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<title><![CDATA[Something To Chew On: Kellogg's, Eugenics and Race Betterment ]]></title>
<link>http://deeliberate.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/something-to-chew-on-kelloggs-eugenics-and-race-betterment/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deeliberate</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a child I had a dream, a marvelous dream, in which I saw a wild place in the country. Dirt]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a child I had a dream, a              marvelous dream, in which I saw a wild place in the country. Dirty children              were pouring down the road. The dream gave me the idea for my lifework&#8230;the              Sanitarium. Everything here has behind it one ideal: biological living              to improve the American race.&#8221;-John Harvey Kellogg</p></blockquote>
<p>Emblazoned across the box of Kellogg&#8217;s Cocoa Krispies earlier this month (Coco Pops to anyone in the UK or Australia): &#8220;<strong>Now Helps Support Your Child&#8217;s Immunity!</strong>&#8220;.</p>
<p>Crikey.</p>
<p><a href="http://deeliberate.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cocoakrispies-box.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14" title="&#34;I rather have a bowl of Cocoa Krispies&#34; didn't really catch on in the UK..." src="http://deeliberate.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cocoakrispies-box.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="234" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Hang on! Where is my childhood breakfast time companion Coco the Monkey? And why do Americans get the correct spelling of &#8220;Cocoa&#8221; and the three brats from Rice Krispies (Crispies?) on the cover instead? Are Americans really more trusting of three young white kids with pixie ears and big scary eyes (the effects of a century of puffed rice laced with high fructose corn syrup) over a spritely brown big-eared monkey? I guess nutritional health claims carry more scientific weight when they&#8217;re introduced by magical singing elves <em>Smack, Crack</em> and <em>Pot</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Are we naive enough to believe that cereal can increase immunity? Why, a box of cereal certainly works out cheaper than visiting the Doctors nowadays. A chocolatey spoon of puffed rice is also undoubtedly more tasty than a metal needle stabbing you in the upper arm. Why not just include a &#8216;free&#8217; vial of the H1N1 vaccine (syringes sold separately) so we can all shoot up with a healthy dose of mercury and squalene before we &#8220;eat&#8221;? It may reduce the need for people to go a-rushin&#8217; to their nearest clinic (amidst the &#8220;Oh-my-God-we-are-running-out&#8221; shortages and &#8220;God-save-us-in-the-scary-pandemic&#8221; type alerts). There you go &#8216;, that&#8217;s one from me. Keep it. Use it. Go on.</p>
<p>Apparently, the City Attorney of San Francisco, US, Dennis Herrera sent a letter to Kellogg&#8217;s and to the Food and Drug Administration in the US asking Kellogg&#8217;s to prove its claim:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am concerned the prominent use of the immunity claims to advertise a sugar-laden chocolate cereal like Cocoa Krispies may mislead and deceive parents of young children.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><em>No.</em> Really?</p>
<p>Interestingly, in the same year as our friend<em> Monsieur</em> Kellogg (1852-1945), inventor of the cornflake, began selling cereal commercially (1906), he also founded the Race Betterment Foundation to help stop the “propagation of defectives.” Our Kellogg was also on the Advisory Council of the <em>American Eugenics Society</em>.</p>
<p>It seems that Kellogg was convinced that poor dietary and moral habits were leading America down the path of &#8216;race degeneration&#8217;. His solution was eugenics, not merely as a set of policies, but as a quasi-religious ideology. As you do, when you are the business of fashioning flattened flakes of corn.</p>
<p>Kellogg&#8217;s&#8217; reveled in his role as defender of scientific efficiency in the realisation of power to control global breakfasting habits. Build up the monopoly; get kids hooked on sugar, playful characters and free toys and then pump whatever &#8216;immunity boosting&#8217; elements you like into the boxes. For example, there are heaps of interesting articles on Folic Acid in cereal (and now we have it as mandatory for wheat flour &#8211; and therefore bread- in Australia). The ridiculousness of the entire situation is that the very target market for folic acid fortification is young women and mass medication is simply not good public health policy. [however, unlike the fluoride in the water, one <em>does</em> have a reasonable element of choice in what we eat for breakfast]. Like most things that get approved by food standard agencies and departments across the globe, there are too many unresolved issues and questions around safety and efficacy- nevermind the issue of the immorality of &#8216;mass medication&#8217;. I say: If in doubt, leave it out. But Kellogg&#8217;s insists that once we wake up we all (well, particularly impressionable young children) need to shovel down our mouths:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rice, Sugar, Chocolate (4.5%), Cocoa Powder, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Malt Flavouring,          Flavouring, Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin B2, Thiamin B1, Folic          Acid, Vitamin B12.</span></p>
<p>&#8220;Kellogg&#8217;s Krispies cereals provide consumers with 25 percent of their daily value of vitamins A, C, and E, which play an important role in boosting immunity according to peer-reviewed, published, scientific research&#8221; says Kellogg&#8217;s.</p>
<p>&#8230;Come <em>on</em>.</p>
<p>[Coco Pops are also 40% sugar by weight.]</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://deeliberate.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/wellplainfactscover1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16 alignright" title="well plain facts cover" src="http://deeliberate.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/wellplainfactscover1.jpg?w=186" alt="" width="186" height="300" /></a>In his work <em>Plain Facts</em>, Kellogg even prohibits those with contagious &#8216;urban&#8217; diseases, such as tuberculosis, and cholera, from marrying and reproducing offspring, essentially targeting immigrants, and those whom he collectively labeled &#8220;the lower classes&#8221;. According to Kellogg, &#8220;a few generations of such a degenerating process would exterminate the [white] race, and drive it back to Darwin&#8217;s ancestral ape.&#8221; Kellogg even compared the product of miscegenation, &#8220;hybrid&#8221; humans, with mongrel dogs: &#8220;Different varieties or races of the same species may form a fertile union, the result of which is a mongrel — a cross between its two parents, possessing some of the qualities of each. All the varieties of dogs are produced by crossing different races, and so are mongrels.</p>
