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There are things that annoy all of us – road traffic, poor phone signal, long queues and slow restaurant service. We've been complaining about these for decades now. A new age is coming though, and a new age deserves new pet peeves.
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Leet speak became popular a long time ago, and until recently was still justified when SMSes had word limits per page. That's not a problem we face anymore in the day of the internet-based messenger. The usual argument by most people for continuing to use SMS lingo is that it saves time and effort. They don't realise, however, that the amount of effort it takes for the other person to understand what they're trying to say is twice as much as it would take for them to type that additional letter. Sometimes, even that claim doesn't stand true – "irrezyztyble" instead of "irresistible", for example. Now you're just eager to use more Y's, and it shows. It's imperative that if you're reading this and still communicate using SMS lingo, you switch before Facebook starts offering translations for every word you type.
Using your phone during a
If we're talking about annoying digital habits, then it's safe to assume that texting on the phone while someone else is trying to talk to you is perhaps as annoying – bordering on rude – as it can get. When you're done with all your important chores in Second Life, and are finally ready to give this other world that you were born in a try, we encourage you to actually give it a fair shot.
Getting lost in your gadget while spending time with other people is not only annoying for the other person, but is also very disrespectful.
Food Pics
Everybody loves food. Even if the food is far beyond our means, there's great pleasure derived from looking at pictures of attractive food. This is entirely understandable and is the secret to the success of Masterchef, and more recently, movies like Chef.
Posting pictures of your meals regularly on online forums and captioning it with various onomatopoeias to describe your reaction to it is sort of the equivalent of amateur porn that nobody really enjoys. Your photography is substandard, your captions might be lacking, and the food itself may be ordinary, but a happy consumer who is satisfied with his meal is blind to all this, and won't think twice before posting his work online.
You knew this was coming. There are some things that you know are bad for you, yet you indulge in them now and then just because you enjoy it – they're called guilty pleasures.
But then, there are things that are inexcusable – selfies. Sure, we've all indulged in them at some point of time – blame peer pressure – but just the fact that they make such an easy target for all the narcissism and self-objectivism allegations ensures that we'll all remain hypocrites and condemn selfies.
The nature of selfies has advanced since its inception, and we've moved on from bathroom selfies to protest march selfies and road accident selfies. The gift of a selfie-stick today can be a genuinely thoughtful one, or an ironic jab, depending on who's doing the gifting. To make matters worse, there are now devices being made that can click selfies by just tapping them.
The best way to live stress-free with devices is to achieve balance between one's digital and real life, according to the pair, who together are Good Riddance Professional Organizing Solutions in Vancouver. Find ways to make positive use of your digital devices. Calendars on your phone, for example, can help you keep organized. You can also try semi-unplugging during your work week by turning off your phone in the afternoon, trying to limit your Internet use after dinner or leaving your phone out of the bedroom.


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In the Know
Rosslyn is the ideal urban environment with plenty of activities, cultural programing, a talented workforce, and proximity to DC with room to grow, all in a safe, clean, welcoming setting.
In this section, you will find articles relevant to Rosslyn and the D.C. Metro Area at large, as well as our feature profiles of Rosslyn restaurants, businesses and residents.
Are you a reporter with questions or do you have a story that Rosslyn residents and employees need to know about? Send us your questions and suggestions here.
Press Releases
September 2020
Join the Rosslyn BID and Carpe Librum for the Return of Rosslyn Reads on Saturday, September 26!
September 22, 2020
Rosslyn Continues Jazz Tradition with Reimagined, Physically-Distant Jazz Supper Clubs Hosted by the Rosslyn BID
September 9, 2020
June 2020
Rosslyn BID Launches Phase II of "Rosslyn Ready" to Provide Specialized Guidance to Rosslyn Businesses and Residents for a Healthy and Successful Re-Opening Following COVID-19
June 18, 2020
A message from The Rosslyn BID
June 5, 2020
May 2020
Rosslyn BID Launches "Rosslyn Ready" to Provide Specialized Aid and Strategy to Rosslyn Businesses for Successful Re-Opening Following COVID-19
May 11, 2020
April 2020
Rosslyn BID Launches "BIDGO" Game to Help Residents Make The Most of Their Time at Home
April 30, 2020
Rosslyn BID Contributes $100k to Support Small Businesses During COVID-19
April 27, 2020
Rosslyn BID Launches Free New Virtual Community Resources with Trivia Contests and Wellness Programs
April 6, 2020
March 2020
Rosslyn BID Announces New Resources and Support for Restaurants and Businesses During COVID-19 Pandemic
March 23, 2020
December 2019
Rosslyn companies honored by Arlington Economic Development
December 11, 2019
June 2019
Rosslyn Selected as Final Site for Arlington County Boathouse
June 19, 2019
May 2019
Pop-Up Putt-Putt Course to Open in Rosslyn this Summer
May 21, 2019
Rosslyn Jazz Fest Mixes Gulf Coast Soul with DC's Go-Go Roots for 29th Season
May 8, 2019
April 2019
Rosslyn Central Place Plaza Becomes Floral Oasis This Mother's Day Weekend
April 15, 2019
March 2019
Rosslyn BID Hosts Second Annual Rosslyn Reads! Book Festival
March 26, 2019
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In The News
September 2020
Jazz Fest Supper Clubs in Rosslyn
Sep 22 K Street Magazine
DC Jazz Fest, Rosslyn Jazz Supper Club blend local restaurants and musicians
Sep 22 WTOP Online
Fall Festivals, Livestream Theater, and an Art Talk Happy Hour: Things to Do in Washington, September 21-23
Sep 21 Washingtonian
So far, so good for first phase of Phone2Action's return to its Rosslyn office
Sep 17 Washington Business Journal
Arlington 9/11 flags
Sep 16 WJLA
3 Rosslyn High-Rise Towers Top Out
Sep 16 Arlington Patch
Rosslyn Jazz Fest Turns Into Jazz Supper Club for 2020
Sep 15 ARLnow
News Demand Has Dipped In Dense R-B Corridor, But Its Mix Of Uses Has Blunted COVID Impacts
Sep 15 Bisnow
Rosslyn Jazz Fest Turns Into Jazz Supper Club for 2020
Sep 15 ARLnow
7 Places to See Live Music
Sep 14 Arlington Magazine
Jazz Supper Club Series Offers Music Under The Stars Or At Home
Sep 10 Yahoo! News
August 2020
Restaurant transforms Rosslyn rooftop terrace into cocktail bar with best views of D.C.
Aug 9 WJLA
Six outdoor sculptures you might walk by without realizing they're by famous artists
Aug 6 Washington Post
July 2020
How Arlington's New Economic Development Director Is Managing The Pandemic
Jul 8 Bisnow
June 2020
Rosslyn BID Gets Neighborhood Ready For Phase 3
Jun 30 Arlington Patch
There are a lot of friendly reminders in Rosslyn that we're still in the midst of a pandemic
Jun 18 Washington Business Journal
May 2020
Washington DC begins reopening in fits and starts
May 29 AP NEWS
Arlington Restaurants Can Expand Outdoor Seating to Sidewalks and Parking Lots
May 26 Washingtonian
Rosslyn city leaders help business owners prepare for the 'new normal' amid coronavirus
May 21 WUSA 9
15 Things You Need to Know (Washington DC)
May 13 Bisnow
Rosslyn BID Launches "Rosslyn Ready" To Prepare Businesses for Reentry
May 12 Commercial Observer
Arlington County taking grant applications from pandemic-stricken businesses
May 8 WTOP
April 2020
Local Restaurant Group to Deliver 'Happy Endings'
Apr 23 ARLnow
Earn Rewards When You Support Your Local Restaurants With #RosslynRewards
Apr 13 StayArlington
March 2020
Here's how you can safely support your favorite restaurant hit hard by coronavirus
Mar 27 WUSA 9
Rosslyn BID Highlights Dining Options During Coronavirus
Mar 26 Yahoo! News
Rosslyn's Key Bridge Marriott will soon see a full transformation
Mar 25 Washington Business Journal
New Home Improvement TV Studio Coming to Rosslyn
Mar 24 ARLnow
Rosslyn Offers Rewards to Those Who Order Takeout, Delivery
Mar 23 NBC 4
February 2020
The 13 Hottest Bars in D.C., January 2020 (featuring Rosslyn's Salt!)
