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Rachael confirmed the news to Us Weekly, explaining that it's been too hard to keep her pregnancy under wraps. "I've been hiding my rapidly growing bump while shooting but this kiddo is vying for screen time. We clearly have a future actor on our hands."
Daniel, who just landed a new Vampire Diaries spinoff 'The Originals' and is premiering his new Showtime movie Broken Kingdom this month, joked about the potential name of his son or daughter, "A lot of people are asking whether I'd prefer a boy or a girl. In truth, it doesn't matter to me — I just can't wait to meet little Keanu Robocop."
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez is due to be sworn in for a new term in less than a week and his closest allies still aren't saying what they plan to do if the ailing leader is unable to return from a Cuban hospital to take the oath of office.
The Venezuelan government on Thursday night described Chavez's lung infection as "severe" and said he is now being treated for "respiratory deficiency."
Chavez hasn't been seen or heard from since his Dec. 11 cancer surgery, and speculation has grown that his illness could be reaching its final stages. The president's elder brother Adan and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello joined a parade of visitors who saw Chavez in Havana this week, and then returned to Caracas on Thursday along with Vice President Nicolas Maduro.
"In the past hours, we've been accompanying President Hugo Chavez and taking him the courage and strength of the Venezuelan people," Maduro said on television. Appearing next to Cabello visiting a government-run coffee plant in Caracas, he said they had been with Chavez together with the president's brother, his son-in-law Jorge Arreaza, Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez and Attorney General Cilia Flores.
Chavez's health crisis has raised contentious questions ahead of the swearing-in set for Jan. 10, including whether the inauguration could legally be postponed, whether Supreme Court justices might travel to Havana to administer the oath of office, and, most of all, what will happen if Chavez can't begin his new term.
The main fault lines run between Chavez's backers and opponents.
But while the president's allies so far appear united, analysts have speculated that differences might emerge between factions led by Maduro, Chavez's chosen successor, and Cabello, who is thought to wield power within the military and who would be in line to temporarily assume the presidency until a new election can be held.
Standing together on Thursday, Maduro and Cabello said they are more united than ever.
"We've sworn before commander Hugo Chavez, and we've ratified the oath today before commander Chavez, that we're going to be united, together with our people, with the greatest loyalty," Maduro said.
He and Cabello dismissed rumors of divisions waiting to erupt, calling such talk lies cooked up by their adversaries.
"They're going to spend 2,000 years waiting for that to happen," Cabello said, urging Venezuelans: "Don't fall for the opposition's rumors."
"We aren't going to betray the nation," Cabello added.
The former military officer has been making similar assurances on Twitter and suggesting that the socialist party has its plans for the coming days all thought out.
"We Chavistas are very clear on what we will do," Cabello said in one message.
But the plans of Chavez's allies remain a mystery.
The Venezuelan Constitution says the presidential oath should be taken Jan. 10 before the National Assembly, and officials have raised the possibility that Chavez might not be well enough to do that, without saying what will happen if he can't.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas provided the latest update on Chavez's condition Thursday night.
"Chavez has faced complications as a result of a severe respiratory infection. This infection has led to respiratory deficiency that requires Commander Chavez to remain in strict compliance with his medical treatment," Villegas said, reading from a statement.
The government expressed confidence in Chavez's medical team and condemned what it called "a campaign of psychological warfare" in the international media regarding the president's condition.
Chavez said before his fourth cancer-related operation that if his illness prevented him from remaining president, Maduro should finish his current term and be his party's candidate to replace him in a new election.
The constitution says that if a president or president-elect dies or is declared unable to continue in office, presidential powers should be held temporarily by the president of the National Assembly, who is now Cabello. It says a new presidential vote should be held within 30 days.
Opposition leaders have argued that Chavez, who was re-elected to a six-year term in October, seems no longer fit to continue as president and have demanded that a new election be held within 30 days if he isn't in Caracas on inauguration day.
But some of Chavez's close confidants dismiss the view that the inauguration date is a hard deadline, saying Chavez could be given more time to recover from his surgery if necessary.
Cabello noted last month that the constitution says if a president is unable to be sworn in by the legislature, he may be sworn in by Supreme Court justices, who were appointed by the mostly pro-Chavez legislature.
"When? It doesn't say. Where? It doesn't say where," Cabello recently told a crowd of government supporters. His indication that the constitution does not specify where a president-elect should be sworn in by the Supreme Court has led to speculation that justices could travel to Cuba for the ceremony.
Opposition leaders chafe at the suggestion that Chavez could take office from a foreign country, saying the president made it clear before he left for the operation that his health was deteriorating by designating Maduro as his successor.
Aristobulo Isturiz, a state governor and leader of Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela, said Thursday that if Chavez's swearing-in isn't held Jan. 10, it will be up to the Supreme Court to determine the place and date of the ceremony.
"The president has a right to recover," Isturiz said in remarks published by the state-run Venezuelan News Agency.
More than three weeks after Chavez's cancer surgery, government officials have been providing vague and shifting updates on his condition. Maduro announced over the weekend that Chavez had suffered complications due to a respiratory infection and was in "delicate" condition.
The vice president initially had said he would return from Cuba to Venezuela on Wednesday, but stayed another day while visiting Chavez along with Cabello and others.
Maduro said Chavez's respiratory problems "have seriously affected him."
