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New Kiwi website showcases children's art
A new Kiwi website which showcases children's art and raises money for schools and charities hits cyberspace next month with high hopes of becoming the next MySpace. The brainchild of tireless Auckland school fundraiser Noelene Rachinger, it has the backing and financial support of education benefactor Tony Falkenstein, chief executive of listed Just Water International. He says the concept and business model for Kids Art Space International are "quite unique, there is no other similar site in the world". "It has been under development for 12 months now, and we believe we will be at least six months ahead of anyone trying to copy the concept." Rachinger, the baker and icer of countless cakes in the cause of the local primary school or preschool centre, has swapped the recipe book for the natter of the net.
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Grandmother's kitchen: Nostalgic antiques and whimsical gadgets warm ...
Hoosier cabinets, butter churns and ice chests are perennial favorites with kitchen antique lovers.
But some of today's hottest culinary collectibles - especially for those with less space (and cash) - lean to whimsy and nostalgia, such as red-handled egg beaters, polka-dotted mixing bowls and cutting boards shaped like pigs and rabbits.
"Either they grew up with the items or they grew up with mothers who had them. They have fond memories of the kitchen and they want to recapture that," Kyle Husfloen, editor of the Antique Trader Kitchen Collectibles Price Guide, says of buyers.
If you're thinking about adding a few antique accents to your own kitchen or expanding a collection of old-time foodie gadgets, here are some tips on where to shop, what to get and how much to pay.
Jewelers find inspiration in India
No country can claim a jewelry tradition more robustly entrenched than India's. On the Bollywood red carpet, and at any respectable Indian wedding, it is commonplace to see women staggering beneath lavish burdens of gold -22-karat bangles stacked along their arms, bell-like jhumka ear ornaments weighing down their lobes, chokers strung with gem-set triangles dangling from the neck. At the turn of the past century, Western jewelers frequently adopted Indian motifs - peacocks, lotus flowers and other images redolent of mosques and Mogul treasures - as the Pax Britannica freed India's ruling elites from more pressing concerns, allowing them to indulge their penchant for baubles from the finest ateliers of Europe. The trend reached its zenith in the 1930s with Cartier's extraordinary commissions for the maharajahs, for whom it fashioned extravagant parures incorporating antique stones from the royal treasuries.
UK-IU agree to extend series
LEXINGTON, Ky. � The University of Kentucky has agreed to a two-year extension of its basketball series with Indiana University.
Scott Stricklin, UK�s associate athletic director for media relations, said the two schools have agreed to a deal that will keep the series on the second Saturday in December for the next two seasons.
Sites were not determined, Stricklin said. UK and IU will play today in Bloomington, Ind., for the first time since 1991 after playing in Rupp Arena last season. From 1992 until last season, the series had alternated between neutral sites in Indianapolis and Louisville. .
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I hear people talk about how they're a great song picker. That's great and all, but (there's a) commitment that goes into writing a record. For the 12 songs that make the album, there's 50 that didn't. That's 50 days of me sitting in a room with someone else, pounding my head against the wall. Q: Which song on Long Trip Alone was particularly difficult? A: I think Long Trip Alone (the title track) will define this album. It started off as a love song. I was writing it with two other dudes (producer Brett Beavers and Steve Bogard). We all kind of looked up at each other and said, "This is more of a prayer." It was such a moment. Q: You've said each album gives you a specific building block for the next project. Are those intentional moves? A: I think on the first record (Dierks Bentley, 2003), the Buddy Miller song My Love Will Follow You, the vibe of that song really carried over to the next album (Modern Day Drifter, 2005).On that album, the single Settle for a Slowdown .
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