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Happy New Year! As one year ends and another begins, we cannot be more thankful to our lovely couples and their families for all the memories. We also want to give a special thanks to our extraordinary vendors who make us look so fabulous. Here are some of our favorite photos and videos. Thank you 2017, it was a phenomenal …
Warm Beverages for Your Reception
The weather is getting mighty chilly and all we can think about are hot beverages to warm the soul. A hot beverage station is always a huge hit when doing an Autumn or Winter Wedding. Here are some of our favorites: Espresso Barista Bar Hot Apple Cider Station Cordial Bar Hot Chocolate Station
Menu Cards
More and more of our couples are opting to do menu cards for their Reception. Not only does it add to the overall design, but guests are always curious about the menu and this is a great way to peak their taste buds! Here is one of our current favorites, designed by none other than Ceci New York. The laser …
Donations In Lieu of Wedding Favors
Share the love on your wedding day by trading in traditional wedding favors for donating to a charity close to your heart. With the recent heart-breaking events, donating to support the victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma would make a difference to those in need. Here are some brilliant examples we found for wording and design:
A Christian Louboutin Inspired Event
Dazzle your guests with not only your gorgeous shoes, but your entire Louboutin inspired event! Let your shoes do the walking and your event do the talking by adding the dramatic accent color of red. The iconic style of Louboutin shoes (my personal favorite) helped us put together this board:
Tiered Staging
Tiered staging is all the rage right now. We love laying the stages to create a unique effect to the area that all guests will be seeing. We have seen mirrors that cover the tiers, floral borders, and our favorite is a tiered runway. We cannot wait to see these at our 2017 weddings. Below are some of our favorite …
Large Wedding Venues in the Tri-State Area
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Radiant Red in Time for Valentine's Day
We can't think of anything more romantic than a wedding during Valentine's Day! If you are getting married on or near February 14, add some touches of radiant red to pull in the Valentine's Day Mood. See below for some beautiful inspiration.
Fun Favors
Between picking out the perfect wedding dress to finding the perfect hue for your Reception, favors often get forgotten. But they leave a bigger impact than you think! They are the parting gifts for your guests and a little special something to remember your fabulous wedding day. Here are some of our favorites:
A Donation to Charity Instead of a Return Favor
Planning what to give as a favor for your wedding can seem like a last minute thought, and many times, the favors do not truly capture the couples' identity. A great way to give thanks to your guests, in a more personal way, is by donating to a charity of your choice. You can send the donation on behalf of …
Best Honeymoon Cruises
A honeymoon has to be just as special as your wedding day! What could possibly be more fun and exciting than a cruise honeymoon? You can see some of the most picturesque views as you sail. Check out some of the best honeymoon cruise lines for the year. Celebrity Cruises Regent Seven Seas Cruises The Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection Crystal …
Charger plates are a great way to take your Wedding decor to the next level. Break out of the norm with these unique options that will add elegance and refinement to your tablescapes. We love the contrast made with gold encrusted chargers to add a touch of glam to your Reception. Dining in style has never been so easy!
Fruits and Vegetables as Place Card Holders
Step out of the box with these cool ideas to use fruits and vegetables as your place card holders. They provide an organic and delightful element to your wedding, creating the perfect balance of whimsical and sweet. You can chose apples for a fall wedding or raspberries for a summer wedding. There are so many fun options. Look below for …
Bookshelves Used for Backdrops
Whether books play a role in your own love story, or you are just looking for a unique conversation starter, adding a bookshelf backdrop to your wedding can be fun and elegant. We love the way a bookshelf can be adorned with beautiful florals and lit up to create a stylized backdrop. Place a fancy love seat in front or …
Best Museum in NYC to Get Married
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Purple and Silver Reception Decor
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How To Enhance Your Cocktail Hour
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Luxury Wedding Favors
You've booked a rock star band, hired the best caterer in town, and made sure only premium drinks are to be served to make sure all your guests will have the best time at your wedding. Why not surprise your guests with a very luxe wedding favor as a sp…
Unique Chairs to Consider…
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Modern Centerpieces
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Questions to Ask Your Caterer
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Questions to Ask Hair and Makeup Vendors
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Complex Systems Theory and Cancer Biology
This Workshop will focus on understanding the nature of cancer in terms of the flow and control of information, and the activities of various regulatory and signaling networks in a systems context.
Topics will include GRNs, network theory applied to signaling pathways, chromosomal reorganization, systems biology, attractors, epigenetic landscapes, and thermodynamic and information theoretic aspects of stressed biosystems.
Audio Interviews and Transcripts from the Workshop
Interview with Tim Newman, a professor of Biophysics and SULSA Research Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Dundee in Scotland. His talk on Buffered Qualitative Stability, which he calls BQS, generated a lot of excitement at the workshop Professor of Biophysics and SULSA Research Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Interview Transcript
- Interview with Christoph Adami, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.
He discusses his experience of the workshop. Interview Transcript
- Interview with Sui Huang, professor and cancer researcher with a medical degree working at the Institute or Systems Biology in Seattle. He tries to understand cancer from very basic principles using a theoretical 'landscape' model first created by Conrad Waddington, the founder of systems biology. Interview Transcript
- Interview with Carol MacKintosh, Professor of Molecular Signalling at the University of Dundee in Scotland. She has discovered that spare copies of signalling pathways genes left over from evolutionary history are scattered throughout the genome and these make pathways that operate in teams. Over half of all cancers utilize a pathway in one of these teams and the essential pathways for cancer in these teams are non-mutated. These could be new targets for anti-cancer therapies. Carol's fascinating story begins 500 million year s ago with a little animal that lived in the sea. Read more on Carol MacKintosh | Interview Transcript
Interview with Tim Newman
Tim Newman: Well, we're very excited about this project, so it's probably the most exciting thing I've been involved in in my career. So, essentially, it started off with a coffee room discussion about what is robustness and my colleagues, I should just say who's is involved in this; myself and then Julian Blow, who is a molecular biologist and Luca Albergante, who is a post doc with a background in computer science.
We were having a coffee one day a few years ago and got into an argument about what is robustness and how does it connect to evolvability, and Julian had this wonderful insight that somehow because cells are so complex and be described by so many parameters, the fact that they are robust means they can't really, their robustness can't depend on parameters, but he said the magic word that somehow it's qualitative and then the whole project went off from there. And Luca found this theory from the 1960s that was written down by economists Ruppert and Quirk, called 'Qualitative Stability,' which basically says if you have a network – and they were thinking about a network of companies – is their particular shape they can have, so that it's always stable, no matter how strong or weak the links are. And so we took this idea and applied it to gene networks and found that Ruppert and Quirk's theory from economics actually holds in gene networks, which was a remarkable sort of application of one area of science to another. But because in biology, things evolve, we can take their theory a lot further, so that it's not just a question of these gene networks obeying Ruppert and Quirk's theory about having certain shapes that make them very stable, they also have to buffered against losing that stability through mutations and evolution.
So, we essentially have this buffered qualitative stability theory – in one sentence which is that gene networks are designed to be free of long loops and also to be buffered against getting long loops – and just from that one statement, you can make lots of predictions about what gene networks should look like and then we can test those predictions against gene networks that have been measured for bacteria and yeast and human cell lines and the remarkable thing is all the predictions that we make from this very simple theory are found to be true. So that's very exciting.