Still, Maduro expressed hope: "In our hearts, we feel it, sooner rather than later we're going to see commander Hugo Chavez here in his homeland, here with us."
Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma, an opposition politician, proposed earlier Thursday that a commission travel to Cuba to determine the state of Chavez's health. He said the delegation should be made up of doctors, lawmakers and other officials such as state governors, including opposition leader Henrique Capriles.
"I'm not asking for permission to go to Cuba. I think it's our right to go there and see what's going on," Ledezma said in comments reported by the television channel Globovision. "Enough mysteries. Venezuela isn't a colony of Cuba."
Some of the brewing disagreements could begin to be aired Saturday, when the National Assembly, which is controlled by a pro-Chavez majority, convenes to select legislative leaders. That session will be held just five days before the scheduled inauguration day.
Law professor Vicente Gonzalez de la Vega agrees with Cabello's view that the constitution is ambiguous regarding the time and place of a swearing-in ceremony before the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court President Luisa Estella Morales said following Cabello's proposal last month that justices could rule on whether it's constitutional to postpone the date of the swearing-in ceremony. The issue has not yet been brought before the court, but Morales said Dec. 20 that the court could take up such issues if asked and would have the final word.
Before Chavez's inauguration date could be postponed, Gonzalez said, lawmakers would have to approve a 90-day extension of Chavez's "temporary absence" granted for his trip to Cuba for surgery. The president of the National Assembly would then be sworn in as an interim president for 90 days, said Gonzalez, a professor at the Central University of Venezuela.
In order for that to occur, though, Gonzalez said the Supreme Court would need to appoint a panel of doctors to examine Chavez to determine whether his health could improve and whether he might be capable of continuing his duties as president.
Opposition leader Ramon Guillermo Aveledo on Wednesday reiterated demands for the government to provide a full medical report.
He said sending a medical team to Cuba to assess Chavez's condition would be an option, if necessary. In the meantime, he said, "There are two keys here to facing this and any situation, which are the truth and the constitution."
Associated Press writer Jorge Rueda contributed to this report.
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Outspent many times over by Republican Linda McMahon, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, said Friday that his third-quarter filing with the Federal Election Commission will show he raised $3 million in the third quarter from 30,372 contributions, the average of which was $79.
The $3 million is more than half of the previous $5.5 million he has raked in during the earlier stages of the contentious Senate race.
McMahon, the largely self-funded former head of the WWE empire, took in $1.3 million in contributions, including 601 individual checks, and loaned her campaign another $12.4 million in the July FEC filing, which has to be updated by Oct. 15.
State Sen. Andrew Roraback's congressional campaign announced Thursday he had raised a total of $554,605 since July 25 in his bid for the 5th District seat.
That's just a hair under the $560,063 that Democrat Elizabeth Esty's campaign announced earlier this week it had raised as of July 25.
That would mean that Roraback, a longtime Republican lawmaker, has raised a total in the race of about $1.1 million, while Esty has raised about $2.6 million, which includes a loan from the candidate of about $500,000.
The real question, however, is just how much of that money the candidates still have in their coffers going into the last month of the race. Those figures won't be available until the campaigns file their reports to the FEC on Oct. 15.
Prior to July 25, Esty had reported spending about $1.2 million on her primary battle while Roraback reported spending $424,000 in the run-up to the Aug. 14 primary.
The Washington, D.C.-based League of Conservation Voters on Tuesday morning will hold a conference call with reporters to announce a "six-figure" independent expenditure campaign against McMahon.
Navin Nayak, the LCV's senior vice president of campaigns, will tell reporters that McMahon is the newest member of the organization's "Dirty Dozen" who "consistently vote against clean energy and conservation and are running in races in which LCV has a serious chance to affect the outcome," according to the LCV's website.
Currently on the list is GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Sen. Josh Mandel of Ohio. "Since 1996, more than 60 percent of the Dirty Dozen have been defeated," the website says.


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Twitter's stock is priced!
It will start trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange at $26 per share.
That means the company will raise $1.82 billion. It's valued at about $18 billion.
We'll be at the floor of the stock exchange watching all the action and covering it live here on SAI.
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What does it mean to cast obesity as a disease?
Tina Moffat argues in a recent Medical Anthropology Quarterly article that some critical anthropologists and sociologists see the obesity "epidemic" as entirely "socially-constructed."
By talking about obesity as an epidemic, Moffat points out that the implication is that obesity is a disease. The article interrogates this frame. On the one hand, such a frame may mean that health insurers in America can cover treatment and such may allow more research and policy money be made available in a society where medical research is robustly funded. But on the other hand, this conceptualization may focus solutions on the individual—rather than structural considerations like poverty and insufficient access to healthy food choices or ignoring socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and cultural factors. Rather than looking at obesity as an epidemic, childhood obesity would need to be examined "as part of larger societal and global forces that require multifaceted solutions that are thoughtful and directed at changes in social and economic policy, the environment, and our cultural milieu."
The author concludes by exhorting a middle path:
One approach is to treat childhood obesity as a social and environmental problem that is in part fueled by a "toxic food environment," as mentioned above. Or perhaps we should link it metaphorically to consumption, not just of food, but of material goods, related to concerns about global warming and environmental destruction.
What are the most effective rubrics? How can the medical community, public health researchers, and anthropologists all dialogue about the best ways to work together to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity?


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How do people make it to January without weighing 10 pounds more than they did before the festivities began? Here are a few tips that I plan on putting into practice myself and you may want to as well!
