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New Role for La Gloria Cubana's Michael Giannini
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Posted: March 7, 2012
Michael Giannini, who has spearheaded the creation of innovative new La Gloria Cubana cigars such as the Artesanos de Obeliscos (pictured) has been promoted to a larger role at General Cigar Co. Giannini, a 30-year-veteran of the cigar industry, will now be reponsible for producing new products from General's entire cigar portfolio.
"I'm the guy who comes up with the concepts--I get to be a kid in a candy store," said Giannini in an exclusive interview with Cigar Insider.
Giannini has served in various roles throuhout his three decades in cigars, first as a cigar store clerk and later as a sales manager and then director of marketing for the La Gloria Cubana brand.
For the full story about Giannini's new role, see the March 6 edition of Cigar Insider.
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Brad Berko — Scottsdale, AZ, USA, — March 10, 2012 6:24pm ET
Michael, Congratulations! You are the best at what you do so this is a natural promotion for you. Let me know if you need me to be a 'taste tester'!!
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Hotel Paradis Paris
41, rue des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France
Neighborhood: 10th Arr. (Gare du Nord/Gare de l'Est)
Check availability as rates may vary for dates. Best rate guaranteed.
The way things have been going lately in the Parisian boutique-hotel scene, we half expected that a place called Hôtel Paradis would be built out of a fluffy cloud, staffed by cherubs and angels with harps and trumpets and the whole heavenly hullaballoo. Fortunately they've taken their brief a bit less literally than all that. In today's Paris a smart, stylish, decently placed and humanely priced hotel is, in itself, a paradise of a certain kind — and Hôtel Paradis is all of those things.
What's special about Paradis, from a design perspective at least, is that it achieves a high level of visual interest without tipping over into either clichéd gestures or aggressive bombast. (You'd be surprised.) Here the atmosphere feels novel but not alienating, and often that's quite enough. Add a staff that's eager to please — there's nothing jaded about Paradis — and you've got a winning recipe.
It's in the up-and-coming 10th, which is central enough, and by no means disadvantaged, although it's not exactly the typical tourist haunt — you're somewhat to the north and east on the map of Tablet's hotels in Paris. The 10th is, however, where both the Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est are located, making it an extremely convenient option for traveling by train, and you're close to the busy Place de la République as well.
Please note: The hotel's façade will undergo renovations through June 2015; guests may experience minor noise during this period.
- 38 Rooms
- Style: Modern Design
- Atmosphere: Happening
- 20 Guest Reviews
- Hotel Paradis Paris
- 41, rue des Petites Ecuries
- Paris, France
- Neighborhood: 10th Arr. (Gare du Nord/Gare de l'Est)
Hotel amenities and services
- 100% non-smoking hotel
- 24 hour front desk
- Boardroom
- Central air conditioning
- Free wi-fi
- Lounge
- Luggage storage
- Multi-lingual staff
- No pets allowed
- Shopping area nearby
- Wake-up service
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20 Guest Reviews
All reviews are from Tablet guests with verified stays.
- Byron
- Stayed December 2013
- Rating: Good
What I liked:
I liked the design of the rooms. The lights above the bed look so adorable.
What the hotel could do better:
One thing I would suggest is to use bulbs with reflector for the over-bed-lights. It's a small detail but the effect would be great as it would eliminate blinding.
- Thibault
- Stayed October 2013
- Rating: Fair
What I liked:
What the hotel could do better:
Water system is very noisy
- John
- Stayed September 2013
- Rating: Excellent
What I liked:
I was there to sleep. It had a great bed and lighting, and a tip top bathroom. VERY clean, great toiletries, stylish decor, very hot and cold water. Small room (2.5m x 4.5m) but exactly what I needed, interesting bars and people in a working class neighborhood between the Opera and Montmartre. if you need a basecamp for 48 hours in Paris as I did, this place is perfect.
What the hotel could do better:
They should replace the micro TV (that did not work) with a small music system.