Pauline Davies: Well, that's just incredible because you know just superficially, who would ever have suspected it, but of course it does make sense, doesn't it to give that stability?
Tim Newman: Absolutely and the reason I'm at this conference is because we did one final thing which was to then ask, "If we take a cancer cell line from a human cell line, does it satisfy the rules or not?" And we find, that whereas for e-coli and yeast and the non-human cancer cell line which obey all of these different predictions for stability, actually the cancer cell line breaks every rule. So, it's really sort of the bad kid on the block and it's clearly through evolution and the body giving up all of these very carefully created patents in the gene network, throwing them all away and becoming actually non-robust, and we think what this means is that it allows the cancer cells to be phenotypically plastic, so they can respond to all kinds of different environments in the body which would be a very strong survival strategy for cancer cells.
But I think the thing I'd like to stress is that this is a theory which has no parameters whatsoever and all the predictions are either just right or wrong, and so it's been extremely exciting to find you can make a myriad of predictions where there's absolutely no room for error, they're either right or wrong, and we find in wild type cell lines and e-coli and yeast and so on, they're all seem to be confirmed, so we really think we're on to something about how gene networks are made.
Pauline Davies: Can there in the long term be any implications for treatment or prevention?
Tim Newman: I think it has actually because what I should say is that the, even though the cancer cell line that we studied breaks all of the rules, there's only a handful of genes that are misbehaving in the network of hundreds of thousands of genes that actually cause the network to break these rules, and so by looking at buffered qualitative stability, you can immediately zoom in to a handful of genes that are sort of key players in disabling the cancer cells robustness, so this gives you a completely new way of thinking about targets. And what's even more exciting is by removing just one or two genes from this handful; you can essentially resurrect the robustness of the cancer cell again. So, I think if one can look at the gene networks of cancer cells from different kinds of cancers, identify – assuming that they have these loops and break BQS – identify the genes that are misbehaving, it gives you a completely independent new way of identifying strong targets for gene therapy.
Pauline Davies: Well, you'd need to study even more networks, don't you?
Tim Newman: So, yes, so basically this is an example now where the theory is ahead of the game. We've studied all of the data that is out there, so we just have to wait now for a year or two, hopefully experimentalists will get excited about this theory and accelerate the pace at which they are generating these transcription networks. But the theory is sitting there waiting to be wielded, and we're just waiting now for these large teams to generate more networks.
Pauline Davies: Well congratulations.
Tim Newman: Thanks Pauline, it's great to see you.
Interview with Christoph Adami
Christoph Adami is a Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He discusses his experience of the workshop.
Chris Adami: Even though I'm in the department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, I work mostly in evolution and mostly inside of the computer. So I'm a theorist and if you want to make progress in disease, for example, you need to know lots of details and there are some people here that do fantastic things with actual experimental systems, but also with computational and theoretical systems, and so for me, I can learn a lot of things here that I could not learn in my normal environment.
Pauline Davies: Can you pick anything out that has meant a lot to you?
Chris Adami: One of the talks today made the point that you can have adaptation in cancer cells and normal cells without any mutations and that's something that I was kind of aware of but that I also tend to forget, because I work with mutations all the time. All this stuff that I do is with evolution is with mutations and that makes me forget about the fact that cells have the capacity to change their state as a function of environmental influences and then therefore that many of the things in the changes that we see in cancerous cells may actually not be mutation-related, so that was a good reminder for me.
Pauline Davies: Right. I know you were instrumental in some ways in setting up this PS-OC Network. Some of the initial conversations I believe were with you. So looking back at this, as an outsider really, because you haven't' been involved directly in the last five years, what do you think?
Chris Adami: I think first of all, that this was a fantastic idea to start these things. I wasn't aware that throughout 30 years of research in cancer, so little progress has been made. As a theorist, it turns out that I like to think in fundamental terms and that not many people in cancer biology were doing that. And so, putting together cancer biologists and physicists and engineers and chemists, I think was a fantastic idea because the different cultures needed to interact. On the one hand, the physicists possibly did not have access to all the kind of clinical data that was necessary in order to make interesting theories and on the other hand, the clinical people did not have the kind of broad thinking that physicists would bring to the table. So, I think in the long run, it's going to pay off handsomely. I think five years is probably too short a period to measure success. My hope is that these centers or other centers will go on.
Pauline Davies: Yes, I notice myself because I've been involved for the last five years, just seeing the level of discussion now that we have the physicists and their computers specialists and they're giving some fairly very high-powered talks, but they're bringing in biology that they might not have known about those years ago.
Chris Adami: Yes, I think that's the key. When I talk to biologists, I have a very good biologist friend, and he always tells me, "I like talking to you because you are the kind of physicist that actually cares about details." There are two kinds of physicists, those that care about the biological details and those that don't. Those that don't are useless for the biologists, so I mean these details matter. You cannot really build these types of theories in a vacuum; you need to have access to facts and very often, very, very detailed facts, and it is very often that minute, small details that perhaps even an experimentalist would overlook that end up making big breakthroughs, where somebody just looks at a fact and says, 'Hmm, I wonder how we could understand that.' It is in my view always the experiments and the facts that bring about new thinking. And in the absence of those, you're just sitting in a room trying to imagine how the world is, and I don't think that's very successful.
Pauline Davies: Actually, that's how major breakthroughs in physics have also occurred.
Chris Adami: That's right. I don't think what we're doing here is dramatically different from how we've been doing it in physics, you know, when I was a graduate student in physics, I had the same type of approach. I always said 'I need to look at data.' Because in the absence of data, I don't know what to even think about. I want to see data that nobody else has seen, data that is new, so that I can take a look at it, see the things that I understand and then see something that makes me stumble, and it is these type of things that open up new directions, because once you take a look at them and then you mull them over and you discuss them with other people and then at some point you might say, "You know what? I think I know where this comes from!" And then that's where the beginning of research is. The beginning of research starts in my view, with data, with data that you don't understand, but in order to have access to this kind of data, you have to have these collaborations that are being successfully put together by these PS-OC centers.
Pauline Davies: Thank you very much Chris.
Interview with Sui Huang
Sui Huang is a professor and cancer researcher with a medical degree working at the Institute or Systems Biology in Seattle. He tries to understand cancer from very basic principles using a theoretical 'landscape' model first created by Conrad Waddington, the founder of systems biology.
Sui Huang: I think the biggest question I ask myself is "Why is it so hard to treat cancer?" I have given up trying cure or eradicate it, but first we need to understand why it is so hard to treat cancer. It is exactly the same as why is it so hard to fight the war against terrorists, because we never kill all of them – those that survive, they adapt very fast, not through a Darwinian evolution but predisposed to learn. You know when we kill 80{236bd5e292587b885399ce1fe93b84c86ca4f34851d3c4bf06f3f0da35a3ccbb} of terrorists in some way or cancer cells, the surviving ones are not innocent bystanders that just happened just to survive; they are not those that have mutations that make them more stronger and fitter but they actually adapt actively to the perturbation that we use to kill the other cells. But essentially it is a price we pay for a very complex development that we have evolved, and so it's kind of a leftover, things that are not perfect.
Pauline Davies: And you have a very interesting way of describing it – you're using a landscape, aren't you, a landscape of possibilities with valleys and peaks and cancer evidently occupies some of the previously unoccupied valleys in that landscape.
