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Holidays 8.19

Holidays

August Revolution Day (Vietnam)

Coco Chanel Day

Daguerreotype Day

Daughters of the American Revolution Foundation Day

Dahi Hangi (Maharashtra, India)

Disney PhotoPass Day

819 Day (Japan)

Festival of Random Access Memory

Haikyuu Day (Japan)

Hanawa Bayashi (Japan)

Have a Boke Day

Ibumin Earoeni Day (Day of the Tribes; Nauru)

International Bow Day

International Giant Dork Day

International Orangutan Day

International Sheet Music Day

International Talk Like Jar Jar Binks Day

International VPN Day

Janamasthami (Parts of India)

Little Mix Day

Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Philippines)

Millet Day (French Republic)

National Aviation Day

National Day of Lesbian Pride (Brazil)

National Flight of the Monarch (Canada)

National Old Man Young Woman Day

National Patient Advocacy Day

National Photography Day

National Sandcastle and Sculpture Day

National Tuberculosis Day (Philippines)

Penguin Awareness Day

Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)

Russian Telnyashka Day (Russia)

Sharknado Day

Shree Krishna Janmasthami (Bangladesh, Nepal)

Snuffleupagus Day

Soap Box Derby Day

Tesla AI Day

World Humanitarian Day (UN)

World Orangutan Day

World Photo Day

Zella Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Cow Day

International Hot and Spicy Food Day [also 1.16]

Life Savers Day

National Potato Day [also 10.27]

National Soft Ice Cream Day

Root Beer Float Day

Savior of the Apple Feast Day

Independence & Related Days

Afghanistan (from UK, a.k.a. Jeshen, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi, 1919)

Lytera (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

3rd Monday in August

Cupcake Day (Australia) [3rd Monday]

Discovery Day (Yukon Territories, Canada) [3rd Monday]

Hartjesdagen (Little Hearts Day; Amsterdam/Haarlem, Netherlands) [Original holiday 3rd Monday]

Manic Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meatball Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

RSPCA Cupcake Day (UK) [3rd Monday]

Stay Home With Your Kids Day [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 19 (3rd Full Week of August)

Aviation Week (thru 8.25)

Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week [3rd Week]

Weird Contest Week begins (Ocean City, NJ) [3rd Monday thru Friday]

Festivals Beginning August 19, 2024

Beaver County Fair and Cow Chip Celebration (Beaver, Oklahoma) [thru 8.24]

Cumberland County Fair (Millville, New Jersey) [thru 8.24]

Democratic National Convention (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 8.22]

Stamford Summer Restaurant Weeks (Stamford, Connecticut) [thru 9.2]

Feast Days

Apple Feast of the Saviour (Slavic Pagan)

Apples Feast (Russian/Georgian Orthodox Church)

Bernardo Tolomei (Christian; Saint)

Bertulf of Bobbio (Christian; Saint)

Boohoo (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)

Brian Mulrooney Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Church)

Calminius (Christian; Saint)

Columbus (Positivist; Saint)

Cumin (Christian; Saint)

Dennis Eichhorn (Artology)

Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar)

Frank McCourt (Writerism)

Full Moon [8th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Black Cherries Moon (Traditional)

Corn Moon (England)

Dispute Moon (Celtic)

Dog Day’s Moon (Colonial)

Fruit Moon (Cherokee)

Grain Corn Moon (Alternate)

Green Corn Moon (Alternate)

Green Moon (North America)

Harvest Moon (China)

Hunger Moon (South Africa)

Lightening Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Native Wild Rice Harvest (Algonkian, Northern Cree, and Ojibwa Native Americans)

Nikini Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Raksha Bandhan (Parts of India, Nepal; Hindu)

Ricing Moon (Traditional)

Southern Hemisphere: Hunger, Snow, Storm, Wolf

Sturgeon Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)

Was Full Moon (Myanmar)

Women’s Moon (Choctaw)

Wyrt Moon (Wicca)

Ganesha Chaturthi of Vinayak Chaturthi (Hindiusm)

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Artology)

Gustave Caillebotte (Artology)

Jan Fyt (Artology)

Jean-Eudes de Mézeray (Christian; Saint)

John Dryden (Writerism)

King’s Best Things Day: Merit, Peace & an Army (Celtic Book of Days)

Kiss Someone Day (Pastafarian)

Louis of Toulouse (Christian; Saint)

Maginus (Christian; Saint)

Magnus of Anagni (Christian; Saint)

Magnus of Avignon (Christian; Saint)

Sebaldus (Christian; Saint)

Mr. Suffleupagus (Muppetism)

Noruz (Zoroastrian New Year's Day)

Ogden Nash (Writerism)

The Royal Birds (Muppetism)

Sebaldus (a.k.a. Sebald’s Day; Christian; Saint) [Bavaria]

