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Taylor Swift
November 29, 2014
I'm not going to lie, I used to hate Taylor Swift (sorry Taylor). Her first few songs while catchy seemed out of tune to me and I thought she was all flash and no talent. I was wrong. She has proven herself to be first and foremost, a good singer as well as a good song writer and the package is tasteful, pretty and she someone I wouldn't mind my daughter (if I had one) looking up to. She's the real deal.
I know 48 year old men (yes, I'm 48… get over it I have) like myself are not the target audience for Taylor, but thats the genius of Taylor Swift. Her tunes are so catchy and good we ALL like them, even those who still resist, find them selves humming one of here tunes after hearing it in the grocery store, the elevator or the DMV. I'm not asking you to love her if it's just not your cup of tea but do me a small favor and read the bio below, and then tell me she isn't pretty amazing.
24 year-old Taylor Swift is a seven-time GRAMMY winner, and is the youngest winner in history of the music industry's highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. She is the only female artist in music history (and just the fourth artist ever) to twice have an album (2012's RED and 2010's Speak Now) hit the 1 million first-week sales figure.
With RED, Taylor became the first artist since the Beatles (and the only female artist in history) to log six or more weeks at #1 with three consecutive studio albums. RED has topped the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for seven weeks, following Fearless (11 weeks), and Speak Now (six weeks).
With more than 1.2 million copies sold in the U.S. in its first week, RED scored the highest first-week sales debut of any album in over a decade, had the 8th largest first-week debut in chart history, and marked the 2nd biggest week ever for a female artist. Taylor's lead single from RED, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" set a new record for the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a woman, and for the second-largest sales week overall.
With RED, Taylor also set a new worldwide iTunes record for highest ever first-week album sales, and RED reached #1 on iTunes and national sales charts in 50 countries, including the UK, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, Ireland, Argentina, New Zealand, Ireland, and Australia. The RED Tour heads to Europe in 2014.
In early 2012, Taylor's Speak Now album was lauded on Rolling Stone's prestigious The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (by women) list, and Time magazine has named Taylor one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is Billboard's youngest-ever Woman of the Year, and her more than 100 industry award wins have included the American Music Awards' Artist of the Year (twice), the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year (both also twice), and three European Music Awards. Taylor is also the most awarded star in the history of the Teen Choice Awards, taking home honors for both music and movies.
Taylor, who writes all of her own songs, has career record sales in excess of 26 million albums and 75 million song downloads worldwide, and her two most recent albums are two of only 18 albums in the entire history of music to sell more than 1 million copies in a single week. She has had singles top both the country and pop radio charts around the globe, and has thus far scored 13 #1 singles across multiple radio formats. She is one of the top 5-selling digital music artists worldwide, and is the top-selling digital artist in country music history.
Taylor is Billboard's reigning Artist of the Year and holds the Billboard records for the Most Top 10 Debuts in the History of the Hot 100 Chart, the Most Charting Songs from One Album in a Single Week, and the Longest Charting Album on the Top 200 Chart.
This year, the North American portion of Taylor's RED Tour played to more than 1.36 million fans over 66 shows (including 13 stadium stops) in 47 cities in 29 states and 3 provinces spanning 6 months. And, starting in late November, Taylor will take her RED Tour, which Rolling Stone dubbed "a massively excellent show," Down Under, performing stadium shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, as well as arena dates in Auckland. Swift will be the first solo female artist in twenty years to undertake a national stadium concert tour of Australia.
Her SPEAK NOW World Tour played 111 shows to more than 1.5 million fans in sold-out stadiums and arenas in 19 countries spanning four continents in 2011 and 2012. Her 107-date FEARLESS 2009/2010 Tour sold out arenas and stadiums in 88 cities in five countries.
Taylor voiced the character of Audrey in the 2012 hit movie "Dr. Seuss's The LORAX," and has written the end credit song "Sweeter Than Fiction" for the movie "One Chance," a bio pic of Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts. She also contributed two songs to the soundtrack of the movie "The Hunger Games," winning a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song. She has hosted Saturday Night Live, appeared in the Garry Marshall film "Valentine's Day," and guest-starred on the Emmy-winning TV drama CSI.
*This biography taken from MTV.com
the very talented JESSICA HELGERSON
November 22, 2014
So, a friend and fellow designer John De Bastiani posted an image of this sweet little house on his Facebook page the other day and I immediately recognized the bunkroom picture from a shelter magazine… I have loved and coveted this room for a long time. And now, I glad to know who created this beautiful and respectful tiny house, Jessica Helgerson.
With more than 15 years of experience designing residential and commercial interiors Jessica creates interiors that are typically clean and uncluttered. Adept at many styles, she is happy to be guided by her clients' individual needs and tastes as any good decorator is. Jessica likes to start by considering what the best design for the client might be while considering the best design for the building or space. Her goal is to ensure that the fundamental design and the materials are classic, long lasting, and appropriate to the building and its period. She likes to layer on fresh, contemporary elements—such as lighting, furniture, and art—that feel just right for the clients and for the moment. I'm a fan, and if I wasn't a control freak.. I'd hire her to do my next house. Just look at this tiny house she designed!
This little house is where Jessica and her family have been living for the last several years. It sits on a five-acre property on Sauvie Island, an agricultural island on the Columbia River 15 minutes north of Portland.
The house is an interesting experiment in reduction and reuse not only because it is only 540 square feet or because it was remodeled using nearly exclusively reclaimed materials, but because the building itself is now being recycled for the fourth time. It was first built in the early 1940s as part of Vanport Village; a quickly erected development built to house shipyard workers. When Vanport Village flooded in 1948 this particular little house was floated down the river to Sauvie Island, where it became the goose-check station. Years later it was remodeled to become a rental house.
When Jessica and Yianni bought the property in late 2008, they decided to remodel it without adding to the existing footprint. Their first step was to redesign the interior for maximum space efficiency. A 'great room' houses the kitchen, dining room and living room with large, comfortable, built in sofas that double as twin beds for guests. Drawers under the sofas hold children's toys and a wall of shelves houses books and more. The ceiling was opened up in the main space, but the bathroom and bedroom have lower ceilings to accommodate the parent's sleeping loft above, accessible by a walnut ladder. The children's room has two bunk beds as well as a full bed for guests. A pull-out closet makes maximum use of the narrow space near the bunk beds.
New high-efficiency windows come right down to the sofas and offer a fun way for kids and cats to enter and exit the house. The walls were insulated, then faced in reclaimed wood siding, most of which was found on site in one of the barns. The
new floors are local Oregon white oak, and the dining table was made from locally salvaged walnut. The range is a vintage Craigslist find, and the tub was a salvaged from a friend's demolition site. A wood-burning stove easily and efficiently heats the small house.
As part of the remodel, the worn out roof was replaced with a green roof, planted with moss and ferns gathered along the Columbia River Gorge. The green roof offers insulation as well as a playful visual counterpoint to the traditional white cottage.
Despite its size, the house is welcoming and comfortable and nearly every weekend it is full of family and friends coming from Portland to enjoy a day in the countryside. In addition to living in a small footprint, Yianni and Jessica have been working towards food self-sufficiency. Their first year on the property they built a 1200-square-foot green house, planted vegetable gardens, rows of berries, and fruit trees. They are also raising chickens for meat and eggs, keeping bees, and making cheese from the milk of a neighbor's goats and cows.
*Much of this text was taken directly from Jessica's website, with the intention of "getting it right" and sending the intended "message" out of respect for Jessica, her brand and her work.
I'm all about paying respect, honoring craft and celebrating others in my field. Please click on the web address above to see Jessica's full website.
MARY O'MALLEY – Bottom Feeders
January 25, 2013
And now for something completely different. I shop everywhere, the gift show in NYC, local antique stores, the showroom I work for as well as Ebay, 1st Dibs and ETSY. Well I was scanning ESTY for cool things the other day and came across the amazing work of Mary Malley. um, Hello! I am crazy for these beautiful pieces. Mary is a ceramic artist creating out of a barn on the south shore of Long Island. Her ESTY store is a dedicated to the ceramic functional wares she loves to make! Please click over and see more of her work www.etsy.com and for additional information you can visit her website at www.maryomalleyceramics.com. Mary makes custom cremation urns, I might have to get one for myself… Not that I'll need it anytime soon! For more information please visit http://www.youveurnedit.com If you have any questions or are looking for something in particular feel free to contact her at: email@example.com
Here is her artists statement: After receiving my BFA from The University of the Arts and living In Philadelphia I recently returned to my home near the ocean on Long Island, NY. Using my skills as a potter trained in traditional English and Japanese techniques I began to create a series of formal functional pieces to which I applied small sea creatures. The images are inspired by memories from my childhood and new familiar surroundings. Covering formal ware in crustaceans – which in real life have an unforgiving ferocity – has interested me because it is a reminder that no matter how much we try to control the creation of what we think is beautiful, uncontrollable forces like nature usually end up taking over. What truly excites me (and keeps me needing to make more) is marrying my love of functional porcelain pottery and a whimsical (or ferocious?) underwater world that mars the formality of each piece. The journey I take in deciding how to incorporate and compose these underwater elements with the service ware it is enveloping is what makes each piece completely unique. In the end one type of beauty is made more beautiful by co-existing with its foil, resulting in two completely different aesthetics existing harmoniously as one piece.
