Comunicato Stampa FIVL

 Il Friuli aspetta la Coppa delle Regioni di parapendio ed assegna all¹Alto Adige il titolo di deltaplano.
 Comunicato Stampa
Due importanti eventi si alternano nei cieli del Friuli: dopo il campionato
di deltaplano, arriva la Coppa delle Regioni di parapendio, finale di tutte
le competizioni regionali.
Sarà ospitata a Gemona (Udine) dal 3 al 5 agosto ed organizzata dallo staff
di Volo Libero Friuli in collaborazione con le associazioni Ali Libere
Gemona, Centro Friulano Parapendio e Into The Wild. E' prevista la
partecipazione da ogni parte d'Italia fino ad un massimo di 110 piloti
secondo le classifiche nazionali di merito dello scorso anno.

Il centro operativo della competizione è posto presso l'Hotel da Willy,
l'atterraggio ufficiale in località Orvenco nel comune di Artegna. Come
decollo ufficiale della manifestazione è stato scelto quello sul monte
Cuarnan, sopra Gemona a quota 1180 msl, un ampio prato con un'incantevole
vista su tutta la piana friulana, e da dove i piloti spiccheranno il volo in
un comprensorio dal fascino straordinario. Secondo le condizioni meteo, il
direttore di gara Matteo Di Brina potrà scegliere percorsi di gara
praticamente in ogni direzione per chilometri di avventura su paesaggi
mozzafiato. L'attività termica e l'ottima esposizione ai venti di questo
sito di volo in recenti competizioni hanno consentito di superare i 70 km di
tracciato.
Il programma prevede un primo giorno d'ambientamento e due di gara, sabato e
domenica, con premiazioni al termine. Il fine settimana propone ad ospiti e
piloti la rievocazione storica "Tempus Est Jocondum", teatro naturale il
centro storico di Gemona, dove il pubblico sarà coinvolto in animazioni e
giochi in un'atmosfera fuori dal tempo alla luce di torce e fiaccole, mentre
nelle taverne gli osti serviranno menù medievali. Bandita severamente la
plastica in piena sintonia con lo spirito della festa.

A proposito del campionato nazionale di deltaplano, l'altro mezzo che
insieme al parapendio costituisce la disciplina di volo libero, cioè senza
motore, questo si è appena concluso con 80 piloti in volo nei cieli di
Carnia. Dopo una settimana di gare l'alto atesino Alessandro Ploner, già
campione del mondo in carica, ha scalzato dal titolo il corregionale Anton
Moroder, lasciando alle spalle il trentino Christian Ciech ed il parmigiano
Filippo Oppici. La classifica assoluta registra la vittoria dell'austriaco
Manfred Ruhmer che, come numerosi altri piloti stranieri, ha potuto
partecipare grazie alla formula open prevista dal regolamento.

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per ulteriori informazioni sulla COPPA DELLE REGIONI parpapendio contattare
Luigi Seravalli - 349 0613099 - fax 0432 981362
info (AT) vololiberofriuli.it - http://www.vololiberofriuli.it
sito ufficiale http://www.coppadelleregioni.it

Per ulteriori informazioni sul CAMPIONATO ITALIANO deltaplano contattare
Barbara Valla - 0521 831079 - 338 5823373
skype: barbara.valla - barbara (AT) artistisenzanome.it
Sito ufficiale http://www.vololiberocarnia.it/

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NEW YORK SUBWAY ART

I really like those signs in the New York Subway and how those mosaic letters show us the way underground, but what is the story behind it:

The first “signs” in the New York City subway system were created by Heins & LaFarge, architects of the IRT(Interborough Rapid Transit). In 1904 they established the now-familiar tradition of mosaic station names on platform walls. The name tablets were composed of small tiles in both serif and sans serif roman capitals. The BRT (Brooklyn Rapid Transit)/BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) followed suit under Squire J. Vickers, who took over the architectural duties in 1908. Neither line had a uniform lettering style even though the designs were prepared in studio and then shipped in sections to the stations. Thus, there is a surprising amount of variety within the mosaic station names. Smaller directional signs—with arrows indicating exits from each station—were also made in mosaic tile in both serif and sans serif roman capitals. Vickers simplified the decorative borders surrounding the name tablets but did not alter the lettering styles of either the IRT or the BMT. However, when the IND  (Independent) was established in 1925, he created a new style of sans serif capitals to accompany the stripped-down decoration of the stations. These letters, inspired by Art Deco, were heavier and more geometric than the earlier sans serifs rooted in 19th-century grotesques. They used larger tiles than the IRT and BMT mosaics, though the IND's directional mosaic signs employed lighter sans serif capitals and were made up of smaller tiles. (text via Aiga)

Tomato toma-to

Hi friends! We hope you're having a good Tuesday! Here's a whole bunch of orangey-red goodness for you to drool over alongside us! xo

Love the styling of this shoot!