Vinalia Rustica (Festival to Venus & Ripening Grapes; Ancient Rome)

Watch-the-Pot Wednesday (Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [33 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [46 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [24 of 32]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 38 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [36 of 60]

Premieres

Nearly Asleep (Disney Cartoon; 1955)

The Big Blue (Film; 1988)

Bronco Buster (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1935)

Bulldozing the Bull (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

Cape Kidnaveral (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1961)

Conan the Barbarian (Film; 2011)

Day Dreams Come True at Night, by Dick Jurgen (Song; 1939)

Easy Money (Film; 1983)

Enter the Dragon (Film; 1973)

The Fame, by Lady Gaga (Album; 2008)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Film; 2005)

Frosty the Snow Man, by Annie North Bedford (Children’s Book’ 1950)

Horse Feathers (Film; 1932)

The Hunting Season (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1935)

I Am a Bunny, by Ole Risom (Children’s Book; 1963)

Islands in the Stream, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1983)

It Started with a Kiss (Film; 1959)

I Was a Male War Bride (Film; 1949)

Kleo (German TV Series; 2022)

Kubo and the Two Strings (Animated Film; 2016)

A Lady Takes a Chance (Film; 1943)

Lullaby Land (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1933)

The Midnight Special (Music TV Series; 1972)

Mr. Mom (Film; 1983)

The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

The Saint Bids Diamonds (a.k.a. Thieves’ Picnic), by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1937) [Saint #19]

Saucy Sausages (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Shark Tank (TV Series; 2009)

Turning the Fables (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

Valiant (Animated Film; 2005)

Vincent (Animated Film; 1988)

Today’s Name Days

Emilia, Johann, Julius, Sebald (Austria)

Ivan, Jordan, Magna (Croatia)

Ludvík (Czech Republic)

Selbadus (Denmark)

Maano, Maanus, Magnus, Mango, Mauno (Estonia)

Mauno, Maunu (Finland)

Jean (France)

Bert, Johann, Julius, Sebald (Germany)

Huba (Hungary)

Giovanni, Magno, Mariano (Italy)

Imanta, Marlene, Melanija (Latvia)

Argaudas, Balys, Boleslovas, Tolvina (Lithuania)

Sigvald, Sigve (Norway)

Bolesław, Emilia, Jan, Julian, Juliusz, Ludwik, Piotr, Sebald (Poland)

Lýdia (Slovakia)

Ezequiel, Juan, Magín (Spain)

Magnus, Måns (Sweden)

Sade, Sadie, Salina, Sally, Sara, Sarah, Sarai, Sari, Sarina, Zarah (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 232 of 2024; 134 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 34 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 16 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 15 Av 5784

Islamic: 13 Safar 1446

J Cal: 22 Purple; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 6 August 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 7 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Columbus]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 61 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 29 of 31)

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Holidays 8.19

Holidays

August Revolution Day (Vietnam)

Coco Chanel Day

Daguerreotype Day

Daughters of the American Revolution Foundation Day

Dahi Hangi (Maharashtra, India)

Disney PhotoPass Day

819 Day (Japan)

Festival of Random Access Memory

Haikyuu Day (Japan)

Hanawa Bayashi (Japan)

Have a Boke Day

Ibumin Earoeni Day (Day of the Tribes; Nauru)

International Bow Day

International Giant Dork Day

International Orangutan Day

International Sheet Music Day

International Talk Like Jar Jar Binks Day

International VPN Day

Janamasthami (Parts of India)

Little Mix Day

Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Philippines)

Millet Day (French Republic)

National Aviation Day

National Day of Lesbian Pride (Brazil)

National Flight of the Monarch (Canada)

National Old Man Young Woman Day

National Patient Advocacy Day

National Photography Day

National Sandcastle and Sculpture Day

National Tuberculosis Day (Philippines)

Penguin Awareness Day

Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)

Russian Telnyashka Day (Russia)

Sharknado Day

Shree Krishna Janmasthami (Bangladesh, Nepal)

Snuffleupagus Day

Soap Box Derby Day

Tesla AI Day

World Humanitarian Day (UN)

World Orangutan Day

World Photo Day

Zella Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Cow Day

International Hot and Spicy Food Day [also 1.16]

Life Savers Day

National Potato Day [also 10.27]

National Soft Ice Cream Day

Root Beer Float Day

Savior of the Apple Feast Day

Independence & Related Days

Afghanistan (from UK, a.k.a. Jeshen, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi, 1919)

Lytera (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

3rd Monday in August

Cupcake Day (Australia) [3rd Monday]

Discovery Day (Yukon Territories, Canada) [3rd Monday]

Hartjesdagen (Little Hearts Day; Amsterdam/Haarlem, Netherlands) [Original holiday 3rd Monday]