Neal Beckstedt – Interior Designer
January 8, 2013
Not just a pretty face… Neal Beckstedts interiors are as easy on the eyes as he is. He describes his style as "modest luxury". The Manhattanite creates spaces that are modern yet warm, layered but clean and has worked with high profile clients like fashion star Derek Lam. A self-described "farm boy from Ohio," Beckstedt says that his home state has had a major impact on his mind-set. Neal worked with S. Russell Groves for almost a decade before opening his own studio in 2010. Authority, functionality, and a Scandinavian-style appreciation of how natural light enriches such honest, straightforward materials as nubby wool, polished wood, stainless steel, and velvety plaster are hallmarks of his work. No matter the location Beckstedt's style always lends itself to interiors for living rather than for simply admiring. Get to know more of Neal on his website: nbeckstedtstudio.com
Melissa Baum – Monochromatic Love
January 5, 2013
This year is all about celebrating the people behind the great design we see in clothing, marketing, building, architecture, jewelry, furniture, fine art, cars and yes… Interiors. Monochromatic Love is a blog post from the Wedding Blog by Melissa Baum. This woman knows chic and should be consulted for any and all things wedding. I instantly fell in love with her images, attention to detail and creative ideas, so I'm sharing it with you… pay it forward. If you have a wedding coming up or a loved one does… please consult her blog for more good ideas than you have the time or money for, seriously… but you will get some great ideas and confirm others, I promise! Her Words:
To tell you all the truth, ombre highlights is what really inspired this post! Why not bring the ever popular hair do to the wedding scene?! Known as monochromatic in wedding world – it means using only one color. Now one color does not mean one shade. That is really the beauty of this! You choose one color and go nuts within your palette. Taking tips from my favorite bride Trista from the Bachelorette, who went monochromatic in pink with chairs and flowers ranging from light to dark shades. (Picture from her wedding shown below) This colour shade trend is anything but shady!
(the ombre text was my idea, that was me… I did that) lol.
The Pinks.
The Blues.
The Yellows.
The Greens.
The Purples.
Bill Ingram – Architect
January 3, 2013
Facebook is a crazy and great place. It's where friends are made, kept, re-made, and where family, friends stay in touch and sometimes friends of friends of friends turn into friends. Bill Ingram is someone I have never met, but I'm friends with a member of his staff and now we are acquainted via Facebook. His work is some of the best I've seen in a very long time. Bill's work can have a whimsy, but it's not silly, It says quality and luxe without being unnecessarily extravagant, it's updated and fresh but it has the look that it might have been there forever. Frankly his work is so top-notch, I'm fearful that I won't do it justice. Enjoy these images and click over to his website to see more of his beautiful work.
Enjoy more of Bill's work here: http://billingramarchitect.com
Black & White
January 1, 2013
The white painted brick, white beams, black floor… yes please. The painted ceiling and brick, although painted white offer great texture and depth. Most people think of black and white interiors as pretty last-luster but this pallet is the perfect back drop for and lets art and furnishings stand out.
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In a perplexing and absolutely ridiculous move, a format war seems to be brewing in the digital song space between Apple's forthcoming 'Cocktail' and 'CMX' by four major music labels (viz. Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI).
Both the formats are more focused on digital album sales, with the idea being to give incentives in buying entire albums instead of individual songs. The two rival formats claim that they will have a single file that integrates album art, lyrics, videos, liner notes, etc, apart from the songs themselves. And Apple has said that Cocktail files will not be restricted to being opened on iTunes alone, although we will believe that when we see it.
"Ours will be a file that you click on, it opens and it would have a brand new look, with a launch page and all the different options. When you click on it you're not just going to get the 10 tracks, you're going to get the artwork, the video and mobile products," a label representative said.
The Times reported that Apple was initially approached to be a part of the CMX group, but rejected it to work on its own format.
"Apple at first told us that they were not interested, but now they have decided to do their own, in case ours catches on," the same label rep told the Times.
The questions in our minds, from a consumer's perspective, are a) Why? and b) Why now?
Does it make sense to anyone at all to buy an all-new format rather than the just use the current technology to boost what MP3 can already do? And why would a new audio format be introduced now, at a time when almost everyone has gotten comfortable with MP3 to the extent where even our grandmothers have heard of the name?
At least Blu-Ray brought more disk space…
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Now with so many choices there comes the problem, "What is a good duffle bag?" It's is easy to get overloaded with leather duffle bags, sports duffel bags, rolling duffel bags and so on. However, no matter the bag, certain things have to ring true for it to be worth your money.
No matter what you originally get a duffle bag for, you undoubtedly will use it for something else. The best duffel bag gives you flexibility with its functionality. You can use it without concern in various ways. If you need a casual bag for short-term travel or a weekend bag the best duffel bags can do both without pause. And although you can use your duffel bag for the gym, it's best do have a dedicated bag for that.
If you travel, you want a duffel bag that can handle being thrown by the baggage carriers. The courteous person at the ticket counter bears a countenance essentially the polar opposite of the characters in the back handling your stuff. If you're outdoors and your bag takes an unsuspected plunge or a few hits, you shouldn't need to wince. Normal wear and tear is appropriate but the better brands, meaning higher priced duffel bags practically even cover alligator bites and bear encounters. Well, almost.
While quality to one may very well not mean quality to another, one thing Is certain the quality of the duffel bag you buy usually determines the life of the bag (barring any unforeseen occurrences), and ultimately the use you get out of it. Both in practical terms and the nebulous pride of ownership, depending on your sensibilities. Never the less you want a duffle with the level of quality that exceeds your expectations of use for the bag.
If you're a world traveler, you need a bag that can handle the various temperatures, people and circumstances around the globe. If you're using it for tossing gym clothes or baseball bats into it routinely, you need a bag that can handle the weight of the bats and your sweat. While quality sometimes equates to durability as previously covered that's not the sole capacity of the term here.
Should you want a leather duffle bag, it should be made of quality leather. Any bag you purchase needs to have good enough stitching to handle various loads and levels of stress. Any fasteners need good construction and practical attachment to the bag (brass, gold, steel and other metals are good here). If you select a duffel bag with zippers, make sure they completely close the bag, which is especially important if the bag uses water resistance as a selling point.
High prices usually indicate quality materials but that does not necessarily mean the bag is meant for military grade ruggedness, as many duffel bags are more fashionable than functional. If you prefer function over fashion be sure to identify how you plan to use this bag before purchasing. Check the warranty policy and remember that if the price is too low to be believable for the claims made by the company, then it probably isn't true.
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Source : Arab news / 06 Oct 2014
The number of Arab pilgrims this Haj season stands at 265,217 pilgrims, according to figures released by National Tawafa Establishment for the Pilgrims of the Arab Countries.
Egypt topped the list of the number of Arab pilgrims with 68,749, followed by Algeria at 28,543, Morocco at 26,790, and Iraq at 26,259.
From Sudan came 25,719 pilgrims, while the number of Yemeni pilgrims, despite the crisis in the country, stood at 19,360 pilgrims. The number of Jordanian pilgrims was put at more than 10,000 pilgrims.
For the first time in three years, Syrian pilgrims came in record numbers this year, 9,185, with the Syrian National Coalition taking on the task of organizing the sending of pilgrims from the capitals of the countries surrounding Syria, namely Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Ankara.
The number of Syrian pilgrims who performed the holy rituals two years ago was the least among the Arab pilgrims, 1,000, while last year 4,000 pilgrims came to perform Haj. Their number increased two times this year, refuting rumours that said they were prevented from coming to perform the holy rituals.
From Tunisia came 8,895 pilgrims, Somalia 7,142 and a lesser number came from Libya with 6,123 pilgrims as the quota of pilgrims coming from Arab countries was also reduced by 20 percent because of the ongoing mataf expansion.
The number of Palestinian pilgrims coming from Ramallah and Gaza sector stood at 5,990, against 1,577 pilgrims of the Arab Palestinians of 48 territories. 99 Palestinian pilgrims came holding Syrian identification documents, 98 with Lebanese one and only one Palestinian with a Jordanian document.
The statistics of the National Tawafa Establishment for the Pilgrims of the Arab Countries recorded 5,204 Lebanese pilgrims, of which 1,200 were Palestinian pilgrims living in Lebanon.
From both Kuwait and Oman 16,000 pilgrims came. From Kuwait, 17 pilgrims of the Bedoons came to perform Haj this year.