Feb 5 Eater DC
January 2020
Chef Fabio Trabocchi's Virginia debut proves a success with Sfoglina
Jan 14 Northern Virginia Magazine
December 2019
Meet the winners of DC's 2019 Technical.ly Awards
Dec 19 Technical.ly
Biz Talk: Arlington Recognizes the County's Four Fastest-Growing Companies of 2019
Dec 18 ARLnow.com
Inside Salt, a Sophisticated New Cocktail Basement in Arlington
Dec 17 Eater DC
Here's an early look at new places to eat, drink in Rosslyn
Dec 13 Washington Business Journal
Open Road and Salt to Open Next Week
Dec 13 ARLnow.com
Happy Endings Eatery Now Open in Rosslyn
Dec 10 ARLnow.com
Nestle USA donates $200K to Arlington Community Foundation
Dec 10 Washington Business Journal
November 2019
Knowland SmartSearch Functionality Enables HEI Hotels & Resorts to Proactively Sell Group Business With Innovative Approach
Nov 12 Yahoo! Finace
Plans For Major Rosslyn Transportation Overhaul Finalized
Nov 12 ARLnow.com
Rosslyn's New Taco Shop Tops Oversized Micheladas With Ceviche Shots
Nov 5 Eater DC
Knowland Named in 20 Most Promising Travel and Hospitality Tech Solution Providers for 2019
Nov 5 Cision
October 2019
The Heights: BIG and Leo A Daly complete terraced school building for creative learning in Arlington
Oct 30 Archinect News
H-B Woodlawn opens in Rosslyn in BIG-designed, $100M building
Oct 28 Washington Business Journal
Arlington (Va.) district marks the opening of newest building, The Heights
Oct 28 American School & University
Marine Running Marathon in Memory of Fallen Marines, Sailors
Oct 25 NBC 4 Washington
Condo transformation coincides with Rosslyn's
Oct 24 Washington Post
Rosslyn Cider Fest at Gateway Park
Oct 17 On Tap Magazine
Neighborhood Spotlight: Where to eat in Rosslyn
Oct 12 ARLnow.com
Chef Fabio Trabocchi's Rosslyn Pasta House Opens Saturday
Oct 4 Eater DC
H-B Woodlawn Students Foster Friendship With Office Dwellers Next Door Through Sticky Notes
Oct 4 ARLnow.com
Sfoglina Opening in Rosslyn This Weekend
Oct 2 ARLnow.com
One shared meal at a time: The unique way this Virginia group is helping people with eating disorders
Oct 2 Washington Post
September 2019
Red bus lanes: Now in Rosslyn & Silver Spring!
Sep 25 Greater Greater Washington
Flags across Rosslyn continues for an 18th year
Sep 12 WTOP
Taco Rock Expected to Open in Rosslyn By End of September
Sep 5 ARLnow.com
HB Woodlawn hurries to prepare new Rosslyn campus before first day of school
Sep 2 ABC 7/WJLA
August 2019
11 things to do in the D.C. area this week
Aug 29 Washington Post
Rosslyn Jazz Festival presents Grammy artists free at Gateway Park
Aug 29 WTOP
Widened Section of the Custis Trail Now Open in Rosslyn
Aug 29 ARLnow.com
Meridian Group sells Rosslyn office building, major upgrades planned
Aug 23 Washington Business Journal
South Block Planning to Open New Rosslyn Location Next Week ARLnow.comAugust 22, 2019 at 1:30pm
Aug 22 ARLnow.com
Rosslyn's Ames Center pitched for redevelopment into two mixed-use towers
Aug 14 Washington Business Journal
Art Institute Building in Rosslyn to Be Redeveloped as Residential Towers
Aug 13 ARLnow.com
New Rosslyn Art Installation Leaves Colorful Impression
Aug 12 ARLnow.com
Nestle growing its Rosslyn headquarters
Aug 7 Washington Business Journal
Nestlé USA expands headquarters space
Aug 7 Virginia Business
Rosslyn's Mini-Golf and Candy Pop-Up Is Here for the Summer
Aug 7 Eater DC
Rosslyn's Mini-Golf and Candy Pop-Up Is Here for the Summer
Aug 7 Eater DC
'Coding Dojo' Moves from Tysons to Rosslyn
Aug 5 ARLnow.com
Dark Star Park Alignment
Aug 1 Washington City Paper
July 2019
Once A Year, This Arlington Sculpture Puts On A Light And Shadow Show
Jul 30 DCist
11 things to do in the D.C. area this week
Jul 29 Washington Post
JUST IN: Gold's Gym to Open New Location in Rosslyn
Jul 24 ARLnow.com
Arts Focus: Arlington Arts & The Hirshhorn Celebrate 35th Anniversary of Iconic Dark Star Park
Jul 10 ARLnow.com
6 pretty places to have a picnic around the D.C. area
Jul 10 Washington Post
How to have the perfect Friday night date in Rosslyn. (Seriously, Rosslyn.)
Jul 3 Washington Post
June 2019
Putt-Putt Reinvented: 7 Artistic Miniature Golf Courses Big On Fun
Jun 30 Forbes
Sfoglina Aims for Post-Labor Day Launch in Rosslyn
Jun 28 ARLnow.com
Rosslyn Boathouse Project Advances, But Some Opposition Looms
Jun 20 ARLnow.com
Metro will study untangling the Orange, Silver, and Blue lines. Here's what has been suggested in the past.
Jun 20 Greater Greater Washington
Rosslyn's Metro Mall Is Getting a Food Hall With a Cool Way to Pay
Jun 20 Eater DC
Let It Run: Arlington Boathouse Crosses Milestone
Jun 18 Arlington County Press Release
New Rosslyn station, tunnel and train turnarounds possible under new Metro study
Jun 18 WTOP
National Park Service moves forward with boathouse proposal
Jun 18 Insidenova.com
New Rosslyn station, tunnel and train turnarounds possible under new Metro study
Jun 18 WTOP
Arlington County paddles closer to getting a boathouse
Jun 17 WTOP
Neighborhood Spotlight: Throw Punches, Torch Calories and Build Strength at BASH Boxing in Rosslyn
Jun 15 ARLnow.com
450 Units Including Family-Sized Condos: The Plans for the Key Bridge Marriott
Jun 14 Urban Turf
New Food Hall Coming to Rosslyn
Jun 11 ARLnow.com
Building above Rosslyn Metro to get major facelift, new food hall
Jun 11 Washington Business Journal
May 2019
Rosslyn Preparing Putt Putt Pop-Up for This Summer
May 31 ARLnow.com
Take an Early Look at the Condos Coming to Rosslyn's Huge New Mixed-Use Development
May 16 Washingtonian
A Rock-Themed Shop Will Start Selling Banh Mi Tacos in Rosslyn This Summer
May 9 Eater DC
New Thai Restaurant to Replace Rosslyn's Rolls by U
May 9 ARLnow.com
Rosslyn observation deck rebrands to reflect what it really is
May 3 Washington Business Journal
April 2019
Rosslyn Reads returns to Central Place Plaza
Apr 25 LocalDVM.com
Pop-Up Book Festival Coming to Rosslyn on Thursday
Apr 23 ARLnow.com
This New "Social Impact" Cycling Studio in Rosslyn Is the First of Its Kind in the Area
Apr 11 Washingtonian
Small Biz Focus: 3 Things Entrepreneurs Will Love About Arlington
Apr 10 ARLnow.com
March 2019
Local Photographer to Mount First Solo Show at Rosslyn CAFE
Mar 26 ARLnow.com
New Rosslyn Restaurant Now Hiring
Mar 26 ARLnow.com
Rosslyn Safeway Upgraded With New Starbucks, Seafood, and Shelves
Mar 21 ARLnow.com
Arlington Artist Focuses on Local Sights and Light
Mar 14 Connection Newspapers
In Rosslyn, a potential transportation tweak with a huge impact
Mar 13 Washington Business Journal
2019 Best Places to Live in Virginia
Mar 5 Niche.com
Rosslyn Set to See New Pedestrian Safety Improvements at Busy Road Crossings
Mar 1 ARLnow.com
February 2019
Tech Company Yext Plans Major Rosslyn Expansion, Bringing 500 Jobs to the County
Feb 22 ARLnow
Digital brand management company Yext promises 500 Northern Va. jobs
Feb 21 WTOP
Capitals' Tom Wilson invests in — wait for it — a boxing gym
Feb 11 Washington Business Journal
The 5 Best Winter Hikes and Walks Around Washington DC
Feb 11 Washingtonian
January 2019
Two Greater Washington companies make Fortune's most-admired list
Jan 23 Washington Business Journal
Champagne Comes With a 32nd-Story View At Rosslyn's Towering New Bar
Jan 4 Eater DC
WeWork Signs 83K-SF Lease in Rosslyn, Va.