Manic Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meatball Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

RSPCA Cupcake Day (UK) [3rd Monday]

Stay Home With Your Kids Day [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 19 (3rd Full Week of August)

Aviation Week (thru 8.25)

Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week [3rd Week]

Weird Contest Week begins (Ocean City, NJ) [3rd Monday thru Friday]

Festivals Beginning August 19, 2024

Beaver County Fair and Cow Chip Celebration (Beaver, Oklahoma) [thru 8.24]

Cumberland County Fair (Millville, New Jersey) [thru 8.24]

Democratic National Convention (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 8.22]

Stamford Summer Restaurant Weeks (Stamford, Connecticut) [thru 9.2]

Feast Days

Apple Feast of the Saviour (Slavic Pagan)

Apples Feast (Russian/Georgian Orthodox Church)

Bernardo Tolomei (Christian; Saint)

Bertulf of Bobbio (Christian; Saint)

Boohoo (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)

Brian Mulrooney Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Church)

Calminius (Christian; Saint)

Columbus (Positivist; Saint)

Cumin (Christian; Saint)

Dennis Eichhorn (Artology)

Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar)

Frank McCourt (Writerism)

Full Moon [8th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Black Cherries Moon (Traditional)

Corn Moon (England)

Dispute Moon (Celtic)

Dog Day’s Moon (Colonial)

Fruit Moon (Cherokee)

Grain Corn Moon (Alternate)

Green Corn Moon (Alternate)

Green Moon (North America)

Harvest Moon (China)

Hunger Moon (South Africa)

Lightening Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Native Wild Rice Harvest (Algonkian, Northern Cree, and Ojibwa Native Americans)

Nikini Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Raksha Bandhan (Parts of India, Nepal; Hindu)

Ricing Moon (Traditional)

Southern Hemisphere: Hunger, Snow, Storm, Wolf

Sturgeon Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)

Was Full Moon (Myanmar)

Women’s Moon (Choctaw)

Wyrt Moon (Wicca)

Ganesha Chaturthi of Vinayak Chaturthi (Hindiusm)

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Artology)

Gustave Caillebotte (Artology)

Jan Fyt (Artology)

Jean-Eudes de Mézeray (Christian; Saint)

John Dryden (Writerism)

King’s Best Things Day: Merit, Peace & an Army (Celtic Book of Days)

Kiss Someone Day (Pastafarian)

Louis of Toulouse (Christian; Saint)

Maginus (Christian; Saint)

Magnus of Anagni (Christian; Saint)

Magnus of Avignon (Christian; Saint)

Sebaldus (Christian; Saint)

Mr. Suffleupagus (Muppetism)

Noruz (Zoroastrian New Year's Day)

Ogden Nash (Writerism)

The Royal Birds (Muppetism)

Sebaldus (a.k.a. Sebald’s Day; Christian; Saint) [Bavaria]

Vinalia Rustica (Festival to Venus & Ripening Grapes; Ancient Rome)

Watch-the-Pot Wednesday (Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [33 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [46 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [24 of 32]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 38 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [36 of 60]

Premieres

Nearly Asleep (Disney Cartoon; 1955)

The Big Blue (Film; 1988)

Bronco Buster (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1935)

Bulldozing the Bull (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

Cape Kidnaveral (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1961)

Conan the Barbarian (Film; 2011)

Day Dreams Come True at Night, by Dick Jurgen (Song; 1939)

Easy Money (Film; 1983)

Enter the Dragon (Film; 1973)

The Fame, by Lady Gaga (Album; 2008)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Film; 2005)

Frosty the Snow Man, by Annie North Bedford (Children’s Book’ 1950)

Horse Feathers (Film; 1932)

The Hunting Season (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1935)

I Am a Bunny, by Ole Risom (Children’s Book; 1963)

Islands in the Stream, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1983)

It Started with a Kiss (Film; 1959)

I Was a Male War Bride (Film; 1949)

Kleo (German TV Series; 2022)

Kubo and the Two Strings (Animated Film; 2016)

A Lady Takes a Chance (Film; 1943)

Lullaby Land (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1933)

The Midnight Special (Music TV Series; 1972)

Mr. Mom (Film; 1983)

The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

The Saint Bids Diamonds (a.k.a. Thieves’ Picnic), by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1937) [Saint #19]

Saucy Sausages (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Shark Tank (TV Series; 2009)

Turning the Fables (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

Valiant (Animated Film; 2005)

Vincent (Animated Film; 1988)

Today’s Name Days

Emilia, Johann, Julius, Sebald (Austria)

Ivan, Jordan, Magna (Croatia)

Ludvík (Czech Republic)

Selbadus (Denmark)

