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LONDON — They were the women who brought day spas, designer yoga mats, raw food diets and facials to a public increasingly obsessed with looking young. They coined those all-too-familiar phrases, "dry, oily and normal," to describe a woman's skin, made face creams and lipsticks smell delicious and warned about the dangers of sun damage.
By the time they reached their 90s, though, they were largely forgotten by a culture that was too youth-obsessed to take the two old ladies seriously. They were Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, whose lives — and vicious rivalry — are the subject of a biography by the former fashion publicity agent, Lindy Woodhead.
"War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry" (Virago Press), has just been released in the U.K., and will bow in the U.S. next January, published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
"These two women were running multinational businesses before women even had the right to vote," said Woodhead over a cigarette and a glass of white wine in her sunny living room in west London. "They were the originators of the luxury, prestige end of the beauty and cosmetics market."
Woodhead said that as soon as she started reading about the women — she first stumbled on a Rubinstein biography in a secondhand bookshop — she was hooked, and knew she had to tell their story.
"It was so much my life as a child. My mother was the quintessential Arden woman — right down to the white gloves she wore to bed. My world in the early Fifties was about tea parties and skirts that rustled," she said.
During her two-year research, Woodhead had access to half a century's worth of each woman's correspondence. She buried herself in archives at Elizabeth Arden, Condé Nast and Fairchild Publications, and had each woman's handwriting analyzed. But she said her research was made all the more difficult by the fact that both Rubinstein and Arden told bags of lies about their pasts and achievements.
The result is a snapshot of the first half of the 20th century through the lens of beauty. The reader sees flappers carrying their makeup in little flip-top finger rings during the post-World War I beauty boom, and the rise of Revlon nail polish during the Depression.
By the time World War II strikes, the reader watches the shuttering of so many of Arden's signature Red Door salons, their staff gone off to war — or to concentration camps. During the post-war boom, the reader witnesses the rise of advertising and promotions, and a few years later, the beatnik and hippie chicks' rejection of all things ladylike.
Woodhead traces the rise of both women from their humble origins —Rubinstein's in Krakow, Poland, and Arden's in Toronto, Canada — and their personal tastes: Arden's passion for racehorses and Rubinstein's passion for Modern and African art. Their careers —and often their personal lives — mirrored one another, and although they never met, they were keenly aware of what the other was doing.
Woodhead said she hopes the book will reposition both women in readers' minds.
"They were so old when they died — in the middle of a decade dedicated to youth and beauty. In fact, the new media just said 'Yawn, they're dead' and didn't give them the recognition they deserved," said Woodhead of the rivals, who both died in the mid-Sixties.
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MSN is out with a new list of the "10 coolest cities in the Midwest,"
Milwaukee (and Madison) made the list that writer Chelsea Lin introduced like this, "America's heartland too frequently gets labeled as flyover country -- the states you fly over to get between the East and West coasts. But take another look and you'll notice that the Midwest harbors some of the country's coolest college towns, hippest city neighborhoods, cheapest real estate, best cuisine and all-around greatest places to live and visit."
Here's what the site had to say about Milwaukee:
"It's just two hours from Chicago, but Milwaukee has a locals-only flavor that escapes the Windy City, with all its tourists taking photos at The Bean. The industrial city on the banks of Lake Michigan is home to old-school dives, chic boutique hotels, galleries and the country's oldest bowling alley — an eclectic mix that gives Chicago's little sister an edge."
"What's cool: Though more media attention is given to the likes of Lollapalooza and Coachella, Milwaukee's annual Summerfest is billed as the world's largest summer music festival, with more than 800,000 attendees and 11 days of performances."
Chicago, Kansas City, Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Madison, Columbus, Cleveland and Omaha also made the list.
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Private rooms in Rantepao, Toraja,Indonesia, South Sulawesi, Rantepao
About This Listing
Panorama Homestay is centrally located on a quiet street of Rantepao.easy walk to the restaurants, shops and market. We have 4 rooms with hot & cold shower, AC, Free Wi-Fi & Torajan Coffee.,also available : Daily sightseeing, Car rental with driver,Tour guide, airport transfers,bus tickets, etc,etc.
Breakfast is provided.
Space where guests can cook their own meals
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Central heating or a heater in the listing
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In the building, free or for a fee
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Perfect stay, good value for price! Nice spacy room and bathroom, good western breakfast with wonderful fresh juice, incredibly friendly and helpful family. Staying here made our Toraja visit complete! Yakobus speaks perfect English, gave good recommendations about the region
Jakob and his family are excellent hosts. Nothing is too much trouble. The house is conveniently located in the centre of town close to good restaurants, shops and laundry service. I would highly recommend staying here. Our boys (6 and 8 years old) especially enjoyed playing football with the local children on the field opposite the house.
We have been in Panorama Homestay 2 nights but 4 complete days in Rantepao. Yakobus was very kind since the moment we have arrived to his homestay.
All the house was very clean and our room was perfect, exactly the same as you can see at the photos.
We especialy recommend this homestay because Panorama was more than a place to sleep, was a very great expericence because of the friendly family of Yakobus, and his knowledge of Toraja region.
Rantepao is the best place to stay while visiting Toraja and Panorama Homestay is probably the best accommodation option in Rantepao. I just spent 3 nights there and really enjoyed it. The homestay has a great location right in front of the town's soccer field and very close to the main road.
The room is spacious, clean, comfortable and too good to be true! Once I saw the room, I was so surprised about the price; I didn't expect it to be so nice. The room has the most comfortable bed I've had in 11 months of travel around Asia. The bathroom has a tub and hot water. There is also WiFi at a decent speed, which is not very common in the area.
The breakfast is delicious, consisting of bread with several kinds of jam, egg and coffee. The best part about this homestay was getting to know Yacobus and his family. He was such a great host; I can't thank him enough for all the help he gave us. He is local and also an experienced tour guide, so he gave us good advice about places to go, recommended schedules, helped us rent a motorbike and spoke to us about Toraja, I can't recommend him enough. We booked through him a tour to one of the funerals, and it turned out to be an unforgettable experience!