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VTC Opens New Hailing Channels Between Congress and Military Field Commanders
Amidst all the other turbulence on Capitol Hill last year, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) was renovating - on a scale not seen in over fifty years. That project brought two hearing rooms into the twenty-first century, replacing bare-bones 1960-vintage microphones and equipment with state-of-the-art audio and video systems. This new gear provided the Committee with greatly-improved capability to broadcast hearings and markups, and added new powerful features as well. The new setup includes multi-function touch screens for members at their places on the dais, which lets them follow Floor action, quickly access PowerPoint, memos and documents presented during hearings, get messages, and pull up additional reference materials. But the biggest change is the new video teleconferencing built into the system. "Tandberg CODEC gear with multipoint capabilities can be routed to these Committee rooms as required. The House of Representatives' Recording Studio coordinates all our inbound and outbound broadcast and teleconference requirements ," explained a senior committee staffer who spoke with us on background. "That now allows HASC Members to speak directly with forward-deployed military units or commanders as the situation might require." Staff are confident that use of this VTC capability will increase as a complement to Congressional Delegation (CODEL) field trips. "On a VTC, you can talk to a few people and a couple of field commanders. When members go on CODELS, they talk to hundreds of people, from generals to field specialists. VTC can't replace that spontaneous interaction, but it does mean that, in an urgent situation or on very short notice, the members can speak face-to-face with forward-deployed commanders who might not otherwise be easily accessible, or are too far away to travel easily and quickly to Capitol Hill." All 62 committee members can access the system at once, but it can also be used by just one or two at time. "The members are still getting used to new technologies, but with every election cycle the HASC - members as well as staff -- get more comfortable with using these new capabilities."


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Historian Questions Origin Of The Telescope
New historical evidence suggests the telescope may have been invented in Spain, not the Netherlands or Italy as scientists once thought.
The findings suggest the telescope's creator could have been a spectacle-maker based in Gerona, Spain.
The first refracting telescopes were thought to have appeared in the Netherlands in 1608 and may actually have been made for Spanish merchants.
According to historian Nick Pelling, the inventor could have been a man called Juan Roget, who died between 1617 and 1624.
He says the idea then traveled north to the Netherlands, where, in 1608, three separate individuals claimed the invention as their own.
Hans Lipperhey, a Dutch spectacle-maker, submitted his application for a patent on October 2, 1608.
Reports of another man demonstrating a telescope surfaced in the Netherlands on October 14, 1608.
Jacob Metius of Alkmaar, another spectacle-maker, put in an independent patent for a telescope on October 17, 1608.
However, Pelling finds the traditional account lacking: "Throughout history, there have been cases of people inventing things all at the same time. But generally, there's a good reason for that. It's because someone had put down a challenge.
In 1608, no one had presented a challenge – there's no perception of a challenge. It doesn't make any sense. Three people did not invent the telescope in the space of two weeks," he said.
Many historians have suggested the telescope was first invented in Italy.
Pelling became interested in the subject when he came across a reference on the Internet to a research paper published in 1959 by a Spanish optometrist and amateur historian by the name of Simon de Guilleuma.
De Guilleuma investigated a reference in a book published in 1609 by the Italian Girolamo Sirtori.
The book details a meeting with an aged spectacle maker called Juan Roget in Gerona who he described as the real inventor of the telescope.
Roget, who hailed from Burgundy in France, was often considered too marginal to pursue by most telescope historians. But de Guilleuma discovered a reference to the death of his wife in an official register.
Official listings for many of Roget's relatives in Barcelona, many of whom were also spectacle-makers, were also found. They matched the descriptions detailed by Sirtori, and existed in exactly the places and dates he described.
De Guilleuma continued his search; he looked for "ulleras" – a Catalan word originally meaning eyeglass, but later used for telescope – in inventories of goods from contemporary deaths in Barcelona.
The earliest was from April 10, 1593 when a Don Pedro de Carolona passed down "a long eyeglass decorated with brass" to his wife.
But Pelling accepts in his article that this item could have referred to a magnifying lens with a long handle.
But he still maintains that a subsequent reference to an "eyeglass/telescope for long sight" from 1608 sounds like a Roget telescope.
Roget and his customers may simply have failed to see the potential for the invention, according to Pelling.
"It's a bit like golf courses. The people who make golf courses often go bust. It's the person who buys the course who makes money," said Pelling.
"Even at the time, I think it was clear that all the Dutch claimants were lying, misleading, misremembering and concealing to various degrees," he said, in his article in History Today.
Pelling noted that he had been in contact with de Guilleuma's family and now hoped to be able to view other, unpublished research left by the historian after he died.