Eat! Yes, eat breakfast, have healthy snacks readily available and always, always, always… Eat before going to a holiday party. Don't feast, but have a light meal so you don't show up starving and ready to polish off that cheese dip.
Don't worry about saving room for dessert because half the time it's not a diet friendly dessert anyways! Instead, fill your plate with a lot of healthy lean meat and veggies. For example, this would be turkey breast without skin and salad. Eat the healthy stuff first, then have a tiny sample of one or two other things you can't live without.
When it comes time for dessert… If you must have it – split it with someone! Or better yet, bake your own healthy dessert and bring it to share! Then you are being healthy and a good guest! (See recipe for Baby Tiramisu at end of article)
Another tip? Don't fill up on alcohol! Its a calorie black hole and may also have a lot of sugar. Plus you end up snacking in the process. Better to have one glass of wine or one light beer. Avoid margaritas and pina coladas unless you plan on skipping that piece of pecan pie!
And of course… Keep moving! No slacking on exercise! Try to get in something everyday! Shoot for 20-30 minutes. If you can't go long – go hard!
Baby Tiramisu
Thanks to EatingWell for this recipe!
6 servings | Active Time: 15 minutes | Total Time: 45
1/2 cup nonfat ricotta cheese, (4 ounces)
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
12 ladyfingers, (about 1 3/4 ounces)
4 tablespoons brewed espresso, or strong coffee, divided
2 tablespoons bittersweet chocolate chips, melted (see Tip)
Combine ricotta, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon in a medium bowl.
Place 6 ladyfingers in a 9-by-5-inch (or similar size) loaf pan. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons espresso (or coffee). Spread the ricotta mixture over the ladyfingers. Place another layer of ladyfingers over the ricotta and drizzle with the remaining 2 tablespoons espresso (or coffee). Drizzle with melted chocolate. Refrigerate until the chocolate is set, about 30 minutes.
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Tip: To melt chocolate: Microwave on Medium for 1 minute. Stir, then continue microwaving on Medium in 20-second intervals until melted, stirring after each interval. Or place in the top of a double boiler over hot, but not boiling, water. Stir until melted.
Per serving:
107 calories; 2 g fat (1 g sat, 0 g mono); 3 mg cholesterol; 18 g carbohydrates; 3 g protein; 0 g fiber; 125 mg sodium; 29 mg potassium.
1 Carbohydrate Serving


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Pensacola native and professional PGA Tour golfer Bubba Watson will be a celebrity guest on the ABC game show, the Match Game.
Bubba Watson tweeted he was "making matches and taking names" last week during a taping of Season 4.
The summer premiere of the Match Game is on June 21st and is hosted by Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin.
Producers of the "Match Game" have not assigned an airdate for the show featuring Bubba just yet, they said.
Channel 3 News also asked for video and ABC said it would be released at a later date.
Bubba Watson is featured with Sheryl Underwood, Jason Alexander and comedian Gabriel Iglesias.


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This page answers frequently asked questions about Microsoft Solitaire Collection on Windows 10 or Windows 8.1.
You need a Microsoft account so that Microsoft Solitaire can save your game progress data to the cloud. The Microsoft account automatically gives you an Xbox Live account, where your game data is saved.
Try the following solutions.
Solution 1: Check the Xbox Live service status
If you see any alerts here, wait until the service is up and running and try again:
Solution 2: Restart your PC/tablet
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The steps to unblock the Microsoft Solitaire Collection game (or any app that has to access Xbox Live), will vary depending on the anti-virus or firewall software that you use. Refer to the documentation for your anti-virus or firewall software to open the settings and make sure that the software is not blocking the app. If your anti-virus or firewall has an app "whitelist," you should make sure that your Xbox Live-enabled games are on this list.
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Penthouse worth $2.4 million sold downtown
The second largest penthouse at the Alteza Residences above the Grand Hyatt has sold for $2.4 million.
The 4,565-square-foot condominium spread out over two levels — floors 33 and 34 — and boasts five bedrooms and six and a half bathrooms, according to a news release.
The buyer, whose identity wasn't disclosed, owns two other condos there.
Condos at the 147-unit Alteza start in the low $300,000s for one-bedroom homes and penthouses start at about $998,000.


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I am in a state of genealogic shock.
My ancestor Martha Simpson was the wife of Levi Prather. I've been working hard in past years trying to unravel the complicated slave relationships in the Prather family of Montgomery County, Maryland. Finding Levi's slaveowner was hard work, so I hadn't focused much on Martha yet. Just recently, I'd started thinking perhaps Martha was freed before 1864 (Maryland's state constitution in that year freed its slaves).