Sui Huang: Yes, so that's a metaphor that goes back to Waddington who uses landscape to describe development.
And the landscape gives us a lot of clues about that – the potential behaviors and the idea that when you treat cancer you have all those surviving cells and those are actually more malignant, and that's all predicted by the landscape model. And then we move more and more towards new valleys, side valleys that are more and more away from the normal phenotype and so I think that's a problem. It's almost like entropy; we diversify them, we disperse them through this landscape and then they go through new states and new phenotypes. And we know now that this landscape can be computed based on the gene network and if we do so, then you will see you have many more potential cell types and we think that these potential never-occupied occupied cell types, when they are occupied, then they become cancer.
Pauline Davies: How did you come to find your model?
Sui Huang: It was a systematic search and I'm not the first. You know people previously suggested that cell types are these valleys in these landscapes and one can mathematically show that, and Stuart Kauffman proposed a long time ago that cancer cells could be those unoccupied attractors. And now we know, given what we know given about gene network, that there must be probably maybe many unoccupied attractor states. And that we also know that the beautiful thing about this is that it opens the possibility that you could get cancer without mutations and we have now a few examples of that, but mutations dramatically accelerate cancer.
Pauline Davies: How can you get cancer without mutations according to the landscape model?
Sui Huang: Essentially development is trying to go down to the lowest valleys and evolution has carved optimal paths to go down but, through some accidents you can get stuck further up in side valleys, so to speak. And to get to those side valleys there are all kinds of ways like, like toxins, carcinogens, mutagens and chronic injuries and stress can lead to cells being deviated from these highways down to the normal phenotypes. But mutations would just be a brutal deviation, so it's much more likely to achieve that sort of mutation.
Pauline Davies: Does this landscape model have any predictive power?
Sui Huang: Yes, well it explains a lot of things. It is supposed to predict, and that was the old idea by Stuart Kauffman, that one should be able to apply differentiation therapy, try to differentiate cancer cells back to these normal valleys or high ways down to the normal state. And that has now become really popular with the idea of cancer stem cells, but it turns out that it is probably more difficult because once you're in the side valleys, the path to the normal valleys is very, very rugged and so it's probably harder than one thinks. So the qualitative properties of this is predicted this landscape model.
Pauline Davies: So do you think the main power in this landscape model is to show people from other disciplines just, where cancer might lie and the possibilities?
Sui Huang: So that was one original idea of visualization of very abstract ideas, but then it turns out that it's much more useful than that, because if you have a landscape then that is a class of objects with its own properties, morphologies and that predicts a lot of constraints as to whether or not something is possible. So it's more than a pedagogical visualization tool.
Pauline Davies: And what about any use in, giving clues for treatment in the future?
Sui Huang: The landscape would be useful if you know everything about molecular details of the gene network. Once you have that, then the idea of landscape will be very useful. As of now, we have just a more qualitative model that stimulates new ideas, for example, one is that a lot of this chemotherapy or attempts to kill tumors actually makes it worse, so you go farther away from the normal valleys.
Pauline Davies: Well thank you very much.
Sui Huang: Thank you.
Interview with Carol MacKintosh
Interview with Carol MacKintosh
Carol MacKintosh: So, we don't have a name for the ancestor, but a modern day animal that's similar to it is called 'amphioxus' or 'lancelet' and the remarkable thing is that the ancestor, which lived in the Cambrian Oceans, underwent a dramatic genetic event when all of the DNA duplicated and then later it all happened again. And somehow, these duplications give rise to a new species of animal and that new species became the ancestor of all of us, all of the back-boned animals; the fish, the birds, mammals, including humans.
Pauline Davies: And the animal, what does it look like?
Carol MacKintosh: Well, you would recognize it as a relative, so it's like us in terms of having a neural tube, muscle blocks, it has structures called pharyngeal arches, where we have facial structures and it has a post anal tail. But, of course it doesn't have all of our fine features, it doesn't have a big brain, it has no bones, it's heartless and so, that is how it differs from the vertebrae animals
Pauline Davies: Okay and so this very primitive animal, it started doubling its chromosomes?
Carol MacKintosh: Yes, actually, doubling of chromosomes is quite common in nature, particularly well-known in plants, but it has only recently realized that such an event happened in our own ancestry and the remarkable things as far as I'm concerned is that the progeny survived, you know, despite this massive change in doubling of the DNA , and it all happened again in a later generation.
Somehow, the babies, survived and became our ancestor.
Pauline Davies: So I think you're saying we, well the animals that followed this primitive organism that used to live in the sea, had eight copies of each chromosome, am I correct?
Carol MacKintosh: The original ancestor had a pair of each chromosome and then that doubled, so they had four, and that doubled so they had eight. But, then of course, during this process and afterwards, there were lost of losses of parts of chromosomes and individual genes, so in modern day humans, this has been incorporated so that we're back to two, but we have copies that are scattered throughout the genome, that are what was retained from that time.
Pauline Davies: It's really a remarkable story.
Carol MacKintosh: Well the discovery was made, I guess, in 2008 when the sequence of the modern day amphioxus that resembles the ancestor, its genome was compared with that of humans and that was when it really became established. Before that, various lines of research had indicated that this was a possibility.
Pauline Davies: And now you think that these spare copies of genes that we've got are somehow implicated in cancer?
Carol MacKintosh: Well, yes, so what we discovered in my research group is that the extra copies, so having two or three or four of particular genes, what this has really done is its given a real boost to the communication systems in our bodies.
So what we've discovered is that these copies form little teams, families. and these families operate in networks inside our cells and because of the way that they work in this team way, what this means is that cells in our bodies are able to transmit lots of different messages from the hormones that control our cells, and they do this in a way, it's kind like Smartphones. You know, what's special about smartphones is that they can integrate multiple messages and make sense of them and cells in our body are better at integrating multiple messages than even the smartest of smartphones.
Pauline Davies: And that's because we've got the spare capacity, the duplication.
Carol MacKintosh: Yes! Having extra copies means you can pick and choose and make up different transmission routes for messages, but the cancer issue comes when, because of these sophisticated systems that were required to make the vertebrae animals, the down-side of that is when the communication systems go wrong – because of the sophistication of these systems it can go wrong – that can give rise to cancer.
Pauline Davies: And what is the purpose in the normal individual in having so many signaling pathways?
Carol MacKintosh: Well, cancer becomes reliant on signals that tell the cancer to grow and divide and proliferate. Now these same pathways are required at certain points during our development, so for example, as an embryo, its essential that these pathways that tell cells to grow and proliferate, they have to be switched on in a very controlled way and the right cells at the right time to allow the organism to grow and develop. But in the adult, for example, what happens is the cancer cells become very dependent on these pathways, whereas rest of the body only requires these pathways at certain times, for regenerating, you know, various organs and so on.
Pauline Davies: Wound healing?
Carol MacKintosh: Yes, wound healing for example. But so the cancers have a greater reliance on the signaling pathways that tell it to do that particular thing, whereas the rest of the body is operating using different signaling pathways that are telling different cells in our bodies to do different things at different times.
Pauline Davies: And I think that you are implying, or saying, that 60{236bd5e292587b885399ce1fe93b84c86ca4f34851d3c4bf06f3f0da35a3ccbb} of cancers had one of these families implicated, where you have multiple copies.

