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Bence Goes to the Movies
Bit of technical malfunction lately, while any of you who use a different podcasting program are able to revel in our quite singular takes on cardboard, those of you still shackled by iTunes have been unable to listen. I've been tinkering with this and my ignorance seems to be getting the best of me. Soon enough though. Hopefully.
In the meantime, I thought I would take this chance to talk about one of the other big passions in my life. The Cinema.
In another life I(Bence) used to write about movies and TV for another site, I am quite happy with the work that I was able to provide, but make no mistake I am happy with my new home at Drop the Dice. That doesn't mean that I don't miss the chance to discuss film on a weekly basis. Whether arguing with my editor or swapping recommendations with the Music editor, it was a different time in the the blogosphere and one that I get nostalgic for now and again.
Then I realized. This is my website. I can write about what I want. So here goes. I won't do this often, but every once and a while a slight detour from tabletop is bound to occur( you need only listen to our podcast to see that we have a myriad of interests.) Today though we are going to tackle the Oscars.
I'll try and keep this short, as I just wanted to briefly discuss what I think will win some of the bigger awards. Few things to keep in mind. I haven't seen everything on the nominee list, and these are who I think WILL win. Not necessarily who I WANT to win. I also understand how political the Oscars are, and I'm fine with that. I look on it less as a true gauge of quality and rather a night full of entertainment in which we dedicate a few hours to the cinema and celebrate the past year. That's all. So without further ado here is who I think will win a few of the major awards. I would love to hear your thoughts out there. comment below or hit me up on twitter @dicedrop.
Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki/The Revenant: This guy is a living legend in the realm of cinematography. Years from now people will study his work as definitive turn of the century cinema. He will join the likes of Conrad Hall and Raoul Coutard as one of the finest shooters to pick up a camera. I love Deakins, but Chivo deserves this...again....for the third time in a row
Best Editing - Margaret Sixel/Mad Max : This could go to the Revenant as well, but the Academy is going to want to give Max some awards and this is one of the bigger ones to show just how much respect Miller and this film has. To be able to blend such emotion and adrenaline together without ever feeling a jolt in tone is a feat unto itself, let alone keeping coherence among the sheer insanity on screen during the multiple set pieces.
Best Original Screenplay - Singer and McCarthy/Spotlight: this is also the same category that gave the award to the Cuaron bros for Y Tu Mama Tambien, so there's still the chance for Compton or Machina to make a showing here, but smart money has this Oscar frontrunner taking this one home. Spotlight takes a story with huge ramifications and holds back over and over from over dramatizing the events. Ruffalo gets one speech but it makes sense for his character, there is no grandstanding there is subtlety the whole way through and they manage to keep you riveted as you watch this story unfold.
Best Adapted Screenplay - Randolph and McKay/The Big Short: again giving this to the Oscar frontrunner(yes yes i know there's like three front runners) Who knew the writer of Ant Man would get an Oscar. Good for him. I haven't seen this one, but I cant imagine anything else knocking this out. I'd love to see Carol get some love, but no Picture and no Directing nominee means it didn't land at all with the academy.
Best Supporting Actress - Alicia Vikander/ The Danish Girl: the new hotness over Kate. Haven't seen either but I loved her in Ex Machina. Kate could take this too, but my money is on the newbie.
Best Supporting Actor - Sylvester Stallone/ Creed : he received some backlash at the Globes, which I think is completely ridiculous. Quite literally this is Stallone's character, and decades later he revisits it and is actually rewarded for his performance. Can you even imagine the severity of emotions that would overpower you? He didn't forget Jordan or Coogler he just was shocked that it actually happened. That being said Sly, buddy, I hope you wrote down what you want to say, I wont be able to defend you again. Lock
Best Actress - Brie Larson/ Room: This girl is gonna be one of the greatest of our generation. Everyone go watch Short Term 12. Right now. Great job.
Best Actor - its fucking leo.doesnt matter what movie its his just let him have it: Lock
Best Director - Innaritu/ The Revenant: Wow two times in a row? Impressive man. If Max wins editing, then Max could win here. If The Revenant wins editing, then this is Innaritu's.
Best Film - The Revenant: what's so exciting about this year is that as much as The Revenant is in the lead, its not by much. Spotlight or The Big Short could easily take this. Then again, with so many movies gunning for the number slot, that means they could split the vote. Then The Room or Mad Max wins. I don't not want the Revenant to win, but I'm always excited to see a surprise.
That's it for now. I'll be live tweeting the Oscars this Sunday most likely from my own twitter though so follow me @bencemaus always ready to talk about movies.


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So many people are getting similar emails about great sounding houses. And so many people are being smart! They're Googling the email and have hit this site before shelling out any money. That's great.
The update on this house renting scam is that it's still going strong. And going smart, too. Apparently the scammers are clever enough to search real estate websites, grab some pictures and descriptions and use that information with the address. That way if you drive by the home, it looks authentic and probably has a real estate sign outside of it. In fact, I discovered after the fact that "my" original scammer had set up an email address using the name of the listing realtor so it would match the name on the sign!
So, I reiterate: RENTER BEWARE. If it sounds too good to be true, you're asked to wire a deposit and/or provide a whole lot of info via email, trust your instincts.
Just the other day, I responded to another listing on Craigslist for a house in my area and got this email back:
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It is a great pleasure that to you are interested in my house.Thanks for
your email and it is my gladness to hear from you.I am debbie
i am the owner of the house you are making enquiry of. Actually I
resided in the house with my family,such as my wife and my only
daugther before and presently we had packed due to my transfer from my working place and now situated in the (West Africa Nigeria) and presently my house s still available for rent $1200 including the utilities like hydro,washerand security,it is furnised.Moreso Now, i went for a Crusade in the West Africa .Pls i want you to note that,i am a kind and honest man and also i spent alot on my property that i want to give you for rent,so i will solicit for your absolute mentenance of this house and want you to treat it as your own,is that taken,it is not the money the main problem but want you to keep it tidy all the time so that i will be glad to see it neat when i come for a check up.i do that once in a while.I
also want you to let me have trust in you as i always stand on my
Also,Pls let me get this answer.
1)Your Full Name
2)Your Full Address & Phone Number
3)How old are you?
4)Are you married?
5)How many people will be living in the house?
6)Do you have a pet?
7)Do you have a car?
Looking forward to hear from yo u with all this details so that i can
have it in my file incase of issuing the receipt for you and contacting
you. Await your urgent reply so that we can discuss on how to get the
document and the key to you,please we are giving you all this base on
trust and again i will want you to stick to your words,you know that,we do not see yet and only putting everything into Gods hand,so please do not let us down in this our property and God bless you more as you do this.you call my cell phone number +234-808-811-5817 oR 234-011-808-811-5817.
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Well I had a brief foray into a new design for my blog and it looked really cool, but there was a problem! I couldn't find out how to sign in or make a new post. There was no button for that. So for the moment I think I will stick with the old design.
Last week I decided to tackle the last wallhanging which was dyed at the exhibition. It only got half dyed because it needed to be dry when we took the exhibition down so was only able to be dyed for a few hours instead of days. So last week I dyed it again, in between doing a one week intensive course in web design (yes, html and CSS and I'm rubbish at it).
Here are some new images of Zealandia, Wellington's bird sanctuary.
I still have to rinse it suit won't be as dark as this in the end.
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Anime Gathering (AG) was founded back in 2007 in Kuching, Sarawak here in Malaysia by local anime lovers and cosplayers. This year the theme of the party is HALLOWEEN and it is held at a local hotel where the ambiance suits the theme. I love this year's theme. Last year it was SAKURA GAKUEN and it's getting better by the year. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks the top committee Kimberly Chee and Carol Chin and all those involved for their hard work to make this event a success!
Everyone dressed up as the character they like or in J-street fashion according to the theme. Food and entertainment were provided, all we need to do is just purchase the ticket online before the day of the event. What's special about this event is that not only food and entertainment were provided, there's even a corner known as Akihabara Street where lots of booths selling Anime/Japanese culture related merchandises were set up. There's also a Maid Cafe photo booth around.
Peformance lineup this year includes singing performances, cosplay competition, Batsu game, and 2 band performances. This year, AG committe manage to invite band/artist "Mystical Mirage" whom came all the way from Kuala Lumpur to perform for the night's closing. Songs covered included 1/3の純情な感情 (Samurai X ending) and Guren (the Gazette). They recently released their latest EP "Prelude", all 4 songs isn't bad to listen to.
Besides that, local Kuching band rock as well. I like to watch the main vocalist (Pink hair angel in the photo) sing because she has a powerful voice!
I really enjoyed the party a whole lot. Rarely I get to see event such as this in Kuching. 2 thumbs up! I hope they will keep on improving and hopefully we'll get to meet some friends from around the world in next year's event!


