a tinge of shame. "I realized I had constructed all these cement walls," Marshall says, "and one by one they just started crumbling." Then one day Marshall began to cry. And then to heave. During a lull in the tears, Rotem asked where they were coming from. "I'm crying because I can't believe I've allowed myself to miss out on this experience for so many years," she recalls saying. "At the same time, I'm crying because this is so beautiful."
Still, when the day came that Rotem asked Marshall if she was ready for penetration, she froze. First, there was the word "penetration," which felt far too clinical. But then there was the thought she'd tried to push down from the start: She shouldn't be doing it this way. The first time should be special — not paid for.
For certain, Marshall isn't the only one who is apprehensive about surrogacy work. Professional groups like the American Psychological Association have pretty much avoided the topic. (The group "does not approve or endorse specific therapy techniques," a representative told OZY via email.) Law enforcement, too. Even though paying for sex is technically illegal most places, police usually let sex surrogacy go as long as a licensed therapist is overseeing the relationship, according to sex therapists and police alike. Advocates estimate that only about 13 percent of surrogacy work involves any sort of sexual interaction. Mostly the goal is to give individuals the tools to construct their own fulfilling sex lives.
Marshall and Rotem didn't have sex that day. Instead, they just embraced one another, breathing in rhythm and spooning for an entire hour. Then the unimaginable happened: Marshall got her period two weeks early. "There I am with these sexy panties on and a big fat pad," says Marshall. But it didn't matter. Being in a real relationship means that sometimes things get messy. So several sessions after the initial penetration scare, with only a couple of days remaining, Marshall on her period and Rotem on the payroll, they had sex. And although it looked like there had been a massacre on the bed, the experience was "spiritual and sexual and emotional and crazy awesome." When Rotem left, Marshall called her sister in New Hampshire to tell her the news. Together they screamed and cried with joy.
But it wasn't all good times.
Marshall didn't only lose her virginity; she fell in love. The day she left California was one of the saddest of her life. The grief was part of it, though. "This part of the journey was just as important as every other part," she says. After returning to Florida, Marshall asked out the guy painting her garage, had a few hookups, and began a complicated relationship with a man-friend. But she still didn't have the confidence or capacity to be totally intimate. So Marshall, who now lives in Boulder, Colorado, continues psychotherapy. "Those were giant steps for me," she says, "but I still need a few more tools in my toolbox."
Sex surrogacy, of course, carries with it the potential for the patient to develop feelings for the surrogate, which in clinical circles is called transference. Ann Rosen Spector, a psychologist working in Philadelphia, says women are more likely than men to become emotionally attached because of sex. "If that's not reciprocated," she warns, "there may be costs that are greater than when she went into it." Some proponents of surrogacy contend transference is a good thing, because it shows the client is able to form an attachment. They point out that the licensed therapist is there to guide them through those feelings. "We create a mini relationship with a beginning, middle and end," Rotem says, which also allows a lesson in how to end a relationship with grace, despite heartache.
For Marshall's last day with Rotem, the pair took a stroll on the boardwalk and got something to eat. Marshall, wearing the same colorful dress and suede boots as the first day she met Rotem but now propelled by sexual jet fuel rather than fear, flagrantly flirted with the waiter, something she never would have done before. "I could have held my hand to my face and not seen any of the arthritis in it," she says.
When the two went back to the room for one last tryst, Rotem once again asked if Marshall would like help taking off her boots. While she had no qualms about letting him, Marshall said no. "I wanted to fuck him with my boots on."
*Name changed at subject's request.
Photography by Cary Jobe for OZY.
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Now, with hundreds of Lebanese dead and Hezbollah holding out against the vaunted Israeli military for more than two weeks, the tide of public opinion across the Arab world is surging behind the organization, transforming the Shiite group's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, into a folk hero and forcing a change in official statements.
The Saudi royal family and King Abdullah II of Jordan, who were initially more worried about the rising power of Shiite Iran, Hezbollah's main sponsor, are scrambling to distance themselves from Washington.
An outpouring of newspaper columns, cartoons, blogs and public poetry readings have showered praise on Hezbollah while attacking the United States and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for trumpeting American plans for a "new Middle East" that they say has led only to violence and repression.