<p>One newspaper said Dr. Kellogg and Dr. Burbank were trying to make the United States into a <em>great stock farm</em>, by breeding for human efficiency.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I wish we had the power to do that very thing. It would not be such a bad idea,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;it certainly would be a great deal better than to have the United States a great stock farm, breeding mongrels-which is what we are doing now.</em>&#8221; &#8211; John H. Kellogg</p></blockquote>
<p>Very important Americans supported this idea, from Roosevelt, Carnegie, the Rockefellers and the Kellogg family:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind&#8230;. Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty of the good citizen of the right type is to leave his blood behind him in the world, and that we have no business to perpetuate citizens of the wrong typ</em>e&#8221; (1913- Roosevelt, Theodore)</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, this is where it gets particularly interesting&#8230;</p>
<p>Apparently, Kellogg was a big anti-sex/anti-masturbation activist. You&#8217;ll find that he was actually on such a far end of the spectrum that he didn&#8217;t have sexual intercourse with his wife even once in their 40 years of marriage (he worked on his book &#8220;<em>Plain Facts</em>&#8221; on their honeymoon). It would make sense that a self-proclaimed eugenicist would want to limit the reproductive capabilities of the &#8216;degenerate&#8217; population who consume the highly processed GM foodstuffs in cartoonised cardboard boxes?</p>
<p>He said (in <em>Plain Facts</em>):</p>
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<div><em>&#8220;A plain and <span style="color:#000000;">healthy diet, </span>with only two meals a day, among other things, would reduce sexual feelings&#8221;</em><em><br />
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<p>So clearly John Kellogg thought there&#8217;s link between a pers<span style="color:#000000;">on&#8217;s diet an</span>d his sexual desires. Could the eugenics ideology of today&#8217;s global elite NWO have infiltrated our breakfast options by design?</p>
<p>Anyway, don&#8217;t let me put you off your cereal. Chew away. But please check the ingredients in &#8220;Special K&#8221; before you swallow too much&#8230;</p>
<p>[Me? I had fruit toast this morning. If you are interested.]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[3636]]></title>
<link>http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/3636/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Evie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/3636/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good evening/ morning/ day! When I logged on SL today I saw 5 folders in my inventory all from a sto]]></description>
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<p>When I logged on SL today I saw 5 folders in my inventory all from a store called<strong> </strong><strong><a title="3636" href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Viana%20Beach/147/242/1001">3636 </a></strong>and I got really confused because I hadn&#8217;t even heard of this store before. Turns out, the owner, <strong>dianny3636 Aeon, </strong>had sent me an IM along with the folders, which I didn&#8217;t see because unfortunately my IM&#8217;s get capped. She had read my blog and loved it so she&#8217;d sent me the folders containing different hairstyles so that if I wanted I could blog them \o/ So here they are! I&#8217;m only showing you this one style in this blog, the others you will no doubt see in other blogs in the future. All of dianny&#8217;s hairs are statement ones, big bouffants, Lady GaGa style. Definitely for those people who like to be the centre of attention! Not usually my style, when I&#8217;m out and about in SL it&#8217;s usually more relaxed, comfier looking hair, the ones from Decoy and the long curly one from Shop Seu are the ones glued to my head at the moment.</p>
<p>I just also have to add that I &#60;3 these boots from TOSL, you can buy them at the Footwear Expo \o/ They come in heaps of colours and if I had more lindens I&#8217;d buy all of them! lol</p>
<p>Hugs, evie x</p>
<p><a href="http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/3636.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-990" title="3636" src="http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/3636.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="231" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Credits:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Hair- 6363 &#8216;Sisi&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Skin- [Pink Fuel] &#8216;Raine &#60;Honey&#62; Crush&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Top- *~*evie*~* &#8216;White Racerback&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Cardi- *COCO* &#8216;Cardigan Lace&#8217;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Pants- Mix + Match &#8216;Boho Capri Purple&#8217; (Freebie)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Boots- TOSL &#8216;*Quilted Wellies* v2.3 Rainbow Dots&#8217; (Footwear Expo)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Listening to <a title="chase &#38; status end credits" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54MxvlKRu3g">Chase &#38; Status: End Credits</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Coco Before Chanel]]></title>
<link>http://theflyingpingu.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/coco-before-chanel/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlene Dang</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theflyingpingu.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/coco-before-chanel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I finally took the time out to watch one of the legendary movie of our time. Coco Before Chanel. Not]]></description>
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<p>I finally took the time out to watch one of the legendary movie of our time. Coco Before Chanel. </p>
<p>Nothing to say except &#8212; A Woman with style and elegance that follows with her inevitable success with complete arrogance and one that refuses to believe in what is unsuccessful but to believe in the utmost importance of life aside from love, Personal Success. </p>
<p>Something I wouldn&#8217;t want to forget:</p>
<p>A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>A woman has the age she deserves.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>A women who doesn&#8217;t wear perfume has no future.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Elegance is refusal.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Fashion fades, only style remains the same.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Fashion is made to become unfashionable.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Great loves too must be endured.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.<br />
Coco Chanel </p>
<p>Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>My friends, there are no friends.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Success is often achieved by those who don&#8217;t know that failure is inevitable.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>There are people who have money and people who are rich.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.<br />
