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Filed under: Style in the News MAYBE ITS MAYBELLINE New York Fashion Week attendees may find the easy breezy cosmetics in their swag bags this season. Cosmetics giant Maybelline has signed on to be the official sponsor, but it seems only for the tents at Lincoln Center. Past sponsor, MAC , is not out of the picture
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Breaking News – Victoria Beckham Scores Sex Sequel, ‘Dazed’ Goes 3-D and Jason Wu’s Doll Story
I wrote a blog entry once about how some gemstones are seasonal; that is, they seem to belong to a certain season or seasons (the main division being, however, winter and summer). This really doesn’t have anything to do with the Color Me Beautiful idea that women should wear certain colours based on their “season” (meaning the season they fall into determined by their complexions, eye colour and hair colour). This is simply a subjective feeling I have for probably very silly reasons
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The Stones of Summer
Probably the most provocative (and to my mind, best) museum show of the summer so far is nothing of the blockbuster variety, which, to me, signals how hard it is to cohere large-scale shows into something with resonance. No such problem with the AGO's recent installation of Sarah Anne Johnson's “House on Fire,” a chilling true-life history of government conspiracy, cover-up and abuse. In Johnson's case, it cuts close to the bone; it wasn't a story she became interested in from afar — her grandmother lived it.
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Sarah Anne Johnson: House on Fire at the AGO
Jump to the full entry & travel map Simatai, China First day of the tour and after two and a half hours and a very bumpy bus ride we made it to the Great wall at Samatai.We started the climb up to the wall and were joined by some Chinese hawkers who followed us all the way to the top and back again. The climb was really steep and after the 7th tower we kept thinking maybe we’ll stop at the next one but we kept going to the 12th – the furthest point we could go on this section of the wall and stopped for lunch there looking back over where we’d just climbed. The views were amazing and you could see the wall carrying on for miles into the distance
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The Great Wall – Simatai, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Dayton, Ohio, United States The following is a brief list of the excursions offered by Gap Adventures on the Egypt and Jordan adventure. The items that are bolded are the ones that I intend to do. Camel rides at the Pyramids $15 Unfinished Obelisk, high dam and a boat ride to the Temple of Philae $35 Excursion to Abu Simbel temples from Aswan $80 Trip to sound and Light show at Karnak temple in Luxor $35 Hot-air-balloon flight over monuments and city of Luxor $80 Tutankhamen Tomb in the Valley of the Kings $ 20 Mummy Room in the Egyptian Museum $ 20 Dead Sea package including lunch, swimming pool, towels and other facilities $25 + mud bath $6 Trip to sound and Light show at the Great Pyramid in Cairo $ 50 Hotel in Nuweiba extra cost all inclusive $ 25 I am hesitant on the light show at the Pyramids in Cairo. I might try and do them on my own on the first day for cheaper. $50 seems way too much to me and it is supposed to be a bit cheesy
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Gap Adventures Offered Excursions – Dayton, Ohio, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map San Marcos La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala Last night, we made it to Panajachel in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Panajachel is on Lake Atitlan, which is a lake in the mountains and is surrounded by many different villages. Panajachel was interesting. It was a mix between the native Guatemalans and Mayan people and quite a few Americans who came down to visit and never left. We checked into a little hotel off the beaten path amidst maize gardens, greenhouses and shanty houses. Then we went out and planned to explore the village.