Thank you Yacobus for everything!
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Several scholarships are available for BSW and MSW majors and all SWK students are encouraged to apply for scholarships offered by UAA, the College of Health and UA in addition to those that are administered by the School of Social Work. Application deadlines for scholarships that are awarded for the 2014-2015 academic year are available below and are were due no later than 4:00 PM on Friday September 26, 2014. Applications offered through UAA and UA are due on February 15 of the year prior to the award.
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In its Q1 fiscal 2012 year results, Dell's profits were up 177% to $945m, compared with the first quarter of its fiscal year 2011 profits of $341m. During the quarter, corporate PC refreshes caused sales of desktop and laptops to rise 7% and enterprise services sales to large businesses increased 5% to $4.4bn.
Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer, said: "Our substantial profit increase demonstrates that our strategy is working and our execution is improving."
Overall sales rose just 1% during the first quarter, with the company's enterprise services division accounting for 30% of the total $15bn sales.
Lower component costs, which were down 9% from the previous year, could have contributed to increased laptop profitability.
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I have insured my vehicle with them for years never made a claim. Decided to change my vehicle and asked for a quote which was astronomical compared to others. The couldn't care less attitude by the person on the phone was rude to say the least. I decided to take my business elsewhere and that's when the problems arose. I couldn't cancel it on the phone even though it was at the start of a new year and within the cooling off period...No! I had to return the policy docs and when they had been… Read Full Review
Written on: 23/05/2015 by NolanMcCallum (1 review written)
Had to make a claim after someone drove into me. Car was collected the following day - I was impressed. 10 days later I collected the car, they had only replaced the rear light and hadn't repaired the bodywork. They then sent me a cheque and told me to arrange the repairs myself! Apparently this is their standard service. I now have take time off work for the car to be repaired ! Terrible!… Read Full Review
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I CANNOT BELIVE THE WAY I WAS TREATED BY SAGA ( WAS A SAGA I ASSURE YOU) FROM TELLING A PARCEL OF LIES AND TIME STALLING TACTICS IT WAS BEYOND A JOKE THE LIES AND EXCUSES THEY WOULD COME UP WITH WAS QUITE AMAZING. THEN THEY DECIDE TO CANCEL (NOT FREEZE)MY INSURANCE BECAUSE I DID NOT BUY ANOTHER CAR WITHIN 28 DAYS TO SUIT THEM, NOT ME.i STILL HAD 10 MTHS TO RUN AND WAS TOLD I AM NOT ENTITLED TO A REFUND EITHER.YOU TALK ABOUT RIP OF BRITAIN, SAGA ARE MASTERS OF IT.WHEN I CALLED WHICH LEGAL THE… Read Full Review
Written on: 21/03/2015 by Anikab471 (1 review written)
If I could Mark these with no star I would ! After applying to insure my husbands car he then had to go to work in another country taking his car off the road for 1 year we cancelled and paid up and then 3weeks later we had a notice to take us to the debt collectors and court for the sum of £6 which was for cancelling the policy, when I telephoned and paid I said that I felt it was a bit over the top to send out threatening letters rather than just a note to say you owe £6 cancellation fees!… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/03/2015 by Skyei408 (1 review written)
Still taking money from my bank account for a car I sold over 6 months previously. I informed them to cancel the policy as they could not provide the type of policy I was looking for my new car. I got no policy documents or no confirmation that the policy was still running. They just kept taking my direct debit and will not give my money back although I have been insured with another company for this period… Read Full Review
Written on: 17/03/2015
Saga provided a good quote as I'm now over 50. However after having to provide extra documentation at the out set of policy, I didn't receive any documentation through the post as promised. I chased this up, was told it would be sent out in 3 to 5 days but still didn't receive anything. I've just moved so notified them by email as thought that would be easiest method. Alas I received an email requesting I phone them. I've just done this to be told that due to the mid term change in… Read Full Review
Written on: 11/02/2015 by Waddellyo402 (1 review written)
Following being hit by another car in a car park, whilst parked, which was witnessed by another driver, Saga have been a nightmare to deal with. Because it was a no fault claim and they had a witness statement, Saga passed the case to Claim Fast to arrange a hire car and arrange repairs. They are absolutely useless. 6 weeks later and there is no sign of when my car will be repaired, the "like for like" hire car is nothing like "like for like" They use Enterprise car hire who promise everything… Read Full Review
Written on: 07/02/2015 by Ogle90 (1 review written)
I sold a car before moving abroad and thought (I still think but I could be wrong) that I notified SAGA. When automatic renewal happened (slow-ish mail forwarding from UK meant the "checking you want to renew" letter and new policy arrived together) and I queried it, they sorted it and refunded back to the date of sale in no time at all. I liked the quick response with a request for additional information followed by prompt action. … Read Full Review
Written on: 06/02/2015 by jaMason404 (1 review written)
I'm a loyal SAGA customer. My motor insurance quote went UP, despite my milage going down. Comparison websites gave me quotes of £200 less - half the price. SAGA claim to do a price match, a route to a hassle free renewal.......or so I thought. I sent them the details they needed, but they didn't reply until after the insurance had expired and then wanted information they already had. They promised renewal hassle free with a single phone call; complete lie. The only conclusion I can come to… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/02/2015