Maano, Maanus, Magnus, Mango, Mauno (Estonia)

Mauno, Maunu (Finland)

Jean (France)

Bert, Johann, Julius, Sebald (Germany)

Huba (Hungary)

Giovanni, Magno, Mariano (Italy)

Imanta, Marlene, Melanija (Latvia)

Argaudas, Balys, Boleslovas, Tolvina (Lithuania)

Sigvald, Sigve (Norway)

Bolesław, Emilia, Jan, Julian, Juliusz, Ludwik, Piotr, Sebald (Poland)

Lýdia (Slovakia)

Ezequiel, Juan, Magín (Spain)

Magnus, Måns (Sweden)

Sade, Sadie, Salina, Sally, Sara, Sarah, Sarai, Sari, Sarina, Zarah (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 232 of 2024; 134 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 34 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 16 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 15 Av 5784

Islamic: 13 Safar 1446

J Cal: 22 Purple; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 6 August 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 7 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Columbus]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 61 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 29 of 31)

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Hot Personals that Attract Singles

Hot Personals that Attract Singles

Notice the flair, humor and wit that made these ads so effective. Women responded to these personals because they convey a sense of humor and playful intelligence. I don’t care what you look like, if you can make the right girl laugh and giggle, she’s yours for life. Create a ‘grabber perk’ headline, simply a single descriptive line that is first read along with your foto designed to attract…

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Sugar Mummies Kenya, Toyboy Hook Up

Sugar mummies in Kenya especially Nairobi, here is your chance to feel young again. Are you are looking for a younger man who is going to make you love life better? Why be left out when men your age are after younger girls?

I know how hard it may be for you to meet the person you need. While there may be many willing Toyboys out there, it may be hard to find them. This case applies to Toyboys, It…

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Sugar Mummies Kenya, Toyboy Hook Up

Sugar mummies in Kenya especially Nairobi, here is your chance to feel young again. Are you are looking for a younger man who is going to make you love life better? Why be left out when men your age are after younger girls?

I know how hard it may be for you to meet the person you need. While there may be many willing Toyboys out there, it may be hard to find them. This case applies to Toyboys, It…

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Sugar Mummies Kenya, Toyboy Hook Up

Sugar mummies in Kenya especially Nairobi, here is your chance to feel young again. Are you are looking for a younger man who is going to make you love life better? Why be left out when men your age are after younger girls?

I know how hard it may be for you to meet the person you need. While there may be many willing Toyboys out there, it may be hard to find them. This case applies to Toyboys, It…

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Djibouti Diaries, part #1:

Irregular blog series of Iiris’ thoughts and travels in Djibouti filming upcoming feature “The Grave Digger” by Bufo, Pyramide Production and Twenty Twenty Vision.

Reporting thoughts from the first 8 days on the road, exactly 10 days before filming starts

Arrival

I’m not a huge fan of long flights - sometimes my low blood pressure gets the best of me and it’s not once or twice I’ve almost fainted after half a day in a plane. Surprisingly travelling with Qatar Airways was very nice and I rewatched A Star is Born (not the sad end though, as I wasn’t in the mood for sad endings) and got familiar with Aquaman (or tried to, didn’t really understand why was he called Aquaman and why not Ocean Master) and agreed again how complicated element water is for any VFX / CGI work.

Arrival to Djibouti was hot, fun and exciting. We understood already at the airport the way this country works is something very different than what we’re used to. Hot air whispered to our ears and black night took us to it’s arms. Road to our hotel was bumpy and after 30 minutes in the country I was already sweating like a pig. When getting to my room I was definitely in a small shock - no window, everything was very simple, AC wasn’t working - do I really spend the next 1,5 months here? I need to cancel my boyfriends trip here in the last shooting week - he’ll kill me if I’m making him to spend a week in here instead of the nice hotel rooms he always gets when he’s filming abroad. And my phone has no reception whatsoever, how will any producers from upcoming projects be able to reach me?!

I woke up the next morning very sweaty and hungry and went to breakfast (nothing gluten free was available, but luckily I had my own snacks with me). Suddenly after a big cup of black tea with steaming milk (yes, I might be a little British) world seemed exciting, interesting and adventurous. And especially after seeing the city and surrounding landscapes quickly nothing felt that gloomy or primitive anymore. I’m blaming my tired eyes and sudden travel depression for the first looks.

After 24 hours in Djibouti I finally took the time to open my luggage and make the little room mine. I scattered my stuff - my hot water boiler, tea collection, first aid kit, small library, my favourite tea cup, my essentials on suitable places and sat down. This is my small Djiboutian home. I’ve noticed waiting eagerly to get to show all this to my boyfriend (and am slightly worried his first night is like mine and I’ll be offended even though I’ll very much try not to).