Franziska Frank; Photographed by; Fred Meylan, Citizen K

Cute little enamel polka dot pot!

Such a pretty DIY!

Yet another perfect Modcloth dress!

The most wonderful cathrineholm lasagna dish!

We couldn't do a tomato hues-day post and not include tomato soup! 

photo found on this lovely lady's blog.

Hanover Street (1979)

          While not a career zenith for any of its major participants, except perhaps leading lady Lesley-Anne Down, Hanover Street is a respectable World War II romance filled with old-fashioned themes of heroism and sacrifice. The movie’s reliance on narrative coincidence is a problem, and one wishes writer-director Peter Hyams had moved past archetypes to investigate his characters more deeply, but Hanover Street delivers much of what it promises—the stars are attractive, their onscreen love affair is complicated by unusual circumstances, and the movie spins inexorably toward an action-packed climax. So, even though it’s all a bit rudimentary in conception, the full package—accentuated by David Watkin’s shadowy cinematography and John Barry’s plaintive musical score—goes down smoothly.

          Harrison Ford, giving the most satisfying performance of his wilderness years between Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980), stars as David Halloran, a U.S. pilot stationed near London circa 1943. After a quick meet-cute with British nurse Margaret Sellinger (Down), David persuades his new acquaintance to join him for a long afternoon of tea and conversation. Although they fall in love almost instantly, Margaret reveals she’s married—but then the trauma of being caught in an air raid pushes them together. They begin an affair. This affects both of their lives badly, because David loses his combat edge while worrying about when he’s going to see Margaret again, and Margaret introduces a chill into her marriage to Paul Sellinger (Christopher Plummer). Paul was a teacher during peacetime, but he’s now an officer with British Intelligence—and when he feels Margaret drifting away, he recklessly volunteers for a mission behind enemy lines, hoping to win back her respect.

          The coincidence with which Hyams merges the fates of these characters stretches believability, but Hyams commits wholeheartedly to the ensuing melodrama, and the second half of the movie—when the story shifts from romance to thrills—is brisk and tense. As far as the actors go, Ford sulks a bit too much, though he’s sufficiently dashing during action scenes to compensate for his moodiness; and if Down fails to provide much substance behind her mesmerizing beauty, that’s acceptable as well, since she’s primarily meant to be an object of desire. Plummer is, predictably, the picture’s saving grace, lending elegance, humor, and vulnerability to his characterization. FYI, Hanover Street is far more palatable than the similarly themed Yanks, which was released later the same year—although the latter picture, directed by John Schlesinger, is more sophisticated, it’s a lifeless museum piece compared to Hyams’ fast-moving crowd-pleaser.

Hanover Street: GROOVY

Foot or Flybubble 2012 at Beachy Head

Giocare con i gabbiani a Beachy Head.

MENSWEAR THROUGH THE EYES OF NAM

Nam is a streetstyle photographer and runs a blog called StreetFSN. He has a keen eye for details, he shows you everything you should know. He shows you what to wear this season, whether it is flower prints, camouflage, patched jeans or....you name it.

(pics via Street FSN)

The Rose (1979)

          Beautiful in moments, harrowing in others, and soulful despite a derivative origin and a preponderance of clichés, The Rose is best remembered as the vehicle that drove singer/actress Bette Midler to international superstardom. In addition to providing Midler with her biggest hit song to date (the film’s poetic title track), The Rose earned the entertainer her first Oscar nomination. Combined with several other Oscar nods and a sold box-0ffice performance, this amount of success represented an unlikely turn of events for a project that seemed destined to fail. Originally developed as a biopic of the late, great rock singer Janis Joplin, the project was fictionalized when negotiations for the use of Joplin’s likeness and music came to naught; furthermore, the producers failed to hire eccentric British director Ken Russell, who had scored a major hit with the rock musical Tommy (1975) and therefore seemed the safe bet for this sort of material.