The Tuscan astronomer Galileo Galilei would greatly improve on the Dutch designs. Such refracting telescopes used lenses to form an image.
Galileo's compatriot Nicolo Zucchi developed the first reflecting telescope in 1616 – which used an arrangement of mirrors to create an image.
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Chickaballapur suitable for stadium as it is the town of the future: Gulihatti Shekar
2,500 acres of land is needed for the
sports village
CHICKABALLAPUR: Minister for Textiles, Youth Services and Sports Gulihatti D. Shekar on Wednesday said that land for the proposed international sports village near Chickaballapur would be finalised after discussing the project at the Cabinet meeting.
The Minister said that around 2,500 acres of land was required for the sports village, which would be the first of its kind in Asia. The plan is to have facilities for at least 50 events at the sports village.
"I will talk to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and ensure that the matter is brought before the Cabinet at the earliest," Mr. Shekar told presspersons after laying the foundation stone for a modern swimming pool costing Rs. 1.5 crore at Sir M. Visvesvaraya District Stadium here.
A year ago, the Minister and the Commissioner for Youth Services and Sports had inspected four sites in the vicinity of Chickaballapur for the proposed project. Mr. Shekar said the State Government had planned to create the sports village near Chickaballapur because of its geographical proximity to Bangalore and the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA).
The Government would accord priority to the all-round development of Chickaballapur as it was all set to emerge as the town of the future in the next few years, the Minister said.
Responding to a proposal made by the Chickaballapur Deputy Commissioner Anwar Pasha, Mr. Shekar said the Government would take steps to develop Sir M. Visvesvaraya District Stadium, at a cost of Rs. 10 crore, by constructing an indoor stadium, a pavilion and an 800-metre track and a sports hostel, among other facilities. The work on the taluk stadium at Gauribidanur in the district, which was coming at a cost of Rs. 53 lakh, was nearing completion, he said. An additional Rs. 22 lakh would be sanctioned for the taluk stadium at Bagepalli that was being built at a cost of Rs. 33 lakh, he said.
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Bagepalli MLA N. Sampangi, a former Chairman of Sports Authority of Karnataka, said the Centre had earmarked Rs. 3,500 crore in the budget for youth services and sports and, he suggested to the Minister to utilise these funds for developing stadiums in all the taluks in the State.


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Dunnottar castle and nearby beach
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Convention center setback can be opportunity for San Diego
The City of San Diego is a wonderful place to visit and an even better place to live. We have gorgeous weather, pristine beaches, Balboa Park, the San Diego-Tijuana border crossing, Mission Bay, a vibrant downtown and a culturally rich and diverse population. Visitors come for family vacations, but also for business-related conventions and trade shows. When they come, they help fuel our economy by staying in hotels and visiting local restaurants and businesses. In 2013, the city received more than $167 million in hotel-tax revenue alone.
In order to continue growing this source of revenue, San Diego must expand its Convention Center, an issue of much recent discussion and speculation. This project will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, so it is critical that an expansion meet the needs of San Diego's tourism economy for years to come. A thriving Convention Center is a major driver of visitors to the city — this year alone it is projected that 858,000 people will attend a convention or event in San Diego at the Convention Center. Every additional 1,000 convention visitors bring $2.5 million in economic activity to our region.
The 2012 decision to expand the Convention Center and fund it through a special tax involved a serious lack of transparency and openness at City Hall. The project and the special tax were designed and approved by a small group of hoteliers and downtown insiders without input from most San Diegans.
This flawed process culminated with the recent appellate court ruling that the special tax was illegal because it violates the state Constitution and the City Charter and any special tax used to fund a Convention Center expansion must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the people. Clearly, any Convention Center expansion project must have widespread public support.
Deciding how to add to a world-class city asset like the Convention Center requires a level of discussion and public vetting San Diegans haven't been afforded thus far. Now is the time to have that discussion and build public consensus about what the goals of the expansion are and how it will be funded.
I believe the only way voters will approve funding for an expansion is if the project emerges from a citywide public discussion about the need for an expansion and the type of project San Diegans prefer. The people of San Diego should not only get a say on whether to fund a Convention Center expansion, but also should be able to participate in a civic discussion regarding the size, scope and location of the project.
