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By Marlowe,
List removed from the first post. See the most recent posts in the thread for recommendations and discussion of new releases.
Netflix Genre Link - http://ogres-crypt.com/public/NetFlix-Streaming-Genres2.html
Mortis
Merantau (2009) - Indonesian martial arts movie by the same folk bringing you The Raid later this year. Has some of the best fight scenes I've seen in ages and a decent story too.
deerokus
Documentary: Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
Beautiful, gripping film about a cave in France which contains the oldest drawings yet discovered. The film is partly about the process of its own making, which actually makes it all the more immersive, since for the first part of the film the viewer is guided around the cave along with Werner Herzog and his (tiny) crew, who are effectively on location scouting. It occasionally breaks out of the cave for interviews with local experts, most of whom are, in typical Herzog fashion, amusingly eccentric. As is often the case with his documentaries, there's a constructed, artifical element of the film, and a frankly bizarre post-script*, though it is not quite to the extent of some of them. A perfect film to put on with a glass of whisky and get absorbed into.
What is it with Herzog and non-sequiturs involving reptiles?
lordcookie
Is there a list online to browse the selection available (going on Netflix they only list about twenty or so per genre)?
There is no point me signing up for the service as it won't work with my crap connection but I'm happy to offer film recommendations.
Instantwatcher.com but the site navigation is awful
dfq23
Spinal tap has to be on the comedy list. I would recommend once in a lifetime for the documentaries. It's all about the history of the new york cosmos
LittleJoe
Louie [season 1]
Closer to Seinfeld than Curb in the fictionalised versions of themselves stakes - it leans to the absurd and isn't really shot in the mockumentary style of Curb or Gervais' stuff - but definitely worth catching if you vaguely like either.
Like Seinfeld, there's no real overreaching theme and there's no big, intrusive celebrity cameos. Instead, it's just a collection of 'extended vignettes' about life in New York, sex, divorce, Catholicism. Very funny, quite affecting at times, and always brilliant.
Don't really have to say much about this. There's no excuse not to watch it now.
Parks and Recreation [seasons 1-3]
Another The Office-style mockumentary.The first season isn't great but is worth sitting through to get a sense of the characters (like Seinfeld *again*, I guess).
Classic 90s show-within-a-show comedy.
Manhattan Murder Mystery
One of three Allen films on Netflix. Not brilliant by any means, but a better than a lot of his later stuff. Pastichey,witty - you know what you're getting.
Oh yes, for TV Comedy: 30 Rock. Another of those 'show within a show' shows. This time it's behind the scenes on an SNL-style show that absolutely isn't SNL, even though it is set in the place where SNL is filmed, and it is wrriten by and stars Tina Fey. It's a shame that it's relatively obscure in the UK. It is fairly mainstream, broad humour, but it is much funnier than something like Scrubs or Friends ever were, it's really quite silly and surreal, and there are occasional subtler moments, such as at least two wonderful LemonParty jokes that only real nerds who remember such disgusting early '00s memes would get.
Well based on that site I'd recommend the following (apologies there are no IMDb links or reviews but it is quite a lengthy list):
Jackie Brown
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
The Chinese Connection
Mary and Max
FLCL
Castle of Cagliostro
Hired Hand
The War Game
The Naked City
Being John Malkovich
Train spotting
Romeo + Juliet
The Grifters
The Long Good Friday
Kramer vs Kramer
Punch drunk Love
Theatre of Blood
Vampire Circus
Prince of Darkness
Videodrome
Dead and Buried
The Funhouse
The Fury
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Lake Mungo
Dead Calm
And the two biggest categories...
American: The Bill Hicks Story
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
Cocaine Cowboys
Eerie Indiana
Paulando
Jackie Brown is in 'action'?
Get The Iron Giant listed in animation
And Beavis and Butt-Head in TV.
Don't blame me for the film placements I just went off the genre groupings on the instantwatcher site. I'm sure I've missed loads, I went through about ten thousand films so they were becoming a bit of a blur.
AK Bell
You can't have Frasier up there and no Cheers. They're all I really watch on it at the moment.
Special mention for all of Star Trek on TV. And the new movie. HD The Originsl Series and TNG should be too as soon as they're released.
Don't put it up on the list, but it has Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct series on it. It's very cheap and cheesy but has its moments.
I'm wasting my netflix, aren't I?
Limitless was much better than I was expecting. Stick that on.