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Metcalf, who has been a friend and mentor to Hausken for 35 years, taught him to "work no matter what the outcome" and to "hold the creative process close to one's heart in order to nurture and maintain a right and pure aesthetic." Hausken was impressed by his friend's devotion to his craft and by his commitment to his students, his family and his community.
For over four decades, Larry Metcalf has been a member of the Northwest Designer Craftsmen, a group of artists whose stated mission is "to promote excellence of design and craftsmanship, and to stimulate public appreciation of and interest in fine craft." Metcalf also received the organization's first ever Lifetime Achievement Award for his extraordinary contributions and service.
In 1985, Tom Hausken graduated from Seattle Pacific University before continuing his studies in drawing and painting at the University of Washington. He has received two fellowship residencies from the Vermont Studio Center: a Clowes Fellowship in 2010 and a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship in 2016. In 2017, he was the artist in residence at the Yakima Valley Museum.
Hausken creates bold, effusive paintings that are rich in texture and layering. For this exhibit, he has returned to a saturated color palette, reflecting an optimism of an earlier time. He describes his work as "making friends with the memory, melancholy and fragility of the world in which we inhabit."
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FROM the start, Bernie Sanders has insisted that his bid for president is more than just a bid for president. "This campaign is not about electing Bernie Sanders for president," the campaign tweeted in August. "It is about creating a grass-roots political movement in this country."
By that measure, the test of the "political revolution" Mr. Sanders has started won't just be the strength of his primary challenge, but also whether his movement can survive without him and help get other candidates elected.
Melissa Stevens, 33, hopes that it can. She is a Sanders supporter, a single mother of two and a first-time candidate for the Maine statehouse who frequently talks about struggling to support her family while working low-wage jobs. "A lot of these big ideas and these big revolutions happen at a local and state level first," she said.
Ms. Stevens is part of a broader network of progressive activists who say that the movement that has coalesced around Mr. Sanders can bring change to state and local governments around the country, regardless of what happens with his presidential bid.
They have a lot of catching up to do. Despite a revival of movement activism, the left has struggled over the last eight years to achieve broad electoral success outside the White House. Many of the voters who propelled Barack Obama to victory twice didn't show up for midterm elections, helping Republicans recapture both houses of Congress by 2014 and win control of 31 governorships and nearly 70 percent of state legislative chambers.
Meanwhile, progressives have largely channeled their energy into causes, giving rise to movements like the Fight for $15 to raise the minimum wage, Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. During the heyday of Occupy, many activists rejected electoral politics, unlike their Tea Party counterparts, who leapt into races at every level of government, and scored huge victories for conservatives.
"We've been doing this backwards," said Joe Trippi, a Democratic consultant who ran Howard Dean's 2004 insurgent presidential campaign. "The mistake is thinking that we get behind a progressive candidate for president, and that will solve all our problems."
One of the biggest problems facing the left is structural. Whether by choice or circumstance, insurgent Democrats haven't relied on the party establishment to build their support, so the party apparatus is ill equipped to capitalize on that momentum, which is particularly problematic in midterm elections and on the state and local levels.
Insurgent candidates can build up huge email lists and an army of eager volunteers, but if they're operating independently from the party establishment there's no obvious way for them to pass that knowledge on to the next breakout candidate. "There's no progressive repository to keep the movement intact for the next progressive candidate — or the progressive candidate in California or Texas or wherever," Mr. Trippi said.
Mr. Dean tried to take on the task from the inside as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, calling for a "50-state strategy" for party building. From the outside, groups like Democracy for America (Mr. Dean's political action committee), MoveOn and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee have tried to keep activists engaged and to pressure the Democratic Party from the left.
But such efforts have been dwarfed by conservative organizing efforts on the state and local levels, which have been a major priority for key Republican donors like the Koch Brothers. The progressive organizing groups haven't really cracked that equation, said Ryan Bates, executive director of Michigan United, a grass-roots organizing group. "We haven't figured out how to mobilize popular support at a broad enough level to really fund our movement."
A growing number of progressives are now trying to bridge the gap between movement activism and electoral politics. In New York, Zephyr Teachout, the law professor who mounted a surprisingly strong primary challenge to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in 2014, is running for a House seat in an upstate district. DeRay Mckesson, one of the most prominent Black Lives Matter activists, is running for mayor of Baltimore.
In Vermont, Mari Cordes, a registered nurse and union organizer who stars in a Sanders campaign ad, said in an interview that she was preparing to run for the statehouse. And David Fredrick, a founder of the Sanders for President page on Reddit, is helping local and state candidates with social media and fund-raising.
Professional organizers are trying to recruit a new generation of progressive candidates and find new ways to drum up support for local races. "You have to build around a set of ideals," said Dan Cantor, national director of the Working Families Party, a progressive group that backed Bill de Blasio for mayor of New York and endorsed Mr. Sanders for president. "You have to have an organization where people have a real voice, so it's not owned by one person."
The risk, of course, is that a Sanders defeat — after hopes were raised by his early success — could be a setback for the entire movement, particularly as many of his supporters already feel disillusioned with the political system.
But that's why organizers like James Haslam, who has worked closely with Mr. Sanders in Vermont, believe that it's critical to broaden the focus to other candidates. "If you want electoral change, don't put all your eggs in the same basket," he said.