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At today's SXSW screening of the "Preacher" pilot -- where it was also revealed that the series will premiere after "Fear the Walking Dead's" mid-season finale -- the audience was treated to a surprise scene that featured A-list actor Tom Cruise in a cameo role.
RELATED: AMC's Devilish "Preacher" Turns SXSW Upside Down
In the premiere (via Entertainment Weekly), an unknown force from outer space possess preachers around the world, and eventually makes them blow up, inside out. One of those preachers is Tom Cruise, who appears on a TV screen speaking on behalf of the Church of Scientology in front of a crowd.
Then, Cruise explodes, in a gratuitously violent fashion.
Considering the involvement of executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg ("This Is The End"), it's no surprise that the series features a dark and violent sense of humour -- true to the comics -- but it looks like their star power also gave the series the opportunity to exploit (and explode) a major celebrity who seldom makes TV appearances.
The first reactions to the pilot are already flooding Twitter, with generally positive notes, especially from readers of the original comic series:
Even having never read the comics, I'm all in on @PreacherAMC. The pilot is sensational. #SXSW
- Neil Miller (@rejects) March 14, 2016
We just saw PREACHER. As a fan of the comic I say HOT DAMN. #SXSW #HotForPreacher
- Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis) March 14, 2016
Just saw the world premiere of #Preacher at #SXSW ... Really awesome...violent, funny, with great cast and characters...excited for more
- LG3 (@LeeGroh) March 14, 2016
Strong response to the new @Sethrogen @evandgoldberg show Preacher at #sxsw. Quiet crowd at first, but enthusiasm built over the first hour.
- Lucas Shaw (@Lucas_Shaw) March 14, 2016
PREACHER is one of the most promising pilots in recent memory, blending humor, gore & philosophy. #SXSW
- Colo-Ren (@WordsByCole) March 14, 2016
Starring Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, Ruth Negga as Tulip, Lucy Griffiths as Emily, W. Earl Brown as Sherriff Root, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Tom Brooke as Fiore, Derek Wilson as Donnie Schenck and Ian Colletti as Eugene/Arseface, "Preacher" debuts Sunday, May 22 at 10 p.m. ET on AMC.


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The production studio's logo appears. The remaining lights come on. The tunnel of light-dust from the projector to the screen fades out. More cleaning staff emerge from the Exit doors, and wait.
I get up, dust the remaining crumbs from my t-shirt and jeans, quickly look around to ensure I haven't dropped anything, and begin walking to the front of the row.
What do I see? A girl in a deep pink printed tee, faded jeans, silver tote, wavy hair falling gently on her shoulders, too walking to the front of her row, three rows ahead.
Is this possible? Another soaked-to-the-bone movie-lover?
I tentatively look at her, she returns the look, and smiles back pleasantly. I return a wider smile.
If we had been at the same level of rows, we could have for now at least walked down this aisle together.


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HockeyNow just wrapped up voting for the 2015 Fans' Choice Awards that gave readers the chance to vote on anything from their favourite hockey tournament to the best place to watch a hockey game.
I, of course, have a few fan choice awards of my own to present. In this case, however, I've made a list of people of whom I am a now a huge fan. Here are my hockey mom choice awards to some of those unsung heroes of hockey …
I am a huge fan of that Tim Horton's employee who gave me a medium coffee for the price of a small. Maybe it was oversight; maybe he has a soft spot for hockey moms. No matter – I am definitely giving him a hockey mom award!
Can we give a huge "Awwwww!" to that Zamboni driver who always smiles and waves at the little kid watching his every move around the ice surface because that little kid wants to grow up and be a Zamboni driver? Awwww, he's worthy of my hockey mom award for sure.
And can I please acknowledge all those community volunteers who have just set up those boards for the outdoor rinks all over Canada? Not all of them are city workers, this I know for fact. They're hockey mom fan choice award winners for sure – and that's before they even spend countless hours in the dark of night flooding that ODR!
There was that canteen worker who was not satisfied taking my money (for yet another coffee) without asking me how my kid's season was going. Really? Is your life that boring that you want to know the ins and outs of a stranger's kids' hockey season? Or maybe you're just that friendly. You are just that friendly! You get a hockey mom award from me!
I know I'm ever so forgetful about sharpening my kids' skates. But when I do remember, there's that ice skate sharpener who always asks how my kids like their skates sharpened (like, there are different ways?) and who keeps reminding me to keep reminding my kids to wipe their blades so they don't rust. You, Sir, get my hockey mom fan choice award too!
There's that hockey mom on our team who bought me a drink. Yeah, she knows how to buy her way to a fan choice award! That's ok – I'm a fan of hers, for sure.
Then there's that other driver in the community centre's parking lot racing to the same space at the same time I was, who granted me that coveted parking spot we both came upon with a simple wave of her hand. You, Fair Lady, are hereby granted a hockey mom fan choice award too.
Everyone knows I use hockey tape for just about everything but hockey sticks. So, that hockey dad who taped my daughter's hockey stick because I sure don't know how… I tip my travel mug to you and bestow upon you a hockey mom fan choice award too!
Readers may be surprised that I didn't include all my kids' hockey coaches on this list. That's because I know they'd much rather that six-pack of beer or that engraved whistle they get at the year-end party rather than my accolades for their love of and dedication to the sport of hockey.
And just as deserving to be on my list are all my fellow hockey moms who've made the long hockey season so much more tolerable. The coaches and the hockey moms – they're on my perennial list of hockey mom fan choice awards!
I'm pretty sure this is not what HockeyNow was thinking of when they launched their Fan Choice Awards program but I really can't help it - I've been thinking about these heroes all season!
Three cheers for the heroes of hockey – even though they may not even know it!
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Ventura appeared on CBS' This Morning and said that he plans to use the money he was awarded to pay his lawyers. He also said that he had no regrets for pursuing the lawsuit after Kyle was killed.
"I would have been a big-time loser had I not pursued the lawsuit, because ... the whole story was fabricated," Ventura said, who also hinted at suing the book's publisher, HarperCollins. "I was accused of treason, which in the military is the death penalty."
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The initiative, which was welcomed by mental health groups when it was unveiled in the US earlier this year, allows users to report concerning online posts, The Brisbane Times reported on Friday.
The posts are then reviewed by Facebook, which can then send the original poster a message of support or advice on where to seek professional help.
Mia Garlick, Facebook's Australia and New Zealand policy head, said that the company was working with the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre on a localised version of the suicide prevention initiative.
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The Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook has also ramped up its campaign to tackle bullying, taking its approach off screen for the first time in Queensland during a workshop with students and teachers last week.
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However, Garlick said that the social network did not keep statistics on the bullying complaints it received, or data on who the culprits and victims were.
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"What we want to do is solve (problems) every single time it happens and make sure those people feel supported."
Garlick welcomed the announcement of Australia's first children's e-safety commissioner, who has the power to fine Facebook AUS $17,000 (nearly $13,300) a day if it does not comply with takedown orders for offensive material.
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Wednesday, June 26
Travel: Bath & Body Works Toiletries
Another hotel toiletry brand I love is Bath & Body Works. I got some from Villa Montes, a boutique hotel in San Bruno, California. It was near enough San Francisco, and we needed an affordable and spacious hotel that was within our budget. Hotels in the city are so expensive and tiny, so Villa Montes really fit the bill. Free internet and printing too!