Doesn't it have the second & third Die Hard on too?
Space Precinct!!! Fucking yas!!!
I've even got the flying police car toy in my loft.
The Sweedish Millenium trilogy is on there. The first one is definitely worth watching to compare to the David Fincher version. The other 2 are pretty bad, though.
It only clicked with me last night that The A-Team is on there too. It's cheesy and that but I love a bit of A-Team!
larrydavidsanger
King of the Hill series 1-13
It has the brilliant Troll 2 on it, a favourite of the midnight cult screening circuit; it's up there with The Room for it's "so bad it's good"-ness. Your reaction to
from it will probably be a good indication if you'll enjoy the movie or not. The script is diabolical and completely baffling, the acting is wooden and the effects are terrible - I love it to pieces
Netfilx did have the very sweet and warm documentary about the film, Best Worst Movie, last week but I can't seem to find it now. Made by one of the original actors, it's a "where are they now" of the cast and the makers of the film focusing on it's new cult status - much to the chagrin of Troll 2's Italian director who genuinely thought he was making a good movie. Worth keeping an eye on if it returns.
The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Bill Cunningham New York is good too, very light (as you'd expect with it's focus on the fashion world) but you can't help but fall in love with the eponymous Cunningham - the 80 year old photographer for the New York Times who cycles around Manhattan taking photos of what people are wearing on the streets. It could do with a few more questions into his personal life and his upbringing, which is only touched upon briefly near the end, but it put a smile on my face almost throughout - a good man doing what he loves.
Yep, it looks like stuff is taken down all the time. Slackers needs to be taken off that list at the top now.
Any chance we could expand this thread to encompass other streaming services. I know Netflix has much better streaming service than Lovefilm, but I imagine that many here are on their packages for film/game discs and get unlimited streaming as a bonus.
Tonight I watched Dr. Strangelove and a week ago I watched The Dark Knight, both films easily worthy of the 4-5 stars mandated in the OP I feel.
You could just make a new thread so it's not confusing
Having a unified streaming thread would make more sense I think, would just need people to specify where the films are from when listing recommendations.
polygon_monkey
Sports Night - The show Aaron Sorkin did before The West Wing. Good stuff (apart from the terribly inappropriate network mandated laugh track)
I don't want to compile and update two lists, especially when one would be for a service I don't even use. Nothing to stop Lovefilm users making their own thread.
Oh Danny Boy
great idea for a topic! certainly what was needed. This is what i've been watching recently on netflix which i recommend;
films:
The perfect host (worth watching just to see David Hyde Pierce playing a proper loony tune)
Robin Hoood; men in tights
Spartacus; blood and sand
Xena warrior princess
I watched the first episode of this today, it being the only Sorkin-scripted show/movie I've never seen. I'm looking forward to watching more of it, but Jesus tap-dancing Christ that laugh track really is awful. Literally every time audience laughter kicked in, it took me right out of the show. Woefully misused and poorly-implemented.
Never mind, though. As soon as I heard Isaac, the head honcho on the eponymous show-within-a-show, speak, I knew I recognised his voice. Then it hit me:
Apparently it gets phased out as the show progresses.
Also forgot to mention that Friday Night Lights is on there - in glorious HD!
I watched Jens Pulver:Driven (USA) last night and it was a stunning documentary about his life and preparation before his last fight in the WEC, If you love MMA its well worth a look.
Noticed this 2009 animation on US Netflix last night:
Never heard of it before, but it sounds intriguing. Gets 8.2 on IMDb too.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Yep, it was a film I had on my original recommendation list and here is my review for the film from a couple of years ago:
Mary & Max - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/
A young Austrailian girl with no friends starts an unlikely friendship with a 40 something New Yorker with Aspergers syndrome.
This is a lovely stop frame animated film that manages to effortlessly skirt humour, pathos and touching sentimentality often in the same scene. Just like the director's short films Mary & Max is told via heavy narration. Normally this is something I dislike but the scripts are so good it works brilliantly. The fact the story spans 20 odd years and is rather visually static (letter writing is hard to be dynamic) the voice over gives it vibrancy. The film is pretty depressing given the subject matter and what befalls both of the lead characters but the whole thing is shot through with a wonderful sense of humour and genuine warmth for the characters that it never becomes maudlin. The animation may seem crude by some standards but there are some wonderful little details and the characters are surprisingly expressive. The vocal cast are great. Sometimes when animated films cast star names they don't always fit with what is on screen but here you forget who is voicing them within the opening few minutes.