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Get Creative
I believe everyone will eventually find the easiest way to go about their day. This is helpful for awhile it makes us more productive and effective. After time the excitement and challenge disappear leaving us bored. I often believe that when I'm in a rut it's because I feel uninspired, lazy and unmotivated.
An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. –The Law of Inertia, Isaac Newton
The unbalanced force here is creativity. It is difficult and an unnatural feeling to change directions, but this is what we must do. Here are some items and or questions to ask yourself to spur creative ways to get of your rut:
- Am I really doing the best job I can? Being a father, I find it even more helpful to ask myself, "am I doing the best job I can do for my kids?
- What things can I improve here that I normally just ignore?
- What pie in sky ideas would I like to accomplish here?
- Is there a training course I can take that would give me more responsibility and new challenges?
- Go outside of your normal role and look for fun things you'd enjoy doing and ask if you can do them.
Get Motivated
Once you have some ideas to work on you need to get motivated (check out this post on ZenHabits.net).
Here are several ways I get myself motivated to make a change:
- Make a public commitment (tell others your intentions so you have some accountability)
- Plan your goals to accommodate your change.
- Daily Reminders
- Set deadlines if possible
- Think positively (Avoid negative thoughts, learn from failures)
- Read anything you can get your hands on about the change you are trying to make, this reinforces the momentum of change.
Within a few days of setting your new direction you should start to feel better. If not maybe you need to examine other aspects of your life.
Be proactive
I believe that unless permanent changes are made in the way you live your life you found yourself in this trap again. How can you prevent the staleness trap? The following are experimental ideas that I'm in the process of testing now:
- Set a reminder once a month or week if need be to review your contentment. This reminder will hopefully keep you mindful of what is going on and trick yourself into not repeating the same mistakes.
- I read somewhere (I'd tell you where if I remembered) that Benjamin Franklin kept a journal and at the end of each day would record his progress about personal development goals. I believe this is an excellent idea to help not only with keeping the freshness in your work but in continually growing as a person.


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The shortest commercial flight I've ever made
When our flight from London Gatwick was about to land at Barcelona-El Prat, the pilot went on air to say that the runway where we were expecting to land had been temporarily closed and that, in view of the fact that we only had fuel for 20 more minutes of flight, we were diverting to Reus airport, 100 miles south of Barcelona, in order to refuel.
And so we did. The interesting part is that we then were to fly from Reus to Barcelona. I had flown short flights in general aviation aircraft before, but this is ceertainly the shortest distance I have flown in a commercial jet aircraft: it took about 15 minutes for the Easyjet A319 to cover the 100 miles that separate Reus and Barcelona airports...
Some curiosities from this experience:
-Upon arrival I noticed that our flight appeared twice on Barcelona airports flight information displays in the arrivals area and both with the same flight number: one for the original one from Gatwick and another one listed as coming from Reus.
-We could enjoy the safety instructions demonstration twice (even if no one exited the aircraft). I know this is standard practice but I found ita bit surreal.
-We were at Reus for longer than expected because the flight plan had to be provided to the pilots in paper and it seems there was no one ready to print it out at that time of the night at Reus airport (which is quite a small airport that gets only a handful of Ryanair flights at this time of the year). I guess this situation will not be hapenning a few years from now, when everyone is using iPads (I ignore if some regulations will need to change to adapt to the new paperless reality too).
This was my shortest commercial flight so far, but might not be the last, I know there are some scheduled flights out there that are even shorter than this, in the Caribbean and also in places like the Orkney Islands, that hold the record to the shortest regular commercial flight in the World!


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When we decided to move to Philadelphia last year, we walked through all the regular emotions associated with cross-country moves: already homesick, full of wanderlust, a little afraid and overwhelmed, but totally excited. Philadelphia was never on my list of dream cities, but once we made the choice, I set my sights on one thing: Amish produce.
It's hard to know which parts of your life will be remembered as some of the sweetest as they unfold, but I already know those first summery weeks in Philadelphia will. Easy days, breezing about town on foot, and popping bright orange cherry tomatoes into my mouth. Everything was sweet.
Broadly speaking, I am a person of self-control, but a bustling farmer's market is not a safe place for me to be alone. Within the hour on one particular Saturday, I procured more produce than would fit in my market bags in addition to a bouquet of wild flowers picked by a little Amish girl, a carton of eggs, raw sheep's milk cheese, a basil plant and an Amish chicken. At one point I ran out of hands and was holding lose eggs in my maxi shirt—It was a low point and a high point all at the same time.
I can't imagine what all the brunching couples thought as I waddled past the cafe windows with too much to carry, or what the ticket attendant on the train thought when I occupied the seat next to me with a basil plant. I didn't care, I was a new girl in town about to have the best roasted chicken.
Feeling fairly apt to roast a chicken, things became increasingly unfamiliar once I realized that if you buy a chicken from an Amish man at the farmer's market, that chicken does not come cleanly gutted or de-necked for you. So this chicken and I got to know each other quite well that afternoon, and it's funny—once you gut a chicken once, nothing else really feels that intimidating.
I'm now in the habit of splurging on an Amish chicken every couple of months and going through the somewhat dirty process of preparing it. Although I have no part in its care before it reached my hands, there is joy in knowing that an Amish family properly raised this chicken before it nourishes my little family. Beginning to end, there is grace and economy in dealing with the whole animal.
If roasting a whole chicken intimidates you, don't let it! You will be so pleased with yourself at the end, and everyone sitting around your dinner table will be pleased too.
roasted chicken :: orange, rosemary, garlic
Serves a crowd of 5-6. Method adapted loosely from Alice Water's The Art of Simple Food.
While you certainly don't have to seek out an Amish bird specifically, I would urge anyone buying a whole chicken (or any meat for that matter) to seek it out with care by purchasing one that was raised naturally. It will make all the difference in the flavor! It feels easier for me to spend a few extra dollars here knowing that I will get plenty of leftovers and a couple quarts of stock out of the deal.
What you'll need:
1 pasture raised chicken, 4-5 lbs
1 orange
4-5 sprigs fresh rosemary
4-5 cloves of garlic
olive oil
salt + pepper
baker's twine
24-48 hours before roasting, season the chicken by rubbing salt and pepper all over the inside and outside. Cover loosely with aluminum foil and refrigerate. (While this step isn't 100% necessary, it will help the chicken stay moist and flavorful while roasting. It's worth the extra planning.) One hour before beginning the roast, take the chicken out of the fridge to bring to room temperature. Make a gremolata of sorts by coarsely chopping the rosemary and garlic. I quite like having rustic pieces of garlic and herb in my chicken so I leave them larger than I would for other recipes. Zest one orange and add it to small bowl with rosemary and garlic. Cover the mixture with olive oil and allow those flavors mingle as the chicken warms up.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Working with your already gutted chicken, gently separate the skin from the breast. Rub 1/2 of the gremolata between the skin and breast, working as far down the bird as possible. Rub the remainder of the gremolata all over the outside. Slice the zested orange in half, and stuff it inside the cavity. Tie the chicken legs together with baker's twine and tuck the wings underneath themselves to prevent the tips from burning while roasting.
Starting with the breast side up, send the chicken to the oven, and roast for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and flip the bird to roast bread side down for 20 minutes. Last time, remove from oven and roast 20 more minutes, breast side up. Let rest for an additional 20 minutes.
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All meals are tailored to the ages of our students, exceed the nutrition standards of the USDA Child Care Food Program and are provided free-of-charge to children enrolled in our centers.
Full-Day Programs in Chula Vista, Linda Vista and North County
EES provides a nutritious breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack for all children in our full-day preschool programs. All meals are prepared fresh daily from an onsite EES kitchen.
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Organic – Non GMO – Sustainable – Vegan
This Prosecco DOC is made with 100% organic grapes, farmed in vineyards on the hills around Treviso area in Veneto, meeting all the EU organic criteria in Italy. It is non-GMO and made with the Martinotti-Charmat method.
Bottled and labeled with bio-safe materials.
Typical crisp and delicate perlage. Pale light yellow color, delicate and fragrant bouquet, with fruity notes of banana and apple and notes of acacia flowers. Fresh and light on the palate, with balanced acidity and body; harmonic with a pleasantly dry aftertaste.