In moving forward, all options must be on the table. We should choose a project that best maximizes taxpayer investment and meets future tourism-related needs. Some of the options San Diego should consider include a noncontiguous expansion north of Harbor Drive, the potential size of the expansion, and the construction of a multipurpose downtown stadium.
Many cities have convention centers that are noncontiguous and successfully attract conventions and events. In San Diego, conventions like Comic-Con already operate noncontiguously with events throughout downtown in addition to the panels and exhibits inside the Convention Center itself. This has helped Comic-Con grow to engage average San Diegans who enjoy many of the associated events in the downtown area.


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Fieldways Hotel and Health Club is set in the heart of the beautiful English countryside, in a Grade II listed Edwardian mansion on the outskirts of Trowbridge in Wiltshire.
Our recently refurbished 13 bedroom AA two star-rated hotel offers friendly service and comfortable accommodation, restaurants, bar, function rooms and an extensive range of health club facilities and spa treatments.
We specialise in relaxing pamper days and overnight stay packages where you can choose between an extensive range of massage and beauty treatments to relax and de-stress.
Our trained staff are also on hand to explain and recommend the best treatments for you, and our health club facilities include swimming and spa pools, gymnasium, sauna and solarium.
Our facilities are available for users 16 years old and over
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Swimming Pool, Jacuzzi and Sauna £5.00
Gym and Sauna £4.50
There is not time limit on each session
Our opening hours are for members are:
Weekdays 07:00 - 21:00
Saturday 08:00 - 19:00
Sunday 09:00 - 18:00
Opening hours for non-members are:
Weekdays 09:00 - 21:00
Saturday 09:00 - 19:00
Sunday 09:00 - 18:00
(Please note: Our swimming facilities can experience periods during the weekends, therefore we kindly ask all non-members to contact reception before arrival to confirm availability to avoid disappointed or disruption during you exercise).
With excellent transport links and easy access to the beautiful surrounding countryside, our hotel is ideally situated for your holiday or tour.
Major attractions include the World Heritage sites of Stonehenge and Avebury, the city of Bath with its Roman spas, Salisbury Cathedral, Longleat House and Safari Park, Lacock Abbey and many other historic houses and gardens ensuring that there are places of interest for everyone.
Make a date to de stress, have lunch and enjoy time in the pool, spa pool, sauna and solarium, relax with a soothing back, neck and shoulder massage, rejuvenate your skin with our cleansing and toning facial, feel tension ease with an Indian head massage.
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Oh la la! The day of love is approaching and for some, it spells dread because we've been sold to for years that V day is all about romance with your one true love. Don't buy into it! Gather your girlfriends, your kids, your family or spend it alone in the bathtub with something boozy to drink and bubble bath to celebrate the love you feel for yourself. Dump the dumb traditions and look at February 14th as a fun, positive day and whether you celebrate or not, next month is a great month in general to stock up on lots of fabulous things in pink and red in fun heart shapes (including those yummy candy hearts that I miss so badly here in Germany!) that you can also enjoy year round. I thought you may enjoy some inspiration to see what I mean. Here are 28 ideas that I've collected online (please link to those that you fancy) that you're certain to enjoy. Kisses!
1. Throw a cute kids crafting party like Style Me Pretty did. Photo by White Loft Studio.
2. Cocktails! Just add heart sugar from Dellcove Spices to the rims to make it extra festive and full of love.
3. Creative photography! Arrange something pretty on a tabletop in the shape of a heart, photograph it, print, and pin to your mood board or frame like Leslie Shewring did. You can also turn this into a greeting card to give to someone dear.
4. Gift giving! Watercolor on paper and cut into hearts and attach them to presents with twine like Leslie Shewring did – she's such a talented person!
Gift give! 5a. If you like to keep things simple, KROnPINSESSENE has a simple gift wrap idea with string and stickers. 6b. Pretzels dipped in chocolate with heart confetti 7c. Cupcakes with handmade arrows. 8d. love letter cookies from Kanela y Limon.
9. Bake cookies for your sweetheart! Love cookies made by Sweet Style Blog – could these get any sweeter?
10. Whip up a little pie! Bake up a little raspberry pie, this one was made by zucker zimt und liebe.
11. Host Brunch with friends. Make some heart waffle sandwiches with prosciutto to enjoy brunch with your lady friends on V Day! We have plenty of love in our life to go around without worrying about whether or not we have a date on February 14th! Gather the girls like Design Love Fest did and spread your own love and magic.