Even Al Qaeda, run by violent Sunni Muslim extremists normally hostile to all Shiites, has gotten into the act, with its deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, releasing a taped message saying that through its fighting in Iraq, his organization was also trying to liberate Palestine.
Distinctive changes in tone are audible throughout the Sunni world. This week, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt emphasized his attempts to arrange a cease-fire to protect all sects in Lebanon, while the Jordanian king announced that his country was dispatching medical teams "for the victims of Israeli aggression." Both countries have peace treaties with Israel.
The Saudi royal court has issued a dire warning that its 2002 peace plan — offering Israel full recognition by all Arab states in exchange for returning to the borders that predated the 1967 Arab-Israeli war — could well perish.
The Saudis were putting the West on notice that they would not exert pressure on anyone in the Arab world until Washington did something to halt the destruction of Lebanon, Saudi commentators said.
American officials say that while the Arab leaders need to take a harder line publicly for domestic political reasons, what matters more is what they tell the United States in private, which the Americans still see as a wink and a nod.
There are evident concerns among Arab governments that a victory for Hezbollah — and it has already achieved something of a victory by holding out this long — would further nourish the Islamist tide engulfing the region and challenge their authority. Hence their first priority is to cool simmering public opinion.
But perhaps not since President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt made his emotional outpourings about Arab unity in the 1960's, before the Arab defeat in the 1967 war, has the public been so electrified by a confrontation with Israel, played out repeatedly on satellite television stations with horrific images from Lebanon of wounded children and distraught women fleeing their homes.
Egypt's opposition press has had a field day comparing Sheik Nasrallah to Nasser, while demonstrators waved pictures of both.
An editorial in the weekly Al Dustur by Ibrahim Issa, who faces a lengthy jail sentence for his previous criticism of President Mubarak, compared current Arab leaders to the medieval princes who let the Crusaders chip away at Muslim lands until they controlled them all.
After attending an intellectual rally in Cairo for Lebanon, the Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm wrote a column describing how he had watched a companion buy 20 posters of Sheik Nasrallah.
In Lebanon, Rasha Salti, a freelance writer, summarized the sense that Sheik Nasrallah differed from other Arab leaders.
"Since the war broke out, Hassan Nasrallah has displayed a persona, and public behavior also, to the exact opposite of Arab heads of states," she wrote in an e-mail message posted on many blogs.
In comparison, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's brief visit to the region sparked widespread criticism of her cold demeanor and her choice of words, particularly a statement that the bloodshed represented the birth pangs of a "new Middle East." That catchphrase was much used by Shimon Peres, the veteran Israeli leader who was a principal negotiator of the 1993 Oslo Accords, which ultimately failed to lead to the Palestinian state they envisaged.
A cartoon by Emad Hajjaj in Jordan labeled "The New Middle East" showed an Israeli tank sitting on a broken apartment house in the shape of the Arab world.
Fawaz al-Trabalsi, a columnist in the Lebanese daily As Safir, suggested that the real new thing in the Middle East was the ability of one group to challenge Israeli militarily.
Perhaps nothing underscored Hezbollah's rising stock more than the sudden appearance of a tape from the Qaeda leadership attempting to grab some of the limelight.
Al Jazeera satellite television broadcast a tape from Mr. Zawahri (za-WAH-ri). Large panels behind him showed a picture of the exploding World Trade Center as well as portraits of two Egyptian Qaeda members, Muhammad Atef, a Qaeda commander who was killed by an American airstrike in Afghanistan, and Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker on Sept. 11, 2001. He described the two as fighters for the Palestinians.
Mr. Zawahri tried to argue that the fight against American forces in Iraq paralleled what Hezbollah was doing, though he did not mention the organization by name.
Mr. Zawahri also adopted some of the language of Hezbollah and Shiite Muslims in general. That was rather ironic, since previously in Iraq, Al Qaeda has labeled Shiites Muslim as infidels and claimed responsibility for some of the bloodier assaults on Shiite neighborhoods there.
But by taking on Israel, Hezbollah had instantly eclipsed Al Qaeda, analysts said. "Everyone will be asking, 'Where is Al Qaeda now?' " said Adel al-Toraifi, a Saudi columnist and expert on Sunni extremists.
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Guide to Maulden, Bedfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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Rizal was shot at the Bagumbayan on December 30, 1896 by a firing squad of the Spanish army.
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His writings were also displayed – Noli Me Tangere, El Filibusterismo and Mi Ultimo Adios.
It's amazing and inspiring to see Rizal's work. I hope Filipinos still remember his sacrifice and take into heart what it all means.