          Yet these setbacks turned out to be fortuitous, since moving away from Joplin’s life story allowed the screenwriters to create a self-contained mythos for their protagonist, and losing Russell led the producers to Mark Rydell, whose sensitive direction grounds the movie in a way Russell never would have attempted. None of this is to say The Rose is a great movie—quite the contrary, it’s rather average in terms of narrative content, since the storyline essentially throws various rock & roll signifiers into a Cuisinart. However, the picture has coherence thanks to Midler’s impassioned performance, Rydell’s unwavering focus on the tragedy of a performer’s downward spiral, and Vilmos Zsigmond’s elegant cinematography. So, even though The Rose is a simultaneously tarted-up and watered-down version of Joplin’s journey, it’s emotionally arresting.

          The actual plot is simple—as raunchy blues/rock singer Mary Rose Foster becomes famous, the pressure to deliver consistent success drives her toward drinking, drugs, and philandering. By the time she’s a superstar known simply as “The Rose,” her fragile self-image has crumbled, so she rushes toward self-destructive oblivion. The ineffectual men sharing her life include Houston Dyer (Frederick Forrest), a sweet boyfriend whose affections aren’t enough to pull Mary Rose back from the brink, and Rudge Campbell (Alan Bates), a domineering manager whose ambition and greed outstrip his concern for Mary Rose’s welfare.
          The Rose takes its seediness seriously, so Midler is often presented as unattractively as possible, both in terms of her slovenly physical appearance and her screeching tirades during binges. Midler makes these unseemly aspects watchable with the commitment of her acting, though just barely so—were it not for Midler’s innate likability, which shines through even at the worst of times, Mary Rose would be a completely unsympathetic character. After all, one can’t help but ask why Mary Rose doesn’t simply quit when things get awful. Alas, The Rose doesn’t go that deep, so we’re left with a finely textured surface—which is probably enough, at least for a single viewing.
          As for the music, it’s a mixed bag, even though Midler’s vocal performances are astounding from start to finish. The best hard rockers are covers of “real” songs (“Fire Down Below,” “Stay With Me,” “When a Man Loves a Woman”), but the ersatz numbers composed for the movie work fine. And if the title song is a bit too gentle for a Joplin-esque singer’s set list, that’s easy to overlook since Midler’s rendition has so much feeling.

The Rose: GROOVY

Tips for hosting an outdoor dinner party.

One of my all-time favorite hobbies is hosting dinner parties (but my absolute favorite thing is outdoor dining and since I live in Winnipeg this always feels like such a fleeting novelty.) Entertaining friends and family is a huge part of my life and I find myself getting more and more excited about doing it the older I get. Now, let me start by saying that I am by no means a "dinner party expert" but I have hosted quite a few over the past few years so I thought it would be fun to share a few tips with you today on how to throw a successful outdoor dinner party:

(please note: the following photos are from two separate backyard parties that I hosted: some are from emery's birthday last year, and the others from I party I threw for my parents' anniversary last week! happy 30th guys! love you both to bits. )

1. Decide on a theme.

This doesn't necessarily have to be anything very specific but it is good to decide on what direction or feel you want your dinner party to have. An example of a more defined theme would be the tiki party that I threw for my husband, Emery, last summer. He has a big collection of tiki mugs and is totally into the tiki culture so I thought it would be fun to make a bunch of different "authentic tiki drinks" accompanied by some Polynesian inspired appetizers for this birthday. This was a more casual event so we didn't actually sit down at the table and eat at the same time, but instead we had people help themselves to appetizers at their leisure. A few other fun theme ideas would be to create French, Mediterranean or Mexican inspired evening. 

If you don't want to limit yourself to such a specific theme, you can should at least decide what type of evening you would like to have: Do you want to have a buffet style dinner or a more formal sit-down one? Do you want to have full place settings or finger-food? Is this a casual, semi-formal or formal event? These are all good questions to ask yourself before you begin planning your menu.

2. Select your menu based on your theme.

This is a very important step because your whole evening is based around the food! This might just be me, but if I am planning an outdoor dinner party I like to try to cook as much food as possible outside on the barbecue, so my menu is definitely effected by whether I can grill it or not. Always make sure that your appetizer, main, side dish, and dessert all compliment one another well. However, this doesn't mean that every dish has to have the same food in common, they just need a complimentary feel.