Returned to Saga after a poor claims experience with Direct Line about 10 years ago. Stuck with them though could have got cheaper insurance elsewhere because of their claims promises. Today my car was severely damaged in a no-fault motorway accident. Checked Saga booklet, chart of benefits and features, green tick against replacement car if you are 'fully comprehensive. Phoned Saga to report accident, went through all details with very helpful young lady. Based on description of damage… Read Full Review
Written on: 03/02/2015 by Darienp239 (1 review written)
Two weeks after my car was run into, loads of expensive and lengthy phone calls, passed onto another company, misinformation - I am still in Limbo. They are not "fighting my corner" because 3rd party does not admit they were wrong. Customer Services say "can't help on this phone number". At first they seemed supportive but now they want to write-off my faithful car where previously, they said that I was going to get everything fixed, have a courtesy car and not lose no-claims. Despair!… Read Full Review
Written on: 27/01/2015 by alz207 (1 review written)
please do not take insurence with saga i had a accident in my van reported it 26 days ago still waiting to here from them must have spend 50 pound on telephone to b fogged of or put on hold for 30 mins told my van was a wright off still nothing for promise hire car nothing came just lies after lies totely fed up trying to get answer saga r insurence company from hell… Read Full Review
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I am having a similar experience - Two weeks after my car was run into, loads of phone calls, passed onto another company, misinformation - I am still in Limbo. They are not "fighting my corner" because 3rd party does not admit they were wrong. Customer Services say "can't help on this phone number"
Written on: 08/01/2015 by PeterM4242 (1 review written)
I switched my car insurance to Saga Select - WHAT A DISASTER! - their so-called "customer service" is totally overloaded. As a result, they did not acknowledge my notice of NCD and cancelled my insurance after 26 days. When I complained and asked how much I was going to get back assuming I should pay 26/365ths of the total premium. OH NO!!!, they "very generously"(!!!) said they would not charge me a cancellation fee, but still retained ALL of the unused Legal Expenses cover. If you try to… Read Full Review
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DO NOT USE SAGA. THEY HAVE ROBBER OVER £100 OUT OF MY BANK ACCOUNT WHICH THEY JUSTIFIED WITH 'TERMS & CONDITIONS' DESPITE THEM TELLING ME THAT MY INSURANCE WAS CANCELLED THEY CONTINUED TO TAKE OUT THE DIRECT DEBIT AND REFUSED TO PAY IT BACK. THEY ARE CAUSING GREAT FINANCIAL ORDEAL IN MANY LIFE'S AVOID USING THEM AT ALL COSTS. JOKE OF A COMPANY… Read Full Review
Written on: 02/01/2015 by Talonb223 (1 review written)
Have just taken out insurance with this company 5/12/14 , should be straight forward they gave me a price I accepted subject too providing proof of no claims discount , So replied to there request for proof of no claims on 5/12/14 via there no claims website format as instructed by them,I thought fine everything done ok , then on 23/12/14 received a letter saying I had failed to provide proof of no claims i called the no given they could nt do anything because different department It… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/01/2015
Have had the exact same problem with Saga.... My No claims proof is in the post yey nthey say they are going to cancel my insurance today 05/01/15 if the NCD is not received.. Utter disgrace... !!!
Written on: 08/12/2014 by hmWright375 (1 review written)
I had been a loyal customer for nearly ten years with no claims in February 2009 I was alleged to have reversed into a vehicle while driving a car I had borrowed from a garage while mine was being repaired I returned the vehicle to the garage with no damage aweek later the garage contacted me saying that the vehicle I had been driving had reversed into aparked car when we checked the car it had a very deep scratch down the side probably caused by a key or other sharp object when I… Read Full Review
Written on: 26/11/2014 by Sladea313 (1 review written)
Accident! Stopped at pedestrian crossing, was rear-ended at approx 2 mph - Offending driver admitted liability (was late for picking up her child from school). Damage - rear bumper split, no personal injury. I live in a village approx 2 miles away from a Ford main dealer offering full repair services, is on other insurer's "approved repairer" lists, but not Saga's. I advised Saga that my report was advice only, that claim was against the other party's insurance. Saga accepted it, passed me to… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/12/2014
PROGRESS REPORT (or rather, lack of ??)
Car was collected Monday by the Weleyn Garage. Today is Friday (3 p.m)
Enterprise delivered a hire car on Monday (we then had to trek over to Bedford, 12 miles away, to do the paperwork)
Today is Friday - no sign of the car, though we've had several "ambulance-chaser" calls from Saga, each asking about injuries. (There are none).
HAD THIS BEEN REPAIRED BY THE FORD MAIN DEALER, 2 miles away -
1/ they would have ordered the needed panel for next day delivery, pre-painted as it's a standard Ford colour.
2/ They would have called us to deliver our car in the morning, and provided a courtesy car.
3/ They would have called us in the afternoon when the fitting was complete (approx 1 hour's work, they thought) and we would have returned their courtesy car and collected ours. Total time without our car - approx 6 hours
Cost - the repairs using genuine Ford panel, plus 1 day car hire.
We, the customer, would have our car back same day.
ACTUALITY - (5 days to date, as yet, no sign of repaired car)
Cost of lowloader to collect and deliver to (their) selected repairer (NOT a Ford dealership) - I checked - £144.91 incl VAT (so double that for return delivery).
Enterprise car hire quote for 1 week - £110.43.
So, before ther repair even starts, there's £400.25 added to the claim
And, we've been without our car for 5 days (and counting).
The probability is part of the delay is caused by them using a non-Ford panel (thus needing spraying and 3 day cure period) That's what happened on my daughter's Ford - private repair, slightly cheaper in parts cost,
In this case the saving is totally wiped out by the delivery and hire car costs.
Whilst these costs are covered by insurance, the vast majority of this £400 is unnecessary
Multiply that unnecessary cost by the number of Saga claims - that's all added to next years premiums.