From Mauritania came 2,515 pilgrims, Djibouti 874, Comoros 844, and from Eritrea, 432 pilgrims.
The surprise was the entry of international pilgrims from Asia, Europe and South America through Arab countries, including 4 Colombians, 17 Chinese, 93 Indonesians, 39 Pakistanis, 37 Malaysians, 15 Turks, 11 Brazilians, 8 Venezuelans, 7 Uzbeks, 7 Russians, 5 Australians, 2 Panamanians and one pilgrim each from Paraguay, Myanmar, Denmark, Germany, Uganda, Macau, Italy and Bosnia.
King Abdulaziz International Airport received the largest number of pilgrims with 121,139 pilgrims, followed by Jeddah Islamic Port with 13,375, while Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah received 89,002 pilgrims. 5,677 Arab pilgrims came by road.


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Ciudad del Este is a city in Paraguay, on the triple border with Brazil and Argentina. It is linked to the city of Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, by an international bridge over the Paraná river. It is mainly a shopping destination for Brazilians and Argentinians.
Get in
Getting in by land is by far the easiest way to enter Paraguay via Ciudad del Este. The Paraguayan government made a very intelligent decision to allow easy access into Ciudad del Este from Brazil. This admits a great infux of foriegn people into Paraguay that typically spend hundreds and thousands of US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in their country to benefit the Paraguayan economy and people.
By Air
The local Guaraní International Airport (IATA: AGT) has direct connections to São Paulo and Asunción by TAM, on Airbus A320 jets, but there are much more frequent flights from many Brazilian cities (and some in other countries) to nearby Foz do Iguaçu airport in Brazil (IATA: IGU). The airport in Puerto Iguazú, Argentina (IATA: IGR) also receives several daily flights from Buenos Aires.
By Bus
The bus terminal is located around 1km South of the city center, a bit hidden behind the large sports stadium on Bernardino Caballero. Buses from Brazil leave regularly and can be found on several of the main streets in Foz do Aquacu and especially on Av. Republica do Paraguai/Rua Carlos Souto Maior (277) near the Puente de la Amistad (Friendship Bridge).
International Border Crossing
To leave Ciudad del Este back across the Friendship bridge one has three options.
1) Walk back across the bridge and wait in line at Brazilian immigration along with scores of people returning from shopping.
2) Take a bus from the bus terminal that goes into Brazil or directly to Puerto Iguazú. The bridge experiences traffic at certain rush hour times like most busy cities. If you cross the bridge going back to Brazil around 4-5pm on a weekday (besides Friday), expect about a thirty minute commute; this may drastically change around holidays and vacations, etc. Expect a Brazilian customs official to board the bus and quickly inspect any bags you are carrying for goods that exceed the maximum allowed back to Brazil. Unless you are attempting to bring back large quantities of electronics (for example, carrying ten mobile phones, or a stack of iPads and tablets), you have nothing to be concerned about.
3) Hire a motorcycle to take you across the bridge through the line specifically for Motorcycles that is rarely ever stopped by immigration officials. This option is by far the quickest and took the Author 3 minutes to get from one end of the Friendship Bridge on the Paraguayan side, to the other end of the bridge on the Brazilian side - Past immigration. Cost = 10 Argentine Pesos. This is the best way to cross if you are not afraid of riding passenger on a motorcycle and/or are not carrying many bags.
Border Scams
If you are transiting Paraguay (not coming back across the same border the same day), you will have to go to the Paraguayan customs office just past the bridge. Citizens of Mercosur are granted entry just with their ID: others need a passport. The stories of bribings and scams in the Paraguayan customs offices are frequent. Make sure that you get everything that you are supposed to get when they check your passport and/or ID.
Those that handle them the ID should receive back, along with the ID, a formulary with the arrival stamp in it. If you're with the passport, you'll receive only the usual stamp on the page.
A common trick is not handing the stamped paper back with the ID; that way you cannot prove having legally entered the country. If so, you'll certainly be asked for money for the exit to be granted. So make sure you get the stamped paper at the border.
Get around
If you arrive with your own car make sure you find a parking lot (usually the local touts will lead you to one). However, if you do not feel comfortable with the situation you still can research a parking lot in advance as some of them have websites on the Internet.
There are many local city buses available, typically charging 2500 Gs. It is common and advisable to sit down without paying due to the number of people boarding and disembarking as well as the fast pace of traffic. The driver's assistant will come by eventually to collect your payment and make change.
Taxis are available, but are unmetered. Always agree on a price before getting inside. If possible, contact your hotel in advance to find out what the normal fares should be (20000-30000 Gs from the bus station to Hotel Austria or Hotel Munich for example). Taxi drivers commonly attempt to overcharge foreigners either by quoting an unreasonable fare up front, or claiming they had quoted a higher fare at the end of the trip. Paying with exact change or close to it will provide leverage in case the driver attempts to increase the fare at the end of the trip.
For the adventurous, motorcycles taxis are common and a fast way to move through the heavy traffic near the Friendship Bridge to Brazil. Drivers are generally easy to spot due to their reflective shirts and should provide you with a helmet.
Shopping is the main business of the visitors. The main shopping streets are San Blas and Camilo Recalde, where you can buy about anything and everything at really good prices; it is not without reason that so many Brazilians come in hordes to shop there and often resell the goods back home at a profit. Many people come for electronics, computer parts and accessories, liquor, perfume and other luxury goods. Counterfeit products are common, so you should prefer larger, more reputed and better structured stores, even if you find cheaper deals elsewhere. In addition to Paraguayan guaraníes, Brazilian reals, Argentine pesos, US dollars and euros are all widely accepted (and you can even get change in the same currency), though at wildly variable exchange rates. Using credit cards is usually no problem either.
If you want to buy electronics such as cellphones or cameras, make sure you do this:
Ask to test the device if it works. Never give it back to the shopkeeper/assistant, as that person might exchange the device with faulty versions or hand the box back filled with paper but not with what you just bought.
Due to the premium placed on street-front property, Ciudad del Este's eateries and dining establishments are commonly found inside multi-leveled shopping malls and are relatively scarce on the main street of San Blas.
As a consequence of considerable immigrant populations, Ciudad del Este has a diverse variety of ethnic food options that one can take advantage of. Lebanese food can be found off the main streets and in many shopping centers and typically serve good shawarma/kebab; this is perhaps the best food to eat in the city. Ask local store owners for good Lebanese food and you will most likely be very happy with what they recommend.
Chinese and Korean food restaurants can also be found. Your best bet is to ask a local to direct you to the nearest restaurant or eatery. Additionally, because of the large influx of Brazilian nationals that enter Ciudad del Este every day, the most popular restaurants are those which serve typical Brazilian fare and are easy to find; expect the Brazilian style churrascaria meats to be very well-done and tough (as is typical of most Brazilian churrascarias, as well).
For some of the better-looking Asian restaurants, try exploring the areas around the corner of Adrian Jara and Av Boqueron. Not far from the same area are some US style burger houses. Above the 'Area Iris' supermarket (corner of Av Pioneros del Este and Adrian Jara) is a good but relatively expensive Japanese restaurant. In the supermarket various foods and other supplies can be had. Outside the supermarket, cheap hotdogs are available (but ensure that the hotdogs are heated well and not merely warmed - and this heating advice is recommended for foods from all street vendors).
Many street vendors grill delicious and cheap asado (grilled beef) at night on Cap. Miranda just north of the main route through town. A plate of asado with manioc is 10,000 Gs, and salad, bread, and a liter of beer can be had for an additional 10,000 Gs.
Vegetarians will have to ask around, but outside the city center there are a few vegetarian Chinese restaurants. Friends have reported that an Indian vegetarian restaurant called Gourangas is located behind the Municipalidad, not far from the city centre.
Like most businesses in Ciudad del Este, you can pay for food with Argentine, US, Paraguayan, or Brazilian currency, and expect to receive change in the same currency used for payment.
Bottled water, soda, juice and ice cold, alcoholic beverages (mainly beer, but liquor is in no short supply) can be found everywhere. It is not uncommon to find vendors of all of the above within ten meters of each other. There are also vendors with roaming carts everywhere.
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Joseph W. Hawkins started the service business from his home in the 1960's. With gradual addition of family members to the staff, the business grew rapidly through the 70's. In 1978 the business moved to its current location. Hawkins also offers a parts department and re-conditioned showroom just down the street.
With the combined effort from dedicated staff and all our customers, we pride ourselves with being in business over 50 years. Hawkins & Sons, Inc. strives to provide an exceptional experience.