Okay, back to the toiletries. They were in tiny 1 fl. oz. bottles, even smaller than Bath & Body Work's retail-available travel sized 3 fl. oz. The hotel had it in Rainkissed Leaves scent, except the mouthwash, which was in mint. Rainkissed Leaves has this crisp and refreshing scent that smells really good. It really reminded me of the rain.
We stayed for about 5 days in the hotel, and just imagine how many sets I got. I am set for all my travel needs. <Insert evil laugh here> I will definitely come back.
Note to hotel management: Take it as a good sign if your guests take home your toiletries with them. :) It's a sign of good service. Well, at least for me.
Other hotels that carry this toiletry brand are Marriott and Wyndham hotels.
Wanna know what the best looking toiletry brand for me is? I wrote about it here.
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Tuesday, June 25
Baby: My Top 10 from Villa Oasis
One of my all-time favorite baby/toddler clothes stores to shop at is Gap. I was checking out Gap's website, and they have this Villa Oasis collection which reminded me of the beach. I am still longing for the beach. Summer's officially over in the Philippines, and I haven't been able to visit the beach this year. Hmm, there's no stopping us though, it's kinda hot all the time here.
The color combination in this collection is navy, aqua, white and teal. There's a hint of yellow and gold there too.
I love shopping for my little girl. So whenever I get that chance to grab some cute items, I do. Here are my top 10 items that I'd love to get for Allie.
Dinner at the beach:
01 V-neck cardigan. This is a 100% cotton light-weight cardigan that is perfect for a windy night. I like that it's in white so Allie can wear it with anything. It's easy to clean too if it gets stained.
02 Zig zag dress. I can picture Allie wearing this dress for a dinner. I love the chevron pattern -- it's so uso now even for kids. There's smocking at the back too. Another plus? I can get a similar outfit so that we're matching. Haha.
03 Strappy patent sandals. Allie's into sandals now, and this seems to be a good piece to be used with different outfits.
Daytime walk with mom:
04 Contrast bow top. This top has puffy sleeves and the bow and stripe details remind me of a sailor outfit.
05 Bow geometric skirt. Can't this skirt get any cuter? The jewel tones of the sea and white just makes it so refreshing. The print reminds me of stained glass patterns and sea glass.
06 Diane von Furstenberg x baby Gap color block sandals. I got this for Allie a while back, so I just had to put it in here. I wish they made this in my size too.
Pool and beach time:
07 Floppy canvas sun hat. In addition to sunscreen, it's important to wear hats so toddlers' faces won't get burned. The floppy brim makes sure that the face is under the shade.
08 Asymmetrical geometric one-piece. Here's another piece that reminds me of stained glass. Just adorable.
09 Bubble knit shorts. Allie has this in pink and she loves wearing it. I think it's a cute cover-up after playing at the beach.
10 Embellished flower jelly sandals. Another one of Allie's outfit staples is the jelly sandal. I think she wore hers until it didn't fit anymore. Her lola gave it to her. It's also from baby Gap but in blush. This light blue jelly sandals would look cute on her too.
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Monday, June 24
Event: The Return of the Vintage Pizzas
One of the California Pizza Kitchen experiences that I remember is when my friends and I went to Alabang Town Center more than 10 years ago (oh em gee I'm old), and we got the Peking Duck pizza. I loved it so much that I was so disappointed when they took it off the menu.
I got so giddy when I received this invitation to try out their vintage pizzas, Peking Duck included. I just had to go. I even asked my husband to change cars with me (I was coding* that day) so I can go to Makati.
*To my dear non-PH readers, we have this system in Metro Manila where you can't use your car based on your plate one day a week. This is to lessen the volume of cars on the road. We have an open window from 9 am to 3 pm when you can use any car, with the exception of the sovereign state of Makati.
Right before they brought out the vintage pizzas, the good people of CPK sent out shots of their soups: Sedona Tortilla and Mushroom Cappuccino.
|Sedona Tortilla Soup: Tomatoes, tomatillos and corn with mild creen chillies and
Southwestern spices Garnished with tortilla strips
Mushroom Cappuccino Soup: Fresh button mushrooms, abalone and Shiitake cream soup
topped with milk froth and nutmeg
They also had us taste their Moroccan Chicken Salad. The reason I haven't had this yummy salad before is that I always go with my comfort food at CPK -- their Thai Crunch. But after having this one, I am surely going to get this again. What I love about it are the squash, dates and avocado. Although I haven't had the acquired taste for beets, the beets in this salad do not taste too earthy so I still like it.
|Moroccan-spiced chicken, Romaine, roasted squash, dates, avocado,
toasted almonds, beets, chopped egg, carrots, dried cranberries
and bell peppers. Tossed with honey Dijon vinaigrette.
CPK brought back five vintage pizzas with their original topping formula, with a new hand-stretched pizza dough. It's lighter and puffier than their old crust recipe.
Goat Cheese Pizza -- my current favorite. It's a veggie pizza yet I was a convert!
|Goat cheese, Mozzarella, sauteed onion, grilled eggplant, red and yellow peppers
with tomato sauce. Garnished with parsley.
Tostada Chicken Pizza -- it's like an open soft taco.
|Southwestern black beens, Monterey Jack, Queso Quesadilla and grilled chicken breast
topped with lettuce, chunky fresh tomato salsa, ranch dressing, scallion greens
and crispy tortilla strips.
Santa Fe Chicken Pizza -- if you're a burrito lover, you're going to love this one.
|Grilled chicken breast, caramelized onions, Mozzarella cheese. Topped with cilantro,
chunky fresh tomato salsa, sour cream and fresh guacamole
Teriyaki Chicken Pizza
|Teriyaki chicken strips, Mozzarella, Queso Quesadilla, red and yellow
peppers, red onions, slivered scallions with a Teriyaki-ginger sauce
Peking Duck Pizza -- it was served two ways... one was wrong -- instead of Shiitake, they put in black beans. Haha.
|Roasted duck, Shiitake mushrooms, Mozzarella and hoisin ginger sauce. Garnished
with fried wontons, hoisin ginger sauce and slivered scallions.
DEAL ALERT: For you vintage pizza lovers, CPK also has this promotion where you get this CPK Vintage Passport when you order a vintage pizza. Every time you order a vintage pizza, you'll get a stamp. Once you collect 5 stamps, you will receive P500 worth of CPK gift certificates. This promotion will run from July 1 to August 31, 2013. Redemption is valid until 60 days from end of promo period.
We also participated in a Vintage Pizza quiz where we answered some trivia on the pizzas they served. In return, we got awesome vintage necklaces. Each one was different. I got a cute Eiffel one.
Thank you CPK Philippines!
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Friday, June 21
Baby: Keep Them Busy With Arts and Crafts
We spent one afternoon at my parents' house, and we did not bring Allie's iPad that contained all her Phineas and Ferb, Barney and Disney Jr. videos. It was a great thing that we left it at home because I got to show and teach her some crafty stuff to do.
I decided to let her do a card made from stuff we found lying around: one A5 sheet of sketch pad, plain colored notepads, and glue.
I folded the sheet in two. Then sketched a heart in front. Using the notepad, we tore them into small squares. I had her glue the pink and peach squares down on the heart part. Then, we glued the purple squares around it.
