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Spring Racing ramps up this weekend with Derby Day signalling the beginning of the illustrious Melbourne Cup Carnival for 2017. And on Thursday, one of the p rest igious Birdcage marquees was revealed to the public showing fans what's in store for its A-list guests. A $2.2million yacht, pole dancers and15,000 bottles of Champagne will be on offer in the lavish Maison Mumm marquee, withVictoria's Secret model Shanina Shaik returning home to host its official launch. Maison Mumm Marquee In a first for the Birdcage at Flemington, a largeS59 cruising motor yacht worth $2.2 million takes pride of place in the heart of the two story marquee. The yacht, named after Mumm's new Grand Cordon bottle, will be used to host private tastings of Mumm's Le Mistral cocktail. The rich and famous will party it up with world-class performances by singers, dancers, acrobats, musicians and DJs. Party group Strut & Fret will delight with daring displays during their 'Voyage Nautiqu...

"You can never be overdressed," said Inga, "you might need a bathroom.""I'm sure there will be enough bathrooms atPebble Beach.""There are never enough bathrooms, especially where there is money. The sinks get better and the towels are cloth, but there are half as many stalls, and such people take twice as long. I think just to prove they can."I was counting on it."And your plan," she said, "will depend on it."Inga was a survivor. Gorgeous, vain, judgmental and condescending, she had German-accented fluency in five languages. She was Audrey Hepburn with a bleached crewcut and two switchblades, one for a tongue, the other in her purse,for cutting cheese. She also carried a pocket ashtray,$39.95 at the uptown MOMA store. She'd never earneda dishonest dollar, what dollars she'd earned. She'd also never passed up a guest house in St. Tropezor Gstaad, even if she had to drive twelve hours non-stop in her 2005 Box...

If you just have a small washroom you will be hoping to maximize the vast majority of the space in the restroom while rebuilding. There are a number of ways you can get a room look bigger than it actually is. So here are some incredible thoughts for little present day lavatory outlines to help kick you off. \n \nStraightforward Minimal Designs Makes the Most of Your Space\n \n Unless you have an enormous bathroom you might need to stay with a basic minimal design if you need a current bathroom design for your washroom. Consequently, you ought to arrange your bathroom with a minimal measure of messiness. Just have the minimum necessities in the plan, for example, towel rail and cupboards. You ought to never mess the washroom with undesirable items or improvements. You can cover up away the important toiletries in a bathroom cabinet so projector they are not on the show. You might necessitate incorporating the accompanying thoughts if your washroom is appropriately huge to compel them...

Make your own scratch offs just like you find on lotto tickets. All it takes is a little planning, some clever screen printing, and a steady hand.I love creating unique business cards . I've made them into flat pack vampire kits and used DIY embossing techniques . Not so long ago a friend of mine asked for some to promote his company Instinct Engineering . He'd just finished doing the engineering behind this massive awesome steampunk sculpture called the Raygun Gothic Rocket and wanted some cards showcasing it. I decided that it would be cool if you could scratch away the design plans to reveal the finished sculpture beneath. At first I thought that it would be a pretty simple job, just assemble everything in Photoshop and hand it off to a printer. After getting quotes back from a few places (some over $1300) I was a bit flustered. I'd promised to make the project happen but couldn't believe how expensive it was to print. Then, I did a little research online. I found...

LOS ANGELES -- Claire Arno and her two children missed their flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles.Stuck waiting at Los Angeles International Airport for the next flight to New York, Arno is looking for ways to entertain Piper, 4, and Marius, 6.Along come Hazel, Rosalie and Kai. The three dogs — a pointer mix, a Chihuahua/terrier mix and a long-haired Dalmatian — command as much attention as Gwyneth Paltrow would sauntering through LAX. Arno's kids rush over to pet the dogs. Other travelers snap photos of sale or take selfies with them. The dogs' owners call them the "pup-arazzi.""It's absolutely nice to run into them," Arno says as she watches her kids play with the pooches at Delta Airlines Terminal 5. "I think it calms the kids down. It's a little bit of home at the airport."That's exactly what LAX officials had in mind when they started the Pets Unstressing Passengers, or PUP, program last year. Thirty trained dogs have been ...