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Beeswing dev's Dujanah mixes Islam, Metroid, mechs
By Tom Sykes 2016-01-24T15:00:00.23Z
You might know Jack King-Spooner for his lovely, autobiographical Beeswing, set in the titular town in rural Scotland. He's heading a bit further afield for his next game, Dujanah, a magical realist game "set in a fictional Islamic majority country that has an occupying military force". You're a woman named Dujanah, and you don't like that occupying force very much, leading to "various moral, psychological and political dilemmas".
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Visually, I think King-Spooner's come on a long way, too. There are some lovely, glitchy visual effects going on in Dujanah.
If you want to see Dujanah happen, you could always fling a few bob at the ongoing Kickstarter, which has raised just shy of £2,000 of its £6,000 goal.
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A bridge is used to interface two different crossbars (or in general a memory-mapped master and slave), with buffering for requests and responses.
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Public Types

typedef BridgeParams 	Params

Public Member Functions

virtual BaseMasterPort & 	getMasterPort (const std::string &if_name, PortID idx=InvalidPortID)

 	Get a master port with a given name and index.

virtual BaseSlavePort & 	getSlavePort (const std::string &if_name, PortID idx=InvalidPortID)

 	Get a slave port with a given name and index.

virtual void 	init ()

 	init() is called after all C++ SimObjects have been created and all ports are connected.

 	Bridge (Params *p)

Protected Attributes

BridgeSlavePort 	slavePort

 	Slave port of the bridge.

BridgeMasterPort 	masterPort

 	Master port of the bridge.

Classes

class  	BridgeMasterPort

 	Port on the side that forwards requests and receives responses.  More...

class  	BridgeSlavePort

 	The port on the side that receives requests and sends responses.  More...

class  	DeferredPacket

 	A deferred packet stores a packet along with its scheduled transmission time.  More...

class  	RequestState

 	A bridge request state stores packets along with their sender state and original source.  More...

Detailed Description

A bridge is used to interface two different crossbars (or in general a memory-mapped master and slave), with buffering for requests and responses.

The bridge has a fixed delay for packets passing through it and responds to a fixed set of address ranges.

The bridge comprises a slave port and a master port, that buffer outgoing responses and requests respectively. Buffer space is reserved when a request arrives, also reserving response space before forwarding the request. If there is no space present, then the bridge will delay accepting the packet until space becomes available.

Definition at line 73 of file bridge.hh.

Member Typedef Documentation

          typedef BridgeParams Bridge::Params

Reimplemented from MemObject.

Definition at line 339 of file bridge.hh.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

          Bridge::Bridge
          (
          Params *
           p
           )

Definition at line 77 of file bridge.cc.

Member Function Documentation

          BaseMasterPort & Bridge::getMasterPort
          (
          const std::string &
           if_name,

          PortID
           idx = InvalidPortID

          )
          		 [virtual]

Get a master port with a given name and index.

This is used at binding time and returns a reference to a protocol-agnostic base master port.

Parameters:

	if_name 	Port name

	idx 	Index in the case of a VectorPort

Returns:

A reference to the given port

Reimplemented from MemObject.

Definition at line 87 of file bridge.cc.

References MemObject::getMasterPort(), and masterPort.

          BaseSlavePort & Bridge::getSlavePort
          (
          const std::string &
           if_name,

          PortID
           idx = InvalidPortID

          )
          		 [virtual]

Get a slave port with a given name and index.

This is used at binding time and returns a reference to a protocol-agnostic base master port.

Parameters:

	if_name 	Port name

	idx 	Index in the case of a VectorPort

Returns:

A reference to the given port

Reimplemented from MemObject.

Definition at line 97 of file bridge.cc.

References MemObject::getSlavePort(), and slavePort.

          void Bridge::init
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           )
           [virtual]

init() is called after all C++ SimObjects have been created and all ports are connected.

Initializations that are independent of unserialization but rely on a fully instantiated and connected SimObject graph should be done here.

Reimplemented from SimObject.

Definition at line 107 of file bridge.cc.

References fatal, BaseMasterPort::isConnected(), BaseSlavePort::isConnected(), masterPort, SlavePort::sendRangeChange(), and slavePort.

Member Data Documentation

          BridgeMasterPort Bridge::masterPort [protected]

Master port of the bridge.

Definition at line 328 of file bridge.hh.

Referenced by getMasterPort(), and init().

          BridgeSlavePort Bridge::slavePort [protected]

Slave port of the bridge.

Definition at line 325 of file bridge.hh.

Referenced by getSlavePort(), and init().