Coco Chanel</p>
<p>Nighty Nite.</p>
<p>Love to you All.</p>
<p>Pingu CND. xxx</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Aubrey vs Coco Twitter Pics]]></title>
<link>http://thehiphopconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/aubrey-vs-coco-twitter-pics/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>TheHipHopConsultant</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Alvo errado - uma falha de gestão]]></title>
<link>http://qualiblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/alvo-errado-uma-falha-de-gestao/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ronaldocgq</dc:creator>
<guid>http://qualiblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/alvo-errado-uma-falha-de-gestao/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Na Época desta semana a primeira coisa que li foi a coluna da Ruth de Aquino. É que tenho o hábito d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Na <strong><span style="color:#333399;">Época</span></strong> desta semana a primeira coisa que li foi a coluna da <strong><span style="color:#333399;">Ruth de Aquino</span></strong>. É que tenho o hábito de ler revistas de trás para frente e a coluna dela fica estrategicamente na última página&#8230; Independente disso, eu adoro a coluna dela, que trata sempre de um tema polêmico com a naturalidade de quem bate um papo com a gente, um papo muito inteligente por sinal&#8230;</p>
<p>Desta vez, ela abordou a decisão da prefeitura carioca de proibir a venda de coco-verde nas areias das praias do Rio de Janeiro, tornando o pobre coco um “bode expiatório” do problema da poluição da orla que envergonha até quem não é carioca!&#8230;</p>
<p>Ilustrando muito bem a questão do alvo mal escolhido, ela diz:<br />
<em><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI105806-15230,00-O+COCOVERDE+VILAO+DO+VERAO.html" target="_blank">“[...]Quase 60% do lixo recolhido nas praias são cocos-verdes – 20 mil cocos por dia. Cada um pesa em média 1 quilo. O “Comitê Gestor da Orla” informou que o coco é o maior detrito, o maior poluidor das praias. Coitado do coco. O maior poluidor das praias é o brasileiro, um povo sem a menor educação ambiental.[...]”</a></span></em></p>
<p>E mais a frente ela esclarece:<br />
<em><span style="color:#0000ff;">“[...]No Rio, a mesma multidão que quer se refrescar com coco junto ao mar deixa nas areias, aos domingos, até 180 toneladas de lixo. É tudo o que se pode imaginar. Garrafas, latas, saquinhos plásticos, palito de churrasco, fralda descartável, luvas (para passar água oxigenada nos pelos do corpo!) e muito mais.[...]”</span></em> – certamente a proibição da venda de alguns itens alimentares na areia não vai resolver de fato o problema&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_3158" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 227px"><img class="size-full wp-image-3158   " title="Coyote" src="http://qualiblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/coyote-explode.jpg" alt="" width="217" height="287" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Mais cedo ou mais tarde...</p></div>
<p>Concordo com ela e <strong><a href="http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI105806-15230,00-O+COCOVERDE+VILAO+DO+VERAO.html" target="_blank">recomendo a leitura do artigo</a></strong>, mas isso me fez lembrar que na gestão da qualidade também atacamos muitas vezes o alvo errado. Ao invés de irmos ao cerne dos problemas, agindo sobre a causa raiz, atacamos um efeito ou algo que julgamos ser a causa, mas por uma investigação mal conduzida ou para evitar uma revolução nos processos envolvidos, seja pela dificuldade ou pelo custo da mudança que sabemos ser necessária&#8230; Infelizmente essa prática é adotada por uma infinidade de empresas, principalmente pela questão do custo. Costumo dizer que se preocupam com elefantes mas deixam passar as formigas, pois evitar o investimento numa ação corretiva precisa pode significar que arrastaremos o “pequeno custo” de uma ação ineficaz por anos a fio, que somado, dará às vezes um valor maior&#8230; Além do problema não resolvido de fato e que um dia voltará à tona, perdemos tempo.</p>
<p>Percebam a relação entre a decisão da prefeitura carioca e as (más) decisões dos gestores nos assuntos da qualidade. Nos dois casos, o problema não estará resolvido. A medida será apenas paliativa, nos iludindo de que economizamos uma baba ao optar por ela.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Quer outro exemplo engraçado?</span></span></strong><br />
Meu filho recebe uma mesada. Só que diariamente ele se acostumou a me perguntar se tenho algumas moedas e, quando tenho, as dou para ele. E ele guarda em seu cofrinho&#8230; Outro dia fomos olhar e lá havia mais do que a mesada dele! E o valor foi acumulado em pouco mais de dois meses!!!</p>
<p>Então, pense bem se compensa “dar moedinhas” para o cofrinho da não-conformidade mal resolvida! Afinal, certamente ela não é uma filha querida!!!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Bad Fever]]></title>
<link>http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/bad-fever/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Evie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/bad-fever/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hiiii! I think I&#8217;ve deprived you long enough without a blog from me! Honestly I wasn&#8217;t i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hiiii! I think I&#8217;ve deprived you long enough without a blog from me! Honestly I wasn&#8217;t intending to go so long without blogging. I haven&#8217;t been in the right mind frame to blog. The shop is going well, getting few more people cos I got the Midnight Mania now, and my subscribe group has gone up to 58 members \o/ Don&#8217;t ask about the club lol</p>
<p>So it&#8217;s 4.30am and for some reason I&#8217;m in the right mood to blog when i should be in bed. Today I am showing you this outfit that I put together earlier, which includes items from <strong>*COCO*</strong>, <strong>Madsy</strong>,<strong> Kooki</strong><strong>e</strong> and <strong>*~*evie*~*</strong>. The main focus of this outfit are the <em>Athena</em> boots from <strong>Kookie</strong>, which you can buy at the <em>Footwear Expo</em> (prepare for lag). I am absolutely totally in love with them! Evie&#8217;s legs look amazingly skinny and long in these shoes.</p>
<p>I added my bag to the outfit for 3 reasons, 1) I made it  2) It matches the colour of the jacket buckles and 3) It adds a bit of glam to the outfit. \o/ This gorgeous dress is from <strong>*COCO*</strong> and it is one of the group gifts, it comes in 4 different colours, just join the group and buy the gifts on the wall at the store \o/ There&#8217;s a few other gifts there too. old ones and kinda new ones. I think I&#8217;ve showed you the Madsy jacket, and the necklace was in the last blog too. I discovered the hair in the depths of my hair folder, it&#8217;s not one I&#8217;d wear out and about but good for blogging.</p>
<p>Until next time, byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</p>
<p>Hugs, evie xoxo</p>