A lovely film.


In my last blog I mentioned all of the great things about Tableau. In this installment I'll mention some of my concerns with the tool.
Tableau is great at visualization but it is lacking when it comes to querying data. Tableau is not designed to be a querying tool like Microsoft Access. Tableau simply connects to querying tools and databases to display various types of visualizations.
Very often when data is extracted from a database a "cleaning" process must take place. Just like when petroleum is harvested from the ground it is not ready for immediate use. The fuel must be refined first before it enters a machine. It is the same thing working with data. The cleaning process referred to as remediation may adjust dates, fix numbers and/or separate text. Tableau is limited in this area. Excel is more advanced in this area of data remediation. Individuals can leverage the use of functions like trim, replace and other text functions to sanitize data. It is important to mention that Tableau has recently released a separate tool called "Tableau Prep", to focus on remediation. In my opinion it is better to save on the cost of this tool and develop a tailored remediation process in Excel.
The things that make Tableau powerful are the same things that diminish its full impact. Tableau is built with more controls and higher integrity for visualizations. However, these constraints limit customization. Very often customization is a key part of presenting information in compelling, concise and clear way. For example, if I want to highlight one specific row to bring attention to its content, this proves a bit difficult in Tableau. Highlights are reserved for certain values through conditional formats and rows like totals etc. However, if you require a very custom highlight this proves very difficult with the tool.
One of the initial hurdles associated with Tableau is the functions. If you work in Excel often you will need to get use to the syntax structure of Tableau formulas. For example, calculated fields are bit difficult to manage. In Excel it is relatively easy to commingle hard data with calculations throughout a table. In order to get a similar effect in Tableau a lot of intervention is needed.
In order to share visualizations in Tableau a space on a local server or Tableau Public is needed. This is a big limitation for many corporate users of the tool. Sensitive dashboards cannot be loaded unto Tableau Public. This makes it necessary to involve Information Technology staff to setup servers, maintain sites etc. Sometimes when there are "Too many cooks in the kitchen" processes and projects get delayed. Once more parties become involved in an initiative the longer it takes and the more complex it becomes. It is more favorable for users to have the ability to publish freely.
In conclusion Tableau is a great tool but it differs from Excel. Tableau is specifically designed to provide compelling interactive visualizations. Microsoft Excel on the other hand is more flexible and can be used in many different ways. It would be advisable to have both tools in your analytical toolbox.


One doesn't need to venture far from Madison to escape the self-created, always plugged in, move to the next scheduled activity, and "What else do I need to get done today?" world. In less than 40 miles, you slip from LTE to 4G to Edge service (and frequently NO service). Perhaps not everyone sees Edge service as a bad thing.
The weekend before last, we escaped to the Little Sugar River Farm in Albany for our second visit this year. This time, I traveled there by bike. What a great transition from the hustle bustle of daily life to a serene getaway – 2.5 hours of solitude. The ride was glorious (see picture). The weather, scenery, and nature along the way—birds, smells of spring, scurrying rabbits, squirrels, and turkeys—reconnected my senses to the natural world.
A stop in Monticello brought back connections to times past. A grandmother and her granddaughter were selling VFW "Buddy" Poppies. The granddaughter was delighted to be the "Poppy Princess," which she enthusiastically explained as, "You sell poppies, ride in the parade, and get your picture in the paper." It was a pleasure to donate my two dollars.
Owner Frank Goodman met my arrival at the farm with a wave from the seat of his International Harvester tractor/mower. He was tending to what referred to as his "prairie restoration in progress" just inside the gate. The weekend was off to a good start.
While the weather wasn't great, the skies did clear for a bit of biking. Unfortunately, the Sugar River State Trail was soft due to the recent rain and not conducive to skinny bike tires like it is when dry and more heavily traveled. Instead, we went off to New Glarus for a short local ride.
An expected highlight was the lunch we had at Cow & Quince in New Glarus. The food was exceptional, a true farm-to-table experience that included local asparagus, morel mushrooms, pork, gouda, and more. They are raising funds from local backers with a Kickstarter-style "Community Supported Restaurant" campaign. Good stuff—this Isthmus review captures it well.
Along the way to and from, we saw boys fishing in a creek, children biking to downtown Monticello, and a local bike rodeo event in New Glarus, as well as much local farming activity. The weekend connected me back to some of the simpler things in life I so enjoy.