As it’s never as easy as it could be / some IT talk

Through the first working week here (which in Djibouti is from Sunday to Thursday) we’ve scouted few missing places and started our tech recce tour. I’ve redone first 2 weeks callsheets with my loyal 2nd AD Paula (who I really really wanted to take this journey with me and I should probably almost apologise the production company for dozens of relentless, demanding emails) who’s arriving here next Saturday. First real setback happened two days ago when my 6-month old laptop broke out of nowhere. As I thought, nearest AppleStores can be found from Egypt, Doha, Dubai or South Africa. No AppleCare on sight either. As our Gaffer was flying to us in the next 12 hours there was no time to cry and get depressed - that I really felt like doing as I’ve already once had to repair this laptop - but to quickly consider my options and act.

Talking about loyal friends no guessing Emma has been the other one. She googled with me and ran to AppleStore to get me the newest iPad Pro with needed accessories and took it to our Gaffers to catch the flight next morning.

2nd setback of course happened when receiving the iPad and realising there is no longer MMS To Go available (seriously Entertainment Partners!!! I cannot be the only 1st AD who uses this) as mine on my old school iPad is a version from 5 years ago, only supported on 32 bit tablets and not on 64 bit ones so they’ve deleted it completely (and have no plans to bring it back as was replied to me from their customer service). Another round of zen mindset was definitely needed as well as Paula who now exports me PDFs to mark all changes so she can then work on those on her laptop’s MMS.

And not to get too optimistic iPad Pro neither supports formulas on pages that I desperately need for my callsheets. So currently after this setback no. 3 I’m also commenting our callsheets on PDF and Paula then makes the changes as needed. This is very close to our usual work flow but I’ve never felt this handless on a production. So Paula is bringing one more device with her - an old computer for all this I cannot do on my sparkly new iPad.

After blaming Apple this badly I must say otherwise I’m very very happy on this iPad and especially it’s functions with folio keyboard and pencil. If MMS and Pages would work here, I’d be replacing my laptop need with this 95%.

Living, understanding and experiencing Djibouti

My expectations of this journey weren’t very glamorous. I was unsure if there’d be anything in the stores I could or would buy being celiac, vegetarian and a western who’s been scared with a lot of talk over possible diseases and how they spread. After a week I feel very normal here. We’ve got two big grocery stores with many familiar products next to the hotel and one even has ”sans gluten” section. I’m starting to get completely used to cars that are old, rusty and missing some usual actions or pieces (only our driver knows how to get the minibus door open) and bumpy roads.

90% of our local crew is always on time. I’ve been stunned. They’re also very helpful, live at the moment, try their hardest to adapt to our ways and never complain. I’m sure our cultures have and will crash but for now it’s been a lot easier than I thought it would be (fingers crossed!). My 3rd AD is a wise local lady who’s determined to teach me some french on the way - and I am determined to learn at least something.

Amount of people everywhere is crazy to a finn. It’s usual there are more than 10 children in the families. I’ve obviously been in tears seeing little children on burning streets without shoes and then again I’ve also discovered how good life can be without all the things we usually think a good life needs. Most of the children look us curiously and after a while we can see a shy little wave - which we always answer to and that usually brings a lot of excitement to the air. Families living in small village with their stone built huts instantly offered us food and water after we marched to meet them with our safari outfits, taking reference photos with our smartphones and drinking water from our filtering bottles. There are goats everywhere - every possible size and color.

I’ve eaten amazing Ethiopian and Indian food. I’ve almost gotten used to the weather - liking 34°C we had yesterday A LOT more than 42°C we had in the beginning of the week though. I’ve only burned little bits of my skin and almost finished my first travel book (Naiset joita ajattelen öisin, Women I think at night by Mia Kankimäki). I’m starting to call this place my home. My phone still has no reception but I’ve very much adapted to the African living in the moment culture - well, it must be a lot of text messages I get after arriving to Dubai in the beginning of November and getting it back online. And as I have Emma, I’m counting on people calling her if they really need to reach me.

Iiris

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Hook up with Winnie - Sugar Mummy from Lamu

Hook up with Winnie – Sugar Mummy from Lamu

My name is Winnie, am 35 years old. I am a single lady, divorced and not planning to get settled anytime soon. I reside in Lamu, at my own house, which I inherited from my parents. I am interested in a serious man who is honest and mature for company and good times.

If he proves to be a honest person he can as well help me in managing my businesses. I have huge interests in the hotel industry. I…

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Hook up with Winnie - Sugar Mummy from Lamu

Hook up with Winnie – Sugar Mummy from Lamu

My name is Winnie, am 35 years old. I am a single lady, divorced and not planning to get settled anytime soon. I reside in Lamu, at my own house, which I inherited from my parents. I am interested in a serious man who is honest and mature for company and good times.