I'd been able to locate a sister of Martha's (Leanna) and a brother (James) as freedpeople in 1860, so it was logical to think that Martha perhaps had been freed as well. But there was a better reason for my suspicion: we are fortunate to have a few pages of the Prather family bible, noting exact dates births and deaths of some of the Simpson family:
When I started to really analyze these pages, it occurred to me that it would be unlikely that enslaved people would have known exact birthdates dating from the 1840s. So, I did a search for Martha Simpson in 1860, and voila, that name pulled up living in a white Warfield family—but in neighboring Howard County instead of Montgomery County:
The Howard County location surprised me, although it shouldn't have. We are always supposed to examine neighboring counties. I still wasn't sure this was MY Martha, even though the age matched. But here is yet another example of how use of the clustering technique can be helpful (i.e., looking for groups of people associated with your ancestors). I knew from studying Martha and Levi's 1870 census neighborhood in Montgomery Cty that they lived right smack dab in the middle of a bunch of black people with the surname–can you guess?– Warfield. So Martha living with a family of that surname made me feel like I was onto something. I decided to see if Martha was there in 1850, and Oh My Goodness. There they were, Martha and several of the siblings listed in my bible page—nice and neat and living as freedpeople in Howard County in 1850! Even better—they are with (presumably) their mother Louisa. The actual image is bad, so I will transcribe the entry:
Louisa Simpson, 33
Harriet L [Leanna], 11
Mary E, 9
James W, 7
Joseph W, 5
Martha J, 4
Minta L, 3 [?]
I have just found another ancestor and extended my tree with the name of 'Louisa.' This was an odd case in that I knew the name of the father–Perry Simpson–and it was in fact the mother's name who had been lost to history. He may have been still enslaved in 1850, and perhaps that is why his name is not shown in the household.
Chills ran up my spine when I saw this census record for another reason: I live in Howard County! To think that my ancestors lived near where I live now over 150 years ago is just earth-shattering for me. But wait—it gets better. Howard County was formally organized relatively late—1851—from Anne Arundel County. Both Anne Arundel and Howard County have some combination of freedom certificates, manumission and chattel records available on the Archives of Maryland website. Just, WOW. It almost gets no better than that.
Doing an online search of these records, I discovered a manumission from one Ann Dorsey dated August 1816, of the following enslaved people:
Lyd, age 30
Harriot, age 11
William, 10
Mary, 7
Belinda, 5
Eliza, age 3
**Louisa, 18 months
Witnesses to this transaction were Gustavus Warfield and Humphrey Dorsey. It is possible the "Louisa" in this list, who is a baby, could be the same Louisa found in the 1850 census who is the mother of my Martha Simpson. Of course, I've got alot of work to do onsite in repositories before I can conclude that because we all know nothing thorough can be done online. My first task is to figure out which Ann Dorsey this was, since this was a large, prominent Maryland family and there were Anns all over the place. For right now, I suspect it was the Ann whose maiden name was —Warfield.
I have also gathered that this enslaved community likely had roots in many of the "first families" of Anne Arundel and Howard County: Dorsey, Worthington, Simpson, Warfield, Chase, Hall, etc. Many former slaves with those surnames are living in the community near my Prathers in Montgomery County in the 1870s. I was also fortunate to find at GoogleBooks a downloadable copy of The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties" written by Joshua Dorsey Warfield in 1905. There is a phenomenal amount of information in this book, and I'm just beginning to sift through it.
This is such a rewarding and absolutely thrilling discovery. I haven't been speechless in a long time. Martha was here–right under my nose the whole time.


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"Sweet Spot" Pricing Research: Too Much, Reasonable, Bargain and Steal.
Do you need to know the "best" price to charge for a product or service? Here is a practical way to get after this issue without spending a mint.
It is too simplified and misleading to list a series of attributes/pricings and ask for a rating on a scale of 1 to 7 as to which are most important. All items will likely skew towards the higher ratings, because the person doing the rating does not have to trade anything off, so she does not lose anything by rating all attributes high.
On the other hand going into advanced "conjoint analysis" or "max diff" analysis where trade-offs are analyzed ad infinitum to reach a price point about various product attribute mixes has its shortcomings as well. It is a costly research maneuver requiring specialists and research expertise that is beyond most clients. It can suck up all the time and energy of a survey and not allow for other types of important questions from this audience, and it can still be misleading.
More reasonably, if you can explain a product fairly simply with its main attributes, you can ask a question that tries NOT to find out which attributes are most desired, but what is the package price at which people "tune out", "tune in", are "attracted", and are "smitten". These are human dimensions that we all experience when we shop. These reactions send (or suppress sending) dopamines to the synapses (true). (See our "Brainy Decisions" blog.)
Buyers almost always consider "cost" as one of the most important considerations in a purchase. Based on our 20 years of research experience, they almost always do not consider cost to be the "most" important consideration. In our experience, it is usually ranked third or fourth most important, after other attributes like "quality", "performance", "style", "durability", "reliability", "brand", and so on.
Respondents in real buying situations can only seriously consider four or five key attributes of any product or service. After that, differences in attributes start to blend together or fade completely. So a way of keeping pricing questions real and keeping the respondent from low-balling a pricing question, is to ask the following type of questions.
1. For (product A), at what price would you consider this product…
a. To be too much or "overpriced" and would definitely not purchase this product $_____
b. To be a "reasonable" price and would likely consider purchasing this product $_____
c. To be a "bargain" price and would definitely consider purchasing this product $_____
d. To be a no-brainer "steal" at a price that is almost too good to be true $_____
2. For (product B), at what price would you consider this product…
a. To be too much or "overpriced" and would definitely not purchase this product $_____
b. To be a "reasonable" price and would likely consider purchasing this product $_____
c. To be a "bargain" price and would definitely consider purchasing this product $_____
d. To be a no-brainer "steal" at a price that is almost too good to be true $_____
This style of questioning for two or more combinations of attributes can provide a very accurate picture of what the audience values, and also fits into the respondent's way of thinking about pricing, as most people think of these categories (overpriced, reasonably priced, bargain, steal) in almost all buying situations where they have done even the most minimal shopping.