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Colony Club by Elegant Hotels — Barbados
So you've seen the first post from our trip to Barbados; you've dipped your toes in the clear waters, felt the (very welcome) breeze through your hair and your head is a little hazy from the all that rum... Today we'll take you on a vicarious tour of the hotel that became our Barbados home; welcome to Colony Club by Elegant Hotels.
Colony Club lies on the west coast of the island, just north of the infamous Sandy Lane and off the main road in Holetown, where the English initially built their settlements waaaaay back in 1625. It's close proximity to the beach (the garden literally spills out onto the sand) meant that we could sit and watch the lapping waves (they didn't move beyond a gentle swish) whenever we wanted as it was just a short wander from our room. There's some kind of therapy to be found in watching water doing whatever it does, no matter if it's throwing up a storm or calm as anything at was here...
The garden blew us away; Traveller's Palms formed huge archways, Frangipani filled the air with the sweet smell of Marzipan and Breadfruit Fern huddled around the edges of the 4 freshwater lagoon-style pools. We wandered the gardens at every opportunity, discovering plants new to us as well as those that were familiar.
Our trip to Barbados was supported by Visit Barbados and we were hosted at Colony Club by Elegant Hotels for the duration of our stay; as always the words and images on this blog are all our own.


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Valentine's Day is soon upon us (only 11 days) and if you're in a relationship, you're probably trying to figure out what to do on this special day. Some people go all out while some just want to forget the day exist. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, we here at Life By Olivia have got you covered for the best date ideas. Whether you're married, dating or long distance, we've got you covered!
Simply download our guide below, schedule some time with your partner and go over which date ideas sound ideal to you. It's on a 1-3 scale, with 1 meaning, "Nah I'll pass on that idea" and 3 meaning, "Yeah, I'd love to do that". It's a great way to learn more about what interests your partner while finding new ways to connect with them!


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Maslow Interiors, LLC
was founded in 2008 officially, but had already been renovating old Brooklyn brownstones for over a decade. Owned and operated by Peter Maslow - a Brooklynite and also an artist (painter), and former Fulbright Scholar (Poland, 2000) with many years of international experience - whose twenty seven years of experience with all aspects of interior renovation work and a focus on high quality finishing has established his name among NYC contractors. Maslow Interiors offers full service renovations - design/build directly with clients, or working with Architects and Designers - and whether a small or large Project high quality is the only way we work.
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Longarone (Belluno), Italy—Marcolin Group and Emilio Pucci announce having reached the worldwide exclusive license agreement for the design, production and distribution of sunglasses and eyeglasses for fashion brand Emilio Pucci.
The license, effective January 2015 with the launch of the first sunglasses collection, will have the duration of five years, renewable. The eyewear release will speak to an "extremely feminine woman, embracing radiant and refined aesthetics and a luxury lifestyle in which creativity and minimalism will come together," the companies stated.
Giovanni Zoppas, chief executive of Marcolin Group, says: "In common we have the high affinity for the attention to the product and to the brand codes and values: these elements let us successfully face a more and more challenging market. Our product offering including Emilio Pucci will provide additional quality to the women's universe that we address".
Adds Laudomia Pucci, chief executive at Emilio Pucci: "We're enthusiastic to work with Marcolin Group. Both companies are bearers of Italian values and able to interpret with creativity and innovation the heritage and patrimony of which they are international witnesses. The continuous research of innovative materials, design and quality represent the great asset of this partnership. The agreement allows the product reinforcement in its global dimension, aiming to grow in traditional and new markets following the Pucci brand solidification and expansion".


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Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh
Sunday Services are at 10.30 am
Wednesday Stillness Services are at 10 am
Stillness Services are held in the Kirk every Wednesday morning from 10 to 10.30 am.
The service includes music, a reading and prayer and offers an opportunity to sit in peaceful silence.
To help you to pray
… Let peace surround you as you sit quietly.
… Let the hurry and worry of your life fall away from you.
… You are God's child.
… God loves you and cares for you.
… God is here with you now – and always.
… Speak to God slowly and thoughtfully – give yourself time for God to bring things to mind.
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Trust in God
God of ancient calm, let your peace still us;
God of fearful storm, fill us with your awe;
God of lonely plains, touch the empty spaces within us
Where we are vulnerable enough to meet you.
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The Lord's Prayer
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
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A prayer for inspiration
Lord, inspire me to give of my best and make good use of the talents you have given me.
Show me how to be positive in attitude, appreciating and valuing others,
always being ready to encourage and give praise.
Sometimes I draw conclusions about people in terms of what I think is meant by 'success' and 'failure',
but the 'failure' of one person might count as a great 'success' of someone with other talents.
Lead me never to judge people but to accept others as they are, knowing that it is together,
each with our differences, that we build up your Kingdom.
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The Bible: John's Gospel, chapter 3, verse 16
For God so loved the world that he gave his only son,
so that all who believe in him would not die, but have eternal life.
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A prayer for strength
Father in heaven, we thank you that we can enjoy the gentleness and grace of your love in us and around us as we make time to listen and enjoy your word.
Please strengthen us for your service and bless us with wisdom and knowledge of you.
We give you thanks for answering our prayers and for everything in our lives that comes from you.
We ask that you would bless our families, friends and colleagues with your protection and love, and that you would help us to love the people we struggle with and who do not love us.
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Tucson Pet Boarding
Our office will be closed on Easter Day! Our staff will be out in the kennels with your pets, however we won't be answering calls or accepting drop offs or pick ups on that day. We will be open the day prior and the day after for all services. Thank you!
Charges start on the first day, regardless of check-in time. There are no boarding charges for the last day if you check your pet(s) out by 10:00 A.M. or your pet is being groomed.
* A second dog or cat, of the same family, can stay in the same run as long as they do not fight over food or toys.
Dog & Cat Boarding Pricing
Small Dog (20 lbs & Under) (These run sizes are approximately 3'X4' inside, 3'X8' outside.)
1st Dog- $23.00
2nd Dog-$19.00*
Medium Dog (21-45 lbs) (These run sizes are approximately 4'X4' inside, 4'X10' outside.)
1st Dog-$25.00
2nd Dog-$21.00*
Large Dog (46 lbs & Up) (These run sizes are approximately 4'X4' inside, 4'X20' outside.)
1st Dog-$27.00
2nd Dog-$23.00*
X-Large Dog Run- This kennel is priced for two large dogs (65 lbs & Up) to stay together and is
(approximately 4'X6' inside, 6'X20' outside.)
Per two dogs-$52.00
1st Cat-$17.00
2nd Cat-$14.00*
Pet Boarding Requirements and Details
We require proof of immunizations for your pets. For the safety of all we are unable to board any pets who are not current on their immunizations.
Distemper combination
Bordetella (Kennel Cough) within the past year.
Current rabies vaccination
Feline Distemper/upper respiratory
NOTE: If you give your own vaccines, we need to see the receipt with the purchase date on it and the empty vials it came in. Rabies vaccination proof will only be accepted if given by a licensed veterinarian.
Kennel Comfort Pet Motel does not charge extra for feeding the food or treats you bring for your pet, or for administering medications and supplements. We do, however, require the medication name, dosage, what the medication is being given for, and clear instructions on administering it.
Please feel free to bring dog beds, toys, treats, and anything else that you feel would make your pet feel more comfortable. We only ask that you leave food and water bowls at home as we use specialized dishes that allow for more effective cleaning.
We have Staff on site 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Even when closed to the public, there are two homes on the property lived in by kennel staff to take care of any unexpected emergency.
We provide dog boarding and cat boarding for those who live in or are visiting Tucson, Vail, Sahuarita, Sabino Canyon, Oro Valley, Marana, Green Valley, and most of Southern Arizona!