She loved doing it! And I enjoyed teaching her.
I told her to draw on the inside too.
Here she is displaying her piece of work.
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Labels: baby, crafts/diy, family
Wednesday, June 19
Beauty: Shu Uemura's Cleansing Oil
A few weeks back, I ordered some Shu Uemura from Taste Central. It was my first time to get some Shu Uemura stuff. I read about it online, and was swayed into buying. Did I mention ads and good reviews work for me? Haha.
I got a couple of Shu Uemura sets. Each one has the following -- cleansing oil, UV under base mousse and tsuya skin.
Using oil to remove make-up was something I've heard of before, but you know, not in the Shu Uemura sense. When I was in high school, I tried removing my heavily made up face (it was prom) using baby oil on cotton to no avail. It was hard to remove. Of course, my face was left greasy and all. Icky. I had to wash my face with facial wash twice, maybe more. I didn't use it again.
I've tried my fair share of different makeup removers, and although I've been satisfied with a couple of them -- see my post here and here, it never stopped me to try this one.
|Image from Into the Gloss
So anyway, for you who's trying this for the first time, I am super sure you will love it. I love how my face feels after every use of this product. It leaves my skin feeling soft and radiant; I think I am hooked. I try to use it every time I wear makeup. Here's how I use it:
[1] Take about 5-8 drops, or about a shallow pool on your palm that's smaller than a penny. If you have the pump one, about 1 to 1-1/2 pumps will do. (It's recommended for you to use 4 pumps, but I find that less works well too.)
[2] Massage into your face for about a minute. Start on your cheeks and forehead. End on your eyes/lids and lashes. I swear it melts the heaviest of makeups. But be careful, although it's gentle to the eyes, the tiniest bit of oil will make your vision blurry. Easy enough to remove. Use some eye drops or contact lens solution. It works on your lips too but I'm too scared to use it there.
[3] Wet you hands and rub gently on your face. This will emulsify the oil; it will turn into a milky white substance. Continue to massage it for about 20 seconds more.
[4] Rinse with water. It really doesn't leave that greasy feeling.
[5] Dry with a soft towel.
If it's hard to follow, watch this video from Shu Uemura on how to use their cleansing oils.
I think Taste Central still has the Shu Uemura Summer Fresh set on sale here. Only P840 plus P100 shipping.
Tuesday, June 18
Event: Christchurch -- See Through My Eyes
|Tom Hoare, 11 years, Mt Pleasant School – "Driving in my community is a lot harder than usual."
Christchurch Children Tell Their Story in New Zealand Earthquake Photo Exhibit
The New Zealand Embassy, in cooperation with UNICEF, is bringing to Manila the photography exhibition entitled "Christchurch: See Through My Eyes".
The exhibition showcases photographs taken by 24 children from Christchurch, New Zealand, and illustrates how the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes affected their lives and communities.
|Karina Croitoru, 11 years, St Martins School – "A little help from steel containers keep Sacred Heart Cathedral up."
New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines Reuben Levermore said: "We hope that the exhibition will encourage people to reflect on how best to prepare for disasters, including here in the Philippines."
New Zealand is a long-standing development partner of the Philippines. The New Zealand Aid Programme supports disaster risk reduction and management projects in the Philippines aimed at building greater resilience against future disasters. New Zealand has also extended humanitarian assistance to communities affected by natural disasters, including Tropical Storms Bopha and Washi, which devastated parts of the southern Philippines in each of the past two years. This includes support for UNICEF activities.
For his part, UNICEF Philippines Representative Tomoo Hozumi remarked: "The countries on the 'Pacific Ring of Fire' – be it the Philippines, New Zealand, or Japan – share the challenge of high susceptibility to major disasters, which is not a matter of 'if' but 'when'. Forms of expressive activity, such as photography, help in the psychosocial recovery of the affected children. I hope this exhibition enhances understanding, compassion and commitment to disaster awareness and preparedness."
For the "See Through My Eyes" exhibition, the young photographers, aged 11 to 14, participated in workshops led by professional photographer and ICT educator Stuart Hale, from whom they learned basic skills for taking quality digital photos and how to compose a shot to communicate their thoughts and ideas. Every young photographer also provided a caption to their photos.
|Jade Harrison-Best, 12 years, South New Brighton School – "This is my Earthquake Dog. We adopted her after February 22nd."
"See Through My Eyes" will run from 21 June to 5 July 2013 at the Water Dragon Gallery, Yuchengco Museum in Makati City.
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For further information, please contact:
New Zealand Embassy Manila, Telephone: 8915358
Mitch Duran, Communication Specialist, UNICEF Philippines, Telephone: 9010113;
Mobile: 09266942644; firstname.lastname@example.com
Jingjing Romero, PR Consultant, STRATOS Inc., Telephone: 4332626;
Jingjing Romero, PR Consultant, STRATOS Inc., Telephone: 4332626;
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Labels: event, photography
Monday, June 17
Fashion: Lulu Guinness x Uniqlo Collab
So I told you about my first trip to Uniqlo. Never have I been so thankful there was a delay in getting new styles to the Philippines. I was able to grab a few Lulu Guinness tops. They are uber comfy, and the cut is very flattering. They are my favorite tops now. Most of them are black and white so they can be worn with any color. They are only P790 a pop, so grab some now why don't ya?
Speaking of, you can get your fun and quirky Lulu Guinness handbags and accessories for up to 50% off. Yup, they are on sale.
Look, here's the exact peeping doll design from the Uniqlo UT collection.
|Peeping Doll Zoe
This one I like too:
|Lulu Hotel Edith
Another cutie below. Just look at the clasp!
|Black Polka-Dot Leather Medium Eva
Sunday, June 16
Family: Happy Father's Day
Happy Father's Day to all dads out there.
Just a special shout out to my dad and my hubby:
Love you forever.
"My dad is awesome." - says me and Allie
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Labels: family
Saturday, June 15
Baby: Be Careful this Dengue Season
My daughter's been having an on and off fever for four days now. I've been controlling her fever with paracetamol since it started. When the third day of fever struck, I had to bring her to the pediatrician to just make sure it wasn't dengue fever, which is caused by mosquitoes and is prevalent in tropical countries like the Philippines during the rainy season.
Symptoms* for dengue include:
- Sudden, high fever
- Severe headaches
- Pain behind the eyes
- Severe joint and muscle pain
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Skin rash, which appears three to four days after the onset of fever
- Mild bleeding (nose bleed, bleeding gums, or easy bruising)
*from WebMD
Her pediatrician ruled out dengue because Allie doesn't seem bothered with her fever. Her disposition is still the same -- a happy little baby, magulo, malikot, sayaw ng sayaw. He said that if Allie had dengue, then she would feel miserable even if she doesn't have a high temperature. Allie still plays and runs and dances when in between high temps. Her temperature never went above 39C. The interval of her on and off fever gets better every day. I'm glad that we went to the pediatrician because he got to check if it was an infection. No daw. The doctor said it was viral; just let it run its course, control the fever and it should go away after the fifth day. We're now on our fourth, and I just wish the virus would go away. But if she still has fever by tomorrow night, I have to let her pediatrician know.
Here is Allie after I gave her paracetamol. She's enjoying her plastic turtleshell while watching on her tablet. No fever.