Bottom Line:
In designing questions to understand the "sweet spot" in a market (not too much and not too little), we consider first how most people think when they purchase products or services. Although "price" is usually not the first or foremost attribute people consider ("quality", "performance", "reliability", "durability", "style" and "brand" are often higher rated attributes), when they do get down to the price (almost always ranked among the top four attributes) buyers get turned on or off by their own internal human measuring system of "too much, about right, bargain or steal."
(See also our blog "Brainy Decisions", our web page on Startups where we have actually used these techniques, and our page on the Data Robotics Drobo startup.)
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Gilmat Decoration, 2017-10-28 18:34:06.Not all homeowners decorate their home in modern, stylish and contemporary interior decoration. If you are here, you may be one of them who love something old and primitive to your home décor. It is because primitive country décor is a lifestyle. It is not only a style. Therefore, in decorating the home with this decor, you need to add personal touches. By personal touches you add to this décor, you will not only enhance the home but also personalize it where it can be even more comfortable.Primitive country décor looks artistic with its old-fashioned accents. To build this décor, it is not something easy. It is little bit challenging as well as interesting. It is because you will not only need to buy primitive accessories from a store then display them randomly. No, it is not that simple. In the primitive country home décor you will not only need accessories but also ideas for displaying them all. These ideas need you to understand more what is primitive décor and how it should be displayed.You may need to know the definition of primitive country décor where old-fashioned appearance will dominate the room interior decoration. This means you need to furnish the home with primitive furniture set. It can be easy if you just need to see the collection of primitive furniture from the manufacturer. You can look at the huge collections and any designs you want are available there. This furniture has distinctive design and detail. You cannot complete your primitive décor without primitive furniture style.So, if this primitive country décor is for your bedroom, then you will need the bedroom furniture set in primitive design. This is including for the living room or other rooms in the home. Then, accessories will be added and displayed. In the bedroom, you will need ideas for primitive home decor bedding. You can easily look at the images of this décor and see how it can be impressively designed, decorated and displayed. You need more ideas and tips to do that.If you are creative, primitive country décor can be even more amazingly shown. There are more tips and ideas including DIY ideas that you can find from the photos of this décor. The skilled designers and DIY enthusiasts share their brilliant ideas through photos. So, the photos contain their incredible ideas. You can absolutely add your own DIY ideas as what you want in enhancing the room interior with this décor.
Gilmat Kitchen, 2017-10-07 03:58:20.Sometimes, you need to refresh your kitchen look. And by doing several changes like cabinet door replacement, you can make your kitchen look new and fresh. Why is it the cabinet door? Why is it not anything else? Well, cabinet door is the one that is seen and very much visible by anyone including your guests when they enter your kitchen. So, it becomes the most important element of design. You can choose starting from the cheapest to the most expensive one and then adjust it to your kitchen design.Cabinet Door Styles You Can Pick to Refresh Your KitchenThe first style is Flat style. This is the one that is suitable for you who likes simple yet still stylish kitchen cabinet door. This style has board cabinet door which is flat. This is an empty space that has classy details. For you who have modern and contemporary interiors, you might choose this style because it offers minimalist form and hard lines. You need to know that the varieties of the flat doors are available in decorative wood or laminate. If you have limited budget, you'd better choose laminate one. It also offers many choices of sheens and colors.Another cabinet door styles is shaker style. This is the most famous and common in today's option. It has flat panels which come with five pieces. They have frame that is made of one flat core panel that is used for the five piece and four other pieces. This kind of kitchen cabinet door emphasizes simplicity, utility, and line cleanness. It becomes well known since it can be suitable for any kind of kitchen designs from traditional to contemporary. It also comes with various hardware, wood species, paint colors, and stains.Other kitchen cabinet door style is inset style. This style is perceived as the most priceless ones. This has classic appearance. As the name suggests, this is set in the frame of the cabinet. The door is constructed and designed with very exact measurements in order to make it stays in the frame. It is used also to make sure that it'll close and open well.The other kitchen cabinet door fronts style is louvered. This style has spaces between slats. So, it makes this cabinet door good for the cabinets which need ventilation, such as the cabinets that are used to dry the clothes in the laundry or drying room, the cabinets for DVD players and cable box, and in the cabinets placed near radiator.
Gilmat Decoration, 2017-10-07 18:41:45.Dining room is the great place for gathering. You can host a fund holiday party at home and dining room will become the right place to come together. As people will be in the dining room, you need to select wonderful design to the room interior decoration. If you have done dining room interior, then you need to decorate the dining table centerpieces. Indeed, this centerpiece is even the focal point of the dining room interior. So, you need to focus on the designs and ideas of dining table decoration.As long as the point of the dining room is the table, then beautiful table design should be rightly selected. Indeed, amazing table design will complete the dining room interior decoration. Then, you can start building wonderful dining table centerpieces. It is because the centerpiece will be on the table. When the table is awesomely designed, the beautiful centerpiece can be displayed. From here, you need to find ideas and tips for the beautiful centerpiece for your dining table.Abundance of beautiful dining table centerpieces can be created even from affordable things. Eye catching appearance can become the key of how the centerpiece can draw more attention even by affordable prices. Theme is the first thing you need to consider. You need certain theme for your beautiful centerpiece decoration. You can look at the floral theme for centerpiece where flowers become the focal point of the centerpiece. Look at the pictures of flower centerpieces for dining table.You will get amazed how the flowers can transform your dining table into really fun and wonderful appearance. Besides the theme, don't forget about dishes that you will place on the dining table centerpieces. Arrangement of the tableware and glassware on the table should be arranged beautifully. It will look sweet when the table has linen on it. The arrangement will look more beautiful with the beautiful linens on the table. Your creative display will absolutely draw more attentions.The last is about finishing touches. For finishing the dining table centerpieces, you can add something personal. Candles become the favorite idea to add for finishing the centerpiece. Candle with aroma of therapy will not only finish the centerpiece but also beautify and sweeten the atmosphere. Candles can make the centerpiece even more romantic. You can think other else to finish the centerpiece decoration. Your creative ideas will not only personalize the centerpiece decoration but also more than that.