When Monday dawned, it was back to my busy, plugged-in, LTE network world.
2014 Tour de France – Clean or Dirty?
It was with great pleasure that I watched "The Gentle Giant" Marcel Kittel win the final stage of the 2014 Tour de France this past Sunday. Vincenzo Nibali was crowned the overall race champion on the Champs-Elysées.
The average speed for all 2,277 miles of this 101st tour was just over 25 mph. In 1984, the average speed was 22.25 mph. A 10% increase in average speed in 30 years is pretty impressive. This is even more so when you realize that the relationship between speed and power required is a logarithmic scale. That 10% increase requires approximately 25% more watts of power output.
Nibali's Astana Pro Team has a checkered past in the doping scene, once providing a home for Alexander Vinokourov (2007) and Lance Armstrong (2009 comeback season). They now claim to be clean. Given the increase in performance times, is this plausible? Given the history of widespread doping throughout professional cycling, both revealed and still hidden, does it matter?
Even in the most utopian workplace environments, conflicts arise. These 5 Questions You'll Need to Settle Workplace Disagreements is a handy tool for finding a resolution.
To a bike geek like myself, there is no greater hero or villain than Lance Armstrong. Lance Armstrong in Purgatory: The After Life recaps his rise and fall and shows how life has changed for the super athlete now that he is no longer atop the podium.
Meditation, enlightenment and the pursuit of happiness were once considered the purview of New Age gurus, yogis and hippies—those folks who were "out there." Now, these concepts, often encompassed under the banner of "mindfulness," are moving into the mainstream and are being embraced in the business world. Let's take a look at who's leading the charge and what they are saying.
Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity. This Harvard Business Review article features an Interview with Ellen Langer, professor of psychology at Harvard. Her research on mindfulness has revealed that, "… by paying attention to what's going on around us, instead of operating on auto-pilot, we can reduce stress, unlock creativity, and boost performance." Langer links mindfulness to business practices and leadership at multiple points. Additional resources include her books Mindfulness and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility.
Another Harvard prof, author Shawn Achor turns conventional wisdom on its head by showing that instead of success leading to happiness, happiness leads to success. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work explores tested methods to improve performance and maximize potential.
Moving away from the academic bent, Nightline anchor Dan Harris takes readers along on his journey through the worlds of spirituality and self-help to discovery the benefits of meditation in 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story.
Here's a simple tenet for balance and happiness that I keep in mind: know what you love and love what you do. Living to work is not a privilege that comes easy. What routines do you have that allow you to be clear about who you are and what you enjoy? For example, I enjoy the sensory aspects of cycling…the focus on breathing, cycling technique and being engulfed by the surrounding sights and smells. It helps me reduce the daily noise of work and focus on the important longer-term items necessary for success.
As an avid cyclist, I know how important it is to maintain my equipment so it will function well and contribute to a smooth ride. Usually that means a few turns of a wrench, regular cleaning and regular lubrication. When you've ridden through sand, however, extra TLC is required. Sand is particularly gritty and sticky, which can slow you down and cause excessive wear and tear on the chain and drive train. The remedies include a quick wash, a deep cleaning or replacing the chain. What you can't do, as a responsible cyclist, is ignore it.
What is the opportunity cost of not doing something that we know we should do?
How much time do we spend coordinating and communicating work unproductively?
Do we solve problems as they arise or let them grow?
Are we trying to set up others for success or do we only set up barriers?
We're people. In our daily work (and personal) lives, all of the interactions will create sand and gunk in our minds. It's a leader's responsibility to help create an environment where cleaning out the gunk and striving for a smooth journey is the norm. That's not to say there won't be bumps along the road. But if you set the bar high and lead in a manner that fosters respect and support, you won't have to do it alone.
Learn more about a leadership "way of being" in Leadership, Discipline, And Garnering Respect. This brief article reflects on a speech delivered by Major General John M. Schofield, the Superintendent of United States Military Academy, on August 11, 1879. His words have withstood the test of time.


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NECTAR Sleep Mattress Review – Best White Duvet Covers | Your Best Sleep Now!
In both Television shows and also Movies, there's a topic that has executed quite well in the last several years: Zombies. This idea has made for a selection of amazingly remarkable, majorly successful, and award-winning programs and also films. Having said that it's only fiction, right?