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Velocity Five Sports Restaurant & ESPN 980 "Home of the Redskins" - Northern Virginia Broadcast Partnership
STERLING, VA – Velocity 5 Sports Restaurant and ESPN 980 (AM Radio and Online Audio) will once again team up to present "Monday Night Live with Chris Russell" and "The Sports Reporters" broadcast live from Velocity 5 every week during the upcoming football season. During each live broadcast at Velocity 5 restaurants, patrons will be able to watch the broadcast and meet the Redskins "Player of the Game." The player of the game will be a part of each broadcast and will be at Velocity 5 in Lansdowne or Sterling (Loudoun County) each week.
"Monday Night Live", hosted by ESPN 980 Redskins Beat Reporter Chris Russell, features
Washington Redskins players as guests. "The Sports Reporters" is hosted by veteran ESPN
980 personalities Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban. The shows will be held at the Velocity
5 locations in Lansdowne and Sterling due to their close proximity to Redskins Park.
Velocity 5, the Northern Virginia area's leading sports restaurant chain, also has locations
in Arlington, Falls Church and Centreville.
The Velocity 5 restaurant chain was founded by Jim Speros, former assistant coach for the
Washington Redskins in the 1980's under Hall of Fame Coach Joe Gibbs. Jim was with the
team during their winning 1982 season, coached with the Buffalo Bills and then went on to
own several football teams including the Canadian Football League Grey Cup Champion
Baltimore Stallions, and the Montreal Alouettes. Jim is extremely passionate about football
and especially the Redskins. Bringing this type of access to his customers is a dream come
"We are extremely excited to renew our relationship with ESPN 980," Speros said. "ESPN
980 is the voice of DC sports and the Home of the Redskins, and our partnership will allow
Velocity 5 to become the headquarters for football in Northern Virginia once again this
season. I am pleased to be able to offer this exclusive player access to my customers. It is
nice to be able to bring the team closer to their fans. This promises to be one of the most
interesting seasons in Redskins history, and we look forward to reviewing the games every
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For example, I have created a folder named test in my Exchange account. I then created a Smart Mailbox named Test Mailbox to look at this folder:
After I click OK, and go to edit the Smart Mailbox again:
Ah! Where did my folder go? I've tried googling various combinations of terms to get information, and I've come across a couple of posts on Apple's forum, but nothing that points to a solution or a workaround.
I initially started down the path of creating a Smart Mailbox with the following filters:
1) Look for Messages not in Mailbox and select Inbox
2) Build a complex filter that is the same as the rules being applied to move messages to the desired folder
It turns out I needed to build some complex filters (combinations of OR and AND) which the dialog doesn't allow for. The dialog only gives the option of doing one or the other. I stumbled across this post that helped me build some more complicated filters.
One thing I'd like to point out is that the folder & file name has changed since the post:
** CAVEAT: Please be sure you back up any of the *.plist files you are going to play with in case things go horribly awry. **
After playing around with this for awhile, I got curious as to why Apple Mail wouldn't remember my folder. So I re-created the Smart Mailbox named Test Mailbox to look in my Exchange folder test and then I looked in the file and searched for this Smart Mailbox:
And that long garbled string is the problem. For whatever reason, the destination mailbox URL gets completely mangled.
The next thing to do is to find out what the actual destination mailbox URL is. I happen to have rules in Mail that are applied to incoming messages which filter my email into the various folders. This file lists these rules:
I searched this file for my Test folder and found a not garbled URL to my folder:
Copy this URL and paste it in place of that garbled string:
And ta-da! I now have a Smart Mailbox that is looking inside my Exchange folder.
To summarize:
1) Create a rule that moves emails to the desired folder.
2) Create a Smart Mailbox, as you normally would, pointing to the desired folder and any other conditions.
3) Search the [User]/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/SyncedRules.plist file for the desired folder and look for the CopyToMailboxURL key.
4) Copy the URL under the key.
5) Search the [User]/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/SyncedSmartMailboxes.plist for the new Smart Mailbox.
6) Paste the URL over the garbled string.


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MONONGAHELA, Pa. – You don't often get a chance see a band performing in a graveyard.
And not every city has one as beautiful as historic Monongahela Cemetery, which celebrated it's 150th anniversary today with a performance by Too Many Tubas.
The band based in Finleyville and made up of musicians from across Southwestern Pennsylvania performs "Gettysburg" under the direction of Rich Pantaleo, a former music teacher in the Ringgold School District.
Oddly enough, the cemetery is holding a picnic tomorrow to honor the past when families actually packed lunches and spent the day in the cemetery off Route 88 in Monongahela.


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|My treasures from the ocean...including a bottom of a 1965 beer bottle; now, a 'sea glass' after 47yrs finding its way out from the ocean!The gorgeous cobalt blue dish with it's stand, is a 'thrift find' for $2.99.
Time in a Bottle~ Jim Croce
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you...
Hi Everyone,
I'm back...not looking so great; but my eye surgery was a success...actually a bit 'scary'. Did not think that Retinal eye surgery would be so complicated...but if you have the faith and confidence, and know you have the best doctor, and surgical team, then half the 'battle' is done! Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words, your thoughts and your prayers!
I've been resting at my daughter's house, and just came home yesterday...but now, I'm going back there again. Cannot bend down, or lift anything heavy for two weeks, at least. My eye patch is off, and only have to wear it at night when I sleep (not to rub my eye)
I uploaded one of my most favorite song from 1973, by Jim Croce...Time in a Bottle. A couple weeks ago, my son found this beautiful huge piece of sea glass on the beach, and gave it to me...it was actually a beer bottle, from 1965, as you can see the back of it...from Geo. Ballantine & Sons, a famous Brewing company, that made Ballantine Ale. They were a huge beer brewing company that started out in the late eighteen hundred, through the sixties, until some other companies took over their name. The brewery has been shut down around that time, or even earlier! Well, that's the story on that!
Wouldn't it be nice to save time in a bottle?...yes, we can do that by cherishing every moment in our life, and spending time with our loved ones and friends! Doing 'good' for others, and seeing the 'best' and not the worst. If you could do that, you will have saved all the time, and can look back, knowing you have no regrets. Time heals all wounds...especially physical ones, and I will be on my way to recovery real soon!
I missed you, all...have a wonderful weekend! xoxo
As the saying goes..."one man's garbage, is another man's treasure". Apparently, these bottles have been dropped into the ocean off ships, storms and waves have been battering them to break up and form into shapes! You can check out this wonderful website to actually view and purchase sea glass jewelry...absolutely amazing~
Out of the Blue Sea Glass Jewelry
What Is Sea Glass Or Beach Glass?
Sea glass or beach glass comes from our lost broken glass that found its way to the sea where it is transformed into frosted gem like treasures by the natural tumbling action of the tides. Both terms sea glass or beach glass can refer to glass that has emerged from the sea and beach glass refers to glass that has emerged from a body of fresh water such as one of the Great Lakes. In Puerto Rico sea glass is sometimes called crystal de mar or vidrio de mar. Sea glass is often poetically referred to as "Mermaids Tears" and washes up on beaches all over the world. In writing you will sometimes see seaglass, or beachglass. I love the oneness of "seaglass" after all those years in the ocean it has become something beyond man made glass. It is as if the glass has blended with the sea and the two are now inseparable. The way you can hold a seashell up to your ear and hear the ocean I find that you can feel the power of the sea when you hold a piece of sea glass in your hand.
Orcas Island Sea Glass
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January 26, 2017
Mushroom Corn Chowder
Serves 6
1 15-ounce (400g) can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained, or 1 1/2 (340g) cups cooked cannellini beans
4 cups (900ml) low-sodium vegetable broth
1/4 cup (60g) raw cashews
3 tablespoons whole wheat flour
2 onions, halved then thinly sliced
4 garlic cloves, minced
8 ounces (225g) shiitake mushrooms, sliced
8 ounces (225g) button mushrooms, sliced
1 pound (450g) red potatoes, diced (3 or 4 medium potatoes)
8 to 10 ounces (260g) spinach, torn into bite-size pieces, or baby spinach
2 cups (450g) corn, fresh or frozen (thawed)
1 teaspoon dried dill
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, for garnish
1. In a high-powered blender, blend the cannellini beans, vegetable broth, cashews and flour on high for 1 to 2 minutes until smooth and creamy. Set aside.
2. In a large stockpot over medium-high heat, sauté the onions, garlic and mushrooms in a small amount of water until tender, about 8 minutes.
3. Add the creamy bean mixture, potatoes, spinach, corn, dill and thyme. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for 20 to 30 minutes, until the potatoes are tender. Season with the salt and pepper and serve warm, garnished with the fresh parsley.


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Established in 1993, Scotty's Shine Shop is South Western Ontario's premiere Auto Detailer.
What's important to us is that you are completely satisfied. Our continued growth and success begins and ends with your satisfaction.
Proudly serving London, St. Thomas, Strathroy, Lucan, Belmont, Komoka, Mount Brydges, Lambeth, Delaware, Dorchester and all of Southern Ontario since 1993.


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since my first MIVVA beauty box in April 2013.