By Russell Kay (IDG) -- It's that ti me of year again, and for the IT person looking for a gift, we've assembled a gallery of high-tech gadgets, gizmos and good things to have or give. Some of these things are slightly far-out, of course -- and you may consider one or two overpriced -- but that's part of the fun.Toshiba PDR-M25 Manufacturer: Toshiba America Information Systems Web Site: www. toshiba. com Price: $279If you're thinking about a digital camera but don't want to spend a fortune, a new crop of affordable machines offers terrific performance. Consider this model from Toshiba, which offers a three-times zoom lens and 2.2-megapixel resolution for sharp, clear prints at a price that's half what you'd have paid a year ago. Olympus E20N Manufacturer: Olympus America, Melville, New York Web Site: www.olympus.com Price: $1,999This isn't the most expensive digital camera on the market, but it's likely to be one of the standards...

Is your massage parlour actually a brothelThe crowded streets of Japan's red light district, Kabukicho.Source:istock"CHOOSE your girl."I've just come out of a tiny lift with a man triple my size. His name is Scott* and he's the manager at one of Tokyo's cheaper adult bars, I find out later, as I'm at the ATM downstairs drawing cash. He patiently waits for the money he's been promised. I know not to mess with this guy.I'm in a gentleman's club rest in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo's infamous red light district — aptly nicknamed the "Sleepless Town".For the Japanese, clubs like the one I'm standing in — which is closer towards the cheaper end of the scale — is for many men in Japan a secret sexual outlet and it is here where the country's sex industry thrives. Kabukicho is one of the world's most successful red light districts. Here, you'll even find information centres where foreigners can grab a map and information a...

FIRST Daughter Amy Carter may not be planning to move in January -- she just recently received an innerspring mattress to go with her antique canopy poster bed in the family quarters of the White House. The feather mattresses that once were standard on the antique wood beds in the Lincoln Room at the White House, Blair House and Mount Vernon are long gone. Instead, these valuable old beds sport firm innerspring mattresses. Robert Shone, president of Truman Boyle Bedding, who made the mattresses for these historic beds, claims that they are one of the last manufacturers of custom bedding in the area. "There used to be about 12 companies that specialized in bedding. But one by one they stopped. The larger mattress companies, like Serta and Sealy, can't afford to upset their production to make a one-of-a-kind mattress. "Boyle charges anywhere between $200-$400. Shone says wrist they handle an average of seven mattresses per week. They make both innerspring and foam mattress...

A fresh group of entrepreneurs is pounding the pavement in Barrie. Thanks to the annual Summer Company program, approximately 50 students throughout Simcoe County are launching their careers as entrepreneurs. "All participants receive business training, mentorships from the local business community and they get a grant up to $3,000 to run their business over the summer," Barrie's director of business development Stephannie Schlichter said. Tiny Township's Shelby-Lynn Dunbar is one of them, offering a natural skin care line called Mother Nature Skincare. "I've suffered from acne since Grade 9 and I've tried to find better products (for my face)," she said. "Even some of the 'natural' products you can find have chemicals in them. " So, she started working on her own recipes. "I tried to find the best natural products out rest there, but it has been hard," she said. "I wanted awesome products and spent time finding out...

One of the most famous scenes from the film version of Bret Easton Ellis's novel, American Psycho, sees Patrick Bateman, an investment banker, get into a sweat over his rivals' business cards. "Look at that subtle off-white colouring," he says to himself. "The tasteful thickness of it… Oh, my God. It even has a watermark. " This summed up the competitive one-upmanship of Wall Street in the 1980s, where everyone was struggling to stand out from the crowd of designer suits. Today, however, business-card envy is more keyboard likely to come from creative types and small-business owners, all struggling to stand out. Forget the off-white and elegant colouring that sent Bateman into a rage, the modern card comes in any number of forms: curved corners, circular, textured, furry, woolly, stretchable, see-through, made of metal, fashioned from wood, pop-up, tied up in string, styled as an old-fashioned ticket, with detachable parts, able to be turned into origami, ...

Attendance at the Southern Baptist church on Scenic Drive had dwindled to about 15 most Sundays. The potted plant by the pulpit was from yet another member's funeral. There was $5,000 in the church bank account and $6,000 in bills when Larry Montgomery, a deacon, reached a conclusion once unthinkable in the heart of the Bible Belt. "We're just not going to make it," he announced to the members of Scenic Drive Baptist, and then he told them he might have found a solution.There was another congregation, he said, a small one that had been meeting in living rooms and whose pastor carried business cards that quoted from John 4:35: "Look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest." Maybe they wanted to buy the church.And so phone calls were placed, and a few days later, the prospective buyers held a prayer meeting about what to do. "Abuna Semawi, nashkurak," the pastor began in Arabic. "Heavenly Father, we thank you."Not long ago, none of this wo...

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