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<p><a href="http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/bad-fever1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-986" title="Bad Fever1" src="http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/bad-fever1.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="556" /></a><a href="http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/bad-fever.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-987" title="Bad Fever" src="http://evelynhartshon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/bad-fever.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="556" /></a>Credits:</p>
<p>Hair- Armidi &#8216;The Glamerous&#8217;</p>
<p>Skin- [Pink Fuel] &#8216;Skye &#60;Chai&#62; Scene&#8217;</p>
<p>Jacket- Madsy  &#8217;Lost Sheep Leather Jacket&#8217;</p>
<p>Dress- *COCO* &#8216;ShirredTubeDress Black&#8217; (Group Gift)</p>
<p>Shoes- Kookie &#8216;Athena/ Black&#8217; (Footwear expo- not sure if they are at the mainstore)</p>
<p>Bag- *~*evie*~* &#8216;Gold Sequin Clutch&#8217;</p>
<p>Necklace- Naith Smit &#8216;Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll Gang Bang Chain&#8217;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Still no clothing for the season? Heads up and eyes on Miamai!]]></title>
<link>http://wiccamerlin.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/still-no-clothing-for-the-season-heads-up-and-eyes-on-miamai/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wiccamerlin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wiccamerlin.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/still-no-clothing-for-the-season-heads-up-and-eyes-on-miamai/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today I am very happy to show you a few season fitting items of Miamai. First i will start with the ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Today I am very happy to show you a few season fitting items of <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amat/48/245/24">Miamai</a>.<br />
First i will start with the Abigail Shirt.</p>
<p><a href="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-084.jpg"><img title="Miamai  084" src="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-084.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="450" /></a></p>
<p>This shirt is an amazing multi usable piece of clothing. You can wear it as a casual top to a stylish jeans or you can addit to a classy skirt. Nice great made folds give the top a fresh look. If you take a look at the back you can see a nice detail of this shirt. The folds are going round from the front to the back and make the upper part of the back. The you have a sweet free space so that you can see the amazing back of a lady <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> . The gloves, who are also included are repeating the filds on the seam! This shirt with the gloves give all outfits a precious touch!</p>
<p>Up next we have the Cydonia Pants.</p>
<p><a href="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-085.jpg"><img title="Miamai 085" src="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-085.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="450" /></a></p>
<p>This pants are something special. On the first view you see only pants. If you take a closer look your eyes be catched by the amazing leg parts. 4 attachment points are needed for this awsome designed leg parts. Ruffles and little lines with ribbons give this pants the special look. The pants layer it self has a great made texture and the belt with the same great texture matches perfect. This pants are a must have for this season!</p>
<p>Now lets get some color in the grey and dark days with the Mary Shirt of <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amat/48/245/24">Miamai</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-086.jpg"><img title="Miamai 086" src="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-086.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="450" /></a></p>
<p>This pullover is a real highlight and perfect for the days getting colder more and more. What I liked so much was, that you don&#8217;t have a plain textured pullover only broken through folds. This pullover shows up with a nice basic color broken through shadows and light parts. The texture is made with an eye for the detail and with love for something special as we know it for all <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amat/48/245/24">Miamai</a> designs.</p>
<p><a href="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-087.jpg"><img title="Miamai 087" src="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miamai-087.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="450" /></a></p>
<p>Take a look at the attachments. On each hand you have a sleeve that leads amazing from the end of the top shirt layer to the end of the pullover. My interst was taken mostly by the neckpart. The big roll collar is my personal favourite part on this pullover. It reminds me of cozy feelings when I hide my chin and neck  while I was standing at the window and looked out while I watched the first snowflakes falling down.</p>
<p>Details:<br />
Pic1: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amat/48/245/24">Miamai</a> &#8211; Abigail Shirt/charcoal<br />
Pic2: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amat/48/245/24">Miamai</a> &#8211; Cydonia Pants/brown<br />
Pic3: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amat/48/245/24">Miamai</a> &#8211; Mary Shirt/purple<br />
Pic4: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amat/48/245/24">Miamai</a> &#8211; Mary Shirt/red</p>
<p>Model &#38; Photographer: Wicca Merlin</p>
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<title><![CDATA[My Day at the Shoe Expo]]></title>
<link>http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/my-day-at-the-shoe-expo/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>briepinazzo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/my-day-at-the-shoe-expo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I am a total shoe hag. Love tall ones, flat ones, sparkly ones (and not blingy, sparkly), and boot o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cocolace-upworkboots_002.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5954" title="CoCo Design Lace Up Work Boots" src="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cocolace-upworkboots_002.png" alt="CoCo Design Lace Up Work Boots" width="450" height="450" /></a>I am a total shoe hag. Love tall ones, flat ones, sparkly ones (and not blingy, sparkly), and boot ones. This year from November 22 to December 6, Second Life is sponsoring the SL Footwear Expo. Proceeds from this event will all or partially (depending on the vendor&#8217;s choice) be given to the Toys for Tots campaign, which provides toys for underprivileged children for the holiday season. For more information on this drive or to make a donation directly to the organization please visit <a href="http://toysfortots.org/">http://toysfortots.org/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cocolace-upworkboots_001.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5960" title="CoCo Design Lace Up Work Boots" src="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cocolace-upworkboots_001.png" alt="CoCo Design Lace Up Work Boots" width="450" height="450" /></a>The fair includes 60 of Second Life&#8217;s top shoe designers as well as pose makers who have wonderful poses that compliment the most extravagant of shoe designs. I totally fell in love with these boots from CoCo Designs. They are called, realistically, Laced Up Work Boots. They are adorable, come with 2 styles, laced and unlaced (which is shown here). A hud is included that when worn has all the resize scripts included as well as a option to add a rolled cuff or remove it. I have it added here and it looks really cute. you can even move the cuff up and down the leg as well as adjust the size of the actual cuff. I love them and it totally completed my collection I have been gathering from the store, as you can see.</p>