Written on: 21/11/2014 by KimBurn (1 review written)
After completing the online form and taking my money they then proceeded to bombard me with requests to supply them with information that I'd already given them on their online form. When I informed them that I did not wish to waste my time by repeating this request and to please take the information from the already completed form, I appeared to become involved in an email battle of wits with and the 'customer services' person who proceeded to threaten me with policy cancellation at 17:00hrs… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/11/2014 by MarcelHatch1952 (1 review written)
Waiting to hear something from Saga but nothing heard so contact them by phone and they suggest they sent a reply dated at 2 weeks after my letter so point out I havent received this and asked for missing letter to be forwarded. A cheque arrived for a small sum without any breakdown of what for and I suspect the missing letter gives a breakdown and the idea may be that if I stupidly cash the cheque I will have been deemed to have accepted the small amount as full and final settlement. I have… Read Full Review
Written on: 12/11/2014 by owSandoval350 (1 review written)
got my car damaged by a saga insured driver, repair quote was over 3000 saga refused to pay over a 3rd of my quote, but were happy to replace my van, with a hire van while mine was haveing a bad repair. the cost of the hire van way out waighed the bodge price of the rubbish repair, hire van was 6 weeks hire price thousands, repair 1200 quid no wonder you do cheap insurance you dont pay out...... be warned be carfull of saga insured drivers… Read Full Review
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Bruins sign Jimmy Hayes to 3-year deal, extend Brett ConnollyGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy1 hr ago
The Summer of Sweeney continues!
The Boston Bruins announced a trio of signings on Monday, and they all fall in the "yippee, GM Don Sweeney!" category rather than the "Dougie Hamilton debacle" category.
From the Bruins:
Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney announced today, July 6, that the club has signed forward Jimmy Hayes to a three-year contract through the 2017-18 season worth a cap figure of $2,300,000, forward Brett Connolly to a one-year contract through the 2015-16 season worth a cap figure of $1,025,000 at the NHL level and forward Brandon DeFazio to a one-year, two-way contract through the 2015-16 season worth a cap figure of $575,000 at the NHL level.
Hayes is the type of "on the way up" goal-scorer that Sweeney said the Bruins were seeking this summer. He had 19 goals in 72 games for the Florida Panthers last season and is 25 years old. And of course, his acquisition was a cause for celebration in Dorchester pubs.
Alexander Radulov considers NHL return in KHL free agency: ReportJosh Cooper at Puck Daddy1 hr ago
Is it possible that our favorite curfew breaker/miscreant could return to the NHL after next season?
Oh my god, please let Igor Eronko's tweet about Alexander Radulov's potential return to the NHL in 2016 be true. Please let it be true so we can see Keith Jones carve him on national television again. So we can see him taunt every human on the other team like a pro wrestler. Please let it be true because Alex Radulov entertains like a speeding locomotive heading for a wall.
Stepan's future; moneypuck in Toronto; Jamaica hits the ice (Puck Headlines)Sean Leahy at Puck Daddy2 hrs ago
Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at email@example.com.
• Eichel Mania has begun in Buffalo. [Sabres]
• RIP the bridge deal for young NHL stars. You will be missed. [Globe and Mail]
• Ryan O'Reilly's rich new deal with the Buffalo Sabres puts the New York Rangers in a tough spot with Derek Stepan. [NY Post]
• In a move that will likely earn them a future asset at the trade deadline, the Toronto Maple Leafs have inked Shawn Matthias to a one-year, $2.3 million deal. [Maple Leafs]
Leafs blog debunks Steve Simmons hot dog tale about Phil KesselGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy2 hrs ago
"Talked to my mom and my wife this week: They seem to be in the minority. They don't think I'm the worst person in the sports world ... Amazing how many fans were offended by my column on the Kessel trade and how many hockey people — coaches, GMs, scouts, media — thought it was dead on." – Steve Simmons, July 5, Toronto Sun.
If you want to see a textbook example of "oblivious," read the passage above and then read Simmons' all-timer on the Phil Kessel trade, which will go down as one of the most pedantic screeds ever written about a player leaving town, one where you can actually hear Simmons' fingernails clawing at a narrative that had long slipped out of the media's grasp.
Kansas City not in NHL expansion hunt, despite past attemptsGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy4 hrs ago
Not too long ago, the faithful in Kansas City would get downright indignant if you didn't include their fair city when discussing expansion and relocation options in the NHL.
And why not? The geography worked for a Western Conference team, with immediate rivals. The Sprint Center was, at the time, a state-of-the-art facility managed by NHL darlings AEG. Plus, exhibition games in KC received high marks from those involved.
Hence, Kansas City was used as a viable relocation bargaining chip by Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Charles Wang and the New York Islanders during negotiations with their municipalities.
What We Learned: The case for Ryan O'Reilly's contractRyan Lambert at Puck Daddy5 hrs ago
(Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.)
Friday afternoon, while everyone was getting good and prepared for the Independence Day weekend, the Sabres snuck in a contract that surprised the hell out of the hockey world, and seems to have even led to many a derisive chuckle from the peanut gallery.
"Seven years and $7.5 million for Ryan O'Reilly? Seems like a whole lot."
It is, in point of fact, the largest contract ever given to a Buffalo Sabre, and it therefore seems at least a little bold — especially because, in three years' time, Jack Eichel is going to get a much, much bigger one — to give that kind of money to a guy who is perceived as having never in his life played first-line minutes.
Tyler Seguin is naked on a machine that's not a Zamboni, loves his rubber duckyGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy6 hrs ago
The annual ESPN Body Issue is out, which means another collection of naked athletes that can make us all curse our metabolism and lethargy while marveling at their muscle tone.
As we mentioned earlier, Tyler Seguin of the Dallas Stars is our hockey representative in this year's issue, and it's a little change of pace. Instead of the Adonis poses of Ryan Kesler and Zdeno Chara, ESPN captures the whimsy of being a 23-year-old multi-millionaire hockey player, posing Seguin naked on a machine that is not a Zamboni but an "ice resurfacing machine."
As well as giving him the ultimate goofball sports star pose: Having him hold something in front of his penis. (See also: Gronkowski, Robert.)
This is honestly the most oddly arousing episode of SESAME STREET we've ever seen…
Holtby, Stepan, Del Zotto headline player-elected salary arbitration listJen Neale at Puck Daddy21 hrs ago
As of publishing, there are 23 players who have elected salary arbitration proceedings to drive their contract negotiations. Only restricted free agents can opt-in to the hearings.
(For the first time in what feels like ages, Ryan O'Reilly and P.K. Subban are not listed.)