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3000 Roosters and Mexican bikers – San Marcos La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala
Jump to the full entry & travel map Preston, Washington, United States left idaho and drove through northeastern Oregon to Pendleton where I did some shopping and drove up to Richland, WA where we were able to meet up with Jason’s sister, Laura and her boyfriend Matt for a tour of their house and to have lunch. We had a nice visit and a good lunch and drove on. Heading north along the east side of the Yakima river was a nice alternative and in no time we were on our very familiar I-90…
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Made a b-line home – Preston, Washington, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Dayton, Ohio, United States In fashion to my other blogs of my international travels, here begins the extensive coverage of my Gap Adventure’s Egypt and Jordan Adventure in August 2009. The outline will be in chronological order and will include the Gap Adventure’s description of the day in bold for the days that cover my Gap tour. In the description from Gap, included meals are represented by (B), (L), and (D). I am departing on August 4th from Dayton, Ohio and will arrive in Cairo on August 6th, 2009 after a 12 hour layover in Athens, Greece on August 5th. The Gap Adventure’s tour begins the first day of sight seeing on August 7th and ends in Amman, Jordan on August 21st, with the departure day of the 22nd. I will be leaving at about 1am on the 22nd flying directly to New York City where I will have an 11 hour layover before returning to Dayton late in the evening on the 22nd. Day 1: August 4th, 2009: Dayton, Ohio Depart Dayton, Ohio at about 1pm with layover in Atlanta, Georgia and will arrive in Athens, Greece at about 10:30am on August 5th. Flying with Delta. Day 2: August 5th, 2009: Athens, Greece Planned sites are the Acropolis and ruins in the general area, and finding an authentic Greek restaurant to eat at before going back to the airport to catch an 11 pm to Cairo, landing at about 1am. Flying with Aegean Airlines Day 3: August 6th, 2009: Cairo, Egypt Waiting until morning in the airport to catch the public bus to the general area of the hotel. Dropping off the bags and hiring a taxi for the day to go to Saqqara and Memphis, while ending the night at the Pyramids and pre-tour meeting with Gap Adventures and meeting the tour mates.
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Itinerary: Egypt and Jordan Adventure ’09 – Dayton, Ohio, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Norway Eastern Svalbard and Nordaustlandet July 8-9 Bountiful Seas, Blubbery Wildlife, Birds and Blue Ice The harshness of the Arctic winter makes survival extremely difficult and the wildlife have adapted to slightly increase the odds of surviving. Polar bears can go four months without regularly eating
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Bountiful Seas, Blubbery Wildlife, Birds and Blue – Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Norway
Jump to the full entry & travel map Champaign, Illinois, United States We finished the day in great shape, I rode with Jack John and Bob the two oldest riders on the tour and certianly not the slowest. The wind was to our backs almost the entire day, and it was only a light rain. The weather reduced the number of pictures for today’s blog, and you can take only so many pictures of corn fields. We are in the land of Lincoln and were following the “Lincoln historic trail” all day, but with the weather and the number of miles we had to go today we only had time for a couple of stops. A little laundry, route rap, dinner and then to bed.
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Lincoln Trail – Champaign, Illinois, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Nice, Provence, France As we left Milan and said our thank you’s and goodbye’s to Boris and Jadranka, we looked forward to our next major destination: BARCELONA! However, little did we know that we would get screwed over and have to figure out our own route to Barca! 
Here is how it started, on our way to Nice from Milan, our train abruptly stopped at the city right before the French-Italian border, Ventimiglia. Here, we were told that the track between Ventimiglia and Nice was down and we needed to find another way to our destination! This is after we had already waited a couple hours at the station so this means we definitely would miss our trains to Marseille and then Beziers! So we had 15 euros each to get to Nice by private bus. This way, we avoided the chaos from all the people trying to get on the free buses to an unkown destination.
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The Looooong Road To Barcelona! – Nice, Provence, France
Jump to the full entry & travel map Montreal, Quebec, Canada First evening meal and we found a big complex right across the road and had Chinese for dinner last night and then went for a walk and found where the rental car place was so that makes us feel a little more orientated. The girl there was really helpful and sent us off on the underground to the Jazz festival. Wow what a spectacle with stages everywhere and crowds and crowds of people -not really our thing but you have to experience it while you are here.
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Frist days in Montreal – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada Saturday, July 11 – Fort Nelson, BC Fort Nelson is just under 300 miles from Dawson Creek up the Alaska Highway. We arrived here around 2 p.m. We’re in the Westend RV Park, which is a sister park to the one we stayed at in Dawson Creek. That one was a dump. This one is a shithole. * Fort Nelson Heritage Museum Originally established as a fur trading post in 1805, Fort Nelson flourished with the construction of the Alaska Highway, making it the bustling community it is today.