Jan 2 Commercial Observer
December 2018
Scooter corrals? Arlington tests out ways to handle flood of dockless vehicles.
Dec 28 Washington Business Journal
WeWork makes first foray into Rosslyn (and it's a big one)
Dec 24 WTOP
Rosslyn office building offered for sale, with HQ2 proximity as a lure
Dec 24 Washington Business Journal
WeWork Takes 83,294 SF at CEB Tower
Dec 20 Globe St
WashREIT Introduces Flexible Office Concept At Newly Acquired Rosslyn Tower
Dec 12 Bisnow
November 2018
New condos and apartments in Arlington County could draw Amazon HQ2 workers
Nov 27 The Washington Post
Podcast: Talking Social Media with Justin Bensan of the Rosslyn BID
Nov 21 ARLnow.com
Scoping out the best spots in Rosslyn
Nov 1 WUSA-9
October 2018
Check out new renderings of Penzance's western Rosslyn development
Oct 9 Washington Business Journal
Monday Properties unveils new Rosslyn rooftop as latest salvo in amenities race
Oct 4 Washington Business Journal
September 2018
CREW Honors Top Women In D.C. Real Estate At Annual Awards Ceremony
Sep 28 BISNOW
CREW Honors Top Women In D.C. Real Estate At Annual Awards Ceremony
Sep 28 BISNOW
Healthcare IT Company Cerner Opening Office in Rosslyn
Sep 25 ARLnow.com
WeWork sets sights on Rosslyn for next D.C.-area location
Sep 21 Washington Business Journal
Arlington Considers Plan for 150 Hotel Rooms, 64 Apartments on Rosslyn's Best Western Site
Sep 19 BISNOW
Record year for Flags Across Rosslyn marks 17th anniversary of 9/11
Sep 12 WTOP
Preview: Rosslyn Jazz Fest Ranges from Old to New, Soul to Salsa
Sep 5 Arlington Connection
4 shows to see in the Washington area over the next several days
Sep 5 The Washington Post
August 2018
Rosslyn-Based Vemo Education Aims to Improve Tuition Financing
Aug 27 ARLnow.com
Workout Fundraiser Planned for Local Hotel Manager and Advocate
Aug 22 ARLnow.com
Small Biz Focus: The Alcove Comes Alive
Aug 22 ARLnow.com
5 Things to Know About Rosslyn's New Pop-Up 'The Alcove'
Aug 14 Washingtonian
The Alcove brings a new pop-up space to Rosslyn
Aug 13 dc refined
Now Popping Up in Rosslyn: The Alcove
Aug 6 Arlington Magazine
Nestle Opens Headquarters in VA
Aug 1 Pet Age
July 2018
Rosslyn isn't known for retail. A late summer pop-up aims to change that.
Jul 20 Washington Business Journal
National Park Service identifies boat dock location on Va. side of Potomac
Jul 3 The Washington Post
June 2018
District of Design
Jun 30 On Tap Magazine
See Arlington and DC from 31 Floors Up
Jun 28 Arlington County
Higher Logic just moved its HQ to Rosslyn
Jun 12 Washington Business Journal
Vida Fitness in talks to open in Rosslyn
Jun 12 Washington Business Journal
Check out Rosslyn's new parklet
Jun 12 Curbed DC
Observation Deck to Offer 360 Views of DC Area
Jun 11 NBC Washington
First Look: Observation Deck to Offer Panoramic Views of DC
Jun 11 NBC Washington
Convene meeting space provider picks Rosslyn for new location
Jun 6 Washington Business Journal
May 2018
Parklets provide creative public spaces in Rosslyn and beyond
May 31 Greater Greater Washington
Rosslyn Opens 'Parklet,' Kicks off Experiment in Adding Green Space to Urban Areas
May 31 ARLnow.com
A New Attraction in Arlington Offers 360-Degree Views of Washington
May 31 Washingtonian
This new observation deck will offer sweeping views of Washington
May 14 The Washington Post
Incorporating Live Performance Spaces into Existing and New Developments
May 14 Urban Land Magazine
Things to Do in DC This Weekend (May 10-13): The Caps in the Conference Finals, A Boqueria Cookbook, and the Fifth Funk Parade
May 10 Washingtonian
Exclusive: Fabio Trabocchi opening his first Northern Virginia restaurant
May 10 Washington Business Journal
Fabio Trabocchi Opening First NoVa Restaurant In Rosslyn
May 10 BISNOW
Chef Fabio Trabocchi Is Opening His Next Italian Restaurant in Virginia
May 10 Eater DC
Second Location of Fabio Trabocchi Restaurant Sfoglina to Open in Rosslyn
May 10 ARLnow.com
Phone2Action shakes up engineering and product teams
May 4 Phone2Action
April 2018
VA Towns Graded, From A+ To D-: How Did Your Community Do?
Apr 22 Patch.com
Rosslyn lands another headquarters, as international nonprofit exits D.C.
Apr 20 Washington Business Journal
Ask Eli: Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) Play Critical Role In Arlington
Apr 10 ARLnow.com
Deloitte plans major Rosslyn expansion
Apr 10 Washington Business Journal
Arlington is 168 hotel suites closer to hosting Amazon's HQ2
Apr 9 Washington Business Journal
Monday Properties finds neighbor for Nestle at 1812 N. Moore
Apr 4 Washington Business Journal
March 2018
Bethesda Bagels Set To Open In Rosslyn's Central Place
Mar 27 ARLnow.com
Bird on the loose: Wild turkey caught in Rosslyn
Mar 27 WUSA-9
AWLA Rescues Wild Turkey from Rosslyn Construction Site
Mar 26 ARLnow.com
Two Rosslyn Office Buildings Chat Via Post-it Notes
Mar 15 ARLnow.com
Rosslyn Farmers Market Starts CSA Program
Mar 12 ARLnow.com
February 2018
Board Commits $7.9 Million Affordable Housing Loan to Queen's Court South
Feb 27 ARLnow.com
Rosslyn Nando's Sets Opening Date
Feb 7 ARLnow.com
January 2018
'Bash Boxing' to Replace Cafe Asia in Rosslyn
Jan 31 ARLnow.com
Here's the latest with the Georgetown-Rosslyn gondola
Jan 30 Washington Business Journal
Arlington's Cafe Asia to become a boutique fitness studio
Jan 30 Washington Business Journal
Rosslyn-Ballston Office Vacancy Rate Expected to Keep Dropping this Year
Jan 18 ARLnow.com
Northern Virginia, D.C. on Amazon 'Top 20' List for HQ2
Jan 18 ARLnow.com
Northern Virginia made Amazon's short list? But of course, say local business leaders.