When you have lived for virtually any time frame, it's no doubt that you have heard someone inform you of exactly how necessary sleep is. It's quite likely that you've come to realize this lesson for your own benefit, and also it's also possible that you've already heard from numerous others that have learned it too. Without shut-eye, we truly feel like… well, zombies.
Just as if feeling incapacitated isn't already an abundance of of a challenge, there's even more to the tale. When we are lacking sleep, our brain really malfunctions. That simply just indicates that our brain absolutely does not function properly. As a matter of fact, our human brain literally begins closing down a number of areas as well as functions that are not essential for your survival. For that reason staying lacking sufficient sleep is not only a feeling, it most certainly is a physically impaired state of life.
Making matters a whole lot worse, long lasting sleep loss results into over production of cortisol. Cortisol in it's exact level supports us to really feel a bit of pressure and also urgency to get things done. However when it's overproduced, it causes us to feel stressed, anxious, and also concerned on a regular basis. This tends to bring about even deeper professional medical problems of anxiety and depression. Nevertheless, a severe lack of sleep is not good for any individuals.
We've all been through it. So often, our daily lives demand so much from us. We give such an abundance of of our time and energy to our work as well as professions, our close friends and family, and also our pastime activities and also activities. Frequently, it feels like there can be little left, and it often is too difficult to chill out and also recharge.
And yeah, maybe we can all use a touch more rest. However, what if you can easily do greater than snooze longer. Imagine if we could sleep better?
NECTAR is here to help out. And they help with an uncomplicated quest. NECTAR states to be the most comfortable mattress, and that you will get the best sleep of your life, guaranteed. For a business which makes mattresses, it's fairly tough to possess a far more clear vision than that.
Perhaps you hurt once you awaken each morning. NECTAR addresses this on many levels. It starts out with using the latest breakthroughs in mattress as well as fabric technologies, and bringing those together in a singular product. And don't fret about needing to decide which level of firmness to buy and hope that you decided properly. NECTAR has built their mattress to a level of firmness that stabilize the give and take of the entire body weight whenever you lay down in numerous positions in the course of the night, giving the perfect degree of comfort as well as support. So you are able to rest assured (no pun intended) that whatever position you are resting in, it's the correct choice.
Yet there's much more to it than that. Perhaps you don't simply feel aching or uncomfortable after you awaken. Perhaps your neck, back bone, shoulder blades, hips, and/or lower limbs hurt. Not any more. While you lay on your back, NECTAR mattress offers the right amount of firmness to support the natural curvature of your spine. Should you lay on your side, you really want your spine to maintain a straight line. Other mattresses are often too firm, so they press against that natural curvature, or perhaps too soft and also let your spine sink too much. One way or another, each are completely wrong, as your spine is pushed one way or another out of alignment. NECTAR answers this matter, and the results are just as much of a breakthrough as the design of the mattress itself. NECTAR has truly refined the degree of firmness and also support to a breakthrough degree.
We certainly have an additional problem that is present when mattresses don't breathe properly as well: moisture. Each time air flow doesn't circulate in a mattress, it accumulates moisture from the air that comes in however simply cannot let it out. This greatly lessens the longevity of a mattress, considering the stuck moisture begins to make the substances in the mattress break down. In addition it tremendously diminishes the comfort, considering the fact that the broken down materials used in the mattress will no longer perform as they ought to. The mattress ends up being uncomfortable, as well as stays uncomfortable over its lowered life span. What a waste!
NECTAR hasn't only just produced a breakthrough mattress supplying impressive comfort. They've at the same time designed an excellent mattress that is composed of only the best quality substances. You will discover zero ozone depleters, PDDEs, TDCPP, mercury, or lead. And not only are they significantly more healthy, but also for the environment as well. They will be very easily recycled, as well as globe friendly!
You will find two layers of Gel Memory Foam that really help to circulate the air, along with correctly distribute your weight and uphold the natural contour of your body. These 2 layers are major contributory elements to the things mentioned before. While you rest, your caliber of slumber is being supported by the best quality materials in the industry. I imagine that is certainly what the results are whenever it is your vision is to create the best mattress. Period.
It is usually not entirely uncommon for comfort as well as quality to go arm in arm. But they also are produced with a cost. Well, almost always. Yet not right now.