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Description of Boundary Farm Glamping
Welcome to Boundary Farm Glamping – a small arable, family-run working farm in the heart of the beautiful Suffolk Heritage Coast.
Come and stay in our luxurious safari tent and enjoy a fantastic and authentic stay in the glorious Suffolk countryside.
Unwind and immerse yourself in a simpler way of living, with added home comforts, but without life's daily the distractions.
Boundary Farm is a ideal place for family and friends to have a holiday or for a romantic getaway.
Enjoy your very own private two acre meadow.
Hear the sounds of the dawn chorus undisturbed by traffic and enjoy the majestic sunset views from your own luxury safari tent.
Children can roam our meadow, and play the old fashioned way.
Relax in our safari tent with its very own shower and toilet facilities, wood burner, fully equipped kitchen, fire pit, bbq and cozy bedding.
After a peaceful night's sleep, you can discover the quaint English village of Kelsale.
Perhaps you'd prefer a short trip to the coastal villages of Aldeburgh, Thorpeness, Walberswick and Southwold and enjoy the lovely beaches, or maybe a spot of crabbing!
We look forward to seeing you.
Accommodation Highlights
Luxury Safari Tent
- 1 Unit
- Sleeps: 5 Persons + 1 extra bed(s)
- Toilets (Private) , Showers (Private)
- Towels(Yes) and Bedding(Yes)
- Self Catering
Luxury Safari tent with one double, two single beds and one very comfy pull out bed. Cot bed available to hire.
Fully equipped Kitchen, Fridge, BBQ, Fire Pit, Living room/Dinning Room with a veranda and private toilet and shower facilities.
We provide a complimentary fire starter kit.
Communal Areas
- None, everything is private
Shared Amenities
- None, everything is private
What to bring?
- Basic Provisions
- Torches
We do have a wooden cot bed for hire, however we do not provide bedding for this.
Other things to consider bringing with you are: Insect repellent, Wellies, Warm Clothing, Waterproofs.


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Quarterly gules and azure, a cross Or, between I and IV: 1: a shell Or, 2: a lion's head couped and crowned Or; 3: a fess wavy Argent, below a crescent of the same; 4: an eagle of Saint John Or, carrying a scroll Argent.
The gold Cross overall represents the Redemption by Our LORD Jesus Christ, which is the foundation of our Faith.
The golden shell in the left-top quarter on a red field is taken from the coat-of-arms of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, who raised our parish to the dignity of a Minor Basilica on July 16, 2009.
The gold-crowned Lion in the right-top quarter on a blue field is taken from the coat-of-arms of Blessed Pius IX during whose pontificate the parish of Saint John the Evangelist was established in 1854.
The silver Crescent Moon in the left-bottom quarter on a blue field represents the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; this dogma was defined by Blessed Pius IX, the same year Saint John's became an independent parish.
The wavy silver bar in the left-bottom quarter on a blue field represents water; it is found in the coats-of-arms of the Archdiocese of Hartford, whose bishop established Saint John's in 1854, in the coat-of-arms of the Diocese of Bridgeport, and also is a symbol of the Port of Stamford and the Mill River.
The gold Eagle holding a silver Scroll in the bottom-right quarter on a red field is the traditional symbol of Saint John the Evangelist, patron of the parish, and is taken from Ezra 1:1-14 and Ezekiel 10:14.
The motto "Behold your Mother" (John 19:27) was spoken to Saint John, the Beloved Disciple and our parish patron, by Our LORD as he was dying on the Cross, entrusting His mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary to John's care. The motto is also reminiscent of the traditional title of Saint John's Parish as the Mother Church of Stamford. The position of the Crescent Moon, symbol of Our Lady, and the Eagle of Saint John, are those traditionally assigned to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John at the foot of the Cross.


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The inaugural Indiana State of Our Health Summit was held in Indianapolis. The event also kicked off a statewide tour to raise awareness about Indiana's poor health rankings.
Overall Indiana ranks 38th for overall health of Hoosiers. The Alliance for a Healthier Indiana is a group of health care professionals, advocates and community leaders that joined to improve some of the states worst measures like smoking, obesity and drug deaths.
Indiana's drug czar Jim McClelland says the push towards a healthier state is an important one.
"You've got a lot of people who are interested in this topic and what to move us ahead," says McClelland.
A statewide Health Road Show will make 16 stops to raise awareness about health issues and grow grassroots support. Community Health Network and Alliance Chairman Bryan Mills says many health issues like smoking and infant mortality are linked.
"Because the rate of tobacco use by pregnant women is scary high," says Mills.
Legislative priorities for the alliance in 2019 will again be raising the cigarette tax.
Mills says they will be holding town hall meetings in 16 different cities to encourage grassroots support.
"All local people in the school systems, in the chambers, in the legislators, and the citizens and other people who are working with health care in their communities," says Mills.
The tour's first stop will be in East Chicago on May 1.
The other stops are:
- May 2, Gary
- May 3, South Bend
- June 12, Fort Wayne
- June 13, Muncie
- June 19, Richmond
- June 20, Connersville
- July 11, Lafayette
- July 25, Logansport
- Aug. 1, Evansville
- Aug. 9, Terre Haute
- Aug. 10, Vincennes
- Sept. 11, Columbus
- Sept. 12, Bloomington
- Oct. 11, Madison
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"Swedes and the internet" is Sweden's most important individual survey about internet use. The report is published annually by .SE (Stiftelsen för internetinfrastruktur), an independent charitable organization that works for the positive development of the internet in Sweden.
The report is based on .SE's own primary data collection which surveys Swedes' use of the internet and shows how information and communication technology is used and and affects individuals, families and society. 3000 people were interviewed from age 12 and up.
Telephone interviews are extensive and contain questions about the subjects' background data, access to technology, use of traditional media and most of all the use of the internet in its different forms. Questions are asked to parents with children at home between the ages of 2-11, about their use of the internet. To adolescents between 11 and 15, the questions are also asked to their parents.
Swedes and the internet 2014 is written by Olle Findahl.
Earlier reports
You can find earlier years of Swedes and the internet on internetstatistik.se. Here we have also collected reports about the internet and its use from many other organizations. 2013 was the first time we produced a web report – web version of the report.


