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Boxsal, a Pretty Fun Picnic in a Cardboard Box (Photos)

Summer is the prefect time for picnics, pretty much anywhere! On roof tops, in Central Park, at the beach, open air cinemas or the zoo, a good picnic is special. But how often do you make the effort and unleash your creativity to put together a




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Goodwill® Teams Up With Sony Pictures Entertainment To Support Release Of "Hotel Transylvania 2" And To Combat Unemployment - Hotel Transylvania 2 Shop Goodwill Ad

Hotel Transylvania 2 Shop Goodwill Ad




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Small overlap crash protection, front crash prevention key to 2016 awards; 48 models earn TOP SAFETY PICK+ award, 13 earn TOP SAFETY PICK - 2016 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICKS

2016 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICKS






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Jedi Performers Engage in Epic Lightsaber Challenge at the Top of the World's Tallest Building - Dubai's Burj Khalifa - as Star Wars: The Force Awakens Becomes Available for Digital Download - Two Jedi performers ascend the world’s tallest buildin

Two Jedi performers ascend the world’s tallest building




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Hennessy Ascends Higher, Ventures Deeper with New "Wild Rabbit" Advertising Creative - New Ad Creative, “The Piccards”

Hennessy V.S new ad creative celebrates the true story of Auguste Piccard, the first man to reach the stratosphere, and his son Jacques, the first man to reach the deepest depths of the ocean.




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BJ's Wholesale Club Introduces New Pick Up & Pay Service - BJ’s Wholesale Club New Pick Up & Pay Service

BJ's Wholesale Club Members now have the option to “pick up and pay” at all of its 213 club locations along the east coast.




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Jedi Performers Engage in Epic Lightsaber Challenge at the Top of the World's Tallest Building - Dubai's Burj Khalifa - as Star Wars: The Force Awakens Becomes Available for Digital Download - Two Jedi performers ascend the world’s tallest buildin

Two Jedi performers ascend the world’s tallest building




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Hospice Support Fund Launches Public Service Announcement to Promote End of Life Care at Home - The Journey Home :60 TV PSA

The Journey Home :60 TV PSA




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Natalie Morales Of NBC's TODAY Show, Erica Hill Of NBC News, And Carolyn Manno Of NBC Olympics To Host 2016 More/Shape Women's Half-Marathon - 2015 MORE/SHAPE Half-Marathon BTS

Behind the scenes with Natalie Morales and Erica Hill at the 12th Annual MORE/SHAPE Women’s Half-Marathon on April 19, 2015.




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Hennessy Ascends Higher, Ventures Deeper with New "Wild Rabbit" Advertising Creative - New Ad Creative, “The Piccards”

Hennessy V.S new ad creative celebrates the true story of Auguste Piccard, the first man to reach the stratosphere, and his son Jacques, the first man to reach the deepest depths of the ocean.




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BJ's Wholesale Club Introduces New Pick Up & Pay Service - BJ’s Wholesale Club New Pick Up & Pay Service

BJ's Wholesale Club Members now have the option to “pick up and pay” at all of its 213 club locations along the east coast.




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Camp Invention Teaches Coding And Prototype Building With New "Epic" Curriculum - An Epic Summer Adventure Awaits

An Epic Summer Adventure Awaits





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Embajadores de la Fuerza de Milk Life, entre ellos Cristian de la Fuente y Giorgio Rapicavoli, ayudan a lanzar la campaña Somos Fuertes con un "rally" y una donación al YMCA de Miami - Giorgio Concurso de Somos Fuertes

Chef Giorgio Rapicavoli de Eating House Miami nos invita participar en el concurso de milk life Somos Fuertes





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Laura Dern, Kellie Pickler, Valerie Harper Among Notable Voices Kicking Off National Women's Lung Health Week - #ShareYourVoice for LUNG FORCE

Laura Dern, Kellie Pickler, Valerie Harper Among Notable Voices Kicking Off National Women’s Lung Health Week




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El famoso chef Giorgio Rapicavoli, y la campana milk life Lo Que Nos Hace Fuertes celebran el Mes de la Herencia Hispana, animando a todos a que brinden con leche - Arroz Con Café Con Leche

Arroz Con Café Con Leche




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Hospice Support Fund Launches Public Service Announcement to Promote End of Life Care at Home - The Journey Home :60 TV PSA

The Journey Home :60 TV PSA





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Trump's pick for top Navy position pledges to fix 'failure in leadership'

Kenneth Braithwaite, who would be the fourth civilian to lead the Navy in about five months, listed several incidents in recent years, including the coronavirus outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.




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Pressure is rising to postpone the Olympics

Billions of dollars are at stake. Japan has pumped at least $12 billion of investment into the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, not to mention the losses that would be incurred by sponsors, broadcasters and others.




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Can I Afford It? Epic trip

Forty-six year old Scott wants to know if he can afford to take his wife on a $20,000 trip to Bora Bora to celebrate her birthday.




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The 5 stock-picking legends you must study up on to become a smarter investor

Phil Town, best-selling author and self-made millionaire, recommends reading these five stock market legends if you want to become a competent investor.




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Cramer Remix: This market is being too picky

Jim Cramer explains why you should ignore the market's negativity ahead of the new year.