12. Wing it! If you don't have time to whip up something heart-themed, why not buy some cupcakes at the bakery and add your own touch on top with a little heart you've made. In America around Valentine's Day, lots of cupcakes come with a plastic heart stuck inside but you can easily remove it, cut and attach your own handmade heart using a favorite paper to a straw you've cut short (like a cute red and white striped one) and pop it into the cupcake.
13. Photo magic at home! Take some fun photos against a white background (hang a sheet you've pressed wrinkle-free) and use heart-shaped anything as props like photographer Max Wanger does (his website, his interview on decor8). Take photos of your kids, pets, whomever is around that you love. Or use a camera with a timer and photograph yourself.
Balloons! Oh yeah, definitely do the whole balloon thing. One, two, forty… Balloons say FUN and turn a simple dinner at home into a romantic joy fest. 14a. massive amounts of pink balloons at home from 100 layer cake 15b. order and deliver big hearts to someone you love like these by geronimo balloons via oh joy 16c. A small colorful collection presented to your date on his doorstep (or office) wearing your prettiest outfit like these from lark store 17d. One giant balloon with streamers tied to it like this one shot by Liz Banfield for Style Me Pretty.
18. Throw a Craft Party for Your Friends! Host your own V Day crafting party with the girls like they did over at Better Homes & Gardens… And while you're at it, serve champagne! I also love the at home crafting party that they did over at Style Me Pretty! Nothing makes crafting together more hilarious than when you drop going for perfection – usually a glass of bubbly makes even the most perfectly perfect crafter chill out a bit.
Play dress up! Wear some hearts without being tacky! 19a. Adorable blogger Jordan Ferney in a heart sweater 20b. shoe clips by Ban.do 21c. heart skirt (love this) which looks super stylish 22d. heart blouse (I also adore this look) from little miss fearless. Fashion tip: A way to avoid this look turning too twee is to either dress or accessorize with only ONE item that has a heart pattern. Not all at once!
23. Decorate with decals! I love these black hearts against a peachy-pink wall by Ferm Living.
24. Decorate the ceiling! And why not? By Designer Emily Mugannam
25. Decorate with pillows! I like this understated heart cushion by Foto Le Maire for a living room, especially nice for those who don't want to go bold.
26. Decorate the walls with flowers! These wall vases from Love Star are the best.
27. Decorate with hoops! This fun V day party by The Nester resulted in these crafty hoops – love!
28. Decorate with chocolate! Do you think I'm kidding? The Sweetest Occasion made a DIY heart wall. Yes, really!
See any ideas you love? I love the craft party idea, or the pretty brunch that Bri did. I also love the heart sugar for cocktail glass rims! Yum!
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vicky commented
January 20th, 2014 at 2:58pm
As always your ideas are lovely and wonderful !!!! :)
Traci commented
January 20th, 2014 at 3:24pm
Great collection of inspiration and ideas. I can't believe Valentine's Day is almost here! I like the idea of creative photography…I'm thinking of doing with with objects that are meaningful to certain people and mailing them as postcards.
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Carmia commented
January 20th, 2014 at 3:44pm
Lovely ideas! I especially like the watercolour hearts.
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Gina commented
January 20th, 2014 at 4:05pm
Oh Holly!
I love them all! Maybe If I start now I can finish them all by Valentines Day :) and have the most unique + creative day of all :)
Thank you so much for thus daily + loving candy :)
You rock!
Aga @ Passion shake commented
January 20th, 2014 at 4:06pm
All of them are super cute, it's hard to chose favorite one, but if I had to I would probably go for the heart-shaped wall vases – pretty, original and I like a lot the pop of color! Also balloons are great and wrapping idea by Leslie and those black hearts and… Aaaa I just LOVE IT ALL ! :)
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Casapinka commented
January 20th, 2014 at 4:57pm
Heart vases are from Oz company Lovestar. Love them.