Unfortunately, there is no vaccine to prevent dengue. The best way to prevent it is to not get bitten by infected mosquitoes. Here are some ways to avoid mosquito bites:
1. Drive down mosquito breeding grounds. During rainy season in the Philippines, the mosquito population really goes up because mosquitoes usually breed in stagnant water. One way to reduce mosquito population in your home is to get rid of those places where they breed. Remove old tires, pots and pans that collect rain outside your home. Make sure water drains properly in and around your home.
Singapore's National Environment Agency has this checklist, as well as some useful illustrations:
|How to prevent dengue if you're living in a condominium
|How to prevent dengue if you're living in a landed property
2. Apply mosquito repellent. DEET and picaridin are synthetic chemicals made to repel mosquitoes. Natural mosquito repellents include oil of lemon eucalyptus and oil of citronella. According to the FDA, never use products containing DEET on infants below two months, and, dig this folks, oil of lemon eucalyptus they said is not suitable to kids less than 3 years old. So make sure you read the cautionary texts on your insect repellents okay? You can also ask your pediatrician.
Although I know DEET is the most effective mosquito repellent, I am still iffy about using it on Allie. If you want to use DEET on your kids, make sure the DEET content does not go above 30%. Picaridin, the other synthetic mosquito repellent, works as well as DEET and better tolerated on the skin and fabric-friendly too. By the way, I read from What to Expect that the following things don't work: wristbands soaked in chemical repellents, pills with garlic or vitamin B1, ultrasonic devices, bird or bat houses, and bug zappers.
3. Place mosquito-repelling plants in your garden. Citronella, rosemary, catnip, lemongrass, peppermint, marigold and basil are some mosquito-repelling plants that you can grow. They smell good too.
|Images from:
Catnip - Thrifty Fun; Rosemary - BBC;
Lemongrass - Wikipedia; Marigold - Spices Info; Basil - Academy of Food
Citronella - Stuartxchange; Peppermint - Dr. Jake Felice
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Labels: baby, philippines
Thursday, June 13
Freebie: Printable Labels For Your Kitchen
Designed by the Lia Griffith, here is a free printable for your spice racks. It mimics a black vintage chalkboard, and
Labels: crafts/diy, freebie, organization
Wednesday, June 12
Book: Gone Girl
Tuesday, June 11
Fashion: Isabel Marant x H&M Collab
H&M's newest collaboration is with ... (drumroll please) ... Isabel Marant. The Isable Marant Pour H&M collection is bound to hit selected stores and online this coming November 14, 2013. Exciting times!
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Labels: fashion
Event: Wicked in Manila! Yes!
I am THISCLOSE to confrming that Wicked will be coming to Manila. Yes. THISCLOSE. Maybe closer.
Wicked is the musical basis of Gregory Maguire's book of the same title. It is somewhat a prequel to the Wizard of Oz -- the story of Elphaba (Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda (Good Witch of the North).
Sidenote: Elphaba's name came from the initials of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' author L. Frank Baum. Haha, sorry ngayon ko lang nalaman.
Okay, so I've been browsing through tweets of those I follow. One tweet led me to an article from
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Labels: event, philippines, wicked
Monday, June 10
Deal: Gelatissimo BOGO on Summer of Italy Sorbet
Love sorbets? Here's a pretty good deal for you. From June 8 to June 16, Gelatissimo is offering a buy one get one free promo on any Summer of Italy sorbet.
Don't worry about your diet, ladies. These are 100% fat free.
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Labels: deals, dessert, freebie, philippines
Sunday, June 9
Tech: 8tracks App
Handcrafted internet radio on the rise here. One of the things I missed when I moved back to the Philippines was Pandora. Pandora, as in internet radio, and not the charm bracelets because we have that here.
Well, my sister introduced me to 8tracks the other day. 8tracks is a collection of music playlists. It lets you choose a music playlist based on categories. Pwede na siyang pamalit sa Pandora. First, it would let you choose from the following.
Say you choose 'happy'. Then it will let you choose from these subcategories.
Then you pick the playlist.
Then hit play.
There are lots of playlists to choose from. Maybe you're in the mood for pop + workout... or some breakup + sad music.
Labels: inspiration, love, technology
Saturday, June 8
Event: Wicked in Manila?
I've been hearing stuff about Wicked coming to Manila as early as January 2014. Wicked is probably my all-time favorite musical. I watched it while we were in the US, but not in New York. We took a drive up to North Carolina with my sister to watch it.
I remembered the NC stay vividly because it was the first time I decided to partially use my miles (and my credit card) to book a hotel, and when we got in the hotel, they didn't have my booking. I was so pissed at the airline that time because I got a confirmation number in the email to go with it. We called the miles customer service, and they spoke to the receptionist. Nothing. The miles people couldn't help me out. Then, the good folks at Hampton Inn took pity, booked us a room and upgraded us to a suite for the same price. I love them!
As for the cc payment I used to partially pay for the initial booking, Amex took care of that. All it took was a phone call. I explained the situation. They immediately credited it back to my account. I swear they are the most awesome, easiest to talk to credit card company in the whole world. If I can just hug them, I would.
Here is the lobby of our hotel.
Our bathroom had a television behind the vanity mirror.
After a few minutes of resting, we went ahead to the theater.
It was a tiny theater.
We took some photos before the show started.
We were three happy campers.
I don't mind watching it again. Okay, that's the understatement of the year. I would LOVE to sit up close the stage and watch it again. I promise I won't sing along. You better not too.
I heard tickets might go on sale as early as July this year. I'm feeling giddy just thinking about it.
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Friday, June 7
Crafts/DIY: Hermès Jigé clasp
Can't afford the real thing? Well, here's a cute craft project for you. You can even customize it if you are that creative. You can download the templates from here. Enjoy!
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Labels: crafts/diy, freebie
Thursday, June 6
Fashion: Twirl Around With Tulle
Have you seen this really adorable Anthropologie tulle skirt?
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This time, it will be available in maxi length. Here is a first look for you.
Project Happy will be having a bazaar pretty soon, and they will make these skirts available. So watch out for it. Like Project Happy for updates.
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6 February 2014
Just weeks after NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory began operations in 1999, the telescope pointed at Centaurus A (Cen A, for short). This galaxy, at a distance of about 12 million light years from Earth, contains a gargantuan jet blasting away from a central supermassive black hole.
Since then, Chandra has returned its attention to this galaxy, each time gathering more data. And, like an old family photo that has been digitally restored, new processing techniques are providing astronomers with a new look at this old galactic friend.
This new image of Cen A contains data from observations, equivalent to over nine and a half days worth of time, taken between 1999 and 2012. In this image, the lowest-energy X-rays Chandra detects are in red, while the medium-energy X-rays are green, and the highest-energy ones are blue.
As in all of Chandra's images of Cen A, this one shows the spectacular jet of outflowing material – seen pointing from the middle to the upper left – that is generated by the giant black hole at the galaxy's center. This new high-energy snapshot of Cen A also highlights a dust lane that wraps around the waist of the galaxy. Astronomers think this feature is a remnant of a collision that Cen A experienced with a smaller galaxy millions of years ago.
The data housed in Chandra's extensive archive on Cen A provide a rich resource for a wide range of scientific investigations. For example, researchers published findings in 2013 on the point-like X-ray sources in Cen A. Most of these sources are systems where a compact object – either a black hole or a neutron star – is pulling gas from an orbiting companion star. These compact objects form by the collapse of massive stars, with black holes resulting from heavier stars than neutron stars.