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5th Graders are paired with a Sister from Marian Residence. The students and Sisters get together on the second Tuesday of every month through the school year for a prayer service and snack. At the end of the year, the Sisters host a BBQ for the 5th grade class.
5th Grade puts on the Winter Pep Rally in December.
Field Trips:
5th Grade will have a field trip to Chadron for the NRD's Water Conservation Festival. This event is hosted at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. It is an all day event. It is held in May.
6th Grade will visit the Planetarium at Chadron State College sometime in April during their Astronomy Unit.
7th Grade will visit Box Butte General Hospital in May during their Human Body Systems and Health Unit.
8th Grade will have a field trip to Bowl-Mor Lanes in May during their Simple Machines Unit
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Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences
Patna, Bihar
The Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) was established in November 1983 with the objective of providing super specialty medical treatment in Bihar and redirecting patient volume from AIIMS in Delhi and PGIMER in Chandigarh. By 1990, the hospital was equipped for 1,000 beds and is continually growing in capacity to provide quality and effective medical treatment while the state of Bihar undergoes reform efforts. We currently have one pediatric oncology project and one palliative care project at this site.
Staff Supported:
The foundation began supporting the pediatric oncology project at IGIMS in early 2014, with support from Director Biswas and our local champion, Dr. Rajesh Singh. We currently support one social worker cum data manager and one nurse at this site.


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Dream Pizza Skyscraper
Susan L. Lin
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/ flattened / body tangled
in a deflated hot-air balloon dress.
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half-eaten wayward octopus legs.
mold me, they say. carve me. bake me.
make me a cephalopod obscured by an inky cloud.
my mother's finger right through the center: a diamond ring!
these hollow tree stumps have hole-punch eyes:
jack-o-lantern mouths don't quite smile.
my trypophobic face reflected on a silver cowbell
cheese grater, dairy strings escaping every pore.
Polaroids of buffalo wings inside Styrofoam take-out containers
pile up on the mantel.
mold me, they say. carve me. break me.
make me a prodigious hoarder with too much space
to call home. build me a dream pizza skyscraper.
I promise not to
like land mass in a glass-bowl water world.
Susan L. Lin recently completed her MFA in Writing at California College of the Arts, where she spent her days photographing toy dinosaurs and eating free pie. Her novella Goodbye to the Ocean was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Gold Line Press chapbook competition. Her short prose recently appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Ghost Town, Midway Journal, MadHat Annual, and Gravel.


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BAJEMELIA, India - Rickshaw-puller Robin Gosh hoped for a better-paying job when Tata Motors announced plans to build a factory in India's West Bengal state to churn out the world's cheapest car. The $2,500 Nano was hailed as "the People's Car," and people like Gosh were going to help build it.
Gosh, who lives in this village near the Tata factory in the town of Singur, sold his bicycle rickshaw after he landed a job unloading trucks at the 1,000-acre plant, an hour's drive from Kolkata, the state capital.
But in recent weeks, the "people's car" -- a celebrated symbol of a new India making private transportation affordable to ordinary citizens -- has hit a serious pothole: the people's protests.
Massive demonstrations led by the state's opposition party, the Trinamool Congress, have shut down the Tata plant. After protesters threatened assembly line workers, the automaker suspended production of its history-making Nano, a mini rear-engine car reminiscent of the Volkswagen Beetle.
Last week, two other Indian states -- Karnataka in the south and Uttarakhand in the north -- offered Tata 1,000 acres for its car factory. However, those close to the talks said the automaker still hoped the Singur plant could be reopened, having invested an estimated $350 million in the operation.
Many of Gosh's fellow villagers say they were pressured to sell their farms to West Bengal's government at a pittance. The land was then turned over to Tata, leaving about 1,000 farmers in this fertile potato belt along the Ganges River out of work. Now Gosh has found himself out of work, as well -- and at odds with his neighbors, who say they oppose the Tata factory because of what they call the company's predatory land-grabbing practices.
"I thought that if the factory is there, the next generation would have a better future," said a furious Gosh, sipping tea in a monsoon rain with other jobless men. "Now my neighbors say: 'Go to Tata, you traitor. Let them take care of you.' "
Similar face-offs between big business and small farmers loom over dozens of pending land acquisition deals in India, affecting construction of a variety of enterprises, including call centers and condominium complexes. The controversy is one of the starkest symbols of the growing pains entailed in the country's struggle to transform itself into a modern industrialized economy. Nationwide, acquisition bids for about 92,000 acres -- worth an estimated $54 billion -- have been stalled by protests launched mainly by peasant farmers.
"Singur is a test case for all of India," said Abhirup Sarkar, an economist at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. "Because of population pressure in India, people usually own or work tiny plots of land. That makes it really hard for industries to move in and acquire land because they have to negotiate with so many landowners. For an Indian to leave their land requires a leap of faith. For them, land is security."
But the transformation of farmland into industrial parks and enterprise zones appears to be accelerating in India, where two-thirds of the country's 1.1 billion people live in farming villages, economists say. Cities are severely overcrowded, as unskilled, landless peasants move into teeming urban slums, unprepared for jobs in a modernizing economy.
An estimated 60 million largely poor and low-caste Hindus, as well as marginalized Muslims and tribal groups -- dubbed "development refugees" by social commentators -- have been displaced in the name of progress. In the Tata case, a third of the affected landowners were absentee landlords living in cities; the rest were unskilled workers such as Gosh or subsistence farmers with less than an acre.
"It's the livelihoods of vulnerable people that are being threatened," said Rajat Roy, a Bengali newspaper commentator in Kolkata. "In the new, shining India, poor farmers are getting peanuts for their land and left to fend for themselves. With the money from the land, they buy a motorbike or a cellphone, and then what? There needs to be retraining and education packages and more jobs. Right now, we have two different Indias and no connection between the two."
The protests are highly organized, often circuslike events, with flower-festooned stages, marching bands, street-food carts and salesmen hawking umbrellas. During a recent five-day sit-in outside the Tata factory, organizers and volunteers set up a massive tent and dished out 90,000 meals of lentils and rice to hungry demonstrators.
"Singur is a role model for many Third World countries where big corporate houses come and grab the land. We have stopped that," said Becharam Manna, local vice chairman for the Trinamool Congress party and head of the Save Farmland Committee as he stood outside the plant last week during another protest.
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Thousands of police in riot gear guarded the factory as truckload after truckload of protesters arrived, chanting, "Down with Tata!" The protesters also blocked hundreds of trucks carrying goods toward New Delhi, the capital, and left them sitting on the new four-lane express highway for hours in the muggy rain.
Leading the agitation is Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who has pounced on the populist issue during an election year. She wants Tata to give back at least 300 acres, but Tata has refused.
The carmaker has, however, threatened to leave. It has shifted part of the production of the Nano to a plant in Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra, hoping to roll out some models in time for the big-spending Hindu holiday of Diwali next month. Meanwhile, it is locked in slow-moving talks with Banerjee, while the state's ruling Communist Party, which wooed Tata to West Bengal, struggles to mediate a deal.
The Tata crisis is rich with ironies. The world's cheapest car depends on cheap land and cheap labor -- the former apparently harder to come by than the latter. Tata says it needs the entire 957 acres at the Singur site to complete its factory, a one-stop shop where all the Nano's parts would be manufactured and assembled.
The Communist Party, which rode to power 30 years ago on a land reform platform, has about-faced. Now it is helping big corporations acquire the land it once worked so hard to give back to the people. Party leaders see such factories as India's best hope for lifting millions out of poverty.
Here in the lush lands around Gosh's village of Bajemelia, many say they are skeptical about a compensation package the government offered evicted farmers last week. The package doubles the price farmers initially got for their land and includes job training for one person in each family displaced by the Tata buyouts.
For now, no one is sure what fresh negotiations with Tata will bring.
But the showdown has made one thing clear in this fertile region, long known as the "Potato Bowl of Bengal": A way of life is changing as India struggles to make the transition from farming to factories. Police patrol the villages. A guard tower in the factory compound looms over Bajemelia. Last week, an annual cooking festival was canceled.
"We just don't feel like eating together anymore," said Nilkanta Langal, 41, who worked as a guard at the plant before it was shut down. He sold his tiny patch of land, a tenth of an acre, for $200. He bought a TV, a cellphone and several rounds of the local brew for his friends. "Now I am out of land, money and a job," he said. "I wish Tata never came here."
Sheik Jalaludin, 55, a potato farmer, sold his plot for $1,200, which he shared with his seven siblings. He then built part of a one-room brick house but ran out of money. Although his grandparents benefited from land reform, he is back to being a landless peasant. He has no education and isn't sure what to do.
So he recently begged for work at a friend's nearby potato patch.
"Just one month ago, I was aspiring to own the famous Nano," he said. Then he laughed and pointed to a long, muddy stretch of crater-pocked road. "But I realized that the 'people's car' would probably fall apart on the people's roads."