Something different from the usual black and white polka box, this time the latest MIVVA box is double the usual size! As I unopen the box, the amount of surprises also doubles because there are 4 FULL-SIZED items inside!! Excited or not?
It's an exclusive beauty box by the Japanese Kao Corporation, featuring few beauty brands under one roof including my favourite hair care brand, Liese, and popular beauty brand, Biore.
I usually have love-hate relationship with oil-based remover. As much as I love the effectiveness of removing the waterproof mascara, I dislike the stickiness it creates on my skin. But Biore is different!! I swear I fall in love with it after reading Xiaxue's review and her Guide to Life video.
#1 Bioré Makeup Remover Wipes (44 sheets / packet)
This is the highly recommended product by Xiaxue!! And now it comes in newly improved formula- with hyaluronic acid and moisturizing essence, no wonder my skin feels so soft and supple after using it!
The wipes come in a vacuum sealed package inside an airtight container, to maintain the moisture level of the cottony sheet. Maximum level of protection for the Biore wipes!
Let's try it on my waterproof and anti-smudge eye makeup... Wow, the result is amazing! I can remove all traces of makeup around the eye instantly in just..... ONE wipe! To remove stubborn mascara, remember to place the sheet on closed eyes for 5 seconds before wiping off.
Each cotton sheet is sufficient to remove thick makeups (even for your party look!) for the entire face. No joking! For daily basic makeup like mine, I only use half of the cloth to completely remove everything about the face, eye, lips and even neck.
Despite of being oil-based, it doesn't leave the skin oily, sticky or greasy at all. To my surprise, my skin feels fresh after wiping. Now I know why so many bloggers WOWed about it.
The product is so easy to use, convenient and REFILLABLE.
Definitely a must-bring item for travels!
#2 Bioré Mild Cleansing Liquid (230ml)
I know I feel wasted when I didn't utilize the whole sheet of the wipe. For a more economic alternative, it is good to have a bottle of mild cleansing liquid at home, because it is water-based yet able to remove waterproof makeup gently and quickly on the skin. It feels similarly soft and smooth after wiping!
Liese has been so popular over the years, and this brand is no longer a stranger to you. As for myself, I have used so many Liese hair care products from styling milk, hair serum to juicy shower. But the best product I love from them is their bubble hair color!
Now... time to have a new hair color for new year? Sometimes I just don't enjoy going for hair dye at saloon, yet end up not satisfied with the result. So let's DIY with Liese Bubble Hair Color! Just mix the solutions, massage your scalp and voila... the final color will be evenly spreaded.
I have blogged about it in October 2010 (more than 3 years back, and the product is still very popular now!). It retails at RM38.80 normal price but I usually wait for promotions at Watsons as the discount can go up to 20%.
I have blogged about it in October 2010 (more than 3 years back, and the product is still very popular now!). It retails at RM38.80 normal price but I usually wait for promotions at Watsons as the discount can go up to 20%.
#4 Liese Smooth Hair Cocktail (140ml)
The hair cocktail is a Bi-layer detangler that contains Repairing Water and Moisture Milk to hydrate, lock in moisture and coat hair smoothly for easy combing. It's another convenient hydrating hair spray I love bringing for travel because it is tightly capped and doesn't leak easily.
Remember to shake well, and just spray on the tangled portion of the hair and comb it smooth. Did I forget to mention that it smells great like grape juice? Must be delicious for my hair ;)
This is, by far, my favourite MIVVA box ever! Must get one if you haven't!
MIVVA helps women discover beauty.
MIVVA helps women discover beauty.
If you want to be surprised with deluxe beauty products, MIVVA is a great choice!
Subscribe for a month at RM38 each,
or RM114 for 3 months with 190 points,
or RM228 for 6 months with 570 points.
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INSTRUCTIONS (ON HOW TO SURVIVE A FAIRY TALE) for voice, saxophone, horn, percussion, electric guitar, piano, accordion, violin, cello, bass
text: Neil Gaiman
duration: 11 minutes
Premiered on April 22nd, 2012 in Terre Haute, IN by Jennifer Lanman, voice – Paul Bro, Alto Saxophone – Nathan Rainey, Horn – Jimmy Finnie, Percussion – Anthony Lanman, Electric Guitar – Beverley Simms, Piano – Ted Piechocinski, Accordion – Sharilyn Spicknall, Violin – Kurt Fowler, Cello – Todd Gallagher, Bass
Instructions is a song, for voice and chamber ensemble on the poem of the same name by Neil Gaiman. The poem appeared in Gaiman's book "Fragile Things". The piece was written for my wife and dedicated to her and to all of my friends at Indiana State University (most of whom were involved in the premiere).
Hopefully I will have a recording and score sample up soon. I'm currently involved in securing further rights to the poem from Gaiman's publisher.
Here is a studio recording of the piece WITHOUT the vocal:
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Translator/Interpreter in Rio de Janeiro
My name is Luis Legua and I am a professional interpreter / translator. I specialize in interpretations from English to portuguese, portuguese to English, and spanish as well. Currently, I am based in Rio de Janeiro.
I have placed my English language related translation/interpretation background below.
Below there is a brief list of my recent works, As a translator I have undertaken several jobs of books, articles, news items, technical manuals / guides, technical specifications/guidelines, tender documents, science & IT telecommunication related articles, help files, health & medical, business related articles , transcription, movie subtitles.
Few quick examples of my recent works:
Regular translation with textile companies in Rio for Devika Fabrics a very reputed Textile company in India under the management of Gopal Sultania, Owner and Managing Director.
- Interpretation services and localization of textile companies in Alagoas, Maceió English/Spanish, Spanish/English at Export Techfab India Industries Ltd.under the management of Amol Jumde.
- Interpretation and Localization services of several Retail /wholesalers and importers in Lima, at Westpex which is a sourcing company based in Hong Hong Ltd. with Mr. Viresh Varma, Director of Business Development.
Interpretation and Localization services of several importers of GNV and GLP Cylinders and plywood, Euro Group based in India with Mr. Pinank Sha, Comercial Manager and Owner.
I specialize in transcriptions as well,
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Its Labour Day weekend and we have been looking forward to some long awaited sunny spring weather. The forecast promised us good weather for the whole weekend but this Sunday morning we awoke to sheets of depressing grey cloud once again.
There are stunning views around every corner.
It was a beautiful walk but next time we will be taking our mountain bikes and we will see if we can make it to the tunnel.
We have found that the weather in Wellington can be very fickle. If you travel as little as 10km north or south you can find that you can move from rain and drizzle to bright sunshine just by turning a corner. So with this in mind we decided to explore the Rimutaka Rail Trail. This was a railway line opened in 1878, running from the Hutt Valley north across the steep Rimutaka Mountain Range to Featherstone. It apparently used the same type of Steam Engine that is still used to climb up Snowdon in the UK so must have been an amazing rail trip. The track was closed in 1955 when the Rimutaka Rail Tunnel was opened.
There are stunning views around every corner.
It was a beautiful walk but next time we will be taking our mountain bikes and we will see if we can make it to the tunnel.
It was the other half's birthday earlier in the week and we decided to buy him a fishing rod. So this weekend we have been attempting to learn how to fish. Both of us are complete novices and so on Saturday we rather optimistically headed out to the Hutt River in an attempt to catch some fish. This led to about an hour of tangled lines, lost hooks and wading out into the river to collect stuck lines (and not a small amount of swearing) before we gave up and headed home. We then consulted some instructional videos on You Tube and the next day managed to cast off without getting completely tangled lines. We felt very proud! Give us a year or two of practice and we might actually manage to catch something.The girls were more interested in paddling and throwing stones into the river than helping Dad fish. Their combined efforts are probably partly responsible for the fact that we failed to catch anything!
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What Dreams May Come (Vincent Ward, 1998) One cannot divorce oneself from who we are when we see a movie. Our day-to-day existence informs but also colors our perceptions.
It's like recording a sound in an environment. My other job is as a sound designer. Recording a sound takes a certain kind of awareness; you must keep in mind that when you record the sound of something in the world, you are also recording the world it is in. I can't calculate how many people have approached me with a recording they made and asked "can you take out the echo?" No. You can't. "Where did you record it?" "My kitchen." All those reflective surfaces. It would have been much better and easier (not to mention more possible) to have taken the recording out of the kitchen than to take the kitchen out of the recording.
So, too, with watching movies. Our environment, both spatial and emotional, at a particular moment in time in our lives affects the perception of that movie, changing it in our eyes and our minds. It is another example of the Observer Effect, and one who watches a lot of movies (or writes about them) would do well to try to hit "reset" in one's expectations before seeing a film.