If he proves to be a honest person he can as well help me in managing my businesses. I have huge interests in the hotel industry. I…

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Hook up with Winnie - Sugar Mummy from Lamu

Hook up with Winnie – Sugar Mummy from Lamu

My name is Winnie, am 35 years old. I am a single lady, divorced and not planning to get settled anytime soon. I reside in Lamu, at my own house, which I inherited from my parents. I am interested in a serious man who is honest and mature for company and good times.

If he proves to be a honest person he can as well help me in managing my businesses. I have huge interests in the hotel industry. I…

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May’s missing maushis: A Mumbai summer without the itinerant East Indian masala makers

New Post has been published on https://apzweb.com/mays-missing-maushis-a-mumbai-summer-without-the-itinerant-east-indian-masala-makers/

May’s missing maushis: A Mumbai summer without the itinerant East Indian masala makers

Ever since I can remember, synaesthesia has played a particularly important role in my life. Numbers for me have genders. Days of the week have a definite hierarchy, with Sundays leading the pack. And all my months are neatly divvied up to form a rainbow of colours.

May’s colour has always been somewhere on the spectrum between a buttery yellow and an earthy burnt Sienna. No big surprise there. Think bright summer suns, freshly baked lemon chiffon cakes and yes, the indescribable hue of a ripe Alphonso.

But there are two more shades in the family that truly define the month and, by default, summer for me.

One, the almost-neon tangerine shade of freshly pounded East Indian bottle masala, and two, the amber-coloured beer bottles that it is always stored in for longer shelf-life. Thus, the name — bottle masala.

While I am not an East Indian by birth, I have always been a big fan of their culture and, most pertinently, their cuisine. I’ve lived most of my life here in Dadar West, Mumbai, surrounded by a close-knit, strongly matriarchal community of East Indian families led by genial aunties who made it their mission to indulge the budding foodie in me with their yummy curries and succulent roasts. Almost all jazzed up with the ubiquitous East Indian bottle masala. From the coconut milk-enhanced mutton lonvas to a spicy chicken moile, the bottle masala reigns supreme.

Just like the 36-ingredient Moroccan ras-el-hanout spice blend or the Ethiopian berbere mix, East Indian bottle masala is made up of a bewildering variety of spices, from the more obvious Kashmiri chillies to the ‘Google-it-now’ nagkesar. The latter — I learnt just for the purposes of this piece — is also called Indian rose chestnut or cobra saffron, by the way! Besides this, the complex dry spice blend has several iterations, each with varying measurements and ratios of spices.

More the merrier

I would not be exaggerating if I said that every East Indian family uses a different recipe for bottle masala — some use 20 spices, some 30, while the most elaborate of the lot use up to 40. But try asking any self-respecting East Indian cook to part with the recipe and they will sooner part with their lives. Such is the almost militant level of secrecy that shrouds the hallowed recipe.

In fact, I remember an old neighbourhood aunty once telling me that East Indian mothers never teach their daughters how to make bottle masala for fear of them taking the prized recipe out of the family after getting married. They have no such compunctions, I was informed, for incoming daughters-in-law. I rest my case.

This leads me to a vital link, not just to the whole bottle masala supply chain, but also to my very synaesthetically-heightened month of May — the masalawaali maushis. It is the rhythmic thumping sound that these singing, itinerant spice-grinding ladies make while pounding the aromatic, roasted spices for bottle masala that I associate most with summer as well.

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That May music has been missing this year. Thanks to the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown, my backyard will not be infiltrated this season by the pungent fumes and lilting melodies wafting from neighbourhood gardens. The maushis will not be coming this year.

Travelling troupes

Mainly drawn from the local Maharashtrian Agri community, these women are generally always much in demand and need to be booked months in advance. They are always armed with their wooden pounding vessel, the ukli, and its cohort, the mussal, a mace-like tool with a metal base to hit the ingredients. These groups of ladies travel from house to house from early March to the end of May to grind the annual supply of bottle masala according to each family’s specifications, making sure to finish this important task before monsoon sets in.

Interestingly, though the maushis are experts in the sifting, roasting and final pounding of the spices, they will never fully know the final recipe. Not only will the house matriarch weigh each ingredient separately and hand it over to the maushis just before pounding, but as per tradition she will also withhold one vital ingredient that she will pound herself and add later to the final mix.

One of the most enduring and endearing traditions of the maushis is the singing of ovis (which literally means ‘strung together’) while they pound the spices. More specifically, they sing jatyavarchi ovi, specialised Marathi grinding songs that are used as poetic metre for rhythmic prose.