NECTAR delivers comfort and also support consistent with mattresses that charge $3,000-5,000+. With that level of quality, you might be truthfully wishing that they will be half that price point, at around $2,000. Or perhaps you may have your fingers crossed merely wishing that they might be only $1,500. But nevertheless don't quit reading here. Simply because you won't actually be paying that.
hey will not cost $1,500 . They will not cost $1,000 . All of NECTAR mattresses start in the $300's . They are all under $1,000 , even for a California King ! At that total price , all people at your residence can certainly slumber far better for the price of 1 traditional mattress .
We inhabit a world that is definitely regularly changing. NECTAR is a paradigm shift in the way a mattress is built. The thing is, mattresses have been around generations. And in the same way autos as well as family homes, the way that one is created these days is different than it was generations in the past. Across just about all industries, people are continuously studying and also making completely new discoveries. From developing as well as utilizing cutting edge components, to advancing on a design or even establishing a completely new one, the method in which we carry out things shifts over time.
Traditional mattresses are made up of a set of box spring as well as a mattress. The box springs go underneath the mattress, providing an additional layer of support to the mattress. The mattress consists of columns of coils all throughout to give support. Then on top the coils is some type of "topper". Several years ago, this topper was filled with different varieties of stuffing or padding, as well as in more recent days different layers of foam. There are numerous brands that have been making mattresses for years such as Serta, Sealy, Jamison, Sleep Number, and Amerisleep.
Indeed. And they are just as new. However I'll spare you the facts. I won't inform you they are a pillow that is just as innovative as their mattresses. I will not share with you the quilted memory foam outer shell. As well as I certainly will not talk about the Tencel cooling fabric in addition to active ventillation which means that you can be constantly slumbering on the cool side of the pillow. I will just say that they are outstanding, as well as every much a breakthrough in pillows as their mattresses are.
The only method to experience that you enjoy something would be to have a go on your own.
Unquestionably. It's one thing when something sounds great on paper or even in a commercial, yet it's another to truly experience something for yourself. And with NECTAR, you are able to. Not only does NECTAR provide an impressive value, in addition they back it with a fantastic guarantee.
However with NECTAR, the game has entirely improved. Because they will deliver it absolutely free to your house, and you can have a go for a night. And you can check it out for a week. And you can have a go for a month. And additionally 2 months. And even three months. Where am I going with this? With NECTAR, you can use it risk free for a year! You get a 365 night home trial. They deliver it to you for free. And if you find yourself not 100% pleased, they will come and pick it up for free. Nevertheless I doubt you will need them to.
There is not any catch. There is simply NECTAR. Well, there is far more than that. There is certainly a far better mattress with fabulous value. There's a new paradigm in making a mattress, with new technology at every turn. There is certainly the ease and comfort as well as support which you deserve. There is pillows that stretches the ease and comfort from head to toe. There is wonderful quality as well as value. There is a great product, supported by an exceptional guarantee. There is an end to the zombie apocalypse.


This is for a friends FIL who is a keen sailor.
But I thought you'd like to see it anyway!
Great card, Claire. It's amazing how wonderful simple designs can be. Thanks for joining us over at Cards for Men and good luck with the challenge.
Super card Claire, I love the papers and the colours are just perfect for a watery card!
Its fabulous Claire, I really love this one.
Thank you for joining us at CFM and good luck with the challenge.


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Mahindra Quanto Exclusive Launch Coverage (Page: 30)
Thread Starter Umang
cooldhaya
But the camouflaged vehicle does not have a rear quarter glass i guess!
Yes but even if it has, that would be much small than shown in above rendering.
Drive Safe,
Umang
I feel it will look fine if mahindra adds a spare wheel on its rear like in Tata Safari or even Rio.
Umang said:
+1.
It will then complete the mini suv look.
Shynish M
350Z said:
Shynish, You have a point but would you like to roam around in a car after paying Rs.5 Lakhs which looks absolute ugly?
No for sure! But I believe that this is a scoop only (probably made by M&M themselves to create a hype just like the Apple guys). They can not make a production version which is just a scaled down version of Xylo, just because even a kid can see that it will look ugly!
We have to link and read the M&M's fight with US officials for their product launch (part of the issue was the inheritance of Jeep models). Somehow M&M is planning to launch the models in US by end of this year. I somehow have feeling that M&M is nowadays designing products with global market in mind. I am sure if at all they are making some thing like this, its going to have a new face. So that they can place these models against popular existing players abroad.
I too agree mate !