But one can't always do that. I first encountered What Dreams May Come—an adaptation of Richard Matheson's fantasy/psychological novel by New Zealand director Vincent Ward—on an airplane while on a long polar flight to Copenhagen, the first leg of a trip to Scotland with my wife. 18 hour airplane rides are brutal—you're trapped in a tube mere inches from instant death, doing something humans don't naturally do in an area of space where they don't naturally survive. If something goes wrong, pffft. But, things rarely go wrong, in less proportion than highway accidents do, and the vast majority of people get where they want to go. Competence with small measures of brilliance improve our odds. So planes, which are constantly in the air, rarely crash...which is what makes it news when it happens.
But the vulnerability must weigh on you.
So, this film, What Dreams May Come: Dr. Christian Nielsen (Robin Williams), a pediatrician, meets and marries Annie Collins (Annabella Sciorra), a painter. They have a couple of kids and live an idyllic life, until the children are killed in a car crash, sending Annie into a crippling depression that institutionalizes her and threatens the star-crossed marriage of "soul-mates." Christy's dedication to her pulls her through, but when he is also killed, she spirals into a suicidal fugue state. Christy's spirit monitors her for awhile but, sensing he's doing more harm than good, moves on to Heaven...or his version of Heaven.
It is a vision shared between his painter-wife and himself—landscapes that she has created—and, initially at least, it is made of paint.
It's a vivid sequence* (for no small reason What Dreams May Come won that year's Oscar for Best Visual Effects), a combination of photo-realism and impressionism: flowers are crushed and dissolved into gooey oils, foot-prints smear into mud-consistency rainbows, the sky is filled with moving van Gogh-style clouds.
But one man's Heaven... In the land of the living, Annie cannot cope with the loss. In a heart-breaking sequence, she paints a single purple-tinged tree with appears in Christy's after-life, then, despairing, she destroys it with solvent, and Christy watches, horrified as the tree sheds its blooms and dies.
Annie ultimately commits suicide, which condemns her to her own Hell, and Christy risks everything to, Orpheus-like, rescue her from her fate. The smearing of real-life and various after-life myths may have been too many leaps of disbelief for modern audiences to hurdle and the film, despite its many visual splendors, did poorly at the box-office.
Truth is, it's something of a wallow, a morose contemplation of life, death and mythic love. Seeing it now, one notices the ardent manipulation and contrivance that informs the scenario, however masked it is with wonder and amazing conceptual imagination. It borders on the hysterical—the sort of film that I usually dismiss with a churlish "Why doesn't everybody get a good night's sleep and start fresh in the morning?" Or, that's what I say when my feet are planted on terra firma.
But, in the sky, in the lower stratosphere between 29,000 and 39,000 feet, it had a different effect. Both my wife and I were reduced to choking, burbling sobs as the struggles of the souls on-screen turned us to puddles of goo—not unlike the flowers Christy squeezes in his hands. You'd think someone had really died as we were inconsolably grieving in our little pity-party in coach, tears streaming down our cheeks, noses running, tissues shredding, and hearts breaking—and this was the last film shown before landing. We were going to be hollow-eyed, snuffling little woebegones getting off the plane—and, indeed, when the lights came up, a stewardess glanced at us in a way that suggested there wasn't enough glazed peanuts in the world she could give us to cheer us up.
I have been thinking about this off and on the last ten years, wondering why What Dreams May Come was so powerful in-flight and not so much on the ground, when an episode of Chicago Public Radio's "This American Life
" recently offered up some anecdotal evidence of elevated emotionalism on flights in a segment entitled "Contrails of My Tears." In it, frequent flyers talk about the incidents of crying at sentimental movies, making mountains out of mole-hills, and generally acting like they'd just had a hit of steroids...or any performance enhancers. That may be the answer. It might not, but I'll take an explanation of why this film had such an effect that one time...and that one time only.
Beautiful movie, though.
Post-script: The issue of emotional movies on flights has not gone unnoticed. Virgin Atlantic now offers "weep warnings" before the showing of "emotional movies." The last time I felt really emotional during a movie was when I realized I'd spent $28.00 on a 3-D double bill of Cars 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Wonder if that qualifies...
Reminds me of a story of a man who took a flight with his wife who was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. At one point during the in-flight, she leaned over to her husband. "If you don't like this movie," she said, "we can always leave." I'm just glad they weren't seated near the exits.
* Part of the reason for that vividness is the film stock that Ward used making the film, Fuji
Velvia film, known among photographers for its color reproduction properties. The colors pop out on the screen and are some of the most beautiful, fanciful images ever to grace a theater screen, an extreme example of what can be accomplished with the twin media of art and science. Isn't that what photography, boiled down to its basics, is?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
"What Dreams May Come" and Frequent Cryer Miles
Posted by "Yojimbo_5" at 1:50 PM
Labels: 1998, Annabella Sciorra, Cuba Gooding Jr., Fantasy, Robin Williams, Vincent Ward, W
2 comments:
- SugaryCynic said...
I've like, gone back and forth over watching this movie way more than I should have. It looks really interesting but also so sappy. Perhaps I should watch it in the air lol. Really interesting review. Like wine, how good or bad we might find movies depends a lot more on the time and place than we think about.
- February 15, 2011 at 6:59 PM
- Michelle said...
This movie may have been shown 13 years ago, but the visual effects were really amazing. The use of painting imagery on the setting was perfectly done. The story is sad, but it had a happy ending. If the 3D experience existed during that time, the movie watchers would have enjoyed this even more.
Michelle Pendlelton
- September 28, 2011 at 8:42 AM
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(NUSOJ/IFEX) - The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) calls for the opening of the broadcast media space in Somaliland following a peaceful and a democratic transition of power in the recent presidential election on 26 June 2010.
For many years, Somaliland has constitutionally recognized media freedom and the establishment of independent media. However, the authorities have been hesitant to grant broadcast licenses to private or independent radio stations to enable them to operate legally in the country, under the guise of unconstitutional justifications that Somaliland will descend into chaos and anarchy if the radio airwaves were opened up.
Until now, Somaliland airwaves are under strict government control but many people continue to get their information through television and radio channels, a sector that has not been opened up officially.
"We appeal to the newly-elected president of Somaliland and his government to give practical support and facilitation for the establishment of radio stations in Somaliland so that people can enjoy and exercise their constitutional right to receive and impart information from other sources other than the government organs," said Omar Faruk Osman, NUSOJ Secretary General. "Democratic gains through the ballot box cannot be sustained and enjoyed unless radio airwaves are opened up and liberalized, in line with the Somaliland constitution and international standards of free expression," Omar added.
There have been cases of wanton attacks on journalists and media houses over the past several years, including arrests, intimidations and the denial of broadcasting licences to Horyaal Radio, and defamation cases against print and online journalists.
The print media, despite having licences to operate, have been victimized for their independent reporting and are already facing the challenges of being the only alternative source of information and media in Somaliland. Judicial authorities in Somaliland are also not blameless in this regard following their persistent attack on the media. The judiciary has been accused of using its powers to frustrate freedom of expression in Somaliland. Nearly all legal cases against journalists have been ruled in favour of the government.
"Somaliland should make a clean start with the media by guaranteeing journalists their freedoms and rights. Judicial reforms should be undertaken to guarantee the independence of the legal system and to create confidence among the media fraternity. The judiciary should be viewed as a trustworthy and independent institution that can defend the fundamental human right of freedom of expression," he added.
"We need the yet-to-be discussed media bill to be made available in the public arena for debate so that it can form part of the governmental reform, in line with international standards of free expression," Omar added.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I made this card for Get Sketchy Challenge #10. We were to follow the sketch, and for a bonus challenge you could do handwritten sentiment/doodling. All the words on the front of the card are hand written. I had fun making this card. Finished size is 6x6.
Posted by Janice W. at Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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As always.....Fabulous!ReplyDelete
super fun halloween card...excellent job on all the handwriting!ReplyDelete
thanks for joining us over at Get Sketchy!
Love the black and white! Great job!ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing with GS!
Gorgeous take on the sketch, love the colors, this card is like a story!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/24/2009 12:59 PM
extra cute Janice. and not only do you create marvelous cards. And color brilliantly... You also handwrite like a pro.ReplyDelete
I love everything about this card. especially how it looks foggy . . smokey . . . spooky. The inside looks just as wondeful as the card front.
love it!
Love the black and white. Very HalloweenReplyDelete
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Andrew Salzman, Compaq VP-worldwide advertising and brand strategy, said it's too early to determine what will happen to Digital's advertising, currently at DDB Needham Worldwide, New York.
But, he said, "We remain very committed to a singular, unified brand strategy and identity for Compaq."
Ammirati and DDB Needham "are fine agencies," Mr. Salzman said. "From Compaq's vantage point, we remain 100% committed to working with [Ammirati] and will work closely with the marketing people at [Digital] on how best to manage the communications needs of our merged entity" after the deal closes in three to four months.
For ad spending, the whole probably will be less than the parts: Compaq presumably will cut Digital's $140 million ad budget, dropping Digital's major brand ads and eliminating overlapping product lines.