One such ovi by Bahinabai, an unlettered 19th century peasant-poet from the Khandesh region of Maharashtra, comes to mind and seems a perfect way to sum it up in times like these. It says:

Get up at midnight, neatly set

out the grain

Begin working the grinding

stone

Be patient, don’t talk back, hold

your tongue

Let the memories of your old life

comfort you.

SUNDAY RECIPE

Bottle Masala

(Recipe courtesy Ann Dias)

Photo: Getty Images/ iStock  

Ingredients

1 kg dried red Kashmiri chilies

250 gm dried red Madras chilies

25 gm whole wheat grain

80 gm powdered turmeric

5 gm dagdaphool, also called stone flower

200 gm cumin seeds

15 gm fenugreek seeds

500 gm coriander seeds

150 gm mustard seeds

250 gm poppy seeds

50 gm peppercorns

15 gm cloves

250 gm white sesame seeds

15 gm caraway seeds

14-15 green cardamoms

7-8 black cardamoms

10 gm cinnamon stick

10 gm asofoetida

25 gm bay leaves

1 nutmeg

5 gm tirphal, also called Japanese pepper

5 gm star anise

5 gm nagkesar, also called Indian rose chestnut

15 gm fennel seed

5 gm mace

50 gm whole Bengal gram

5 gm allspice

Method

1. Precisely measure and dry all the ingredients under the sun for two days, making sure no moisture remains in them.

2. Over low heat, dry roast the Kashmiri chillies and the Madras chillies for 8-10 mins in a wide-bottom pan, making sure to not to burn them.

3. Similarly roast the rest of the ingredients for 7-8 mins on low heat or until they are aromatic.

4. Dry grind the roasted ingredients in several batches until fine, either in a large ukli or in a spice blender. You could also take the mix to a local mill to get it pounded.

5. To stick with tradition, tightly pack the bottle masala into amber- or green-tinted, sterilised beer bottles, sealing the top off with butter paper and hot wax. Otherwise, one can also store it in an airtight container or any other lidded glass container.

(This makes for an approximately 2.5 kg yield of bottle masala, so adjust according to desired quantity.)

The Mumbai-based writer and restaurant reviewer is passionate about food, travel and luxury, not necessarily in that order.

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These are the 2020 World Press Photo nominees

World Press Photo has announced the nominees for its 63rd annual photography contest. Started in 1955, this annual contest celebrates the most powerful stories from the world of visual journalism. The contest received entries from 4,282 photographers from 125 countries who entered a total of 73,996 images this year.

Entries were judged by an independent jury of 17 photo professionals who are charged with selecting the best pictures from the year. It’s no surprise that this year protest photography and environmental stories played a large role. Ultimately, the judges selected 44 photographers from 24 countries to become nominees. In 2019 World Press Photo debuted a new category called Story of the Year which focuses on a sequence of images about a single issue or event, rather than a single frame.

The nominees for Story of the Year are:

Students cross a road to school after participating in a human-chain rally, in Hong Kong, on 12 September 2019. (© Nicolas Asfouri, Denmark, Agence France-Presse/) Relatives hold a photograph of a victim of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 at a mass funeral at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 17 March 2019. (© Mulugeta Ayene, Ethiopia, Associated Press/) A young man carries a trumpet in Bab el-Oued, Algiers, Algeria, and immediately generates a crowd. Nobody knows how to play the instrument, but there is widespread enthusiasm. (© Romain Laurendeau, France/)

Six photographers have been shortlisted for Photo of the Year, they are:

A relative of a victim of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 throws dirt in her face as she grieves at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 14 March 2019. (© Mulugeta Ayene, Ethiopia, Associated Press/) Students scuffle with riot police during an anti-government demonstration in Algiers, Algeria, on 21 May. (© Farouk Batiche, Algeria, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/) A young man, illuminated by mobile phones, recites protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 June. (© Yasuyoshi Chiba, Japan, Agence France-Presse/) Ewa, 15-year-old Armenian girl who has recently woken from catatonic state brought on by Resignation Syndrome, sits in a wheelchair, flanked by her parents, in a refugee reception center in Podkowa Leśna, Poland. (© Tomek Kaczor, Poland, for Duży Format, Gazeta Wyborcza/) Ahmed Ibrahim (18), an SDF fighter badly burned in conflict with Turkish forces, is visited by his girlfriend at a hospital in Al-Hasakah, on 20 October. She had at first been unable to enter the room, as she was horrified by his injuries, but a nurse encouraged her to go in to hold Ahmed’s hand and have a short conversation. (© Ivor Prickett, Ireland, for The New York Times/) A businessman locks away a pair of anti-tank grenade launchers at the end of an exhibition day, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on 18 February. (© Nikita Teryoshin, Russia/)

The winners of World Press Photo will be announced in April during the World Press Photo Festival in Amsterdam. Winners of Story of the Year and Photo of the Year will be awarded a 10,000 euro prize. In addition to these top nominations, the jury has nominated three single images and three stories across eight categories: Contemporary Issues, General News, Environment, Nature, Long-Term Projects, Portraits, Spot News and Sports. We’ve highlighted some of our favorites below, more work from the nominees can be found on the World Press Photo site.