Gilmat Bedroom, 2017-10-08 03:06:19.Talking about the bedroom furniture will always be interesting topic. The furniture in the bedroom is not only a matter of the choice of bed. In fact, there is some other furniture that can be put in the bedroom and one of them is bedroom dressers. There are huge selections of the dressers provided in the online furniture stores or in the market. Let us find the best dressers to furnish your bedroom.Like what have been known before, there are many choices of the bedroom dressers in the market. Whether you want to find classic, rustic, or even modern bedroom dressers, you can find them with various types. There are many types of the dressers with the variety of the materials, styles, finishes, and also sizes which ranges from the natural and soothing to the feminine and sleek and to the rustic and masculine. It means that you have many choices of the dressers that can furnish your bedroom.First we are going to talk about the materials of the bedroom dressers. The common materials used to create the dressers are oak, glass, wood, metal, and also mahogany. Wooden materials are still on the first list of the furniture materials. It is because wooden materials can give warm impression to the bedroom. Besides that, it can also be best matched with any room designs so you can create balance in your bedroom with the other choices of the bedroom furniture.The second point to talk about the bedroom dressers is the finishes of the dressers. The finishes are commonly white, brown, black, walnut, grey, cherry, beige, silver, gold, blue, birch, natural, red, unfinished, pine, maple, espresso, and many more. You can choose the one that can be perfectly matched with the entire bedroom design of yours. Meanwhile for the sizes of the dressers, they can consist of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 drawers.How about the styles of the bedroom dressers? The styles are children's, cabin, glam, coastal, industrial, global inspired, tropical, mid-century, cottage or country, mission or shaker, modern, contemporary, rustic, and also traditional. For the design of the dressers, they can be double dresser, standard dresser, combo dresser, gentlemen's chest, standard chest, and also lingerie chest. Meanwhile for the prices, you can get the bedroom dressers cheap in the online furniture stores. The average prices of the dressers start from under $150 to up to $800. Don't you think that the prices are still affordable?
Gilmat Decoration, 2017-10-06 16:16:07.Your home can be more incredible or not depending on what design you add to your home both the interior and exterior. This is including for the home windows. Windows are like eyes of your home. Any window designs you build, they will add impressions to your home. For interior, you can instantly add window curtains. What about for the exterior? Look at the designs and ideas of decorative window film. You can be inspired with the decorative designs that look remarkable.Here, the glass of the window will be decorated. You have so many wonderful ideas to add to your window glass. First of all, you may be interested to buy this decorative window film. It is an instant way to add decorative window glass. There is a wide selection offered by the manufacturers or distributors. Either it is for privacy window film or others; you will definitely find the best one. Think about personal decoration to enhance the windows look. This should be easy to find the best one.However, if you want to save more budgets, then you can try DIY ideas to make decorative window film. There are some DIY ideas you can add to build this decorative window appearance. Look at how decorative window film stained glass is created. You can use certain paint that work on glass. Then, play your creative ideas. It can be anything as what you really want. You may need more inspirations to find what you want to draw on the glass. The images of window film decoration should give you more ideas.Any ideas you want to make, decorative window film will instantly update your window look either you see it from inside or outside. You have so many wonderful choices to enhance the window look. If your old window doesn't give you any spirit, then stylish window film decoration should add more impressions and enhancement to your window as well as the room interior decoration. You have so many benefits installing this window idea to your home.Don't forget to select the patterns you like most to create decorative window film. Wonderful patterns with beautiful colors should lead you with incredible ideas. Your window film should be well enchanted. Flowers, birds, abstract patterns and others will finish the window appearance to be more outstanding. The blend of patterns, textures even to details and colors will create artistic decorations.
Gilmat Door Design, 2017-10-08 03:13:05.Door Bells can be an alert system that you usually used in your front door. The bells can inform the homeowner of the presence of any guest in front of your house. This alarm usually can be heard from inside the house. The types of the bells would vary in models and system. You could choose the suitable design of the bell that you think it is suitable with your house design. It can be manual or electrical bells that you choose. The size of your house also will be one of things that you should consider when you want to choose the bells.If you want to have classic design of bells, it is good for you to choose manual bells instead of electric bells. The manual system of the bells make it looks classic and old. The sense of classic and old can be added with the design of the bells. Some of the classic bells designs made by copper or brass or other types of metal form into chime shape. The bells will ring when you shake the bells or the holder beside the bells.The range of the classic bell is not too wide but the design is more appealing and attractive. The classic bells also can be a good decoration to make your front door looks beautiful. On the other hand, if you like to give the sense of modern look in the house, you could use electric bells. This bell is more practical and functional rather than the classic one. Besides, the wider the range, the louder it sounds.Electric bell system is simpler in model. The bells usually only consist of power button that have different shapes. This button will be connected with wire to the source of sounds that is located inside the house. The appearance of the electric bell is not as fancy as the classic one but it will be more beneficial to be used in big size of house. So, wherever you are in your house, you will hear the sounds of the bells.The design of the bells varies and has so many designs. You could choose whether manual or electric. You could choose the design of the bells that is suitable with your house and your taste. If you like to have something elegant, you could choose classic manual bells but if you like to have functional bells, you could choose electric Door Bells.