From the NHLPA, here's a list of the lucky contestants:
There are some heavy hitters on this list. Players and teams can continue to negotiate contracts up until the day of the arbitration hearing date (sometime between July 20 to August 4). Conventional wisdom is to try to avoid the actual proceeding because things can get ugly.
Each side puts in a contract number they think is reasonable, and a neutral third party hears why the number is or isn't justified.
Usually the player wants more than the team is willing to hand over. From there, the club puts up a 'this is why you suck' argument as to why they shouldn't pay what the asking price is. Hurt feelings taken away from this hearing (yes, it happens) can impact a player's decision as to if he wants to resign with the team when he hits unrestricted free agent status in the future.
Chronicles of Stanley: Players' days start, Scott Darling and dad get inkedJen Neale at Puck Daddy22 hrs ago
The Chronicles of Stanley is an occasional series this summer that tracks the Chicago Blackhawks as they each get their special alone time with the Stanley Cup.
Did you know Scott Darling is the first Chicago-area raised player to win the Stanley Cup? True story.
Chicago's backup goaltender is from Lemont, Illinois, about 40 minutes (according to Google Maps) outside of the city. He was given the honor of being the first Blackhawks player to have his day with the Cup.
And how did he and his loved ones celebrate the championship? By getting tattoos, of course.
Prior to Lord Stanley's arrival, Darling went to Michael Figueroa at Spider Tattooz to get a large black and white tattoo commemorating the win. Also included in the drawing of the Cup and the Chicago skyline is a 'CR' in honor of the Blackhawks late assistant equipment manager Clint Rief who passed away during the season.
Sad little T.J. Oshie fan gets surprise call, asks about his swimming pool (Video)Jen Neale at Puck Daddy1 day ago
St. Louis Blues fan Libby Lu captured the nation's attention afterhaving an epic meltdown over T.J. Oshie being traded to Washington. We felt her pain.
(Admit it, you've been there. I melted down as a 16-year-old when Teemu Selanne was traded from Anaheim to San Jose.)
The five-year-old, clad in a St. Louis Blues jersey (and ironically, a red, white, and blue bow), could not be more adorable as she and her dad took to Sportscenter for an interview Sunday morning. When asked if she could pose one question for T.J. Oshie, what would she ask, she responded coyly:
"Does he have a swimming pool?"
Commence heart melting as the anchor brings in Oshie on the phone and the intense swimming pool discussion begins.
If that doesn't give you the warm fuzzies, then your heart is two-sizes too small, Mr. Grinch.
Got to love the attention span of a five-year-old. By the end of the interview, she was elsewhere, even as Oshie promised her free swag.
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Angry Birds gets all seasonal on us
It's another big news day for our favourite disturbed winged menaces, with a special Halloween Edition of Angry Birds launching exclusively on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
This morning we reported on the Andoid cheat that lets players unlock the harder levels of the hit game, but this seasonal revelation is a much more dastardly affair.
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With "45 levels of pig and pumpkin-smashing action," the game promises "New spooky theme music and hair raising graphical themes. Suspense! Action! Fun!"
The Halloween Edition is available to buy for 59p from the App Store.
Hard-done by Android users can take comfort from the fact that the full, regular edition of the game is a freebie on that platform, so get downloading (like you haven't already).
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Amanda Seyfried Talks Landing a 'Dream' Role in LES MIS; Filming Begins in New Orleans Next Month
When LES MISÉRABLES celebrated its 21st London birthday on 8 October 2006, it became the World's Longest Running Musical, surpassing the record previously held by "Cats" in London's West End. In January 2010, the West End production broke another record by celebrating its historic 10,000th performance.
The musical's movie adaptation is currently filming in the UK; Amanda Seyfried as Cosette will join the film's stars - Hugh Jackman as Valjean, Russell Crowe as Javert, Sacha Baron Cohen as Thernardier, Eddie Redmayne as Marius, Aaron Tveit as Enjolras, Anne Hathaway as Fantine, Samantha Barks as Eponine and Helena Bonham Carter as Madame Thenardier - in New Orleans next month to continue filming.
"I was playing Cosette in recitals when I was 15, because I used to sing classical music," Seyfried tells The Telegraph. "Now I'm actually going to play her. It's a dream for me."
Musical afficianados have seen Seyfried in another musical adapation - she played Sophie in 2008's MAMMA MIA - but can expect something different with Cosette, according to the 26-year-old star: "Getting back into singing has been tough, but awesome, too, because I haven't lost what I had when I was 15; it's only got better, so that's a plus."
LES MISÉRABLES will hit movie theaters December 7, 2012. Read the Telegraph article here.
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Lenya River
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenya or Lehyna River is a river of Burma. The Lenya has its source in the Tenasserim Hills and flows into the Andaman Sea about 45 miles south of where the Great Tenasserim River enters the sea near Myeik (Mergui).[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ Scottish geographical magazine, Volume 23. Royal Scottish Geographical Society. 1907.
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Nucomm will showcase its Messenger IP Media Gateway file transfer system at IBC2008 in Amsterdam, Sept. 12-16.
The system enables broadband IP connectivity between ENG, SNG or OB vehicles and a broadcast studio via existing digital broadcast transmission infrastructure or alternate networks. The product is designed to support today's emerging, distributed news editing workflows.
With an IP network in place, other applications, such as remote queuing, remote truck control and VoIP technologies, also can run between the studio and the news vehicle. An integrated file transfer system is embedded in the system. To transfer a file from the field to the studio, users simply drag and drop their file onto the internal hot sync folder. Then the messenger system automatically steps in and manages the file transfer process.
See Nucomm at IBC Stand 1.A30, or visit www.nucomm.com.
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This match was judged by P.T. Smith. For more info on the World Cup of Literature, read this, and download the bracket.