Jan 18 Washington Business Journal
Podcast: Rosslyn Business Improvement District CEO Mary-Claire Burick
Jan 12 ARLnow.com
Wash REIT inks $250 million deal for Rosslyn office tower
Jan 2 Washington Business Journal
December 2017
Metro adds free Wi-Fi at 24 more stations
Dec 14 WTOP
Nestlé opens up to millennials in Rosslyn HQ
Dec 14 FDI Intelligence
How Transportation Fixes Could Help Rosslyn Land the Next Nestle
Dec 8 Bisnow
How JBG Smith plans to engage Rosslyn with art
Dec 6 Washington Business Journal
How Penzance's West Rosslyn Project Will Transform a Key Section of the R-B Corridor
Dec 5
November 2017
Federal contracting incubator forms international business partnership
Nov 28 Washington Business Journal
Emphasis On Experience Fuels Rosslyn's Live-Work-Play Transformation
Nov 15 Bisnow
JBG Smith selects operator for Central Place observation deck
Nov 9 Washington Business Journal
October 2017
Phone2Action's Dr. Ximena Hartsock (Rosslyn company)
Oct 25 Consumer Technology Association
9 things to do in the D.C. area this weekend (Rosslyn Harvest Fest included)
Oct 23 Washington Post Going Out Guide
D.C.'s Best Halloween Events, mapped
Oct 17 Curbed, Washington, D.C.
Rosslyn Startup Brings Geo-Targeting, Real-Time Updates to Electronic Taxi Ads
Oct 16 ARLnow.com
Most livable: America's 50 best cities to live in
Oct 13 USA Today
UVA Business School Expanding in Rosslyn High-Rise
Oct 3 ARLnow.com
U.Va.'s Darden School to open new facilities in Rosslyn
Oct 2 Virginia Business
September 2017
UVA Darden Announces New Facilities in Washington DC Area
Sep 29 University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Central Coffee Bar to Open 'Very Soon' in Rosslyn
Sep 27 ARLnow.com
Beer Garden 101: Rules, etiquette and where to find them in NoVA
Sep 27 Northern Virginia Magazine
US and Canadian cities vie for new Amazon headquarters
Sep 25 fDi Magazine

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Jennifer Aniston is "humbled" by her Golden Globes nomination.
The actress received a nod Thursday morning in the Best Actress in a Drama category for her role in indie film Cake.
The mention follows a Best Actress nomination from the Screen Actors Guild, building up buzz about a possible Oscar.
"I'm just humbled," she told EW.com. "It's just all happening so fast and so beautifully. The Globes are a big fun party and it's so fun to celebrate with your peers."
The role was a welcome one for Jennifer, who admittedly had to fight to earn it. She credits director Daniel Barnz with trusting her to do the film justice, playing the role of a woman drawn to a widower when a woman in her chronic pain group commits suicide.
"Daniel Barnz the director has said that, and it's what I'm so grateful and thankful for about him, that he did sort of take the chance," Jennifer said. "I begged and pleaded and promised I would go to the moon and back with him. It was an unexpected way to go and he believed in me."
The 2015 Golden Globe Awards are scheduled to take place January 11.
It will be a big night for more than just Jennifer, who's also celebrating a nomination for good pal Emily Blunt, who will compete in the category for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical thanks to her role in Into the Woods.
"My friend Emily is nominated so I'm excited for her," the actress gushed. "We're just going to have a fun night."0


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Every Day Song
Every Day Song is a song sung in "Insane in the Crane Game".
SwaySway: Sometimes we meet big monsters scary and cruel. Buhdeuce: Sometimes the Rocket Van runs low on fuel.
SwaySway: When Oonski's on our backs with his pointy hat and we're trembling. Oonski: Trembling?!
Buhdeuce: Always delivering goods in nasty hoods I don't worry about a thing.
(Parade of Lights' Golden plays) SwaySway: Why's that?
Buhdeuce: You can man the van with your feathered hands And do quazy tricks SwaySway: And you can do ninja rolls and summersalts and booty kicks. Buhdeuce: Yeah, boy!
Both: We are the best breadwinners that we can be.
SwaySway: Your better than the best. Your bestest to me.
Buhdeuce: But I can't even floss my beak... SwaySway: So? Buhdeuce: Or count to three. SwaySway: That's why you got me....
Buhdeuce: I really am the best Breadwinner that I can be SwaySway: You can be... (Parade of Lights' Golden plays again) Both: We can beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... Narrator: Be here for Breadwinners. Coming in February, on Nick.
Episode – "Insane in the Crane Game / Buhdeuce Goes Berserks"


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Love My Way by Kate Sterritt
Genre: Women's Fiction, Romance
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Buy Now: Amazon
Her name is Emerson Hart and she is the love of his life.
Unfortunately, he's not the only love of hers.
And therein lies the problem.
The cover was what initially drew me to this book. I know, I know never judge a book by its cover, but one thing you need to know about me is that I am an ultimate cover WH*RE, which means sometimes I miss out on some amazing books. I just can't help it because the cover is usually the first thing I see when I add books to my TBR list, which is probably something I need to stop doing. However, I am totally glad that I judged this book by its cover because this book has all the FEELS! This is my very first Kate Sterritt read, but lets just say that she gained a new fan with this extraordinary story!
WOW! There is so much that I want to say about this incredible story, but truthfully if I did my review would probably be filled with spoiler after spoiler. So instead of that I am going to tell you what I felt while reading this book, so sit back and get ready to FEEL! I just wanted to say that this book had me in tears so make sure to grab a huge box of Kleenex before going in because you'll certainly need it with this story. When I first started this story I totally assumed that it was going to be a TRIANGLE romance, but what I got was something completely different and completely unexpected. I guess my best advice is to go in blind, DO NOT read SPOILER FILLED REVIEWS because this is the kind of story that you want to experience first hand. Lets just say that you will be left with the ultimate book hangover in the end. I devoured this beautifully captivating story and stayed up late into the night (more like early morning) to finish it. Honestly my head and heart are still reeling so I may completely rewrite this review eventually, but for now I hope it perfectly described what I felt!
About Kate Sterritt
Kate Sterritt lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband, three young sons and highly energetic German Shorthaired Pointer puppy.
When she's not madly juggling the logistics of soccer trainings, play dates and volunteering at the school, she can be found at her laptop, writing the types of novels she loves to read. Her characters are inspired by her own experiences, blended with her imagination and a healthy dose of wishful thinking.
Connect with the author: Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Newsletter


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by Martin
Martin here!
Remember the old man you've just seen in the previous submissions?
Well, this girl shaped virus was inside of him!
It was done with Softimage (version 3.8 if I remember correctly!)
And yes, it was my first experience with a 3D software!
Don't hesitate to do the same and submit some images of your own!
Thanks! :)


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Today I am sharing my meal plan for the week. My purpose for doing this is (1) that it helps me actually DO a meal plan and stay accountable. And (2) I have gotten feedback that it helps to give you guys some ideas for your own meals, plus maybe a few new recipes to try. I do share links to recipes where I can.
Monday – Black bean soup (freezer) and skillet corn bread
Tuesday – White bean and turkey sausage rigatoni
Wednesday – Rotisserie chicken (Costco), quinoa and butter peas
Thursday – Pork roast, potatoes and asparagus
Friday – Homemade pizza
Saturday – Turkey burgers and oven fries
Sunday – leftovers
This week will be our first full week to work after vacation, just to give you some context. So my first meal for the week is from the freezer: black bean soup. I will make some skillet corn bread to go with this.
I am trying one new recipe from my Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book – White bean and turkey sausage rigatoni. The rest of the meals are regulars that we work into the rotation.
What is on your meal plan? Do you have any great healthy recipes to share? Share in the comments below!


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'Hello Dolly' Carol Channing Going Strong at 95: Honored in Concert By Broadway's Best
Carol Channing recently turned 95-years-old and she is still going "still glowin'...you're still crowin'...you're still goin' strong." The Hello Dolly actress' storied career will celebrated tonight at McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, CA in a special concert featuring some of Broadway's best. The special sold out concert welcomes special guest like Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown) Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun, A Christmas Story), Alan Cumming (Cabaret) and many, many more.
The official MCCallum Theater website offers some details on tonight's big event, writing:
"International stage and screen superstar, Carol Channing, turns 95 this year and the stars are coming out to celebrate! A recipient of the 1995 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, Carol Channing became a household name as the original and definitive Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! Time magazine called her a "brilliant nova on the Great White Way, re-illuminating the legend of show business". Join us for an unforgettable night celebrating a true living legend! Don't miss special appearances by Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Florence Henderson, Cloris Leachman, Gavin MacLeod, Lily Tomlin and MANY MORE!"
The website goes on to note that artist are subject to change.