I dont think that M&M would do much about the looks of this mini xylo.
Hey Shynish din you take a look at the spy shot pictures on the previous page?
The car looks the same like Xylo at least from the front.
Shynish M said:
Might be. We can leave a scope to think about that as well. However the pictures are translating a different story altogether but yes, we never know what's under the disguised clothing, because manufacturers have become smart enough, like recently Volkswagen is testing Vento with ford like oval emblems!
Bokaro/Bangalore
This news is confirmed by economictimes.
And i feel its a good move. If they design well enough and keep the mascular effect, it could be a big hit. Afterall so many people can't afford the Scorpios/Safaris, but they like to have it.
Mini Xylo to take on compact cars
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is looking to do a Nano by rolling out the country's first sub Rs 5-lakh sports-utility vehicle — a compact version of the Xylo — this year, two people familiar with the development said.
The country's largest utility vehicle maker is quietly working on introducing a mini version of the Xylo in the Rs 4.5-5 lakh range, or 35-40% cheaper than the existing base model, by 2011, they said on condition of anonymity.
The company hopes to achieve this by shortening the length of the vehicle to within four metres so it attracts a lower excise duty of 10% compared to 22% for bigger cars and utility vehicles, they said.
Mahindra & Mahindra officials declined to comment.
If it manages to bring down the Xylo's price to less than Rs 5 lakh, the SUV will enter a price band that accounts for 60% of the country's car sales and directly compete with compact cars such as the Maruti Suzuki WagonR, A-Star, Hyundai Santro, i10, GM Beat, Ford Figo, Fiat Punto and Tata Indica.
When it launched the Xylo in January 2009, M&M wanted the vehicle to challenge mid-level sedans, or three-box cars. Now it wants the mini Xylo to take on mid-level hatchbacks, or compact cars.
The compact Xylo will sport a much smaller engine than the 2.5-litre diesel engine that powers the vehicle now and Mahindra is yet to decide on the number of seats in the new vehicle, said one person close to the development.
Compact SUV market is an untapped segment in India where the only available vehicle is the recently launched Rio, a 5-seater SUV marketed by Premier. It uses body parts from a Chinese auto company Zotye and is priced in a range of Rs 5.6-6 lakh. Premier has sold around 200 Rios since January 2010.
Source - Mini Xylo to take on compact cars-Automobiles-Auto-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
The mini-Xylo will be a 4X4.
The original Xylo will never come in 4X4.
maximas007
Tamilnadu India
RSM said:
And i feel its a good move. If they design well enough and keep the mascular effect, it could be a big hit. Afterall so many people can't afford the Scorpios/Safaris, but they like to have it.[/url]
Right on target!!!!!! well said RSM . But as all of us agreed the front should go for a change and I am sure they will do it after seeing all the criticism on the design of XYLO
If they design well enough and keep the mascular effect, it could be a big hit. Afterall so many people can't afford the Scorpios/Safaris, but they like to have it.
More than the 'affordable' part, a sensible buyer will think on the 'practicality' and the question whether it is 'really needed'. For example, I like drive a Jeep any day probably because I learned driving in that one and I was using it for a long time. The size of a Jeep is perfect for City driving too. But when it comes to SUV, things are little different. So a Jeep sort of vehicle which can offer the comfort of a car has lot of potential in Indian market. It is actually an untapped segment. IMO, a short version of Xylo will score here and as you said, if its looks good and comes with all the safety features; probably I will be one of the buyers !
@ shynish
I suspect you wont get this copenhagen.
AMG said:
I will be back in India by first week of Oct this year. By the way, heard some rumors that M&M is keenly trying to expand their European market.
they have got presence in Milan and some place in France(forgot the name)

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As the embodiment of '90s gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg blurred the lines between reality and fiction. Introduced to the world through Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Snoop Dogg quickly became the most famous star in rap, partially because of his drawled, laconic rhyming and partially because the violence that his lyrics implied seemed real, especially after he was arrested on charges of being a murder accomplice. The arrest certainly strengthened his myth, and it helped his debut album, 1993's Doggystyle, become the first debut album to enter the charts at number one, but in the long run, it hurt his career. Snoop had to fight charges throughout 1994 and 1995, and while he was eventually cleared, it hurt his momentum. The Doggfather, his second album, wasn't released until November 1996, and by that time, pop and hip-hop had burned itself out on gangsta rap. The Doggfather sold half as well as its predecessor, which meant that Snoop remained a star, but he no longer had the influence he had just two years before.
