Watch Stories | Sid Mashburn | Sid Mashburn Clothing
Sid Mashburn, with his wife Ann, heads a collective of namesake lifestyle brands in Atlanta. Sid's mantra when it comes to dressing is he wants to be accessible and open. He wants to make people feel great about themselves and the way they look.
Watches are big part of Sid's wardrobe. He has a Rolex, Tudor, and Zenith that mark different times in his life and career.
This is his watch story.
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Jon's Pan Celtic Bike Check
Our Packing Team Leader Jon is racing the inaugural Pan Celtic Race for 2019. In this video we look at his bike, kit and choices he has made to get himself through Scotland, Ireland and Wales in one piece and hopefully in good time.
Gravity Noir - Mystery knight (Medieval Ter Apel promo Video) 謎の騎士 (中世 Ter Apel オランダ)
Gravity Noir is a Britpop band from the early 90's. After 25 years brought back to life with new singles. Mystery knight is taken from the brand new album Handmade (2016). This video was created by artistically like-minded friend Peter De Vos who shares his passion for art and music. Patrick Knight, founder, composer & leadsinger of Gravity Noir believes in creating works of art as a joined non profit way of expression. To promote the annual and unique medieval reenactment at Ter Apel. Gravity Noir tried hard with the support of very talented people, to connect people and share this special collective experience. Thanks again to all those involved in our projects. Find us at
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Learning from Scotland's Housing Expo
John Brennan
Scotland's Housing Expo held in August 2010 showcased over 50 new houses that represent how high quality sustainable homes should be designed. This webcast looks at how the Expo was realised and examines in detail some of the individual buildings.
The Expo features a diverse selection of approaches to design, with a collection of homes that address both affordable and private housing sectors. It is based on a well-established Scandinavian model that has seen regular fairs that over time has raised the standard for design in the housing sectors. A critical foundation to the Expo was the masterplan prepared by Cadell2 Architects and Urban Designers.
This set the framework for the demonstration buildings and was based around traditional highland settlement patterns. The masterplan addresses shelter, microclimate and sunlight to optimise the new housing's passive response. A good masterplan also addresses social sustainability criteria through the creation of engaging and useable public spaces. We hear from Johnny Cadell of Cadell2, about the challenges and delivery of the project physical and planning infrastructure.
This webcast looks at a selection of the Expo houses that have different responses to what a sustainable home of the future might be. We examine the fast growing phenomenon of PassivHaus technologies where buildings undergo a step change in performance, with a massively reduced energy demand. This is achieved through super insulation and very high standards of construction to enhance air tightness.
Passivhaus is a mature and demanding standard; many of its principles look set to be incorporated into future regulatory frameworks. This Webcast gives the opportunity to look at how PassivHaus is realised in a Scottish context.
One of the strengths of the Expo is that it features a wide spectrum of approaches to sustainable housing design. Reducing carbon emissions from a building's operational energy consumption is just one approach. We look at how a major challenge especially in the private housing sector lies in the unsuitability of housing stock for the complex household structures we have today. People that need to move or alter their homes have resource and consumption implications. This webcast features the WholeLife house by Brennan and Wilson architects that looks both at energy reduction in the home as well as making private sector housing more adaptable and useable over the lifetime of the building.
Finally, we look at the real social, economic and environmental advantages of resourcing, building and procuring locally. Alan Dickson of Rural Design Architects operates on the basis of producing sustainable buildings rooted in their site. His building 'a secret garden' reinterprets traditional highland houses and gardens and reinforces the role outside space can play in a modern sustainable lifestyle.
McDonald’s in Italy
On January 16, 2018, the McDonald food chain has decided to go green in its European sector. in a press briefing at that time, McDonalds had pledged to make their packaging and their outlets more earth-friendly. It is because, by 2025, the fast-food chain plans to use everything in a manner of renewable recyclable or certified material in all of its packaging processing and recycling. In the press briefing, a representative from McDonalds said that “Our customers have told us that packaging waste is the top environmental issue they would like us to address. Our ambition is to make changes our customers want and to use less packaging source responsibility and designed to be taken care of after use.
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)