For addition details please log on to Mccallumtheatre.com or reach out to the McCallum Theatre box office at (760) 340-ARTS, located at 73000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert.© 2016 The Classical Art, All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.


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2014 - 2016
In 2014 the UNFPA in collaboration with USAID Armenia launched new project "Promoting Contraceptive Security in Armenia" aimed at supporting the Ministry of Health to strengthen coordination mechanisms for improved planning, monitoring and evaluation of reproductive health commodities through introduction of sustainable financing mechanisms involving all sectors stakeholders, such as Total Market Approach (TMA).
The Community Awareness Raising Campaign throughout Armenia (CARCATA) project is designed to effect the demand of the modern contraceptives and to address underlying social issues that influence contraceptive behavior while also providing accurate information about the benefits of family planning for women, their children, and their families in the framework of the above-mentioned project UNFPA/USAID project on "Promoting Contraceptive Security in Armenia". The CARCATA project is implemented by International Center for Human Development (ICHD) in cooperation with the "Generations' Solidarity" Youth NGO (G'S) and the Theatre for Changes (T4C) in close consultation with the local health department of regional administration, marz chief gynecologists, as well as with UNFPA "Promote contraceptive security in Armenia" project office.more >>
The overall objective of conducting country consultations was to stimulate discussions amongst national stakeholders involved in addressing MDGs, and voice out the perspectives, challenges and concerns of various groups of common citizens who were directly influenced by policies that contribute to the achievement of MDGs.more >>
2012 - ongoing
Despite to consistent efforts of the Government of Armenia, development partners and civil society, the local democratic governance and equal participation of women and men in local decision making have not shown much progress for the past decades. To address the issue in 2012 ICHD started the project "Strengthening local capacities for local democracy in Armenia through institutionalizing effective and equal public participation in local decision making". The project is part of a larger programme implemented by UNDP and funded by the European Union: Women in local democracy.more >>
Fall 2009
Critical decisions on foreign policies affect people's lives just as decisions on domestic policies do. ICHD continually focuses on bringing people to the table of negotiations and critical decisions on foreign policy, conflict resolution and security, peace and stability in the region.
Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued two protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations between two countries and development of relations signed by Armenia and Turkey under Swiss mediation on August 31. Both documents triggered controversial discussions and disputes in both societies turning into a topic of "hot" debates. To channel the voice of the citizens to decision makers on this very sensitive issue, through open public discussion, ICHD, supported by the USIAD, has launched initiative to expose perspectives of civil society to the decision makers and to enable the consideration of people's opinions, concerns and expectations in this critical process in late September 2009. ICHD's initiative moved isolated beneficiaries from the margin of the process closer to its hearth and enabled finding valid and viable solutions to a vital issue for the country through a participatory process.more >>
2005 – ongoing
One of the major areas of ICHD's work is promoting the participatory democracy in Armenia and in the region. Here ICHD works with national and local decision makers, building their capacity to engage the citizenry through various channels; promotes environment conducive for the participatory decision making process; develops and implements mechanism that enable the effective participation of citizens in the decision making process at the national and local levels. The Town Hall Meeting mechanism, one of the most effective and vibrant models of facilitating public participation in decision making process both in local and expert communities. The Town Hall Meeting (THM) mechanism creates meaningful opportunities for citizens to participate in public decision making.more >>
2006 - 2010
Very few initiatives have brought together Armenians and Azeris around the table of discussions on the resolution of Nagorno Karabakh (NK) conflict since ever. While the decision makers are engaged in effort to resolve the NK conflict at the negotiation table, the people seem to stay alienated from the issue that has vital impact on each and every family in both Armenia and Azerbaijan. People in both societies needed effective mechanisms to get their voices heard by those who led the negotiations and strike the deal. One of the most effective mechanisms enabling people to speak loudly and being heard by the decision makers is the ICHD's Town Hall Meeting mechanism. We have used the THM mechanism to get the opinions and perspectives of the people in Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan on peaceful resolution of the NK conflict through 2006-2010...
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The International Center for Human Development (ICHD) with the financial support of the Federal Foreign Office (Germany) and in partnership with The State Migration Service of Ministry of Territorial Administration and infrastructure of the Republic of Armenia and "Armenian Caritas" Benevolent NGO, on 15 October 2019 has implemented of local meetings in Lori region in the framework of Preventing Irregular Migration from Armenia to the Federal Republic of Germany by Raising Awareness of Potential Migrants" project. State and local self-governance bodies, service providers, media and civil society representatives participated in the event.more >>
The International Center for Human Development (ICHD) with the financial support of the Federal Foreign Office (Germany) and in partnership with The State Migration Service of Ministry of Territorial Administration and infrastructure of the Republic of Armenia and "Armenian Caritas" Benevolent NGO, on 17 September 2019 started implementation of local meetings in Shirak region in the framework of Preventing Irregular Migration from Armenia to the Federal Republic of Germany by Raising Awareness of Potential Migrants" project. State and local self-governance bodies, service providers, media and civil society representatives participated in the event.
The aim of the meetings is informing the participants about the risks, consequences of irregular migration, forms of protection given to migrants in Germany, as well as statistics on emigration and return policy from Germany to Armenia. The process of return and readmission of RA citizens, the reintegration programs of returnees implemented in the RA are also presented to the participants during the workshop.more >>
This publication is available only in Armenian.


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Opinion: Subtle Homophobia Is The New Blatant Homophobia
A few weeks ago, I went to the library to return a dreadfully boring book. That's when I encountered a group of the biggest, most ignorant jackasses in the world.
Daenerys vs. Cersei: who has the resources to win the final game of thrones?
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
£19 million subsidy for south west airports
The bulk of the £19 million of SWRDA subsidies were directed at Newquay, so greatly undermining the attractiveness and potential of the existing rail link to the town. Likewise the £4+ million subsidy to Plymouth airport will give airlines a further competitive edge over rail. Now it is possible to fly from Bristol to Newquay in 45 mins for just £29 one-way which, even allowing for airport travel and check-in, is quicker and cheaper than rail (over 4 hrs, £65 off-peak return). Those low air fares owe a lot to public subsidy.
Air travel accounts for less than 1% of total UK business turnover but accounts for 13% of greenhouse gas emissions. You might think curbing the growth in air travel, particularly of domestic flights that can realistically be undertaken by rail or coach, should be the very top of the government's environmental agenda. Instead we find them pouring millions of our money into subsidies to support air travel at the expense of rail travel.
SWRDA is headed by career quangocrats Jane Henderson (CEO) and Juliet Williams (chair) - nice to see women taking a leading role in screwing the environment for our grandchildren. The board inevitably includes local serial quangocrat and Merchant Venturer John Savage, who, we are told, is "passionately concerned about the failure of the British educational system to produce opportunities for a large swathe of underprivileged young people..." which he "strives to redress" through, amongst other things, spending public funds subsidising the business and holiday trips of his privileged chums in the west country's elite.
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Interesting stat, surprisingly high figure, but unsurprising use of public money by the SWRDA.
Frustratingly the SWRDA's remitt is basically to support economic growth, i.e create jobs, irrespective of any other impact. It just illustrates the misuse of public money by an unaccountable quangos with the the sole objective of creating jobs to illustrate what a good job they do!
- 07/07/2009, 16:12
On a slight tangent it got me thinking about plot 6 and the petition for a transport interchange.
The plot 6 site is currently frustrating me. Clearly it needs to be used (in part)for the Temple Meads interchange of any rapid transit system introduced into the city. The RDA plan to use the existing concourse for buses and taxi only, which is fine. but any prospect of a tram of even BRT providing a good interchange will require the use of plot 6, which are present is being blocked.
Simply looking at how a rapid transit service could navigate the centre and serve Temple Meads highlights that the north side of temple meads provides a simpler and therefore more realistic prospect of providing an interchange. So why aren't they including this, Is it because it doesn't create jobs?
Ok personally I would love to see some consideration of a tram train system for Bristol. The governemnt is currently planning a two year trial on the Pennistone Line in Yorkshire.