DDB Needham hopes to retain Digital, which will operate as a unit of Compaq. But an executive close to Compaq and Digital said it's likely Ammirati will take over Digital advertising.
"Long term, I would expect [Ammirati] to get everything-long term being after July 1," by which time the deal should be closed, the executive said.
Compaq is now moving the estimated $10 million to $15 million account of Tandem Computers, acquired last summer, to Ammirati from Anderson & Lembke, San Francisco. That move had been expected (AA, Jan. 19); Anderson will keep some interactive assignments.
Compaq, the world's No. 1 PC marketer, agreed to buy Digital for $9.6 billion in cash and stock.
The loss of Digital would be a blow to DDB Needham, which won the consolidated account in July. A DDB Needham-created global campaign debuted in October.
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You know what goes insanely well with chocolate? Red wine. I've found myself sipping a glass of red wine and gnawing on a hunk of dark chocolate on several occasions. I've even had Chocolate Syrup infused with red wine, drizzled over ice cream at a winery in Napa. That was a pretty amazing end to a wine tasting. I think about that red wine chocolate syrup a lot.
So taking a bit of red wine and adding to the most amazing drinking chocolate (think uber fancy and rich hot cocoa) sounded like not only something amazing, but something I needed to do.
And with the holidays right around the corner, it would make a delicious cocktail to any festive party spread. We're taking about replacing it with the ubiquitous cup of coffee with dessert. Skip dessert. Make this dessert.
Because it's INSANELY RICH. The kind of rich that makes you crave another mug full, but rich enough to know better.
Think of it as a holiday night cap. Because chocolate and wine.
Plus, since bringing a bottle of wine makes an excellent hostess gift, adding a pretty set of wine glasses in a basket, with a bottle of rich dark Cabernet Sauvignon and some dark chocolate, with this recipe tucked into the basket makes the perfect holiday hostess gift.
Picking the Perfect Red Wine:
There are a lot of red wines out there. Sweet, dry, full bodied, you name it. You will want to use something rich and earthy like Crios Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina. At $15 it's an affordable option, and it's laced with notes of plum, dark chocolate, and vanilla spice, so the drinking chocolate pairs insanely well with it.
Crios is a family-owned brand by Susana Balbo, Argentina's leading and most innovative winemaker. Her wines are inspired by her children as Crios means "offspring" in Spanish.
Dare to try this cocktail this holiday and let the rich pairing warm you from the inside out on chilly winter nights.
- 1½ cups milk
- 1 cup Crios Cabernet Sauvignon
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Bring milk to a simmer in a saucepan, careful not to scorch.
- Add vanilla and chocolate and stir until melted and thickened.
- Remove from heat and slowly pour wine into the drinking chocolate.*
- Serve in mugs.
- Top with whipped cream and chocolate shaving if desired.
- *If serving at a party with children, wine can be added to each mug instead of entire pan.
About CRIOS CABERNET SAUVIGNON:
- Inspirational message of the wine: Trust in yourself
- Life lesson and tasting notes: Susana Balbo, Argentina's leading and most innovative winemaker, strived to make a premium Cabernet Sauvignon in the unproven terroir of Argentina.
- Even in the face of doubt, she trusted her instincts and created an elegant Cabernet that took the world's attention, laced with notes of plum, dark chocolate, and vanilla spice.
- Pairing: Grilled or roasted meats, empanadas, chili
- Brief descriptors: elegant, earthy and balanced
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Outlook Festival, the largest Soundsystem and Bass Music Culture festival, originated in Europe. The four-day event is held at Fort Punta Christ in Croatia, with a breath-taking view of the Adriatic Sea. Now approaching its eighth year, Outlook Festival has been bringing Bass Music Culture to music fans from across the world – and this is no exception for Hong Kong this year. Outlook Festival is launching a party on May 13 in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, with numerous well-known or rising DJs performing.
Outlook Festival HK is the only underground Bass Music festival in Hong Kong, bringing together the finest sounds from the most vibrant and cutting edge dance scene around, whether it be house, techno, dubstep, reggae, dub, hiphop, garage, grime, electronica — all kinds of underground dancefloor music will be involved.
This year, Outlook Festival HK will also uncover a wide range of new talents from the underground soundscape in Hong Kong.
Just Bee is one of the performing DJs at the festival; heavily inspired by labels such as Metalheadz, Exit Records, Critical, Soul:r and more, Just Bee loves mixing it up to create concoctions in her own style, guaranteed to make anyone buzz. Just Bee has played at venues such as Oma, XXX, Basement and Social Room, make sure you don't miss this chance to catch her live at Outlook Festival HK this year!
There are also Hiphop/Rap x R&B artists Kemikal Kris x Wesley Jamison on the line up at the festival. It is a stepping stone for them, having performed live at their previous events and after their song, Welcome to Hong Kong, has become a great hit. Kris x Wes are the rising stars in Hong Kong's Hiphop/Rap and R&B culture. At Outlook Festival HK this year, you will be able to see more of their performance. Here's a music video of their most popular song:Welcome to Hong Kong
Of course, Outlook Festival HK is going to top up the party by introducing hybrids of DnB x Hip Hop x Footwork produced by British DJ, Stray, as well as having some famous DJs performing – from the arguable Hong Kong's top DJ Frankie Lam, to the South London based Subcoat, with his very own style of DnB mixes.
Subcoat's core and consistent selection is Garage, Grime, Trap, UK Funky, House, Techno, Jungle, R&B and Dubstep, even though he is not bound to these genres. His production has been on radio stations in London such as Rinse FM, Radar Radio, Balamii Radio & Hoxton FM, leading him to headlining at clubs and festivals (Bestival, Fools Paradise) all over the UK and Europe (Amsterdam, Vienna & Innsbruck). He has also performed live at the Syndicate in Beijing last year, which marked his success as he has entered the market in Asia to reach out to more music lovers. Check out the footage of Subcoat's performance in the link below!
Additionally, the festival will also include Reggae, brought to you by Blood Dunza, the founder of the Heavy Hong Kong Crew, who has played at Outlook Festival in Croatia 2012, toured Germany, Belgium, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, India, Cambodia and all over China. If you're looking for some Deep House, Tech-House and Progressive House music, there will also be Totoro Typhoon, a Hong Kong based DJ duo and party producer that has played in multiple Asian festivals, such as Yin Yang (Beijing), Wonderfruit (Thailand), Midi Electronic festival (Suzhou).
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Outlook Festival是一個來自歐美的最大型sound system & bass 的音樂節。這四日的音樂節將於 克羅地亞的歷史古蹟 Fort Punta Christ 中舉行。不得一提, Fort Punta Christ 有對著 Adriatic sea的迷人觀景!
Outlook Festival為了慶祝八週年,決定帶bass music culture 給世界各地的粉絲!香港也絕對不例外。Outlook Festival 將於5月13日於馬鞍山舉行第一場音樂派對! 這場派對當然小不了世界知名 DJ 的參與!
Outlook Festival HK 是香港唯一一個地下 bass music festival, 無論是 house, techno, dubstep, reggae, dub, hiphop, garage, grime, electronica, 也將會為大家帶來最好的聲效還有最好的舞台!
今年,Outlook Festival HK 也帶來不小香港地下音樂界的新人。
Just bee 是一位將於Outlook Festival HK 表演的 DJ,她的靈感來於 Metalheadz, Exit records, Critical, Soul:r 等等。Just bee 喜歡將不同的東西加起來製作自己獨一無二的風格,保證你一聽停不下來。Justbee有在 Oma, XXX, Basement 以及 Social room 等地方表演過。所以記住不要錯過這次看她live的機會!
Hiphop/R&B 藝人 Kris x Wesley Jamison 也會於今次的音樂節演出。Kris x Wes 是香港 hiphop/rap and R&B culture 中的新星。當他們的歌 Welcome to Hong Kong 一推出後,大受歡迎。 也在不同的地方有live 表演。於今年的 Outlook Festival HK,你將會看到他們的演出。以下是他們最受歡迎的歌- Welcome to Hong Kong:
當然, Outlook Festival HK 將會為這次的派對增添更多歡樂!Hybrids of DnB x Hip Hop x Footwork 的英藉 DJ, Stray 和很多知名 DJ 將於 Outlook Festival HK 表演。 從香港頂尖DJ Frankie Lam, 到 South London 的 Subcoat 也有。
Subcoat的主打為 Garage, Grime ,Trap, UK Funky, House, Techno, Jungle, R&B 和 Dubstep,可是他不會受這些風格限制。他的製作曾於倫敦的 radio station Rinse FM, Radar radio, Balamii Radio 和 Hoxton Fm 播出。令他在很多夜店和音樂節日 ( Bestival, Fools Paradise) 知名度大響。他去年也在北京的 Syndicate 表演,也見證著他在亞洲市場的成功。看一看 Subcoat 的表演吧!