Gilmat Interior, 2017-10-08 11:40:12.Your bed must be comfortable to support high quality sleep that you deserve. Your good sleep can influence your health and productivity. If you always have a good sleep, you can wake up in the morning freshly. You will be more enthusiastic to face the day. It will start from how you will select the bed design. Firstly, it is about the bed frame that can support the comfort of the mattress. High quality bed frame can determine the durability and quality. Metal bed frame comes with a solid construction as what you need.This bed frame is known for the excellent quality due to the strong structure. Metal is an impressive element that has long durability. If it is well coated, it will resist staining. So, it will not get rusted. Then, you will see this metal bed frame is finished with coat to protect it from staining although it will just occur after the long time. It means you will not find any problems related to stain after a long time.Metal bed frame also come in various sizes. So, any sizes of the mattress can be well supported with this bed frame. You can look at the metal bed frame twin. This is the right bed frame size for your twin bed. It is strong and can support the twin bed much better. You can find your bed is comfortable without worrying about the body weight. It can support the bed so well. Your body weight will not become a problem for this frame.You will see this metal bed frame is an excellent choice for the standard king and queen bed. This bed frame is then the right choice for your master bedroom. It usually comes with a wide selection of the styles. Therefore, if you are looking for the stylish one, you will get it. See the stylish collections here. You will not regret on purchasing this bed frame.Therefore, if you want the right bed frame that can support your bed or mattress by any sizes, metal bed frame is the right choice. Your bed will be comfortable and adorable with this strong and durable bed frame. Even, you can also find adjustable metal bed frame. You can adjust the bed frame as what you want. It is strong, durable, and adjustable. You will find the best one that you are looking for here.
Gilmat Interior, 2017-10-06 13:20:35.Whatever your reason to create your own reclaimed wood dining table, here we have some basic ideas to see and follow. DIY reclaimed wood table is usually appropriate to express your rustic appetite. It has good aesthetic value to show off. Besides, it can be also an excellent alternative if you have limited budget to purchase any dining table from the market.The following are the materials that you may need. Remember that you may have different materials for the legs. The materials will be reclaimed wood, steel, sand paper, wood screws and steel wool. Steel can be replaced with wood, plastic or iron for the table legs. Then, you will need also the following tools such as drill or screwdriver, pliers, gloves, hammer, saw horses and rip saw or hand saw.To start the instruction, you need to prepare the salvaged wood. According to the size, you can make use of 3 to 12 boards that are strapped down. Be careful with the nails, screws or metal on these wooden boards. For safer work, you may wear your gloves. Then, it is the time to pull the nails, screws etc. Make sure that you don't damage the grain of the wood. After that, decide the size of the table that you want so that you can precisely measure the width and length of the woods.Set the wood boards. It will be little bit easy when the boards have straight lines. Thus, it is good for you to find some straight wooden planks. Then, you can easily screw them. Commonly, 9 screws are enough. Each support is with 3 screws. Then, re-measure your candidate of wooden table. Not fixed security may lead to unsymmetrical shape. Clear up the edges of the woods before this wooden planks are set with the legs. You can build the legs by yourself. But if you find it difficult, you can simply purchase the legs from IKEA.Set the wood plank with the legs. Secure them by using some screws. For the finishing, you need to work with sand paper and steel wool. They make the wood have smooth surface. Then, it can be completed with polishing or painting. Polishing will still keep the natural pattern of the wood and it is perfect for bold rustic look. Having different tones of the table top and legs is interesting. It is a good idea for a modern reclaimed wood dining table.
Gilmat Bedroom, 2017-10-08 01:00:11.When you are thinking about old bed design, then you may have some choices as in the market there is a wide selection. That is if you consider the bed from the design. However, if you consider the material of the bed frame, you will see wood or iron that makes the bed has an old expression. Look at the collections of iron bed frames then you will see a beautiful old bed frame design. This bed frame has head, foot, rails and legs that are made of iron. So, you can say it is heavy.Indeed, iron bed frames are heavy. It is not easy to move this bed frame to other places. But this is how this bed must be. This bed frame is even heavier than wood bed frame. This makes this bed frame is sturdy and very durable. It can stand for very long years. Therefore, you need to ensure you pick this bed frame with beautiful designs. If you love this bed with old-fashioned look, then you can consider this bed with classic design.Look the various designs of iron bed frames that are available in the market. There are many beautiful classic designs you can look here. Most of them are really impressive due its classic style. Also, you can find unique bed frames if you want it in unique design. So, if you have a classic bedroom interior decoration, this bed frame will surely complete the bedroom design and accent as well. You will not need to worry about the comfort offered by this bed frame.Iron bed frames come in various sizes too. It means you can make your bed more comfortable with this bed frame as you can find the right size as you want. If this is for couple, you can consider iron bed frames king. This bed king size gives you a wider bed frame size where it can be used for two. You just need to find the right mattress that is soft and comfortable.So, if you want the right bed frame that has classic design, iron bed frames should be in your list. This bed frame can give you more benefits as you can find the frame with various classic designs. You will not need to worry about the quality and durability too. Even, you can build your comfortable bed with this bed frame. You will love the various designs and styles too based on what you like most.