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Lima, Lima, Peru 7 July 2009 Having finsihed with the intrepid tour in full, we spend the morning saying proper goodbyes as we wave noe after another of us away in a taxi back to our hum-drum lives. Well all except me that is. For I’ll just get back to my travels. Paul and Gillian are here for one more night and at last I’m getting out of Lima downtown and going to flash Lima – Miraflores to be exact. Paul and Gillian decide to join me. I’ll be there for 3 nights and Miraflores is apparently Lima,s tourist district – beside the coast and lacking murders and crime. The taxi which picks us up has no choice but to call ahead and hope that we co-ordinate our arrivals at the dodgy street corner well. It turns out we do. The taxi driver is like someone straight out of a Los Angeles crime movie and like most people in Lima hasn’t a word of the english. We’re whittled along a disgusting highway in the hope of arriving at a beachside paradise. About two blocks from the disgusting highway and we’ve arrived – in Miraflores and not a palm tree in sight. Checkin’ In Things go from bad to worse as I check into the hotel – Casa Nostra – to be precise. Cynthia had phoned ahead and booked me in. It appears this was dealt with at Casa Nostra by ignoring the request and moving on. This again is all playing out in two different languages like a stand off between two people having challenged each other to a duel at dawn – me huffing loudly in english and the staff bemusedly retorting in spanish. After some time it becomes clear I’m not staying in Casa Nostra which appears like a beautiful little idyll among this mess of Miraflores side streets. Eventually they indicate that they’ve called up the street to a competitor and booked me in there. And so I find myself negotiating a spikey security gate and checking into Oro Blanco – might as well be in downtown Lima. Well at least its a bed for the night.
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Walkin’ the coast – Lima, Lima, Peru
It's a sports metaphor, the “old college try” is, an anachronism rooted, I would imagine, in the still-innocent, romantic era when schoolboy knickers and all-male literary societies were seen as more fraternal than fey. Which suits Jon Sasaki well enough, to be sure, as his practice of “romantic conceptualism,” as he's called it, often has a charming sheen of the elegiac. For Jessica Valentin, the title is a bit more literal, in that, until very recently, she was actually in college; a very recent graduate of the University of Toronto's Art History program (as well as Sheridan College's Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning), Valentin is this year's winner of the William Huffman Award for Excellence in Studio Practice, named for the Toronto Arts Council' s Associate Director
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The Old College Try: Sasaki + Jessica Valentin at Red Bull 381
Normally I do not mention names in my blogs – but this client gave me permission to include her and her families names in this blog. Dr. Patricia and her husband Greg are referred to simply as “THE ARTIST” in our region. They both have a love and passion for ART that is contagious at every level. Both of them have devoted their life to improving and elevating the Art community in our region. Greg is a well know artist in the region who has a popular gallery in downtown Statesboro and teaches Here is the original post: Portraits of “THE ARTIST” always daunting…but FUN!
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Portraits of “THE ARTIST” always daunting…but FUN!
Filed under: Style in the News Charles David is recalling thousands of shoes due to a fall hazard caused by the heel. Photo: jupiterimages We’ve fallen because of the heels on our shoes more times than we care to admit, but Charles David is issuing a voluntary recall of about 3,200 pairs of shoes due to a fall hazard — the heels could detach and cause the wearer to take a tumble. (Only one such occurrence had been reported thus far, and thankfully, it didn’t result in any major injuries.) A variety of styles and colors from both the Charles by Charles David and Charles David of California lines are included in the recall, all with item number #SAMPCHSHOE or #SAMPCDSHOE
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Jump to the full entry & travel map The Gold Coast, Australia THE GREAT WELCOME MAT OF CHINA Hey Hey & A Big Aussie G’Day to Ya Mate I welcome you all to the Great Welcome Mat of China. To help keep it clean and user friendly I’ve moved all the hyperlinks for my time in Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan and Gansu to seperate Welcome Mats and have created another for my present journey in life…in the lush greens of Fujian Province
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G’Day Mate, its THE GREAT WELCOME MAT OF CHINA – The Gold Coast, Australia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Shangzhou, China Hey Hey and a Big G’Day toya, Yeah, it’s the Dragon Boat Festival! Three and a half days off to ride like the wind, sleep in, watch dvd’s (due to rain) and also squeeze as many delicious Zong Zi in as I possibly can! What does all this mean you ask? We’ll get to the Dragon Boat Festival a little later, first I’ll tell you about my huge bike ride today.
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Angels, Gut Instinct & The Dragon Boat Festival – Shangzhou, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Shangzhou, China Hey Hey and a Big G’Day toya Here I sit with a huge bowl of what has to be the world’s most delicious and perfectly shaped cherry tomatoes. I get a bag full for around fifty Aussie cents and they come straight from the fields the same day and like most other fruits can be purchased on most street corners and are all chemical free. Not a supermarket warehouse anywhere between your mouth and them.
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Celebrating Change, Friendship & Childrens Day – Shangzhou, China