另外,這次音樂節表演者也會有 Blood Dunza, Heavy Hong Kong Crew的創辦人,帶給大家 Reggae!他們曾於 Outlook Festival Croatia 2012 表演,去過不同的地方,當中包括德國、比利時、泰國、越南、新加坡、菲律賓、印度、柬埔寨,還走遍中國。 如果你是想找 Deep house, Tech-house 和 Progressive House music, Totoro Typhoon 也會在當日表演。 Totora Typhoon 是由兩名香港 DJ 組成的 ,他們曾於多個亞洲音樂節表演過, 例如 Yin Yang (北京), Wonderfruit (泰國), Midi Electronic Festival (蘇州)。


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The Botany of Desire: A Plants-eye View of the World
G.K. Hall, 2001 - 355 Seiten
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through portraits of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato.
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MHS News
Massachusetts Audubon Society Collection Guide Complete
The MHS is thrilled to announce that the newly processed records of the Massachusetts Audubon Society (MAS) are now available to researchers. More than 100 record cartons chronicle the organization from its founding in 1896 as the first Audubon Society in the country through the 20th century as it became a leader in environmental education and advocacy. On deposit from the MAS since 2008, the collection will continue to grow.
The collection documents the administrative, educational, scientific, and environmental activities of the organization from its founding to 2011. Included are administrative and financial records, records related to individual sanctuaries, historical records, ornithological records, records of related organizations, printed material, photographs, and audio-visual material. "This has been a time-consuming and challenging project over several years, and we certainly appreciate all of the MHS's many and varied efforts to bring us to this point, both safeguarding the original records and now making them available to researchers," states Bancroft R. Poor, Vice President for Operations/CFO, Massachusetts Audubon Society.
The MAS was founded in 1896 when Boston residents Harriett Lawrence Hemenway and Minna B. Hall formed a group to discourage "ladies of fashion" from wearing the brightly-colored feathers of non-game birds in their hats, a market that had caused the birds to be hunted almost to extinction. Recruiting leading ornithologist William Brewster as their first president, the group became the first state Audubon society in North America. Headquartered in Boston, it was instrumental in the passage of an 1897 Massachusetts law outlawing trade in wild-bird feathers and the 1900 Lacey Act, prohibiting interstate shipment of animals killed in violation of local laws. The Massachusetts organization, which remains independent, also helped to organize the National Association of Audubon Societies (incorporated in 1905), which later became the National Audubon Society.


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But before this 5K race even started I was already in 4th place. There were 3 very intense and fast looking guys owning the start line. The rest of pack, including me, was standing 5 feet behind them, afraid to even get close. One of these guys even had a tattoo on his leg of a person running, and that's pretty serious.
So I gave up hope in placing in the race and instead focused on going under 19 minutes for the first time in my life. Because according to the IAAF, that would be Fast.
They counted down the start and we were off, starting up a slight incline on a residential street. I was almost trampled by several more guys who blew past me, but I resisted following them and stuck with a more methodical pace.
I was really surprised as one by one, almost everyone in front of me slowed down and dropped back, leaving me in second place after the first mile. There was only the guy in the white shirt left, about 100 yards ahead, looking strong. After the halfway turn around, I saw Shannon leading the women, while still taking pictures with her camera and cheering me on.
At mile 2, the guy in the white shirt slowed down and fell back too, leaving only the guy on a bike leading the way. The last mile was slightly downhill and I tried to move my feet as fast as they would go, letting gravity do the work. I still did not believe I would actually win, and expected the guy with the tattoo to come zooming past at any moment.
The bike pacer was collecting the signs which marked the course, and several times I ran by him, left with no direction on where to go. "Um? Straight?", I asked trying not to sound desperate.
"Yeah straight. Don't worry, I got ya".
After a turn, the finish line and clock was in sight, and I sprinted down the hill finishing in 18:47.
I went back up the street to cheer on Shannon who amazingly won the womens race. I gave her a kiss after she finished, which made me self conscious and very queasy. The idea of an engaged couple winning the race and kissing at the finish line was so nauseatingly sappy that I fully expected everyone to start pelting us with water bottles. We certainly deserved that, but instead everyone was quite gracious and congratulatory.
I was excited that I had officially run a fast 5K, until I went to the IAAF website and saw that they had updated the chart for this year, redefining the word fast:
|2009 IAAF Men's 5K performance ranking
|19:00 and above
|Average guy
|18:00 - 18:59
|Insecure men trying to pump up their ego in the local non-competitive 5K
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|16:00 - 16:59
|Insufferable skinny cross country team teenagers
|15:00 - 15:59
|Guys who work at the shoe store
|14:00 - 14:59
|Guy at the shoe store named Bobby who sold me my
"Asics Gel Pillow Plodders with roll bar and built in iPod."
|13:00 - 13:59
|Targets of doping investigation
|13:00 and below
|East Africans who grew up without shoes
Rats. Still not fast.


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The media was too busy in real stories about Kapil Sibbal curbing the freedom of expression, Anna Hazare's Lokpal, Ganguly-Greg-Gang-war, Anil Kapoor playing Mr India in Mission Impossible and celebrating 100th Anniversary of saddi Dilli, so who had the time to write about yet another rape in the city?
Yes, it happened once again. And this time, it was a seven year old kid whose childhood is ruined. The poor kid, is maybe, scarred for life. All this suffering, just because a maniac, who should have been in an asylum, was roaming around freely, disguised as an uncle, or a neighbour, or a cousin. She lost her childhood to an unscrupulous man, who is unfit to live in a society and should be not spared for what he has done to an innocent child.
For everyone else, except for the traumatized girl, it is the same old story, which keeps on repeating, only with a new victim each time. Women like me, read about it, think about it, and then comfortably forget about it, somehow, believing that it can never happen to them. And the mad men roam around us, with an eye for each and every detail, patiently waiting, to strike again. No one knows, who the prey would be, this time.
It is an irony that, with so many incidents happening in her capital city, India still doesn't have the right laws to deal with rapists. Most of them get away easily after committing the horrendous crime. Most of the cases aren't even reported. Delhi Police does a fantabulous job, of limiting the number of rape cases, in the city, by refusing to report them at all. And the ones which are somehow reported make sure an unending suffering for the already victimised soul. The cries of women go un-noticed in this country, and the rapists find some or the other way, to escape, in most scenarios. In the rare occasion, that they are caught, the punishment is just seven years of imprisonment, for scarring another soul, for her entire life. Women's organisations have been demanding capital punishment for the atrocious crime, for years, which in my opinion is the only apt punishment for a rapist. But we don't have any such law as yet, maybe because safety of women in the country is never an election issue.
While we were going gaga about celebrating a century of years of Delhi being the capital of the nation, we all contentedly forgot that Delhi is also the rape-capital of the nation, or maybe the entire world. Today, no woman feels safe in dilwalo ki Dilli. I can't seem to find an answer to the question that why is Delhi so favourable a city, for the rapists? Why Delhi?
At the end, each story has a distressed girl, who would, now, think twice before stepping out of her home. We run campaigns, for saving the girl-child but the point to ponder is, are our cities safe enough for the girl-child? Are we offering her the right environment to grow up or she would grow up (or not?) to suffer the agony so many other women have gone through? Are we saving the girl child, for the known or unknown man, who can ruin her life and shatter her heart and spirit?
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This week is all about Home Depot and building our projects and doing some art with mommy. I loved all the photos so I didn't want to pick and choose. Sometimes it's just one or two stories and I am totally okay with that.
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The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here.


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[EN] This paper aims to contribute to the methodological debates on elites interview. While researching medical tourism in India and Thailand, many interviews were conducted with medical professionals, marketing and operation managers of corporate hospitals, and key members of different ministers or professional organisations in India and Thailand. Given the potential negative impacts on the local healthcare, this elite is building a discursive reality to embed medical tourism in each country. We analysed the methodological challenges faced interviewing this elite promoting medical tourism. Though not exclusive, « interviewing up » raises various methodological issues like the access to the informers, the unbalanced power relations during the interview, the reliability of information. Medical tourism being a new trend, the deconstruction of public discourses from the various medical tourism promoters was fundamental in order to extract maximum information during the interviews. The manipulation of our positionality was of great help to gain access to our informers. While not insisting on our academic and disciplinary affiliation, the diplomatic status of one of the team's members was on the contrary very effective in giving more credibility to our requests for interview. Our positionality was again reworked through the interview's process. During the interview, the reciprocity of information, the exchange of opinion, was of great help to build confidence among the interviewees and to gain more sensitive information.
Bochaton, Audrey, Lefebvre, Bertrand (2010) « Interviewing elites. Perspectives from medical tourism sector in India and in Thailand », in Hall, M. (éd) Fieldwork in Tourism. Methods, Issues and Reflections, Routledge, New York, pp. 85-95