Alina commented
January 20th, 2014 at 5:11pm
Absolutely lovely Valentine's ideas. I'm a big fan of creative crafts and these things are so cute too. Thanks for posting :)
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Beauty Follower commented
January 20th, 2014 at 5:59pm
Lovely ideas and DIY!
jelena commented
January 20th, 2014 at 6:45pm
aww lovin' thisss! <3
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glomerylane commented
January 20th, 2014 at 7:20pm
YES! Thank you, dear Holly! Inspired by your post I invitated the girls to a Valentine's Day party to celebrate "Day 100″ after my transplantation! :)
Kisses and lots of love to you, Thorsten and your little baby boy! ♥ Inga
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Amy - Pride of Place commented
January 20th, 2014 at 8:31pm
I love all of these ideas, especially the pretzels – so simple. I have never been one to do much on valentine's day apart from avoid restaurants as they are sooo expensive on that day but this year I am going to go mad with decorations, but not with a heart theme. It is my son's first birthday so it will be paper pom poms and striped paper straws all the way. Along with confetti 1 cookies. I've been looking forward to having a little party for ages. It was supposed to be in our new house but we won't be moved in on time so now my mum will be hosting birthday number one. But I'm also hoping for a box of chocolates from my husband, I mean I did give him the best gift ever last valentine's day ;-)
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Patricia commented
January 20th, 2014 at 8:40pm
Thank you so much for including our cocktail rimming sugar! I love the idea of hosting a craft party – though, knowing my friends and family, it would be a cooking party.
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Kristin Johnsen commented
January 20th, 2014 at 11:33pm
Fun! I love the photos Leslie took – I am such a fan – but I also think the craft party idea, with Champagne, is a GREAT idea!!!! thanks for sharing all the great thoughts…..
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Cyd commented
January 21st, 2014 at 12:03am
Thanks so much for sharing our DIY chocolate wall, Holly! You totally made my Monday :-)
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mireya pizarro commented
January 21st, 2014 at 12:53am
Wow what really cute ideas!
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Anna commented
January 21st, 2014 at 2:59am
Brilliant ideas! I love them all ! :)
Die Landfrau commented
January 22nd, 2014 at 10:32pm
Thank you for such alot of inspiration. Cheers from Stuttgart.
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Lucy Chen commented
January 23rd, 2014 at 4:17am
I like Valentines Day, solely for these beautiful interior decorations!
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Véranda Magazine commented
January 23rd, 2014 at 11:06am
I love them all :)
Very nice inspiration for the next valentine's day !
Lisa | Happy By commented
January 23rd, 2014 at 5:11pm
I love all these ideas you gathered Holly! Valentines is one of my favorite holidays only because of the beauty you can find around internet :)
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Sandeep Singh commented
January 26th, 2014 at 1:15pm
Lovely ideas specially the Bake cookies for your sweetheart!……really liked 'em…
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Sathishkumar commented
January 27th, 2014 at 4:52pm
Hi, The ideas involving cookies, pie and the balloon are really wonderful. I am gonna definitely follow one of the three for this valentines day. Thanks Holly!
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jody commented
January 31st, 2014 at 6:40pm
i am in love with all of this!! v-dizzle is kinda my favorite holiday to delve into craftilly dorky depths! i hosted a v-day craft party last year. it was so so fun. i invited friends to bring their kidlets for them to make their school valentines. people brought supplies because i called it a craft supply potluck. we had a reused/recycled materials focus with loads of crafty bits as well. mos'def doing it again this year! people are already asking about it. happy valentines day!
Margaux commented
February 6th, 2014 at 11:40am
Thank you soooooo much Holly for those wonderful and so lovely tips ;) I'm gonna forward this article to my boyfriend !!!!
That would be great to do it together don't you think?
Special thanks for the shoe clips :) so cute ! Have a delicious and beautiful V-day all!
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King in Calgary commented
February 5th, 2015 at 10:26am
Holly! thanks for the great tips, This is gonna be my first Valentines with my wife being married and I'm want to make every little detail count haha. I don't know where to buy all those small frosted hearts… where does a guy buy those things, a supermarket? thanks Holly!
Robin commented
February 5th, 2015 at 10:37pm
. I love really good DIYs for Valentine's Day for that special someone in your life! So Fun!
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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Treyvon Green rushed for 158 yards and two touchdowns, quarterback Kain Colter ran for 106 yards and a score and passed for another, and No. 17 Northwestern beat Western Michigan 38-17 on Saturday night.