<div id="attachment_6008" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Free%20Tier%20Land/250/129/24" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-6008" title="2009SLShoeFair" src="http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2009slshoefair.png" alt="Click to Visit the Shoe Fair" width="450" height="411" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Click to Visit the Shoe Fair</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Puerto Vallarta’s Wild Exotic Fruit]]></title>
<link>http://cesarchavezpuertovallarta.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/puerto-vallarta%e2%80%99s-wild-fruit/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mchavez</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cesarchavezpuertovallarta.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/puerto-vallarta%e2%80%99s-wild-fruit/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Savon "Agrumes-Ylang"]]></title>
<link>http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/savon-agrumes-ylang/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fatiha</dc:creator>
<guid>http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/savon-agrumes-ylang/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Les savons, quand on met le pied dedans&#8230;. Maintenant que j&#8217;ai trouvé une astuce pour gag]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">Les savons, quand on met le pied dedans&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Maintenant que j&#8217;ai trouvé une astuce pour gagner de la place chez moi au séchage, ça ne peut plus me servir d&#8217;excuse pour ne pas savonner. Enfin j&#8217;ai fourré mon nez dans ma boite d&#8217;huiles essentielles et j&#8217;avais envie d&#8217;un autre savon aux agrumes, mais cette fois-ci pas comme mon &#8220;Halloween&#8221; avec juste l&#8217;HE d&#8217;orange douce. Il me restait de la mandarine, du pamplemousse et de l&#8217;orange (du citron mais c&#8217;est pas trop mon truc). Et puis j&#8217;ai mis la main sur mon HE d&#8217;Ylang-Ylang et j&#8217;ai eu envie de me lancer.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Savon &#8220;Agrumes-Ylang&#8221;, batch de 600 g de gras</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">25 % coco<br />
20 % karité<br />
20 % macadamia<br />
15 % ricin<br />
10 % cacao<br />
8 % pépins de raisin<br />
2 % argan</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Surgras à 9.<br />
J&#8217;ai pris un peu plus de la moyenne des liquides prévus, soude à recalculer.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">A la trace :<br />
ajout de 20 g d&#8217;HE mandarine, 5 g d&#8217;HE d&#8217;orange douce, 4 g d&#8217;HE de pamplemousse, 1 g d&#8217;HE d&#8217;ylang-ylang, 2 g de sel fin, 2 g de lait de coco en poudre (je n&#8217;ai pas osé plus), 6 g de karité à la trace (prélevés du karité prévu), colorant orange liquide de Skin Care online.</p>
<p>Ensuite j&#8217;ai moulé la plus grosse partie dans une brique de lait coupée en 2 et j&#8217;ai séparé le reste en deux parties : une ou j&#8217;ai ajouté du colorant orange et un petit peu d&#8217;oxyde rouge et dans l&#8217;autre du colorant rouge et de l&#8217;oxyde rouge.<br />
J&#8217;ai tenté un marbrage.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/059.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-735" title="059" src="http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/059.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="275" /></a><br />
J&#8217;ai remarqué que la trace était plus rapide dès que j&#8217;avais du karité dans la recette aussi. Si, au lieu de mettre des HE j&#8217;avais mis une fragrance j&#8217;aurais eu un magnifique &#8220;figeage&#8221; .</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/savon-agrumes-ylang.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-736" title="savon agrumes-ylang" src="http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/savon-agrumes-ylang.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Stats : </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Hardness  	29 &#8211; 54 <strong>&#8211;&#62; </strong> <strong>39</strong><br />
Cleansing 	12 &#8211; 22 	<strong>&#8211;&#62; </strong><strong>17</strong><br />
Conditioning 	44 &#8211; 69 <strong>&#8211;&#62; </strong> <strong>53</strong><br />
Bubbly 	14 &#8211; 46 	<strong>&#8211;&#62; </strong><strong>30</strong><br />
Creamy 	16 &#8211; 48 <strong>&#8211;&#62; </strong><strong>36</strong><br />
Iodine 	41 &#8211; 70 	<strong>&#8211;&#62; </strong><strong>58</strong><br />
INS 	136 &#8211; 165 	<strong>&#8211;&#62; 149</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Incomum]]></title>
<link>http://sissi7.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/incomum/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sissi7</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sissi7.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/incomum/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Coco Chanel Coco Chanel&#8230; Uma mulher à frente de seu tempo&#8230; Pioneira&#8230; Atemporal]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><div id="attachment_192" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 300px"><a href="http://sissi7.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/coco-chanel.jpg"><img src="http://sissi7.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/coco-chanel.jpg?w=290" alt="" title="coco-chanel" width="290" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-192" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Coco Chanel</p></div><br />
Coco Chanel&#8230;<br />
Uma mulher à frente de seu tempo&#8230;<br />
Pioneira&#8230;<br />
Atemporal&#8230;<br />
Não tinha papas na língua e grande habilidade para se desvencilhar da hipocrisia, tanto que foi umas das primeiras mulheres a ousar usar calças compridas em uma época em que o traje era exclusivo para homens&#8230;Um ato desafiador e revolucionário, mas acima de tudo sedutor.<br />
Nada mais encantador que uma mulher segura.<br />
Mas a mesma atrevida Coco se submeteu a viver sob teto e &#8220;favores&#8221; de um milionário, mesmo apaixonada por outro homem&#8230;<br />
Como mostra o novo filme Coco antes de Chanel &#8211; Coco avant Chanel (2009)<br />
Há quem veja nisso uma aura de modernidade, de transgressão por escapar aos relacionamentos convencionais assim como Coco livrou todas as mulheres dos apertados espartilhos&#8230;<br />