A political and socio-economic crisis in Venezuela, from 2016 onwards, led to an increasing outflow of migrants from the country. Venezuelans said they were compelled to leave for reasons of insecurity and violence, lack of access to food, medicine and essential services, and loss of income due to the political situation. (© Nicolò Filippo Rosso, Italy/) Between 5,000 and 10,000 tigers live in captivity in the US. Roadside zoos and other businesses breed tigers and charge guests to pet and pose with them. Staff in the swimming pool with tigers. 4 week old liger cubs. (© Steve Winter, United States, for National Geographic/) Firefighters battle the Marsh Complex Fire, near the town of Brentwood, California, USA on 3 August. (© Noah Berger, United States, for Associated Press/) For centuries, industrialized countries have followed a take-make-waste linear economy: raw materials are gathered and transformed into products that are sold and then discarded as waste. Value is created in this economic system by producing and selling as many products as possible. (© Luca Locatelli, Italy, for National Geographic/) After a successful hunt, Josiah Olemaun, a young whaling crew member takes a break from moving and stacking whale meat into his family’s ice cellar in Utqiagvik, Alaska. (© Katie Orlinsky, United States, for National Geographic/) Inside the house, relatives of Juan Gomez Sambrano are taking part of a wake in his honor. Juan Gomez was murdered at 19 by Guatemalan Army together with several members of his village, Chisis, in Cotzal municipality, in February 1982 (© Daniele Volpe, Italy/) A greater roadrunner approaches the border wall at Naco, Arizona, USA on 28 April. (© Alejandro Prieto, Mexico/) Fahzren is undergoing a routine medical check. Junior vet Miuthya (r) and senior vet Yenny (l) left examine the orangutan. Fahzren is 30 years old and comes from a zoo in Malaysia where he has lived since he was a baby. His medical condition is fine but he does not have the skills to survive in the wild. (© Alain Schroeder, Belgium, for National Geographic/) Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie, a drag artist and activist, poses at a shisanyama—a community space where women cook and sell meat—in Khayelitsha, a township located on the Cape Flats, near Cape Town, South Africa. (© Lee-Ann Olwage, South Africa/) Fans of Brazil’s Flamengo football team cheer as Gabriel Barbosa scores a goal against defending champions River Plate of Argentina, in the final of the Copa Libertadores, broadcast on a giant screen during a watch party at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 23 November 2019. (© Silvia Izquierdo, Peru, Associated Press/) In two years, the footballers from the village of Gouande, in northern Benin, have made their mark and blazed new trails. Refusing to be confined to the status of women who are fragile, incompetent or solely dedicated to motherhood, they have come together to defend their place on all the fields. (© Olivier Papegnies, Belgium/) A destroyed car on a street corner in Conjola Park. The fire was so hot in the town that the aluminium in several cars melted. Pure aluminium melts at 1221 Fahrenheit or 660.3 degrees Celsius. Two people died and at least 70 properties have been lost in Conjola Park, NSW. (© Matthew Abbott, Australia, Panos Pictures, for The New York Times/) from Popular Photography | RSS https://ift.tt/2VLkZuU

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Idris Elba And His Wife Tour Tanzania For Their Global Honeymoon (Photos)

Countless Kenyan women, particularly those in the most popular Kilimani Mums Facebook group, died with envy when American actor Idris Elba walked down the aisle with the love of his life Sabrina Dhowre Elba in a key wedding.

Many wished they were in Dhowre’s shoes as the actor is U.S most seiets man in 2018 . Well, it appears everyone shifted despite several photos of Idris and his wife seen online after their three-day long wedding.

No sooner had Kenyan ladies nursed their hearts properly than the hunky actor struck them just as before with a honeymoon extension in East Africa, yes East Africa.

It was learnt Idris and his hot Ethiopian wife are now in Tanzania where they’re enjoying part of the international, or should we say globe trotting honeymoon.

This is made public by Dhowre as she took to her Instagram page on Thursday, May 30, to fairly share photos of them at Serengeti Game Park in Tanzania.

We learnt both lovebirds did not only take pleasure in the beautiful scenery at Serengeti and its animals but also surely got to find out more about ecotourism.

”Thank you to Beverly and Wesley at Grumetifuns for educating us on all the important work they do for the ecotourism in the Serengeti,”  she captioned their photos from park. Idris and his model wife tied the knot in Morocco on Friday, April 26, after getting engaged in February 2018.