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For those of you who don't know me very well, I'm Sean Hickey, a senior intern for the Bonner Scholars Program. Before becoming a senior intern, I volunteered at Henderson Middle School as an after-school program leader with the Middle School Renaissance (MSR) program.
My time there caused me to ask many questions of myself, of the public school system, and of volunteering/service writ large. These questions were almost always stimulated by theoretical concepts I studied in courses taken here at UR.
The most grandiose of these questions was, if what we do today is later found to have a bad result, even though we think of our actions and service as good, than have we been doing bad things all along? Does this then mean we should always assume that our service is inherently bad or wrong in order to critically and constantly question our service and ourselves?
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The hair experts over at 12 Benefits tell us that healthy hair gets its strength and shine from a combination of natural proteins and lipids. When you subject your hair to too much chemical processing or heat styling, it tends to lose these precious compounds. Thankfully, this leave-in conditioning mist delivers a host of benefits to dry, parched hair—from boosting the vibrancy of your existing color to preventing future damage.
I hesitated before writing a negative review -- but I just do not think that this product works with my hair. I sprayed it while wet, and before blowdrying, and afterwards, my hair felt dry and brittle. I expected a softer, shinier texture, and all I got was lifeless, dry hair that did not move. I use Chi products for heat styling, and those products give me the desired effect that I seek. I just do not think this was the right product for ME.1
I'm sure this product may work for someone else but this was not for my hair type. I have fine textured hair that gets oily quickly and this product weighed it down and made my hair looked like it needed to be washed. I did receive a generous sized sample and it smelled great. The product was easy to dispense also.1
This isn't good for those that follow the curly girl's guidelines. It is not sulfate/silicone/paraben free. I might have looked over the ingredients too quickly, but as far as I saw, there were a lot of chemicals. I honestly didn't try it because I didn't want it to kill my hair. Smells good tho!1


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Levi Little is from Peterson (New Jersey) and was one of the original BLACKstreet members.
He plays keyboards, lead guitar and bass.
He wrote, produced, sung all vocals and plaid all instruments on most song of his solo album.
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Somewhere during all the hoopla of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, one of London's oldest icons quietly turned 153-years-old on May 31st. I am talking about the Big Ben: The biggest four-faced, chiming clock in the world that's one of the most recognizable structures in London and represents the city, just like the Eiffel Tower represents Paris.
But the beauty industry did not forget – and here are two gorgeous limited edition products that honour Big Ben's marvellous legacy. Can you resist?
SteamCream's cult 3-in-1 moisturiser is available, for a limited time, in a Big Ben version. Price: £12.95 (Stay tuned for a larger post on what exactly is SteamCream!).
Benefit's limited edition version of their best-selling That Gal brightening primer comes repackaged in a patriotic box that features famous London landmarks, such as the London Eye and Big Ben. Price: £21.50
And now, here's a run-down of some choice facts about everyone's favourite bell. Bet you didn't know all of this?
- Big Ben is on twitter (unofficially). Follow @big_ben_clock for the latest bongs.
- Each of the four clock faces has a diameter of over 7 meters. They are cleaned once every 5 years by abseiling cleaners.
- The great clock is wound by hand and is regulated by a stack of coins.
- At the bottom of each clock face there are gold letters showing Latin text which translates "O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First".
- The first 61 meters of Clock Tower are made up of brickwork and stone cladding and the remainder of tower is made from cast iron.
- The Tower leans slightly towards northwest, by 8.66 inches.
- There are cells in the tower where Members of Parliament can be imprisoned for a breach of parliamentary privilege.
- BBC Radio Four transmits the chimes of Big Ben live every night before the six o'clock news.