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JPMorgan health-care expert: Mergers, drug pricing and 2019 outlook will be leading topics at conference

Jim Cramer gets a preview of J.P. Morgan's upcoming health-care conference with the firm's top health-care analyst, Lisa Gill.




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Wendy's shares jump after company reports US same-store sales picking up as customers return

Wendy's reported that its U.S. same-store sales are rebounding after plunging in March and the first half of April.




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Valuations only part of the picture in coronavirus crisis, strategist says

John Bilton, global head of multi-asset strategy at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock valuations.




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Picking the best credit card for you

CNBC's Landon Dowdy highlights four guidelines to help you pick the best credit card.




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In pictures: More European nations reopen after strict virus lockdowns

Italy, Belgium and Portugal are reopening some business activities on Monday as they take their first tentative steps to lifting their coronavirus lockdowns.




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Josh Brown on why he picks Lowe's, Home Depot as his Last Chance Trade

Josh Brown, Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO, joins "Closing Bell" to discuss why he picks Lowe's and Home Depot as last chance trade.




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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga review – life on the precipice

A woman’s descent into poverty provides a powerful finale to the Zimbabwean author’s trilogy

“You want nothing more than to break away from the implacable terror of every day you spend in your country – where you can no longer afford the odd dab of peanut butter to liven up the vegetables from Mai Manyanga’s garden.” This is the voice of Tambu, first encountered in the Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga’s much-praised 1988 book Nervous Conditions, a passionate, first-person account of a 1960s Rhodesian childhood scarred by the war of independence.

Now, in the final instalment in the trilogy, Tambu is middle aged and writing in an appropriately distanced second person. Dangarembga sets herself the challenge of writing about how alienated personhood becomes when life stories lose hope and in a country where effort is no longer followed by reward.

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Next Generation: after five years, how has our first full class of picks fared?

From Rashford to Tielemans, we check in on how our initial Next Generation players have got on before the 2019 ones are announced this week

In 2014 we decided that it would be interesting to pick the best young players from each Premier League club – as well as 40 from around the world – and follow them for five years to see how they progressed.

The idea was to try to get a sense of how difficult it is to become a professional footballer despite being one of the best in that country at the age of 16 or 17.

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The Englishman who lost his job after guiding New Zealand to the Olympics

Des Buckingham followed Under-20 World Cup success by qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics but lost his job last week

There is a word that Des Buckingham, during almost six years working in New Zealand, has used as a mantra to live by. In the Maori language, Mana represents a spiritual essence that almost defies translation but in everyday use it broadly applies thus: a way of holding oneself through dignity, respect, humanity and authority.

It has been invaluable over the past five days because Buckingham is navigating one of the biggest disappointments of a young coaching career that, since he moved to the other side of the world after leaving Oxford United in 2014, had rarely let up.

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In Which I Embark on My Life's Grandest Adventure ♥ ♥ A Day in Pictures

We set out very early...

and drove through the fog.

The sun rose before us.

I was wearing pretty great socks.

Our destination was Quechee, Vermont.

It was pretty foggy there too.


Oh look! It's Kevin's sister, Heather!
And something interesting in the background...

What's that guy doing?

Dude, weird basket.







Did you know that when a hot air balloon is being inflated, you can walk inside it?

In fact, it's like a stained-glass cathedral in there. (Without the patriarchy! ^_^)








Reader, I married him.

Happy siblings.

Happy married-for-ten-minutes-so-far people.

Of course, that's not all, right?

But it was still awfully foggy...

and hot air balloons aren't safe in fog...

unless they're on a tether!


We did a tethered ride, safely attached to the ground.



Afterwards, our fabulous pilot, Chris Ritland, toasted us with the balloonist's blessing...

I cut the amazing orange cake Heather had made...

And as is traditional, the married couple fed wedding cake to their hot air balloon pilot.

Of course, one thing was missing from our day. So, about two weeks later, we went back to Quechee...

On an unfoggy, perfect-weather, untethered-ride day.


And we flew.

Trees look amazing from this distance, and at this speed.

That dot in the river is the reflection of our balloon!

When I told my friend Judy Blundell about our hot air balloon elopement, she said, "Marriage is an untethered ride."

We're ready.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Click on any picture above to embiggen. I especially recommend the panamoric shot from our flight.

Thanks to our wonderful photographer, Em Pogozelski at Pogo Photo (and her dad! ^_^), for all the elopement location pictures. We recommend her enthusiastically!

Thanks also to our hot air balloon pilot, Chris Ritland of Quechee Balloon Rides (and Tom and Diane!), who was so accommodating and made everything perfect for us. We can't recommend him highly enough. Tom took the pictures of us in the balloon on our untethered-ride day. Kevin and I took the pictures from the ride itself.

Thanks also to Karenna Maraj, our local indie jeweler who made my jade engagement ring and our wedding rings. We adore our rings and recommend her wholeheartedly too.

Thanks to you, too, for taking our adventure into your hearts, dear readers. Be well!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥




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PICKING ON YOUR BROTHER! THAT'S IT, NO MORE ISOLATION FOR YOU, YOUNG MAN




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PICKING ONE FROM THE PATCH




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How To Tuesday – Halloween Party Toothpicks

I’m having a Halloween crafternoon this weekend, and I wanted to make some toothpicks for spearing finger food that would be easy to make, but still have a great spooky vibe. Even if you are not having a Halloween party this year I think these picks would be great for … Continue reading









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