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"Act as if ", a wise old woman reminds me. Write 5 gratitudes before bed, even though you may not "feel" like it. I tried it and I am amazed every time of the power of gratitude to shift my thinking.
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BEAUTY E-TAILERS DELEGATE OPERATIONS
Byline: Valerie Seckler
NEW YORK -- Beauty cybermerchants -- from...
December 6, 2001, 12:00am
NEW YORK — Beauty cybermerchants — from Christian Dior and Clarins to Walmart.com and JCPenney.com — are angling to accelerate sales growth by farming out various aspects of their e-commerce operations to third parties.
In this vein, Walmart.com has just forged an Internet venture with Elizabeth Arden, calling for Arden to manage the Web site's fragrance classification, which has 50 brands. Approximately half of them are Arden's own — including White Diamonds, Red Door and Fifth Avenue — with the rest simply distributed by the company. The idea is to pump up the volume produced by the entire category. The deal, for undisclosed terms, follows a similar one struck last year between Arden and JCPenney.com.
At the same time, megabrands like Dior and Clarins have engaged an e-commerce software provider, iMediation, to help insure that the companies' beauty brands are merchandised and marketed online in a manner consistent with their brick-and-mortar presentation. Using a third party also will enable syndication of a single e-boutique model across numerous e-tail partners for Clarins and Dior.
"Sephora.com and macys.com are the two priorities for Dior [beauty] online," Gilles Kortzagadarian, manager of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and interactive marketing at Christian Dior, told WWD. "We plan to launch our e-boutique on them, with iMediation, during the second quarter of 2002. In the second quarter of 2003, we plan to syndicate the boutique on another eight or 10 sites of our major partners simultaneously." Those partners include Ulta.com and eLuxury.com, a joint venture between LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Europatweb, LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault's Internet development vehicle — which also holds a stake in Paris-based iMediation.
The Dior e-boutique will carry about 500 stockkeeping units, with 90 percent of the range reflecting the same assortment that shoppers would find at stores and the balance devoted to exclusives for particular Web sites. Kortzagadarian said Dior is investing "hundreds of thousands of dollars" on its new Internet effort, but did not specify further. Dior began e-tailing beauty products in 1998 at Sephora.com.
When asked what sparked Dior's third-party play, Kortzagadarian, who is based in the brand's New York office, replied: "We are very interested in our business online, but what really matters is the volume generated via the Internet at the stores. We call it the iceberg model: online sales are the tip. The bigger part of the mass, hidden underwater, is the offline volume generated online."
According to a study released this summer by Internet consultant Jupiter Media Metrix, nearly two-thirds of the total Web benefit for retailers will be offline transactions influenced by consumers' online research.
Arden's aim is slightly different as it is targeting bigger volumes in cyberspace, along with offline benefits.
"We want to raise the visibility of the fragrance subsite at Walmart.com, one of the most active commercial Web sites," noted Scott Beattie, chairman and chief executive officer of Arden. "There are other candidates, but these are the best ones because of their traffic. Short term, we will focus on making them successful." In October, for instance, Walmart.com had 3.97 million visitors, or 3.9 percent of the Web's 102.1 million users that month, while JCPenney.com was visited by 3.9 million, according to JMM's Traffic Report, compiled monthly for WWD.
The move could position Arden to capitalize on the "relative strength" that it cited in its mass and mid-tier channels, when reporting Wednesday that its earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 27 ran up 158 percent, to $32 million, as sales surged 85 percent, to $303 million.
The arrangement calls for Arden to accept Walmart.com's orders for fragrance products via electronic data interchange, or EDI, and then distribute them to the Web site and fill consumers' orders. The deal, Beattie said, has required "some money to be invested in technology, nothing significant." The Arden ceo added: "It's mostly an integration of our computer platforms and the placement of [fragrance] micropages on the Web site."
Sounds simple. But there's at least one wrinkle that will need to be ironed out.
There is no tab, or graphic of any sort, on Walmart.com's home page to show that it offers fragrance products, nor is fragrance listed as a category on the site's drop-down menu. In contrast, the Arden fragrance shop is highlighted on JCPenney.com's landing pad. Further, a search for fragrance via Walmart.com's search engine brought WWD to the jewelry area, where some fragrances are displayed, rather than the gifts department — where Arden's subsite, launched two weeks ago, is located.
Asked if there are plans to remedy the problem, a Walmart.com spokeswoman said simply, "The home page changes all the time."