Northwestern (3-0) had 474 yards of total offense - including 335 on the ground - to extend its winning streak in non-conference home games to 15.
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The White Knight Hotel (Plaza San Luis Complex, General Luna cor. Urdaneta St.) in the storied Intramuros district of Manila hums with an easygoing energy.
It is 7 p.m. on a Saturday, and at the hotel's veranda behind the lobby, an acoustic pop quartet called Brownskin is playing soft ballads—Carole King's "It's Too Late," D'Sound's "Tattooed on My Mind," and the Petula Clark hit "Call Me."
It's the kind of music that can soothe frayed nerves and put you to sleep, like an aural equivalent of Prozac. But our interest is piqued when Brownskin proceeds to perform Toto's "Georgy Porgy," which not a lot of local groups care to cover; in fact this is the first time we hear this '70s jazz-R&B classic rendered live in a hotel club setting.
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Brownskin's vocalists, Mylene Madrelejos and her husband, Lito Baroga (who also plays lead guitar), are not conscious of the fact that they sing the song's lyrics in a hard Filipino accent: "Georgy Porgy, pudding pie/Keezed the girls and made them cry…" A snooty type of audience would have made fun of it or smirked, at least, but tonight the sprinkling of Caucasians watching while sipping their beers are nodding their heads to the beat.
We are surprised when the tune segues to Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly"—Madrelejos looking serious, if a bit nervous. Again we notice her Pinoy accent stressing the song's sense of anxiety and dread: "Keeling me softly with his song…"
Somehow it's not laughable anymore, this thing about having to pronounce English lyrics the way Americans did, because we're simply not like them. It's like listening to how Italians speak naturally with their accents, without them bothering to distinguish between the long and short "i" or "e."
In any case, what's apparent is that Brownskin has been around for quite some time, probably as a hotel or a cruise liner act, judging by its repertoire which includes Spanish ("Besame Mucho") and Brazilian Portuguese ("Mas Que Nada") standards.
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Which turns out to be true, as Madrelejos tells us during a break. She has been to China, Japan, and other countries as a singer with other hotel-based groups. Baroga, on the other hand, has been playing in a luxury cruise liner for the past nine years.
Brownskin's other members, guitarist Korina de la Cruz and percussionist Maverill Madrelejos, are newbies who are being trained for future gigs here or abroad.
There's just one thing that bothers us: Why does Madrelejos stand stiff like a tree when singing, not even swaying a bit during upbeat moments, as if we're still watching those black-and-white Pinoy musical movies of the '60s where the star performer and the band look like they're frozen in time?
But we don't want to force her to change her style if she's not comfortable. What matters most is that Brownskin does not bore us to death, especially when it sneaks in Michael Franks' "Antonio's Song" and The Cure's "Lovesong" just before we leave, after finishing two San Miguel Pale Pilsens (less than P100 each, inclusive of taxes).
The beer, by the way, needs more cooling. It doesn't taste good when ice is added.
Hard rock
In direct contrast, a bar called Purgatory (2/F, Concorde Bldg., Salcedo cor. Benavidez St., Legaspi Village) in Makati flares with the passion and ferocity of a band whose sound fits the character of the place—dark, foreboding, a bit creepy, but all in the spirit of fun.
It is past 10 p.m. on a Friday, and Wolfgang is onstage, whipping up a storm of raging rock tunes as if its members never grew old. The band has been around since 1992; it has released eight albums—the latest, "Ang Bagong Dugo sa Lumang Ugat: Unang Kabanata" came out only last year.
That album's title track is what we hear when we arrive and it's vintage Wolfgang: Mon Legaspi's galloping bass lines, Basti Artadi's furious vocals, Manuel Legarda's screaming guitar solos, and Francis Aquino's rumbling drums (taking over founding member Wolf Gemora who pounds the skins just as heavily).
As the band plays on, we are reminded of Metallica as well as Led Zeppelin and all the great heavy metal pioneers from which Wolfgang crafted its sound. The angry, sometimes despondent views that Artadi expresses in Wolfgang's songs find catharsis in Legarda's exhilarating licks. In fact, this is what the whole ruckus is about: releasing one's hang-ups or frustrations through the power of heavy rock.