In short run the Severn Beach line and Portishead line into platforms 1 and 2 at Temple Meads respectively (the dead end ones). Continue both sets of tracks under Temple Meads/Digby Wyatt shed into plot 6 and then extend them on street to the centre and back either direct down victoria street or circular via the inner ring road bus lanes.
Extend the existing concourse under temple meads to provide access to new platforms for the tram trains and create a second northern entrance incorporating the Digby Wyatt shed with retail concession/tickets hall and stairs/lift to the extended concourse.
Why are the SWRDA effectively blocking this? Don't they realise there is an intrinsic link between economic growth and the provision of attractive infrastructure?
I know that Bristol is currently putting its self forward with other Core cities to pilot and Accelerated Development Zone. This form of Tax Incremental funding re-couples the link between business rates and infrastructure by allowing the LA to forward fund infrastructure based on future increases in business rates. A dream for Bristol given the current distribution of business rates based on population which never does the city any favours considering the relatively high rateable values and high level of business growth.
I wonder what Jon Rogers thinks of this?
- 07/07/2009, 16:44
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- PhilC said...
And, as I posted here, the airport owners also paid no tax last year despite a £24m operating profit.
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We asked you last week to help us show BP that when hiring unethical photographers (or photo editors) in the future, they should look for Photoshop proficiency on their resumes.
In response, you put the company's pathetic photo-doctoring of oil-cleanup press photos to shame. Your work was not only more skilled, it was far more imaginative. Why just remove the ground beneath a parked helicopter when you could put that chopper on the moon instead?
We've all heard the stories of BP hiring photo editors for their PR shots and the backlash from that.
In response, Wired sent out a call for submission from their readers to, "lend poor, embattled BP a hand and show them what people who actually know how to use Photoshop can do."
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1. lemons. in many forms: fresh, preserved, seared, zested. but lemony, no thanks. associations with cleaning product inevitably prevail.
2. almonds. almond paste and marzipan equally distasteful. amaretto all the worse. notable exceptions – danish frøsnapper.
3. bananas. for which i have been suffering an unaccountable craving of late (that i gratify based on a rumour i heard that we [the world] will be running out of bananas soon, so i may as well get 'em while i can) due less to any great affection for their taste than what i assume is an underlying potassium deficiency, or the state of nigh-perpetual hangover that seems to attend my waking hours regardless of how recently or copiously i drank. possibly it is of neurasthenic or glandular origin. notable exceptions – banana bread, and Salers Gentiane, which does not taste like, nor does it bear any relation to, bananas, and in the rest of the world outside of Canada is not even yellow.
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Another member of the cast is stepping away from the next series
TOWIE is saying goodbye to a long-serving cast member as Lydia Bright has decided to leave the show – and it could be due to another star returning.
The 27-year-old has confirmed that she'll be taking some time out from the series and reports have claimed that it's down to her ex James 'Arg' Argent's potential comeback, as Lydia's apparently keen to avoid being part of a storyline with him.
TOWIE's Lydia Bright reaches out to James 'Arg' Argent during his rehab stint
'Lydia's loved being on TOWIE despite the stresses it's caused in her personal life, particularly when it comes to Arg,' an insider says.
'She was weighing up her future following the end of the last series and with Arg clearly being back in contention, it triggered her decision.
'She knew he would get a lot of airtime and it's only natural she would be dragged into possible storylines.'
Lydia and Arg, 29, have seen their relationship play out on the programme over the years throughout their ons and offs but called it quits for good last year.
Arg then sought help for his issues in rehab and seems to be in a good place right now, having shed weight and adopted a healthier lifestyle.
He hasn't appeared on TOWIE since 2016 though but it looks like he could soon be on his way back…
Meanwhile Lydia – who is about to release her debut book – is focusing on other ventures as she leaves the show behind.
'Lydia has loads of TV and fashion projects in the pipeline and leaving TOWIE will free her up to concentrate on them,' a source tells The Sun. 'She'll always been incredibly grateful for the experience.'
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Cardiff Airport customer review
Roger Rees
Can't understand the fuss with poor road access. Cardiff is much easier to get to than most UK airports. I regularly fly KLM to Schiphol then to Shanghai. CIA is shabby and run-down catering facilities very mediocre but fortunately I don't need to use them as I drive my own car and find I can get from the place very easily. I have never encountered traffic problems. I understand taxi and public transport provision is poor.
Cardiff Airport customer review
B Murphy
Have flown from Cardiff airport several times in the past 12 years. Little has changed however - the airport is in dire need of a complete make-over. Not the cleanest of places decor old and overall looks more like a bus station. Going through customs coming from an Amsterdam flight also can seem a little nerve-wrecking - many folks are pulled over and usually customs officers with sniffer dogs come over to you I assume sniffing for drugs. This can be a little intimidating with a dog sniffing all over your luggage and person! Outside there is only one taxi company and they can charge 27 pounds sterling for a trip to downtown Cardiff. In contrast if you take a taxi from Cardiff to the airport with another taxi company it will be considerably less! One final note - recently it took me 40 minutes in the morning to get through security leaving Cardiff! In summary although this can be a useful airport to link with Schiphol in Amsterdam in reality it is way below standard and I'm surprised Welsh Tourism and local business do not push for better standards and service. Bristol airport is much nicer!
Cardiff Airport customer review
L Cadwallader
Didn't personally fly from Cardiff but we took my daughter and a friend there as they were going on a day's educational visit to Auschwitz. Access was well signposted and the separation of "drop- offs" and "pick-ups" seemed to work quite well. We were pleasantly surprised at being able to drop off the girls right outside the terminal building without any fuss. Picking them up late at night was less straightforward as they seemed to take ages coming through to the Arrivals area after the plane had landed even though none on their flight had hold luggage to collect. The delay was at passport control as three flights arrived within about 20 minutes of each other. By the time the girls came through the queue for car parking payment at one end of the arrivals area virtually joined the queue at the other end for the (one?) ticket validating machine. Some people obviously got fed up waiting in one or other of these queues so there was a snarl up by the exits from the car park while people left their cars to pay at the "box" nearby and others with tickets ready (but time running out) fuming because the exits were blocked. More pay / validation points are needed. As to the airport itself my daughter (used to Liverpool & Manchester) described it as "sweet"!
Cardiff Airport customer review
Ian Hume
When will this minor provincial airport realise it should have aspirations? As previous posts show public transport is poor especially late and early in the day. And it must be one of the few European airports that does not have a taxi rank and where very long waits in a tiny taxi shed are common. The interior is dreary and the up down turn round down up of the maze-like entrance from incoming flights is hardly an 'international arrival' experience. I use it because it is close to home but every journey brings another example of lack of customer focus and management grip. The other morning I was travelling with light hand luggage only and had printed-off my boarding card from the web. Thus I went straight upstairs to security. "The scanner's not working you'll have to go back downstairs to check in and get a regular boarding card". That I did queuing up patiently. Then upstairs again where a different member of staff remarked "sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't". I asked if she could get a supervisor to put up a prominent notice at the foot of the stairs when their only scanner went out of order like this - just so that pax didn't have to go up the stairs only to have to go down again and then up again. This appeared to be a revolutionary idea for Cardiff. Perhaps they can't source a notice board and marker pen - and I'm sure they haven't thought of having two scanners have they? They certainly haven't trained their staff to be resourceful and pro-active.
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Bob Alexander
We flew into Cardiff airport on Thursday 24th April intending to get public transport to central Cardiff. We missed the two buses that could have got us there (one direct and one via a rail connection) as they left the stand within a couple of minutes of each other and then we had to wait an hour for the next to arrive although one was scheduled to have arrived after about 45 minutes it did turn up but having dropped passengers off it drove away without picking up the waiting passengers. This was at 5pm so hardly an off-peak period!! We returned to the airport on Monday 28th April to fly to Malaga. It took us an hour to check in with bmibaby although there were only about a dozen people in the queue ahead of us. When we got to the desk we were a kilo overweight so we removed a bag of magazines from our suitcase and put it in our cabin bag which was almost empty. This put us below 20 kilos but the girl did not seem too happy at what we had done and insisted that we put the cabin bag in a measuring cradle even though it was a regulation size airline cabin bag. It fitted easily needless to say. Was she resentful at not being able to charge us excess baggage? We have travelled dozens of times all over the world with that bag and never been asked to prove its measurements before. Then it was the turn of the security check into departures. One desk open a large queue of people and further delays. We and others expressed our annoyance at the fact that there were 11 other security staff just hanging about chatting to each other. To add further insult to passengers some 'staff' who had been waiting to clear security were called forward and given priority over paying customers! The general facilities of the airport seem good but clearly there is a major management problem which causes problems for passengers and probably results in loss of revenue for airport shops/cafes etc. as passengers spend so much time in queues they have little time left for anything else.