Realmente Coco não gostava de plumas&#8230;E fez pesar seu gosto pelo pretinho e chapéus &#8220;básicos&#8221;<br />
Sim, personalidade de sobra e forte, desde que nasceu Gabrielle.<br />
Há quem diga, como Gilbert Cesbron: &#8221; a personalidade assemelha-se a um perfume de qualidade: quem o usa é o único que o não sente&#8221;.<br />
Mas a vida da estilista que criou o mais famoso perfume do mundo Chanel nº5 cai como uma luva para a frase de outra mulher que revolucionou o universo feminino (para não dizer todo o mundo).<br />
Simone de Beauvoir escreveu no segundo volume do livro que é um ícone do feminismo &#8211; O Segundo Sexo:<br />
&#8220;ninguém nasce mulher, antes torna-se mulher&#8221;.<br />
Nenhuma das duas ( nem Chanel e nem Coco) se casou ou teve filhos e bem poderiam proferir uma frase da escritora Clarice Lispector: &#8220;Minha força está na solidão. Não tenho medo nem de chuvas tempestivas nem de grandes ventanias soltas, pois eu também sou o escuro da noite&#8221;.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Movie Review: Coco avant Chanel]]></title>
<link>http://michellemerrifield.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/movie-review-coco-avant-chanel/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>michellemerrifield</dc:creator>
<guid>http://michellemerrifield.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/movie-review-coco-avant-chanel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is not a movie about fashion, this is the story of an amazingly strong determined woman who bel]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://michellemerrifield.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/coco1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-67" title="coco" src="http://michellemerrifield.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/coco1.jpg?w=224" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a>This is not a movie about fashion, this is the story of an amazingly strong determined woman who believed in herself! I loved this movie and have been inspired forever&#8230;.. Coco is now one of my mentors in life.</p>
<p>Set in the 1890s she single handedly changed the way people dressed and more important how women felt about themselves. As a daringly free-spirited French woman who had nothing to lose as she was an orphan who followed her passion and her heart to become a house hold name. Coco had a strong character and was determined to be an independent woman, she is a role model for all young business of today.</p>
<p><strong>In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.</strong> <em>Coco Chanel</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Here, it never snowed. Afterwards it did.]]></title>
<link>http://mctoastface.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/here-it-never-snowed-afterwards-it-did/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Uma Ceawlin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mctoastface.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/here-it-never-snowed-afterwards-it-did/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Another one of those moments when you&#8217;ve blogged not so long ago but you really feel like doin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Another one of those moments when you&#8217;ve blogged not so long ago but you really feel like doing it again, and you do.  I change too much, more than I should. I&#8217;m pretty sure if you bump into me in world I&#8217;m prolly changing or going through my invo or thinking &#8216;these shoes&#8217; seriously don&#8217;t match this jacket or my mood doesn&#8217;t..especially in public, I usually don&#8217;t care where I am and I lose track of time and..shame. Lol. (btw, little daring mixing these boots with such short dress AND garters, but it DOESN&#8217;T LOOK CHEAP OK?&#8230;*insert ironic moment here* I&#8217;m a graduated artist so I can be weird looking). Anyways, do I really need an excuse for blogging again? I feel like I do. *grumpf* Plus, I guess I&#8217;m only taking pictures on the weekend sooooooo..have a nice week <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  <strong>muah! &#60;3 Uma</strong></p>
<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-2153" href="http://mctoastface.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/here-it-never-snowed-afterwards-it-did/daring-rain/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2153" title="Here, it never snowed" src="http://mctoastface.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/daring-rain.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="678" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-2154" href="http://mctoastface.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/here-it-never-snowed-afterwards-it-did/daring-rain2/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2154" title="Here, it never snowed. Afterwards it did. " src="http://mctoastface.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/daring-rain2.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="678" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Listening to . <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yck-QWjQ0bU" target="_blank">The Twilight Sad &#8211; &#8216;Here, it never snowed. Afterwards it did. </a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Worn :</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Hair &#8211; &#8216;Pushed and Shoved (blonde tones)&#8217; by<strong> Epoque</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Skin &#8211; &#8216;Devon nude in pink&#8217; by <strong>JM:Mai</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Jacket &#8211; &#8216;Check swing coat (grey)&#8217; by <strong>*COCO*</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Dress &#8211; &#8216;Tuli dress (beige)&#8217; by <strong>(Elate!)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Garters &#8211; &#8216;Ella stockings, brown garters&#8221; by <strong>*League*</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Boots &#8211; &#8216;Thigh Highs boots (sand)&#8217; by<strong> J&#8217;s</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Bag &#8211; &#8216;Anya bag green with silver&#8217; by <strong>LeLutka</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Glasses &#8211; &#8216;Ray-band glasses&#8217; by<strong> (W)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Gloves by<strong> **en Svale</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Crunching And Gritting All That We Hold True]]></title>
<link>http://thepixelpolitan.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/crunching-and-gritting-all-that-we-hold-true/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Trace</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thepixelpolitan.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/crunching-and-gritting-all-that-we-hold-true/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So cut the crap, &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve cut my soul– with knives and anything that I can hol]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;So cut the crap, &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve cut my soul– with knives and anything that I can hold&#8221;</em><em> (Bertie Blackman, &#8220;Thump&#8221;)</em></p>