France and Ecuador take to the pitch in what appears to be a serious mismatch. France, represented by Prix Goncourt winner Michel Houellebecq, teamed up with translator Gavin Bowd, puts forth The Map and the Territory. Its first moves on the field show the level it wants to play at: Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst have posed for a painting, and the protagonist, another artist, this time fictional, is struggling to finish it. Houellebecq's strategy is clear. He's going to portray the contemporary world, the high-brow of commercialism, and while his flair and spite is French, he's speaking to the English, to Americans, to the Western world.
Against the strength of the French side is them oldest contender in the tournament. Pushed into service without another able to take its place representing Ecuador, Alicia Yánez Cossío's The Potbellied Virgin, aided by Amalia Gladhart's translation, arrives to the tournament as an outsider. Set in the 60s and often reaching further into the past, living wholly in one small Ecuadorian village, The Potbellied Virgin can't compete with The Map and the Territory on the same terms, to have any chance of moving on, it must embrace its own style, letting the French be as adventurous in the attack as Houellebecq wants, hoping to keep him from scoring, looking for its own opportunities to counterattack.
Houellebecq is indeed looking to be on the offensive, to strike often and quickly, against art, for art, against commercialism, for commercialism, against himself, and, through Jed, for himself. Yet, at this point he is a veteran, suave and poised on the ball, no overly-ambitious balls or reckless challenges. He understands when to be showy, creative, and why. The passes, towards the goal, away, towards again, are intricate. Of the attitude of French hotels Jed imagines:
a rich young urban couple without children, aesthetically very decorative, still in the first phase of their love affair—and for this reason quick to marvel at everything, in the hope of building up a store of beautiful memories that would come in handy when they reached the difficult year, perhaps enabling them to overcome a crisis in their relationship. They represented, for any professional in the hotel-restaurant trade, the archetype of ideal clients.
Houellebecq is probing the defense, pointing out the weak spots, the ways that we as humans give in to, thrive on, love commercial materialism, but then he's letting us have it, writing of an artist dedicated to it, and the people caught up in it.
Against the hipness, the humor, the way the reader is rewarded while putting forth little of his own effort, Ecuador plays a complicated, defensive, possession game. Potbellied Virgin is a denser affair, inward-turning. It is slower than Map and the Territory, patient and asking the reader to pay more attention while not being as easily thrilled. In a unnamed Ecuadorian village two families rival for power, or more accurately, one family dominates while the other passes the time sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes and remembering when they had land and power. Yánez Cossío sets opposites against each other, but they do not get split in the obvious ways. The matriarchy controls the town through religion, through their devotion to the town's miracle idol, that Potbellied Virgin. The Benavides are conservative, but younger, newer to the town, and rich, rewarded by capitalism, and notably lighter-skinned, blonde, closer to those rewarded by imperialism. The other family, the Pandos, is the patriarchy, devoid of influence, tied to communism, irreligious, and though not native Indians, aligned with them rather than the American influence from the north.
The Potbellied Virgin may not be as bunkered down as Greece is in the Real World Cup, but it is content to keep the ball without moving forward. It wants to set up this self-contained world, tell the history of the town, of the political turmoil of the whole country, of the miracle of the flatbellied virgin becoming the Potbellied Virgin. Its defensiveness is not thuggish tackles or packing five men in the box, but of little passes amongst teammates, and beautiful ones at times. The relationships in the village matter for everything. The sons and daughters who switch their allegiance from one family to another are the forces that are quieted throughout much of the story, but build into the best chances at goal. Holding onto the ball, playing beautiful passes in the dusty streets of the village may not move forward, but is still nice to watch, and becomes an expression of a life outside of the world of Houellebecq's grasping:
The acid deposits in her overworked veins ache, ache with the pain that will last until her death without respite or remedy, because she will always be standing among the large boulders of the river washing her clothes, the clothes of Magdalena Benavides who passes her time galloping from the hacienda into town, and who dents her so much clothing that isn't even dirty, for the pleasure of making her work and harassing her with the hard soap of bad fortune.
In control of the match, Houellebecq tells of Jed Martin's career as an artist, and his life as a man. He has a distant connection with his father, brought close by their shared isolation and their acceptance of that isolation, and though he has great loves in his life, Houellebecq never gives us hope that they will break Martin from his isolation. Besides, if those loves did take him from solitary life, we cannot imagine room for his art. Jed is a Zidane, a Pirlo, playing his own game in the middle of the pitch, independent, grumpy, yet making connections no one else is able to see until after the fact. By creating a visual artist, with works that if brought to life could be as interesting and successful in real life as they are in the book, Houellebecq threatens to score early but Ecuador manages to hold on. Until just before half-time that is, when the pleasure of The Map and the Territory, through pure enjoyment of the game, playing while having fun, puts through a lovely ball (Houellebecq's portrayal of himself, beaten, a wrecked man, but through Jed's eyes, somewhat magnificent), cleanly finished, and takes a lead into the locker room.
Drawn out, The Potbellied Virgin needs to press forward to tie. It is a task Yánez Cossío is up to. To solve a country-wide drought, the Benavides are willing to send out the Potbellied Virgin to travel the country, followed by rain. When the army becomes involved, the Pando convince the town that the Virgin is being sold, greedy religious-capitalism from the Benavides, and the town rises up, fighting off the army with whatever is at hand, mainly the mattresses they were sleeping on in the church while protecting the Virgin:
But what gives the greatest results in the uneven and ferocious combat are the mattresses. With the bare mattress blows they charge the sacrilegious troops calling them thieves, faggots, and all the son-of-a-bitches they can muster. A cloud of dust obscures the sun and the sheep's wool of all the disemboweled mattresses covers the streets and plaza.
With humor and violence, all the while staying reserved, sticking to the slow style that kept the match equal for so long, The Potbellied Virgin ties the match at one.
But right after, The Map and the Territory presses again. The relationship between Jed and Houellebecq deepens, and so the relationship between Houellebecq and Houellebecq becomes more compelling, an old love briefly returns, human connection again and again seems briefly possible before falling off. The Potbellied Virgin is playing with confidence, happy to have made things level eager for another one. Yet, Ecuador is overexposed, the conflict between Pandos and Benavides heats up, without either side gaining anything.