When a male fan shouts out a request for "Halik ni Hudas," Artadi retorts with a cuss word, admonishing the overeager guy because the band has not even finished playing. The crowd breaks into laughter.
We notice that there's a mix of young and old in the audience; they're here because they like Wolfgang and intense rock music. They all look like happy souls in Purgatory.
Near the gig's end, Legarda improvises with passages from Jeff Beck's live guitar version of The Beatles' "A Day in the Life." We savor it as we drink San Mig Light straight from the bottle.
The bar chow of bagnet tastes fine with the soy sauce-and-vinegar dip.
A friend teases Lizza Nakpil, Wolfgang's new manager: "Artadi's good, but he has a slight paunch already."
To which Lizza replies: "Ah, yes, but that paunch will be gone when the band resumes its Tanduay tour soon. This is a warm-up gig."
Lizza's in a good mood. We used to see her raising hell back in the days when she was handling Rivermaya. Or maybe she has mellowed down, even as listening to Wolfgang can be agitating.
"Oh, but they're nice guys, really," she says. "They're very professional, even more professional than…"
We ask Artadi: "Why are you still at it? What keeps you going?"
He pauses, before answering: "I'm still having fun!"
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Missouri executes white supremacist serial killer
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BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state's first execution in nearly three years.
Franklin, 63, was executed at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Gerald Gordon in a sniper shooting at a suburban St. Louis synagogue in 1977. He was convicted of seven other murders, but the Missouri case was the only one resulting in a death sentence. Franklin has also admitted to shooting and wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since the attack in 1978.
Mike O'Connell, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections, said Franklin was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m.
The execution began more than six hours later than intended, and it took just 10 minutes.
Franklin declined to make a final statement. Wearing black rimmed glasses with long hair tucked behind his ears, he swallowed hard as five grams of pentobarbital were administered. He breathed heavily a couple of times then simply stopped breathing.
Guards closed the curtains to the viewing area while medical personnel confirmed Franklin was dead.
"The cowardly and calculated shootings outside a St. Louis-area synagogue were part of Joseph Paul Franklin's long record of murders and other acts of extreme violence across the country, fueled by religious and racial hate." Gov. Jay Nixon said in a statement read to reporters by George Lombardi, director of the Department of Corrections, after the execution.
Franklin's lawyer had launched three separate appeals: One claiming his life should be spared because he was mentally ill; one claiming faulty jury instruction when he was given the death penalty; and one raising concerns about Missouri's first-ever use of the single drug pentobarbital for the execution.
But his fate was sealed early Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal appeals court ruling that overturned two stays granted Tuesday evening by district court judges in Missouri.
The rulings lifting the stay were issued without comment.
Franklin, a paranoid schizophrenic, was in his mid-20s when he began drifting across the country. He bombed a synagogue in Chattanooga, Tenn., in July 1977. No one was hurt, but soon, the killings began.
He arrived in the St. Louis area in October 1977 and picked out the Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue from the Yellow Pages. He fired five shots at the parking lot in Richmond Heights after a bar mitzvah on Oct. 8, 1977. One struck and killed Gerald Gordon, a 42-year-old father of three.
Franklin got away. His killing spree continued another three years.
Several of his victims were interracial couples. He also shot and killed, among others, two black children in Cincinnati, three female hitchhikers and a white 15-year-old prostitute, with whom he was angry because the girl had sex with black men.
He finally stumbled after killing two young black men in Salt Lake City in August 1980. He was arrested a month later in Kentucky, briefly escaped, and was captured for good a month after that in Florida.
Franklin was convicted of eight murders: two in Madison, Wis., two in Cincinnati, two in Salt Lake City, one in Chattanooga, Tenn., and the one in St. Louis County. Years later, in federal prison, Franklin admitted to several crimes, including the St. Louis County killing. He was sentenced to death in 1997.
In an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday, Franklin insisted he no longer hates blacks or Jews. While he was held at St. Louis County Jail, he said he interacted with blacks at the jail, "and I saw they were people just like us."
He has made similar statements to other media but has denied repeated interview requests from The Associated Press. Franklin's attorney Jennifer Herndon said his reasoning exemplified his mental illness: He told her the digits of the AP's St. Louis office phone number added up to what he called an "unlucky number," so he refused to call it.
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