<p>So, have you guys been to the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Free%20For%20Charities/14/127/25" target="_blank">Shoe Expo</a> yet? It just opened so it might still be a bit crowded, but it has some fantastic styles that I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already seen around the feeds. I didn&#8217;t pick up any of the newer styles, but I discovered these meticulously crafted boots from <strong>Coco</strong> that won my heart at first sight. Head on over to the expo now and make your feet happy!</p>
<p><a href="http://thepixelpolitan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/blognovember23th.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-150" title="blognovember23th" src="http://thepixelpolitan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/blognovember23th.png" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>The new sweater dress from <strong>Luck Inc. </strong>is an excellent winter dress. Sure, it&#8217;s not groundbreaking, but it&#8217;s one of the most detailed and well-made sweater dresses around, with some incredible color options. I&#8217;m very picky about the hue selections that stores offer, so having it in Etton Blue, Fallow, or Taupe is a color-phile&#8217;s wet dream come true. Also, there&#8217;s a new pose store in town by Willa Whybrow, called <strong>@Waffles</strong>!. To be completely honest, there are so many pose stores already out there that new pose stores rarely excite me, but this one made me squee. Hello, absolutely adorable poses! Just wait til you see the mens&#8217; poses in a post later on.</p>
<p>Credits are under the cut.</p>
<p>♥Trace</p>
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<p><strong>–Style Notes–</strong></p>
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<li><em>Dress</em>: Sweaterdress Eton Blue by <strong>Luck Inc.<br />
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<li><em>Jeans</em>: Sugarskull Jeans. [ Black ] by <strong>bffae.<br />
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<li><em>Shoes</em>: RidingBoots_Black by <strong>Coco<br />
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<li><em>Belt</em>: gift-belt by <strong>Coco</strong></li>
<li><em>Gloves: unavailable</em><strong><em></em></strong></li>
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<p><strong>–Body Notes–</strong></p>
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<li><em>Skin</em>: POUT-estelle-Pled Innocent by <strong>Lis_Noir<br />
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<li><em>Eyes</em>: Zbilja Eyes (Hazel) by <strong>Exodi</strong></li>
<li><em>Hair</em>: .+*Twen*+.Darkbrown by <strong>Mirai Style<br />
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<li><em>Lashes</em>: Innocent. eyelashes by <strong>Glow Studio<br />
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<p>Poses by <strong>@Waffles!<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Style#17 Tact]]></title>
<link>http://slicon.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/style17-tact/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tact Arida</dc:creator>
<guid>http://slicon.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/style17-tact/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hair: null &#8211; hair_Goa_dusk Eyes: MADesigns &#8211; EYES &#8211; MIRRORS &#8211; envy Shades: e]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://slicon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ic11-23-2.jpg"><img src="http://slicon.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ic11-23-2.jpg" alt="" title="ic11-23-2" width="450" height="500" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1635" /></a></p>
<p>Hair: null &#8211; hair_Goa_dusk</p>
<p>Eyes: MADesigns &#8211; EYES &#8211; MIRRORS &#8211; envy</p>
<p>Shades: epoque &#8211; Catastrophe Shades &#8211; Neutral</p>
<p>Coat: SG &#8211; TokyoCoatBlack</p>
<p>Tank: SG &#8211; DendiTankWhite(tucked)</p>
<p>Pants: M.R.M. FACTORY Color Skinny Pant *Black*</p>
<p>Boots: COCO &#8211; Homme_Lace-UpWorkBoots</p>
<p><a href="http://unsecond.com/tact/links">Shop SURL </a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Merda.............mas muita merda mesmo!]]></title>
<link>http://galm55.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/merda-mas-muita-merda-mesmo/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>galm55</dc:creator>
<guid>http://galm55.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/merda-mas-muita-merda-mesmo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Voce que se acha um cagão&#8230;.de só uma olhada nesta passada pelo banheiro.]]></description>
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<p>Voce que se acha um cagão&#8230;.de só uma olhada nesta passada pelo banheiro.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Savon "Christmas Lolita"]]></title>
<link>http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/savon-christmas-lolita/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fatiha</dc:creator>
<guid>http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/savon-christmas-lolita/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Un autre savon, pour me venger de ce que la trace m&#8217;a fait avec mon savon &#8220;bifsteak]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">Un autre savon, pour me venger de ce que la trace m&#8217;a fait avec mon savon &#8220;bifsteak&#8221; lol, à voir dans les ratages.<br />
Un savon avec inclusion de savons en forme de sapin colorés à l&#8217;ultramarine violet et parfumé à la fragrance &#8220;Lolita Lempicka&#8221; en melt &#38; pour au lait de chèvre.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/007-2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-720" title="Christmas Lolita" src="http://aromadelice.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/007-2.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Voici la recette : </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">25 % coco<br />
20 % karité (dont 5 % à la trace)<br />
15 % cacao<br />
30 % olive<br />
10 % ricin<br />
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A la trace : </span><br />
Fragrance Lolita Lempicka<br />
Ultramarine rose<br />
6 g de sucre (pour voir si ça fait des grosses bulles)<br />
5 % du poids du karité<br />
Paillettes<br />
Colorant alimentaire violet pour le marbrage (qui donne du rose/rouge d&#8217;ailleurs <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> )</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Soude à recalculer.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">INS = 153, pas de phase de gel.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">J&#8217;ai fait un batch de 1 kg de gras.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[frumoasă Rom-ânie]]></title>
<link>http://nobine.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/frumoasa-rom-anie/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>clau p</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nobine.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/frumoasa-rom-anie/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[după ce am votat ca un cetățean conștiincios și am dat iama în frigiderul alor mei, am revenit pe me]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Random POTW: Conan 'O Brien is a great guy.]]></title>