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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- They are known for their coffee: Don Francisco's, Cafe la Lllave, Jose's Gourmet. Those are now iconic brands in Los Angeles and beyond.
The company behind the roasted beans, F. Gavina and Sons, which started brewing in Los Angeles in 1967, is still family-run and embarking on a new journey.
As part of the company's 50th anniversary celebration, they decided to take on a new venture - Don Francisco's Coffee Casa Cubana. It is the company's first brick-and-mortar coffee shop, located in downtown Los Angeles.
The company's story began in Cuba 150 years ago.
"My grandfather was born in a coffee plantation," said Lisette Gavina Lopez. "That's where he learned about cultivating coffee, growing coffee and selecting the best coffees for roasting."
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With the film less than a year away and the knowledge of Hans Zimmer molding the score, what are your thoughts on the sound(s) he'll be creating for the world of Superman? We know it will be significantly different than his work on The Dark Knight trilogy as he already stated is why he ended up taking the challenge.
Other than the awesome music he writes for film, the other thing I love about Zimmer is his sincerity in interviews:
I could really picture this type of sound associated with Krypton especially.
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Other than the awesome music he writes for film, the other thing I love about Zimmer is his sincerity in interviews:
With Zimmer saying he's already well into the ideas phase of Man of Steel I couldn't help but wonder if there will be a strong choral element to Man of Steel. The teaser released with TDKR features choral music from LOTR and the recently released piece of music by Zimmer in honor of the Aurora victims also features a full choir."I phoned Zack and said I am really, really sorry about these rumours – it wasn't me, it's just a misunderstanding. You've got your composer and I never tried to get in between relationships or anything like that. We started talking and he told me about his ideas for the character and his take was really interesting. I started getting a couple of ideas as a result. I said to Zack – and Warners and Chris [Nolan] and everyone involved – "don't talk to me about it until we finish [The Dark Knight Rises]" …. and, within 15 minutes of finishing it, we were talking about it."
"I don't feel confident at all. I never feel confident. But, a little bit of fear has gone a long way to being inspiring in the past. John Williams is the master and I am not even going to try and go in that direction. I'll try my best not to embarrass myself and my colleagues on the film. I'm definitely going to have a go! In a funny way, it's exactly because Superman is such an opposite character to Batman that I am welcoming the opportunity to do the music."
Has he seen footage from the film? "Yes. All you're going to get out of me is a "yes"! No elaborations! I've started it and am in the ideas phase. I am driving people crazy with my experiments and am trying to write a tune." The one thing Zimmer will say is that his signature use of percussion – which he jokingly refers to as "his endless quest for the perfect drum-hit" will not be as prevalent in MAN OF STEEL as on his Batman scores. "I am going to try and avoid it. It's a big conversation I am having with myself right now: how can we avoid that…!!"
I could really picture this type of sound associated with Krypton especially.
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My painting, Rude Awakening did not get into this year's Birds in Art exhibition. Darn it anyway! I've been accepted into BIA 17 or 18 times - so I'm not bothered that my painting didn't get it - but I am bothered that I could have sold the painting last weekend at the Fallbrook show but the clients wanted to take the painting home with them that day.
Oh well - the painting got a great reaction so I'm sure it will sell quickly. You can see the painting at Windrush Gallery in Sedona, Arizona. www.windrushgallery.com
Friday, May 7, 2010
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Dont know why it didn't get in. You can never figure out judging. Doesn't always make sense.ReplyDelete
Well, in my book, it's a true Birds in Art piece if there ever was one. You are in fine company with the likes of Lyn and Jim Coe and others alike who also did not make the cut this year.ReplyDelete
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50 Years of Making Business Simple
2019 is a big year for us at ALTRES! We are celebrating 50 years in business and will be marking our golden anniversary with special events all year long. We thank all of you who have made it possible for us to grow and thrive together for over half a century!
The year kicked off for us with ALTRES Day proclamations by the State of Hawaii and City and County of Honolulu. In honor of our 50th year making business simple, we are excited to be offering Hawaii startups free payroll and human resources services for a year, with our new simplicityHR Service Grants. Finally, our sister company, ALTRES Staffing, has moved their Pearl City office to a larger, new location in Aiea (come say hi!).
Read on to learn more.
ALTRES Day January 18, 2019
The State of Hawaii and the City of Honolulu both proclaimed January 18th, 2019 as ALTRES Day. The occasion recognizes ALTRES as a leader in Hawaii's business community. Employees of ALTRES marked the date with cake and by wearing the ALTRES signature red.
ALTRES and simplicityHR by ALTRES remain second-generation, kama'āina businesses under CEO Barron Guss whose father, Bill Guss, founded the company on the goal of "making business simple."
"We're so excited to have achieved this milestone, and honored that both the State and the City named January 18, 2019 ALTRES Day," said ALTRES CEO Barron Guss. "We expect to make many announcements this year showing our appreciation for the people and the businesses of Hawaii who have made this possible."
- In case you missed it: ALTRES: More Than Just HR (MidWeek Hawaii)
Service Grant Helps Hawaii Startups
ALTRES is active in Hawaii's local community, donating hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years to worthy causes, disaster relief, and fundraising drives. In the spirit of contributing to a thriving business community in Hawaii and in celebration of our 50th anniversary, ALTRES has launched the simplicityHR Service Grant program.
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God: Slade,
my child in whom I am well pleased! Fear not! I have heard thy
Slade: A job, Lord!
God: And so it is. Hear now what I have planned for thee.
Slade: Your servant ever, Lord!
God: So
be it when thou shalt hear! You shall be placed in a room with teenagers
Slade: Thank You, Lord!
God: .....sixteen
teenagers of every kind, female and male.....male and female shalt
Slade: Thank You, Lord!
And this shalt thou do for Me five times each day.....for an hour
shalt thou
Slade: Five?! Thank You, Lord!
God: ....for thirty years!
Slade (aside): (Sweet Jesus!)
God: Speak up, child!
Slade: Thy will be done, Lord! All praise to Thee!
God: .....for thirty years shalt thou do this.....five times each day.....for an hour.
Slade: Yes, Lord. Was that thirty years, Lord?
God: As you were, My son. Actually, no.....for thirty-five years shalt thou DO!
Slade: Thirty-five. Thank You, Lord.
God: Go now forth...and serve!
Slade: Sir, You did understand I meant "job" with a small "j," didn't You?
God: GO!!