The results suggested that nearly all of the compact objects had masses that fell into two categories: either less than twice that of the sun, or more than five times as massive as the sun. These two groups correspond to neutron stars and black holes.
This mass gap may tell us about the way massive stars explode. Scientists expect an upper limit on the most massive neutron stars, up to twice the mass of the sun. What is puzzling is that the smallest black holes appear to weigh in at about five times the mass of the sun. Stars are observed to have a continual range of masses, and so in terms of their progeny's weight we would expect black holes to carry on where neutron stars left off.
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Although this mass gap between neutron stars and black holes has been seen in our galaxy, the Milky Way, this new Cen A result provides the first hints that the gap occurs in more distant galaxies. If it turns out to be ubiquitous, it may mean that a special, rapid type of stellar collapse is required in some supernova explosions.
The results described here were published in the April 1st, 2013 issue of The Astrophysical Journal and are available online. Mark Burke led the work when he was at the University of Birmingham in the UK and he is now at L'Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie in Toulouse, France. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., controls Chandra's science and flight operations
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Madura creates collections with the aim to give pleasure and to make interior design easy, enjoyable and approachable. Together with their vast range of textiles, they also offer a wide selection of lamps, blinds and other accessories.
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The American School of Paris (ASP) in Saint Cloud, a western suburb of Paris, is a great place for families to find innovative activities and holiday camps in English. Through its Extension Program the private, international school opens its world-class facilities to external students aged 4 to 18 during school vacations as well as Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout the school year.
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This large chain with 250 stores in France and around Europe, offers a huge variety of styles for all your home decorating needs. Whatever your preference the Maisons du Monde's own team of furniture designers imagine their exclusive and unique collections of furniture and decor each year in 3 different catalogues – indoor, outdoor, and junior.
Metro: Sentier (line 3) Etienne-Marcel (line 4)
This is a great stop for pastries and during the summer, a wonderful stop for ice cream. Just like the pastries, Fou de Patisserie offers a unique selection of ice cream from all the top chefs in Paris!
Metro: Sentier (line 3)
For a unique spa experience, try Spa Dans le Noir, where trained personnel with sight disabilities perform massages and spa treatments in the dark. The concept began in 2004 with Restaurants in the Dark and now includes spas in Paris and Bordeaux.
Tarifs: 49€ for 30 mins, 90€ for 60 mins and 135€ for 90 mins.
Metro: Mabillon (line 10), Saint-Michel (line 4)
A slight departure from your typical Chinese canteen-style restaurant. This cozy, zen, teahouse with 12 tables serves up healthy, traditional Cantonese cuisine, including vegetarian, tofu-based dishes to accompany the star of the house: dozens of varieties of fragrant teas (white, green, yellow and blue). Lunch Only.
Metro: Sentier (line 3)
One of the city's most eccentric and hip bars for single people, The Experimental Cocktail Club is proof that Paris has finally taken a leaf out of New York's classy and creative cocktail bars book. This cocktail bar is one of the city's most sophisticated places to mingle and serves delicious, unique cocktails that will blow you away. Forget mojitos and Cuba libres, this bar creates cocktails that you couldn't even dream up!
Metro: Rambuteau (line 11)
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Metro: Pyramides, Opéra, Tuileries
Singaporean actress and mother Charlotte Chiew founded Little Tykes Theatre in 2007 as an answer to a need for quality and fun workshops and parent-child classes for the under 3-year-olds in Paris. She and her team lead holiday camps (for 2 to 8-year olds) and weekly workshops (for little ones 3 months to 3 years) which use games to present simplified forms of professional mime and actor training to children.
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Founded in 1995 by Françoise Dorget in the Marais district, Caravane's collection are a mix of bohemian and modern. The furniture along with the lighting, handcrafted objects and textiles are a source of inspiration for everyday interiors.
Metro: Quatre Septembre (line 3)
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Metro: Rue du Bac (line 12)
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Boneshaker serves up not-just-any-ordinary donuts. We're tasting and talking about plump, hand-rolled sweet pastries with flavors ranging from a simple sugar glazed to inventive maple syrup and bacon. READ MORE ABOUT BONESHAKER HERE
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Metro: Sentier (line 3), Bonne Nouvelle (line 9), Les Halles (line 4)
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Metro: Odéon (lines 4 & 10)
Located in the same gorgeous passageway as La Jacobine, Un Dimanche à Paris (A Sunday in Paris) is well-known for its luxury hot chocolate. Chocoholics will love its concept store dedicated entirely to chocolate! The concept includes; a boutique, a chocolate bar, a restaurant, a chocolate salon, a chocolate lounge AND cooking and baking classes.
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Metro: Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11), Châtelet (lines 1, 4 and 7)
You'll find all your costume and party supply needs in this jam-packed little gem in the heart of the Marais district, just beside the BHV department store. Look through their online catalogue first, then go imagine yourself dressed as a banana at your next side-splitting party!
Metro: Concorde or Tuileries (line 1)
For over a century, Angelina's has built a reputation as a place of sophistication and indulgence. Its renowned African hot chocolate is so thick that you almost feel like you're digging into a bowl of soup. It's made from three types of African chocolate from Nigeria, Ghana and the Ivory Coast and is made especially for Angelina's. It is a beautiful place where the likes of Proust and Coco Chanel frequented. While you're there, be sure to try the Mont Blanc, Angelina's trademark pastry since 1903!
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Metro: Hôtel de Ville (line 1)
The Centre Danse du Marais offers over 40 different dance disciplines for children and adults, from beginners to the most advanced dancers. Choose from Classical ballet, African, Bollywood, Balinese, Belly dancing, Tap, Flamenco, Salsa, Tango, Hip Hop, Martial arts, Pilates, Yoga and much more. English is spoken.
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Ever dreamt of opening up uncultivated land in the Wild West? Even today, when most usable land is developed, this dream still exists in the minds of some, including eteam, a duo of New York-based German video artists and designers consisting of Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger.
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In the vast, empty desert, the team uses a spool of string to fence off their land, using a sun-bleached horse's skull at one corner to fix the string against the strong wind.
The next step is to open access to their land. "Watching a train go by, it occurred to us, that, what we really needed was a train to stop in front of our property, that way a train operator, a conductor or maybe even some passengers, could see the land and consider its value. After all, historically, train stops were the main reasons for many settlements in the old West," says Moderegger in the voice-over.
"Since we had grown up reading glorious German hardcover interpretations of how the West was won, we were confident in the theoretical part of our vision. What we lacked was experience," he says.
So the team returns to the lot to stop a train, opening the Train Stop Inn by the tracks to sell cold drinks and snacks to train operators. The team members wear goofy cowboy outfits and hold up a signboard to advertise their goods for sale whenever a train passes by. Of course, the trains don't stop, but this provides a few funny scenes with Moderegger holding a Coca-Cola in his hands, desperately chasing down trains.
Finally, the train, which makes several daily trips by their land, stops after a week of their efforts to hail it. The train operator then exchanges drinks for snacks with the team members in the empty desert before taking off again.
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Directed by Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger
Running time: 45 minutes
Screening times and location: Today, 4:50pm, Showtime Cinema, Wednesday, 10:30am, Showtime Cinema
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