With the massive success of Jed's art career, a project of portraits culminating in one of Houellebecq, he almost finds happiness. He is rich, he has a chance with his greatest love. There's a happy ending in sight, and even if we bemoan sappy, unearned happy endings, don't we still want one sometimes? Destroying one so perfectly set up, what's the reward in that? Houellebecq finds it. It is lost not because of cynicism, not because of the dark brooding that feeds every summer blockbuster now, but because for Jed, it is overwhelming, happiness is impossible to embrace, it is too fleeting, and must be caught in the perfect moment, or it's lost, and that moment can be, will be, terrifying. Jed does not turn to angst or depression, but a sort of paralysis, and when this is so compassionately understood, articulated, given compassion, The Map and the Territory goes up 2-1.
Ecuador is more desperate now. The Benavides begin to lose their control of the village, their daughters not living up to their roles as living icons. Power and wealth become more important than their faith. The Virgin, belief in her miracle, becomes fully a tool of control, no longer true devotion. Their matriarch, Doña Carmen blackmails and bribes rivals into aligning with her. The three daughters of a former communist are rewarded with riches, if they act out the role of virginal caretakers for the Potbellied Virgin. Purity no longer matters, just the obedience that faith in it once created. When Doña Carmen begins to paint threats on her own walls in order to foment dissent between her rivals, any sense of herself is lost. These risks, this destruction of the village, looks like it is going to pay off. Crosses bang in, but are too high, or headers go wide.
In the midst of this, The Map and the Territory makes a substitution. Satire, humor, art, commercialism, are left in, but pure literary fiction is taken off, and sent on in its place is top-flight genre fiction. French police vomit at a horrific crime scene, aging detectives work with their young replacements to solve a high-profile murder, and our former protagonist becomes part of the investigation. The switch does wonders. Losing no pace, no fluidity, but gaining width and pace where exhaustion had it lagging, France scores again almost immediately after the substitution, to take what seems like an impossible to overcome 3-1 lead.
From then, Ecuador fights back fiercely. Finally giving in to rough challenges, unafraid of hitting again and again to take control of the ball, The Potbellied Virgin never stops threatening France's goal. Knowing that violence has suited Houellebecq well, Yánez Cossío tries her hand at it, with the accidental death of a child in the conflict that Doña Carmen created, in the awful and haunting retribution for that accident, where our hearts break as the offender lays dying, accepting that death. Past that, though, she offers that thing Houellebecq denies us: successful love. The lovers need to exile themselves, but there is hope for a return one day, for: "the man of flesh and blood, of weakness and lunacy that he was until a short time ago, becomes the mystic the town needs to move ahead through so many troubles, for it seems even the image of the Virgin was wearing out . . ." With that, with relentless fierceness and hope, Ecuador scores in the 87th minute, bringing it to 3-2 and giving hope.
It was not to be. France holds on to the victory we expected them to take, too wily, too thrilling, rewarding us with ease, but Ecuador was inspired, and created a memorable match, one you recount any time you're at a bar, one too many in, telling tales of sports and literature. It's the type of performance that truly makes you hope that Alicia Yánez Cossío has the chance to compete in translation again.
P.T. Smith is a writer and critic living in Vermont. He has written for Three Percent, BOMB, Quarterly Conversation, and most recently Bookslut.
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Pedro Zarraluki's The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza García) begins with the narrator and his wife, Irene, setting out to write a book about silence, itself called The History of Silence: "This is the story of how. . .


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The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML & CSS in every direction. CSS has come a long way from formatting the structured content. It was used to control layout of documents precisely and to apply different layouts to media types.
Today CSS is used to give the look and feel of giving importance to the layout and design. It saves the time which makes loading much faster and is quite easy to maintain. But not so easy to design a page with CSS because of the compatibility issues with different browsers. To give designers more flexibility and interoperability, CSS3 is proposed as the next major revision of CSS.
In this presentation, you'll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs that are coded with the major help of CSS.
A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo's design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company's commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar market. Logos are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities.
These types of corporate identities are often developed by large firms who specialize in this type of work. However, if you want to save some bucks and want to design your logo then there are many sources to get logo design inspiration. Infect, we might able to help you by presenting this showcase of Highly beautiful, original and creative logo designs for your design inspiration.
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Want to design your own site? It's not too difficult to learn, though like most things, it does have a learning curve. Where many people seem to get tripped up is in specific solutions to specific problems. Fortunately there's a good chance that someone before you has already had the same problem and even better has found a solution.
In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a Clean Blog theme in Photoshop also i will show some of technique that may help you to create more themes in the future, we usually create one page "Home Page", but in this tutorial we are going to create two page "Home Page" and "Content Page", Grab your coffee and let's get started and see how to prepare a clean and sleek blog theme by yourself.
The blogosphere is in an abiding increase both as size and importance, many blogs being considered as very trustful and enjoyable entities. Following this trend, it shouldn't come as a surprise that, in the near future, the importance of blogs and bloggers increases as well and many of their opinions will really be taken into account (somehow, we are contemporary with the beginning of this change of mentality). Apparently, it seems that to create and maintain a blog is mostly a nice job, pretty simple with a lot of interesting activities; thinking this way, many people have started their own blog but the results were ruinous. Where did they go wrong?
There are a great series of factors and a clear answer can't be pronounced, but the main mistake is to disrespect what indeed the blogging activity requires.
Yes, everyone says GET IT IN WRITING! Still most people are afraid to ask a client for a contract. Don't be ashamed of yourself for not doing it – most freelancers don't. There are many reasons behind this problem.
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Great news, everyone! The What's New Today page on the Games Workshop webstore (that's this page in case you were confused) has been optimised for Android and iPhones. Now you can look at all the great content wherever you are, be it travelling to work on the bus, relaxing in the garden or half-asleep in bed on a Saturday morning (but just awake enough to check out the latest releases).