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An Attitude Check
"Are you seeking great things for yourself?" Jeremiah 45: 5a (NLT)
Even a sincere heart can fall captive to selfish ambition. There's a fine line between seeking great things for God and promoting ourselves along the way. Pride causes us to take the credit for what God and others made possible in our lives. Are you led by selfish ambition or spiritual anointing? How can we know? There's a short chapter in Jeremiah that gives an example. In this chapter, the Lord gives a personal message to Jeremiah's assistant, Baruch. Baruch's name in Hebrew means "blessing" but he almost missed his blessing. He had been serving Jeremiah as a scribe, recording his prophecies and relaying them on Jeremiah's behalf to the people, Temple leaders, and the King. Jeremiah dictated the prophecies that God gave him, and Baruch wrote them down. Since Jeremiah was imprisoned for his messages, the only way he had to get them out was through Baruch. You can imagine, if the people and the leaders didn't like Jeremiah's words, poor Baruch sure wouldn't be received well for sharing them. In Jeremiah 45, God had heard his heart cry. It was one of discouragement. He had faithfully served Jeremiah and God, and he thought he deserved better treatment. So, God gave a word to Jeremiah just for Baruch. This came after Baruch had written down everything that Jeremiah had dictated to him. He said, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: You have said, 'I am overwhelmed with trouble! Haven't I had enough pain already? And now the LORD has added more! I am worn out from sighing and can find no rest.'" Jeremiah 45:2-3 (NLT)
Have you ever felt that way serving God? To be fair, Baruch didn't have an easy job. After writing down every word that Jeremiah dictated to him, the Bible says he went to the Temple and read the prophecy with the hope that the people would respond to the word of the Lord and turn their hearts back to God. Instead, the people despised him and sent him to the King who listened as each page was read and then, cut the pages up and threw them into the fire! When he returned to tell Jeremiah, the Lord told Jeremiah to dictate it again and have Baruch write it out all over again! "Only this time he added much more," the Bible says in Jeremiah 36:32 (NLT)
God's mercy and patience is amazing! Still, I can imagine the frustration of this well-educated scribe. Hoping for more; more respect, more reward, more recognition. After all, these were the words of God he was delivering! All that work went up in smoke! Unappreciated and unrewarded! To make matters worse, he lived in the shadow of a successful brother who was a staff officer in the King's service. No wonder he cries, "I am overwhelmed with trouble! Haven't I had enough pain already? And now the LORD has added more! I am worn out from sighing and can find no rest." Jeremiah 45:3 (NLT)
Look at what God says to this discouraged servant, "Baruch, this is what the LORD says: 'I will destroy this nation that I built. I will uproot what I planted. Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don't do it! I will bring great disaster upon all these people; but I will give you your life as a reward wherever you go. I, the LORD, have spoken!'" Jeremiah 45:4-5 (NLT)
God was telling Baruch to check his attitude and his motives. "Are you seeking great things for yourself?" Was he serving out of selfish ambition or his spiritual anointing? He had his eyes on himself and his situation rather than on the Lord. God was saying that he needed to get his eyes off himself and whatever rewards he thought he deserved and, if he did, God would protect him no matter how bad things would become.
It's so easy to lose the joy of serving when we take our eyes off God. The more we look at our own situation and our own sacrifices, the more frustrated and discouraged we become. As you serve God, beware of the subtlety of selfish ambition. Beware of focusing on what you are giving up or not getting in return. When that happens, ask God's forgiveness, and redirect your focus to the incomparable privilege of serving God. Consider the divine anointing God has given you to serve Him in whatever capacity that is and serve Him with all your heart.


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Two of the groups that attended the meeting said this was only a first step in a dialogue which has yet to meet their central demand - the immediate removal of President Hosni Mubarak.
"People still want the president to step down," said Mostafa al-Naggar, a protest organiser and supporter of Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate and one of the country's leading democracy advocates.
"The protest continues because there are no guarantees and not all demands have been met," he added. "We did not sign on to the statement. This is a beginning of a dialogue. We approve the positive things in the statement but ... we are still demanding that the president step down."
The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest opposition group, made a similar statement after its representatives attended the meeting.
Vice President Omar Suleiman offered to set up a committee of judiciary and political figures to study proposed constitutional reforms that would allow more candidates to run for president and impose term limits on the presidency, the state news agency reported. The committee was given until the first week of March to finish the tasks.
The offer also included a pledge not to harass those participating in anti-government protests, which have drawn hundreds of thousands at the biggest rallies. The government agreed not to hamper freedom of press and not to interfere with text messaging and the internet.
The offer to eventually lift emergency laws with a major caveat - when security permits - would fulfil a long-time demand by the opposition. The laws were imposed by Mr Mubarak when he took office in 1981 and they have been in force ever since. They give police far-reaching powers for detention and suppression of civil and human rights.
Mr Mubarak is insisting he cannot stand down now or it would only deepen the chaos in his country. The US shifted signals and gave key backing to the regime's gradual changes on Saturday, warning of the dangers if Mr Mubarak goes too quickly.
The meeting drew the broadest representation of Egypt's fragmented opposition to sit with the new vice president since the protests began on January 25.


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|Ibsen Relocated to Kolkata: Bold and Brilliant
A Doll's House
|Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith, London , September 18, 2019
A Doll's House played at the Sherman four years ago, in the autumn of 2015. That version had Simon Stephens adapting the translation of Michael Meyer. Design and lighting took inspiration from the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi. Rachel O'Riordan returns to Ibsen's excoriating dramatisation of marriage for her directorial debut at the helm of West London's substantial five-hundred seater venue. The transposition of Ibsen from Norway to colonial Bengal succeeds brilliantly.
Dramatist Tanika Gupta has a track record for the task: twenty plus plays, an MBE for Services to Literature, a winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama. Her relocation to the Kolkata of 1879 has a deftness to it. A monkey scuttles across the roof. Nora, now Niru, tends a banana tree. The light of Bengal is mediated in Lily Arnold's design of a high veranda-ed courtyard. Musician and composer Arun Ghosh sits high-up throughout.
Kevin Treacy's lighting- he was also at the Sherman production- casts the rough finished surface of the building in a range of shades, as Ibsen's carefully wrought plot follows day into night. Towards the close a wall takes on a tinge of pale ochre.
Tanika Gupta writes a crisp programme note that points to the significance of the time. Disraeli had given his monarch the title of Empress of India just two years before. The two of them appear in one of the innovations, a fiercely dialectical scene between Elliot Cowan's Tom Helmer and Colin Tierney's Doctor Rank on the role of Britain in India. The fracturing has begun. In the first dominion the campaign for Home Rule is swelling. The election seven years on, in 1886, is set to break the Liberal Party. Those final bonds of Empire are under test in 2019. For the first time a majority in the North is recording a preference for Ireland over a little England untethered from Europe.
Racial privilege gives to Tanika Gupta's adaptation a dimension that is not present in Ibsen's small town Norway. Assad Zaman's subtly portrayed Kaushik Das, Ibsen's Krogstadt, is both dramatic aggressor and vulnerable victim. Helmer has used his lawyerly skills to save from justice an Englishman who has kicked an Indian to death. But rigidity of social structure is not the domain of England alone. Niru has her own servant at her beck and call in Arinder Sadhra's Uma. But the little exotic pet knows the expected role. I was not brought up to comment. Niru offers her friend, Tripti Tripuraneni's Mrs Lahiri, a shawl of brilliant blue to put over the white sari that denotes widowhood with a line the world is changing. Such talk is dangerous is the reply.
This is not the first time Ibsen has made this move in geography. A great artist of Bengal, Satyajit Ray, filmed his Charulata in 1964 and the company has had view of the film. If it were needed Rachel O'Riordan's production is reminder of how fine Ibsen is in terms of pure craftsmanship; scene nestles within act, character cunningly interlocks with theme, the dramatic impulse has both narrative logic and emotional impact to it. For all the crafted interweaving of women and men, masters and servants, friends and antagonists, its weight, as elsewhere in Ibsen, descends on one performer.
Anjana Vasan has appeared on this site before but it has been some years now. She was the mother in Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood in the Caird Studio and last seen in battle fatigues as one of the remarkable cast of six in Tim Price's Radicalisation of Bradley Manning. Earlier in the summer she was on a giant stage of the National for Rutherford and Son but A Doll's House is of a whole other dimension.
From the start- an exchange involving sweets- she gives to the role energy, complexity, charisma. Under threat of exposure, mixed emotions of alarm and resolve are all conveyed in rapid flashes of eye and expression. Late on she performs a Kathak dance in place of Ibsen's tarantella. At the close the giggles and the mannerisms of the child-to-adult nature of the marital relationship evaporate. It has been replaced with a gravity of self-awareness and irrevocable resolution. Michael Billington at the production a week back signed off with Anjana Vasan gives a career-defining performance as Niru. This site often diverges from the Billingtonian perspectives on theatre but this time is not one of those occasions.
The Lyric's Senior Producer, Iain Goosey- once of Wales-based company Waking Exploits- leads a short company-meets-audience session after the production. There is not a trace of ego to be heard; all pay tribute, and refer back repeatedly, to the roles played by author and director, who are not present. It is how it is at all the best Q and A's, homage given to theatre as the art-form of collective engagement.
Picture credit: Tristram Kenton
Reviewed by: Adam Somerset
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