Gilmat Interior, 2017-10-07 14:53:07.Looking for the right patio table sets can be tricky. You have so many choices out there. Hundreds of options make you get confused. Actually, the wide selection should make you more selective as not all of outdoor patio furniture sets sale that you see out there are made by selected material and high standard for your comfort and style. So, you can start with selecting the materials and how the table set is finished.First of all, you can start with the popular material to build patio table sets. Wood is a favorite material that is always selected to build furniture set either for indoor or outdoor. It is due to the excellence of the structure of the material. It is very durable and sturdy. You just need to know how to care this table set to elongate the life of the table set. There are some tips recommended to care your wood furniture set. You have some choices of types of wood that are selected.Second choice, you have a wonderful patio table sets that is made of wicker. Wicker is also the popular choice to build outdoor furniture set. It can be for deck, patio, backyard or porch. Wicker is more relaxing due to its natural material. Look at how these wicker patio furniture sets can be finished. You can find this table set really outstanding due to the complication of the structure to make this furniture set. It is only made by skilled craftsmen that make this table set excellent.Then, you will see these patio table sets are made of metal. Metal is very strong and durable material to build furniture set. Even, it is always selected to build outdoor furniture like this table set. Therefore, you can say this table set is designed for all-weather. You just need to coat it to protect the structure from staining if it is placed in the outdoor space for long time. Coating can enhance the look of the table set, too.There are other choices of the materials of patio table sets such as stainless steel and glass. They are also popular among others. You can find them in modern patio table set. They look slim, simple but indeed stylish and excellent. If you are confused to pick the best one, then it is good idea to read the pros and cons of each of them or just consider the design you like most.
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Cast: Sam Shepard (Chuck Yeager), Ed Harris (John Glenn), Dennis Quaid (Gordo Cooper), Scott Glenn (Alan Shepard), Fred Ward (Gus Grissom)
Director: Philip Kaufman (Henry and June, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
Plot: Without giving anything away, the film is about the birth of the space program. It focuses on the program's early beginnings, starting at the end of World War II and the excitement of fighter pilots testing out newer and faster jet planes. From there the film takes the viewer through all phases of the creation of NASA and finishes with the end of the original Mercury program in 1963. This may sound like a direct plot, and it is rather linear, but don't let that fool you. The film engages you and keeps you watching.
Why you should watch it: I have always had a fascination with NASA and space programs. When I was younger I wanted nothing more than to work in some capacity in order to help the space program. Unfortunately, I am horrible at both science and math, so that kind of ruled me out. Thankfully, this film satisfies at least some small part of that childhood dream.
Set over a sprawling three-plus hours, the film never bogs down and never drags on. It starts where every good story should - at the beginning. We follow the main characters and watch their growth from skeptics to believers. The audience sees the entire scope of the space program, warts and all. There were failures, political wranglings, Cold War paranoia, and the human weaknesses of the "heroes." However, the greatness of both the men and the program is displayed for all to see as well. We witness the doubts of the pilots, their nervousness, their bravado, and their triumphs as well.
The soundtrack is as sprawling as the film, mixing crescendo-laden instrumentals with the early rock tunes of the 50's. The size and scope of the film is omnipresent, but never overwhelming. The cinematography, by Caleb Deschanel, is gorgeous and as big as the sky. While the movie has a rather large and varied cast, nobody ever gets lost, and the viewer never gets confused.
The original 1983 trailer is over three minutes long, but it gives an idea of what to expect.
Academy Award Nominations: Eight - Best Supporting Actor (Sam Shepard), Best Art Direction/Set Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Picture; Wins - Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound


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Including complete coverage of scheduling from the basics to advanced applications along with a detailed tutorial on the four most popular software programmes, this work is a comprehensive reference for project scheduling.Jay S. Newitt is the author of 'Construction Scheduling: Principles and Practices (2nd Edition)', published 2008 under ISBN 9780135137826 and ISBN 0135137829.[read more]
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Gavin, I just noticed the head on your dumb-head horse looks identical to that in Snitzen mit Jogge Sundqvist, which is quite different to the original Drew Langsner design - is that a Mike Abbot design? Do you find that a good size & shape to use?
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Meat sauce wrote:My plank thickness is 1.5 inches with a 10 inch width. I drilled a 1/2 inch hole and used a 7/16th inch steel rod for my pin. The pin slips all the way through and it slides in an out easily yet provides some grip. I also used construction grade wood for my treadle arm and dumbhead. Not sure why hardwood is mandated for the treadle arm. My treadle arm is also 1.5 inches thick. The only hardwood I used was for edging the dumbhead and the end of the ramp. In reviewing the various shaving horses on the net I could not see wasting good hardwood on the horse and it appeared the wood thickness was overkill. Should I ever make another I will definitely make the treadle arm thinner to cut down the weight. I see no reason why the arm could not be 1 inch thick. Maybe someone has a good reason that I do not know about since this is all very new to me.
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