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The Bingham Canyon open-pit copper mine is the largest man-made excavation on earth, a hole nearly three miles wide and nearly four thousand feet deep. (For that matter, it's larger than most natural excavations—much bigger than the hole left when Mount St. Helens erupted, for example.) On a typical day, half a million tons of rock are dynamited, dug up, trucked out, crushed, concentrated, smelted, and finally refined into roughly eight hundred tons of pure copper. That meets about 1 percent of global demand. Put another way, there are the equivalent of one hundred Bingham Canyons operating around the planet. Dozens more mines are in development. (You'll be hearing about one, the proposed Pebble mine in Alaska, over the coming year.) And there are plans to extend the life of Bingham Canyon for decades by pushing its operations underground. Instead of making the pit wider and deeper, operators will be tunneling beneath the ore and pulling it out from below—in blocks half a mile long on a side. The reason for all this effort? Copper carries electricity, which means it carries developing economies into modernity. Like ours a hundred years ago, when Bingham opened; like China's today.
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A hole nearly three miles wide and nearly four thousand feet deep. This is the largest man-made excavation on Earth
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Accessories designer Helen Kaminski launched her eponymous collection with a single hat handmade from raffia, a type of palm found on Madagascar. Years later, sustainably harvested raffia remains a primary source material for Kaminski's now internationally recognized brand, showing up in everything from fanciful wide-brim sun hats and adjustable visors to handbags like the Keralt — a braided, beach-ready raffia tote bag embellished with tri-tone, carved wood beads. For those days when sunshine and beaches are nowhere in sight, Kaminski offers a diverse selection of chic leather handbags and felt hats like the Murano, a fur-felt cloche that rolls up for convenient storage, and the Duke: a chic seamed bucket fedora rounded off with an Italian suede band.
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Obit Annie Supak
In Loving Memory
Of Annie (Jurajda) Supak
Annie (Jurajda) Supak was born July 8, 1905, in the Bluff Community of Fayette County, Texas, the daughter of Jan and Anna (Hrachovy) Jurajda. She grew up in the Ellinger area and married Edward A. Supak on January 31, 1928, in Ellinger. She and her husband moved to Ganado where they owned and operated a Radio and TV business and a laundry business. After retirement, they moved to Columbus and was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church. After her husband's death in 1971, she later moved to Kingsville to be near her daughters and enjoy spending time with her family. She also enjoyed gardening and gathering pecans, fishing, playing dominos and bingo.
Mrs. Supak passed away Wednesday, December 13, 2006, in a Kingsville, Texas nursing home at the age of 101 years, 5 months and 5 days. She is preceded in death by her parents, Jan and Anna (Hrachovy) Jurajda; her husband, Edward A. Supak; (1) son, Edward Supak; (4) sisters, Martha Svrcek, Mary Kramr, Lillie Supak, Rosalie Jurajda; (4) brothers, Lad, John, Adloph and Frank Jurajda.
Survivors include: (2) daughters, Cecilia Giese and husband Edwin of Kingsville; Helen Swank and husband Chester of Portland; (3) grandchildren and (5) great-grandchildren, Michelle Koehmstedt and husband Freddy and their children, Justin and Jocelyn; Yvette Joyner and her husband Chuck and their children, Colby and Cameron; Kevin Swank and wife Rene and their daughter, Sarah; (2) sisters-in-law, Rose Jurajda of LaGrange and Mary Jurajda of Ft. Worth; several nieces, nephews and numerous cousins.
Memorials may be made to St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Columbus, St. Mary's Catholic Church Restoration Fund or any favorite charity.
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This week, as we all pause to celebrate the Fourth of July, we're reminded of the significance of Independence Day — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. May you enjoy the full measure of this country's bounty and vision!
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A few months ago, I was named medical director of a brand new patient experience department for a highly regarded hospital system. I've worked there for a dozen years and have always been proud of the medical care we deliver. Staff members across all disciplines pour their hearts into their work. Still, like many others,…
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DEFINITION of 'Broadband'
A high-speed, high-capacity transmission medium that can carry signals from multiple independent network carriers. This is done on a single coaxial or fiber-optic cable by establishing different bandwidth channels. Broadband technology can support a wide range of frequencies. It is used to transmit data, voice and video over long distances simultaneously.
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Warmer days are here and there's no better time to make this sweet summer Indian treat! Kulfi is similar to the ice cream that Americans know and love but has a creamier, richer texture. Our Almond Kulfi recipe will transport you to the scenic home we call India!
Almond Kulfi
Servings: 4 servings
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- 1 cup almonds, peeled and grinded
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- 1 cup whipped cream
- 1/4 tsp powdered cardamom
- 1/2 cup pistachios, chopped
- Pinch of saffron
- Sugar to taste
Mix all the ingredients, except for pistachios and saffron, in a large bowl. Heat the mixture for three to five minutes over medium heat, then pour into a conic mold. Sprinkle with chopped pistachios and saffron before freezing for eight to ten hours.
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When you think of paprika you probably picture the image above. Of course, paprika is actually made from ground dried bell peppers and chili peppers and their 'heat' or hotness will vary.
Though primarily used for flavor, paprika does contain antioxidants and several vitamins.


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Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
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Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
Bertrand Bonello, 2014
France | French with English subtitles | Format: DCP | 95 minutes
Bonello seized on the idea of making a cinematic tribute to Ingrid Caven when he first heard her sing at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, but the portrait he eventually made finds her exploring a more expansive range of performance styles and moods. A former member of R.W. Fassbinder's cinematic troupe—the two were married for a brief stretch in the 1970s—and the ostensible subject of a fictional biography by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Caven spends Bonello's movie singing a rich repertoire of songs, some of them traditional ballads, others non-verbal, and still others verging on abstract performance art. Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice is a showcase for a truly sui generis musician—a sort of cabaret singer for the 21st century—and a respectful tribute to one artist from another.


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