<link>http://jaysgameplex.com/2009/11/22/random-potw-conan-o-brien-is-a-great-guy/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jaysgameplex.com/2009/11/22/random-potw-conan-o-brien-is-a-great-guy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Conan &#8216;O Brien is a great guy. I&#8217;ve watched him almost every night since I was 15 years ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Conan &#8216;O Brien is a great guy. I&#8217;ve watched him almost every night since I was 15 years old. Although his show is bleeding in the ratings, I think he’s the funniest guy on late night TV shows, and he can&#8217;t be beat.<br />
What I’m trying to get at here, is that Conan donated $50,000 to Mayor Booker’s charity and NBC matched it, making it $100,000 dollars. Booker and Conan were going through a &#8220;fight&#8221; on air/YouTube (example below). It was funny, but over stayed its welcome.<br />
I hope you all start watching Conan, don&#8217;t look at the ratings, he’s hilarious!</p>
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<p><iframe src='http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Ftelevision%2FRandom_POTW_Conan_O_Brien_is_a_great_guy' height='82' width='55' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 4px 0 2px 4px; background: #fff;'></iframe></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Swinging 60's]]></title>
<link>http://kirstynsimmi.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/swinging-60s/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kirstynsimmi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kirstynsimmi.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/swinging-60s/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Now and again i fancy a little colour in my SLife, and what better way to satify that need than with]]></description>
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<p><strong>Now and again i fancy a little colour in my SLife, and what better way to satify that need than with a bit of Psychedelic Sixties !</strong></p>
<p><strong>Hair:  </strong>*SHOP SEU* &#8211; Sexy Hair / Black</p>
<p><strong>Skin:</strong>  Belleza &#8211; Jesse Sunkiss / 8</p>
<p><strong>Nails:  </strong>[Love Soul] &#8211; Prim Nail+Ring*Star* / White</p>
<p><strong>Dress:</strong>  SSH [Style Starts Here] &#8211; Hippy Micro Mini / Aquarius</p>
<p><strong>Belt:  </strong>*COCO* &#8211; WideBelt /White</p>
<p><strong>Boots  </strong>Bax &#8211; Prestige Boots / White Leather</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Plastic at the Ready!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">*Kisses xx* Simmi A.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[These cold days ...]]></title>
<link>http://slaporter.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/these-cold-days/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Carolina Sautereau</dc:creator>
<guid>http://slaporter.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/these-cold-days/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hi there !!! Cold days make me feel sad, I prefer sunny days. Here where i live in Japan it&#8217;s ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hi there !!!</p>
<p>Cold days make me feel sad, I prefer sunny days. Here where i live in Japan it&#8217;s 7°C now , it&#8217;s freezing outside and inside hauhau i need a better stove lol, but back to my post lol today I bring to you two looks, as usual one cute and one casual lol.</p>
<p>I mixed some old stuffs from my inventory, things I wanted post before but I forgot in the middle of my messy inventory +___+, some group gifts and freebies.</p>
<p>Hope you enjoy it <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>&#60;3 Carol</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="II" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/4123655825_2b9489d2a2_o.png" alt="" width="600" height="761" /></p>
<p>Credits:</p>
<p>Skin: [ATOMIC] Skin_Grace_Honey &#8211; Daring Nude</p>
<p>Bag: KU_ITEM_BackPack (Brown) (S) <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Korea%20University%202/45/62/44">(freebie link here) </a></p>
<p>Sweater: !Ohmai : Nina Sweater CLEARCHAMPAGNE</p>
<p>Shorts: *Fishy Strawberry* Cargo Shorts &#8211; Black</p>
<p>Hair: [OH]:::(o_x)::: Oh my Crow &#8211; B (from Designers United II)</p>
<p>Chips: CHABINNS-chips(Installation) (freebie)</p>
<p>Earrings: [glow] Crows are Black Earring {L} Designers United2</p>
<p>Glasses: pc; Rounded Square Logo Frames</p>
<p>Scarf: MIEL CHARCOAL PLAID SCARF &#8211; GROUP GIFT (old group gift)</p>
<p>Shirt part of: K*S 148featyer(black)paper</p>
<p>Boots: KAO : Suede Fringe Boots / ash</p>
<p>Tights: Cozy Tights Beige Footpart (group Gift)</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="I" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2663/4123603733_6a8f03824c_o.png" alt="" width="600" height="708" /></p>
<p>Credits:</p>
<p>Skin: *Beauty Avatar Couture* DARIA Skin gift</p>
<p>Hair: A&#38;A Darla Hair Darkred (resize scripted) (freebie but I don&#8217;t know if is still avaiable) by Alice Klinger</p>
<p>Sweater: (vive9) Jacki Comfy Sweater (old group gift 100 L$ fee)</p>
<p>Belt: *COCO*_WideBelt_Black(pelvis)</p>
<p>Watch: Bandit- Ladys OYSTER diamonds -black-resizable-bling v.05</p>
<p>Bracelet: ZC : Sadaf paua bracelet *silver* R</p>
<p>Earrings: Zaara : Urvi Earrings</p>
<p>Pants: Armidi Limited &#8211; (M) Lowrise Jeans Original [Classic Dark] 1</p>
<p>Nails: Nail-J&#8217;s BLACK</p>
<p>Bag: [LeLutka]-VAIN-bag-FUNERAL2</p>
<p>Underpants: MichaMi GlamTank in White (Part 2-Underpants)</p>
<p>Boots: -TESLA- Angelina *Black* Vendor</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Listening to: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGt-8adyabk&#38;feature=channel" target="_blank">Shinedown &#8211; Sound Of Madness</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Blue Galaxy Trip]]></title>
<link>http://nacymiles.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/blue-galaxy-trip/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nacy Miles</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nacymiles.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/blue-galaxy-trip/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Skin: Lara Skin Hair: fri. &#8211; Jasmine.2 &#8211; Cranky Brown Fur Coat: (Madsy) Fur Gilet ]]></description>
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<li>Skin: Lara Skin</li>
<li>Hair: <strong>fri.</strong> &#8211; Jasmine.2 &#8211; Cranky Brown</li>
<li>Fur Coat: <strong>(Madsy)</strong> Fur Gilet &#8211; silver</li>
<li>Shirt: <strong>(Faire)</strong> &#8211; Paris Couture Tanktop. [Night n Day]</li>
<li>Undershirt &#8211; Sweater: <strong>* =DeLa*=</strong> Oversized sweater &#8220;Lita&#8221; Beige</li>
<li>Pants: <strong>:SK Designs:</strong> Desmera Pants</li>
<li>Belt: <strong>[NC]-</strong>Belt11-Black</li>
<li>Boots: <strong>*COCO*_</strong>RidingBoots_Black</li>
<li>Taped Fingers: <strong>SiniStyle </strong>Taped Fingers W/ Black Nails</li>
<li>Nails: <strong>.::TBP::.</strong> Prim Nails Square Tip</li>
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