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The world’s most expensive home sale took place in London, England with the purchase of a 5-story Victorian villa in Kensington. The sales price was a whopping £80 million ($159.3 million.) It is the most expensive sale of a stand alone home in the world. It was reportedly purchased by Ukrainian business woman and philanthropist Elena Franchuk.

The house, formerly a girls prep school, has at least 10 bedrooms, a gym, sauna, theatre, underground swimming pool and a working “panic room”.  Hmm… looks like you’ll have to park on the street, though.

Source: Telegraph (UK)

The world’s most expensive home sale took place in London, England with the purchase of a 5-story Victorian villa in Kensington. The sales price was a whopping £80 million ($159.3 million.) It is the most expensive sale of a stand alone home in the world. It was reportedly purchased by Ukrainian business woman and philanthropist Elena Franchuk.

The house, formerly a girls prep school, has at least 10 bedrooms, a gym, sauna, theatre, underground swimming pool and a working “panic room”.  Hmm… looks like you’ll have to park on the street, though.

Source: Telegraph (UK)

A recent viewing of Death Proof lead to the listening of April March’s cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s (performed by France Gall) “Laisse Tomber Les Filles”. A flurry of calls at work this evening from customers I couldn’t understand lead my mind to stray a little and influenced the creation of this post. Still with me?! Let’s proceed…

Serge Gainsbourg and France Gall

As I counted down the last hour of my day, the caffeine which energized the better portion of my shift slowly started to vacate. Ever experience a caffeine crash where laying down would be the best remedy, but the option isn’t available to you?! Yeah, that’s how I felt tonight…the mind was a bit putty-like and the calls were coming in from every language imaginable except the beautiful French tongue I heard in the closing credits.

Naturally, I pressed my right lobe and the internal iPod in my head starting playing the wonderful sounds I’ve shared below. If you’re out there (and you’re French), start my morning off on the right note and give me a call at work, would ya?! Singing would be preferred, but cooing will be acceptable.

MP3: France Gall - “Laisse Tomber Les Filles”
MP3: April March - “Laisse Tomber Les Filles”

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Casulo goes from this:

To this:

Can you believe Casulo (Portuguese for cocoon) transforms into an armoire, desk with drawers, desk chair, 2 more seats, six shelf bookcase, bed and mattress? It takes less than 10 minutes and requires no tools!

Here’s how it happens:

Casulo should be very popular with students, frequent movers and folks living in New York City. It is currently a prototype. No word on eventual cost. FAQ here.

Casulo won the Abraham & David Roentgen Award in November 2007.

From Treehugger (via Architecture Lab)

I can’t believe it: yet another stylist’s letter making the rounds in NYC that we have no knowledge of. Again, I won’t name the stylist, but if you are going to go around with a letter that bears my name and signature, I’ll give you one bit of advice: get the postal code right. Copying and pasting the paragraph about us from the web isn’t clever. And, finally, bear in mind a lot of the showrooms in New York know who we are and they’ve seen prior letters from me. Yours looks nothing like them.
   There have been several incidents like this, probably because PDFs and electronic files are easy to take apart. How this gentleman got an older letter with my signature on it is anyone’s guess: a leak from former staffers, or genuinely a stylist who has worked for us before who has taken it upon himself to change the dates?
   Fortunately, too, I update my electronic signature on these letters regularly, mostly because real-life signatures do change.
   I wonder if the older magazines go through this.

Most prisons don’t have vegan meal options, but your standard animal-based dishes.

Recently a criminal by the name of Love Sky Dancer (of course) was incarcerated, and as a vegan, he requested he be sent to a prison where vegan meal options exist.  Apparently the penal system in London accomodates vegan inmates. The judge approved the request, and Love Sky Dancer is now in London.

via - veggie chic

So should vegans be allowed to transport to vegan-friendly prisons? Was the judge right in accomodating Love Sky Dancer? What should the American penal system do with Vegan Inmates?

Leave a comment and speak your mind below.

Source - [New York Daily News]

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Baby obaby pushchairs, petite star pram’s or pushchairs as they are also identified, are becoming more and more complex in their designs. This article outlines the essential concept of each type of baby pushchair and what advantages or disadvantages they have.

For a newborn baby, you have the selection of chosing for a traditional pram or a multi feature baby buggy, which can do both jobs with a few tweaks. A pram looks nice but some of the better models can be pricey, specificantly as a pram may only be used for the first few weeks. However, a pram can paired up as a second cot until the baby gets bigger.

A second problem the pram has compared to the pram is its size. They are fine for traveling on a rough path or in the park but they are almost impossible to get on most coaches and they are also hard to turn in a busy public area.

In recent months, highchairs and baby buggy or vehicle has become more unpopular as they are normally more compact, light but manage to offer the stability of a pram. A baby stroller can also be used for many more months than a pram, even for months depending on the brand you go for.

Standard Baby Strollers - The ordinary buggy looks the most like the traditional pram out of all the designs. It is also the type that can carry out the most amount of tasks. As well as a baby carriage, it normally has a rough amount of storage for bags and accessories and also often comes with a detachable cot or baby sling. A good all-rounder.

Umbrella Baby Strollers / Buggies - The umbrella pushchair is the lightest and most compact of them all, and probably the most accepted for those reasons. These strollers are easier to take on busses, trains and will fit easily into the car boot. They in general come with a rain hood and a small carrying tray / net underneath.

There is an even lighter version of this baby buggy, which doesn’t have a hood or any carrying compartments, it’s very transportable but you have to hope it doesn’t rain!

All Terrain Baby Strollers - This type of stroller is often a 3 wheeler and is the most stylish of the bunch. In fact, many paternity go for this type for the fashion medium as much as no matter what else. They can often be more high-priced due to their sleek design but do offer a comfortable ride for both passenger and pusher. Bear in mind that many of these strollers are often heavier than usual models.

Jogging Baby Strollers - Like the all all weather pram, these have air crammed tires, which of course can rupture. These will postulate a smoother ride and accomplished of tackling rougher all weather. The assumption is you can keep fit while exercising your youngster, as long as the baby is old enough.

Each baby pram offers features, which may or may not be suitable for you, so when you buy your buggy, keep in mind how and where you are going to use it and you won’t go far dishonest.

Give yourself a hearing test with this site from the Norwegian Red Cross.

(Actually, it’s not a hearing test, but a campaign for something else entirely, so give it a shot, but don’t expect any miracle cures.)

[Hearing Test]

[Via: Adverblog]

Get a jump on the Easter season with MOO’s Egg Hunt.

MOO has hidden eggs online, in MOO products, and in the great outdoors, and finding one could win you one of over 3,500 prizes.

Each working day they’ll hide new clues in the MOO Blog, and there are also clues hidden in orders for current MOO customers.

The first person to find each egg wins a prize, and another nine random finders will also win prizes, for a total of 10 winners per egg.

They’ve also partnered with Flickr, so if you’d like to get started with finding eggs in the great outdoors, and live in either London, Montreal, Bordeaux, Oaxaca, Tokyo, Paris, Niagra Falls, Toronto, New York, Brighton, Glasgow, BC, Oslo, Barcelona, Brussels, Silicon Valley, Wellington, Oxford, Austin, Konstanz, or San Francisco, then check the map for an egg near you.

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I was just over at my friend’s blog, Costas Recursos when I read that there is an SEO company offering SEO where you only pay for results. I just could not believe that anyone would offer this. But according to some of the professional SEOs in the comment on recursos blog this company does appear to have ranking clients. If re-route.co.uk are offering the service on a pay on performance basis we can only guess at though.