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The morning is cool, the birds just beginning to stir in their nests, the wind a soft whisper among the trees. My oil lamp casts a warm glow on the cement slab that has become my testing ground. Its light casts long shadows across the slab, glowing eerily where the water in my Nalgene captures and refracts the light.
A sudden shower of incandescent sparks explodes from my fire steel, a shower that ignites the 20 milliliters of alcohol that pools in the bottom of what was once an aluminum beer bottle; now it is a rugged alcohol stove and pot stand. Blue flames rise genie-like from the circle of aluminum, a hypnotic, mesmerizing dance in the cool morning air. Seconds pass, and then, one by one, blue jets of flame burst out of small holes along the outside perimeter of the stove. Success!
I am euphoric as the water gurgles from my Nalgene, filling my Snow Peak Mini Solo pot. Setting the pot on the stove, I watch with satisfaction as my afternoon project from the day before heats my coffee water. But I know, too, that this success will only spur me to make more and different stoves. Such is the MYOG curse.
For quite a few years, I had been perfectly content to use a gas stove (pictured above with other stoves of my own creation)—I enjoyed the convenience and the speed with which it heated water. But , while I enjoyed this stove, I found myself yearning to play with a stove of my own design.
The first design that caught my attention was a gasifier, wood-burning stove constructed from a Progresso soup can and a 1 quart paint can. The principle of this stove is ingenious, burning found fuel–wood–at first, but then, by virtue of the stove's design, recirculating the wood gases produced by combustion and reigniting these at the top of the stove, creating an efficient stove that reduces the fuel to a pile of ashes. Soon after I gulped down some Progresso soup, then zipped over to a hardware store to get an empty 1 quart paint can. The beauty of this design is its ease of construction: my cordless drill and a can opener converted the cans into a gasifier stove that produced a fierce inferno of flame to boil water. A ring of hardware cloth mesh served as a pot stand. Carefully I sawed and battoned wood until I had a stack of fuel. A twist of birch bark was my tinder, and within a minute I had a functional stove beginning to heat water. I was in DIYer heaven!
The stove worked admirably well, reducing the wood to ashes, but when I got ready to store the stove, I realized that it was messy: soot had blackened the stove, and ashes clung to the interior. I was also struck by the bulk of the stove: it was actually bulkier than my gas stove, though it did benefit from being able to use found fuel. Perhaps, though, there was another option . . . .
Somewhere along one the way I discovered forum posts devoted to DIY/MYOG alcohol stoves. These were ingenious and simple devices, made of recycled aluminum cans. I had to try to make one! I had a slew of aluminum cans about, and so I rescued one from the more conventional recycling future that lay in front of it and set about making my first stove. I quickly realized that I was going to need several cans given my novice stove-making skills, but in the course of an afternoon I successfully made my first alcohol stove.
It was elegant in its simplicity, light in weight, and . . . completely without any fuel. Frustrated by a search of house and shop that yielded no fuel, I raced to the store to get the alcohol I needed. My subsequent first test was exciting, especially when the stove began to work as I had seen it work in the images online. But I quickly realized that blustery afternoon that I needed two things: a pot stand and a wind screen.
The circlet of hardware cloth from my gasifier stove worked as a pot stand, and plywood served as a wind screen (not exactly practical for backpacking, though!). Soon I had water bubbling in my old Boy Scout cook pot. Success, yes, but hmm . . . I still needed to work out some things about this MYOG stove enterprise if I was going to commit to using it on a trek.
Those realizations led to a subsequent run to a convenience store to buy large aluminum bottles of a beer that I don't drink (usually) in a size I don't purchase (usually). But, Dear Reader, I forced myself to consume the contents of these containers so that I could fashion the stove based on some plans I found online. For some reason I was very relaxed during the making of this stove. Life was good.
When I tested it I was pleased: here was an ultra-durable stove that also worked as a pot stand! One of my problems had been resolved. That morning coffee was better than usual for some reason, a heavenly rush of warm richness (I used my REI DoubleSHot Press Mug to make it) that seemed all the better for having been brewed from water heated on a stove of my own creation. DIYers and MYOGers know this heady rush of pleasure that accompanies the success of a project. But DIY success is a drug, energizing and addictive. After a few mornings of enjoying this stove, I found myself hunched over the stove on a drizzly, breezy morning. The weather reminded me of the second problem I had not solved–the wind screen–because the wind blew the flame all about, drastically reducing the efficiency of my latest stove creation.
More internet research followed. I was busy with my job, unable to go camping, so instead I worked on my kit. Stove-making was front and center on my list of things to improve. By then I was participating in a number of online forums, and I kept stumbling across mention of the Caldera Cone, a product designed and manufactured by Trail Designs. All the reviews were rave reviews, and a bit of good fortune led me to a YouTube video that outlined in superbly explained fashion how to make my own Caldera Cone out of aluminum flashing. My next project? Yes, you better believe it!
Trail Designs' ingenious cone–I must credit Rand and company here–solved both of my problems at once: the cone itself functions as a pot rest, and the cone also does double duty as a wind screen. Moreover, the conical shape channels the heat around the pot for efficient concentration of heat. This thing is brilliant! I just had to make one for myself. I happened to have some flashing, I reasoned, and soon I was in the heady throes of another MYOG project. This one had a few challenges, notably my discovery that the flashing was coated in something that released noxious fumes and smoke when heated. Ugh. Don't make that mistake. The baked coating also discolored the aluminum, as you can see below.
A random orbital sander and some fine sandpaper removed this coating (and thinned the aluminum, and soon I had my very own functional Caldera Cone clone. [Note: I have since acquired the real thing from Trail Designs, mine in titanium, which permits three different fuel options. I love it, and it is my go-to stove. See my review of it here.]
My sense of pride was huge, my elation through the roof! I warn you, if you haven't made your own gear, don't start now unless you are prepared for an addictive journey. Of course pride goeth before a fall, as my grandmother was fond of saying, and I have had plenty of MYOG failures, too. But those are stories for another day.
So what now?
Well, I was not satisfied with the stoves I had made. My beer bottle stove was too tall for use in my Caldera Cone clone, so I was using my first aluminum can stove. This one, though, seemed inefficient as my knowledge of stove-making principles grew. One late night, the work for my real job completed, I browsed YouTube, searching for alcohol stove designs. I found many videos describing and demonstrating the use of the so-called SuperCat stove, a simple construction made from a cat food can. Well, I don't have cats, but you may recall that not drinking a variety of beer did not stop me from consuming the beer to make a stove, so of course you know what this meant: I zipped to Walmart, bought a can of cat food, went home, opened it, sniffed it, and then grabbed a spoon from the kitchen drawer. In short order I had scooped it into the trash (you didn't think I was going to eat it, did you?), and within fifteen minutes my own SuperCat was boiling water (for detailed discussion, see this post). I liked it, but somehow it didn't seem like what I was seeking. It felt almost too easy, unearned.
Enter Tetkoba, genius of DIY alcohol stove design. One happy night I stumbled across his Capillary Hoop Stove, a diminutive thing fashioned from a few Red Bull cans that produced a glorious whirling vortex of blue flame–not on the outside of stove, as my first few stoves had done, but a spiral of flame rushing to a point from the middle of the stove.
This was an elegant design (although less elegant than his when made by my own hands). It seemed to me the pinnacle of alcohol stoves, the solution to my problems. I took me a few attempts to get it right, but then I had a potent burner that became the companion to my DIY Caldera Cone clone on a number of wilderness treks and day trips. Cook time was great, efficiency was great, and my own satisfaction was deliriously high. The miles I logged during the day were forgotten when I sat down to boil water for the evening meal, or, indeed, any meal. Cook-in-the-bag lunches and dinners and morning coffees never tasted so good! The addition of a secure fuel bottle made my kit complete. I was finished; I had reached the pinnacle! MYOG stove bliss was mine!
Then I saw a really great DIY ultralight backpack concept . . . .
But that, my friends, is another story.


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Tony is often described by fellow comedians as the Asian Chris Rock. They even call him "Chris Wok." Not because his delivery can sometimes sound like the legendary comedian, but because Tony's comedy offers a similarly sharp, clever and absurd commentary on life– only from the point of view of an Asian-American who grew up in the Midwest.
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In addition to being on stage, Tony is finishing up his first short film he wrote and directed, and he's working on a one-man performance titled, No Subtitles Needed.
Tony was born and raised in Kansas City, and has also lived in Detroit and Austin. He currently resides in Los Angeles.


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This artistically rendered monochrome oil painting shows a man in an antiquated study. This is a depiction of the first days of the white man in Africa.
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