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Nicknamed Snoop by his mother because of his appearance, Calvin Broadus (born October 20, 1972) was raised in Long Beach, CA, where he frequently ran into trouble with the law. Not long after his high school graduation, he was arrested for possession of cocaine, beginning a period of three years where he was often imprisoned. He found escape from a life of crime through music. Snoop began recording homemade tapes with his friend Warren G, who happened to be the stepbrother of N.W.A.'s Dr. Dre. Warren G gave a tape to Dre, who was considerably impressed with Snoop's style and began collaborating with the rapper.
When Dre decided to make his tentative first stab at a solo career in 1992 with the theme song for the film Deep Cover, he had Snoop rap with him. "Deep Cover" started a buzz about Snoop that escalated into full-fledged mania when Dre released his own debut album, The Chronic, on Death Row Records late in 1992. Snoop Dogg rapped on The Chronic as much as Dre, and his drawled vocals were as important to the record's success as its P-Funk bass grooves. Dre's singles "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" and "Dre Day," which prominently featured Snoop, became Top Ten pop crossover hits in the spring of 1993, setting the stage for Snoop's much-anticipated debut album, Doggystyle. While he was recording the album with Dre in August, Snoop was arrested in connection with the drive-by shooting death of Phillip Woldermarian. According to the charges, the rapper's bodyguard, McKinley Lee, shot Woldermarian as Snoop drove the vehicle; the rapper claimed it was self-defense, alleging that the victim was stalking Snoop Dogg. Following a performance at the MTV Music Awards in September 1993, he turned himself to authorities.
After many delays, Doggystyle was finally released on Death Row in November of 1993, and it became the first debut album to enter the charts at number one. Despite reviews that claimed the album was a carbon copy of The Chronic, the Top Ten singles "What's My Name?" and "Gin & Juice" kept Doggystyle at the top of the charts during early 1994, as did the considerable controversy over Snoop's arrest and his lyrics, which were accused of being exceedingly violent and sexist. During an English tour in the spring of 1994, tabloids and a Tory minister pleaded for the government to kick the rapper out of the country, largely based on his arrest. Snoop exploited his impending trial by shooting a short film based on the Doggystyle song "Murder Was the Case" and releasing an accompanying soundtrack, which debuted at number one in 1994. By that time, Doggystyle had gone quadruple platinum.
Snoop Dogg spent much of 1995 preparing for the case, which finally went to trial in late 1995. In February of 1996, he was cleared of all charges and began working on his second album, this time without Dre as producer. Nevertheless, when The Doggfather was finally released in November 1996, it bore all the evidence of a Dre-produced, G-funk record. The album was greeted with mixed reviews, and it initially sold well, but it failed to produce a hit along the lines of "What's My Name?" and "Gin & Juice." Part of the reason of the moderate success of The Doggfather was the decline of gangsta rap. 2Pac, who had become a friend of Snoop during 1996, died weeks before the release of The Doggfather, and Dr. Dre had left Death Row to his partner Suge Knight, who was indicted on racketeering charges by the end of 1996. Consequently, Snoop's second album got lost in the shuffle, stalling at sales of two million, which was disappointing for a superstar. Perhaps sensing something was wrong, Snoop Dogg began to revamp his public image, moving away from his gangsta roots toward a calmer lyrical aesthetic. He also began making gestures toward the rock community, signing up to tour with Lollapalooza 1997 and talking about two separate collaborations with Beck and Marilyn Manson. The solo Da Game Is to Be Sold Not to Be Told, Snoop's first effort for No Limit, followed in 1998; No Limit Top Dogg appeared a year later and Dead Man Walkin' the year after that. Tha Last Meal followed in December of that same year. The heavy release schedule resulted in varying musical quality from album to album, but by the turn of the century, Snoop Dogg had become such a cultural phenomenon that his albums almost became secondary to the personality behind them. An autobiography appeared in 2001, followed by a stream of movie roles in several high-profile pictures. Late in 2002, Snoop released his first album for Capitol, Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$. Geffen was the label for his 2004 release R&G (Rhythm and Gangster): The Masterpiece featuring the smash hit "Drop It Like It's Hot". The album was released a week early due to leaked copies showing up on the internet.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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Sensual Seduction By Snoop Dogg. Piano Vocal (Arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords). 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (353746)
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