I always like to try new recipes for my guests so that I'm not always serving them the same thing, however this can be a little risky to do in a dinner party setting. Trying out a new recipe that you have never made before in this type of a setting is way more stressful than going with a recipe that you know you are comfortable with. If I know ahead of time that I want to try something new, often I will try making the recipe  earlier in the week so that I know what to expect and so that I can work out any possible kinks. When the day of your dinner party comes you want as little surprises in the kitchen as possible!

3. Create an inviting atmosphere.

I always want to create an enjoyable dining experience for my guests so I always try to pay attention to the little details. It's good to take into consideration everything from dishes to centerpieces to music. For instance, if i'm having a more casual buffet style dinner I will use my bright retro dishes and play some fun music like Band of Horses or The Shins on my iPod dock, but if I want to create a more elegant atmosphere I will go with a simple classic white dish instead and play some Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra records instead. Simple decisions like that can go a long way in setting the mood for your guests. Also, when dining outside I love to pick some fresh flowers and greenery and put them into mason jars to make cute centerpieces. In my opinion, when you're eating outside you pretty much have to have fresh flowers!

4. Get as much prep work done ahead of time as possible. 

The more you can prepare ahead of time, the easy your life will be. Cooking for a large group of people is way more time consuming than just cooking for one or two, and if you have never done it before you may underestimate how much time it will take, so it's best to just get as much done as possible before your guests arrive. Make everything that you can ahead of time, however there will always be some things that have to be prepared at the last minute so just try to at least get the prep work out of the way, such as pre-chopping your vegetables, grating your cheese, and putting anything that you can into cute serving trays so that it's ready to go! This may not all seem necessary but once your guests arrive, the less mess and fuss you have to make in the kitchen the better! Also be sure to have your table set or if your dinner is less formal, be sure to set out the dishes, glasses, cutlery, napkins, and serving trays that that you plan on using. (If you're not sure which side the fork or knife goes on, take a peek at our post on how to properly set the table.)

5. Have plenty of drink options and garnishes.

Not everybody likes wine or beer so it is always nice to have a few other hard liquor and mix options as well. Be sure to pick up a few different mix options as well as a good selection of drink garnishes (some basic garnishes to have on hand are lemons, limes, mint leaves, cherries and plenty of ice!) Make sure that you also have a good selection of non-alcoholic beverages as well, such as a fruit punch, pop and of course water! San Pellegrino and Perrier also make great additions to your bar. All of these bottles and garnishes would really clutter up your dinner table so it is nice to have a bar or drink table set up off to the side so your guests can comfortably help themselves to the drink of their choice.

6. Get a few after-dinner activities ready. 

This doesn't have to be anything major, but I always find it fun when the host of  party has a few things planned, whether it be a board game, yard games, a card game or even roasting s'mores by a bonfire! All of those are very easy and enjoyable outdoor activity options.

7. Have good lighting ready for when the sun sets.

It feels like summer evenings last forever so often we overlook the fact that it will eventually get dark. When that inevitably happens it's best to be prepared with some low wattage dim lights to transition smoothly into the night while maintaining the relaxing ambiance. Strings of clear-bulb Christmas lights or little twinkle lights work great for this or you could also go the old fashioned route and light a bunch of candles and tea lights. Lanterns hanging in trees and solar lights randomly distributed around your lawn give off a very pretty light too! From time to time I even move some of my cute vintage lamps outside for an extra special event (but I am always careful to check the weather forecast first to insure that there is no rain in sight!)

Another thing to keep in mind is that more bugs come out in the evening (or at least they do where we live!) so it might be a good idea to have some citronella candles and mosquito coils on hand so your guests don't get bitten!

8. Sit, eat, and enjoy!

Sometimes this step can be harder than you realize. Once you get into work mode it's easy to get carried away and caught up in cleaning and fussing inside, but as soon as your dinner is served you've gotta get out of the kitchen, or as my mom would lovingly tell me, "you've gotta let it go." I'm the type of person that once I get on a mission I just keep running with it and working until the job is totally done, but it is also important to be able to separate yourself from your work and sit back, relax, and enjoy. Messes can wait til later (or even til tomorrow, believe it or not!)

I hope these tips help you out a bit or maybe even inspire you to plan a little get together! 

Happy hosting from our home to yours!

XO, Stef

MONTE CUCCO INTL TROPHY 2012

MONTE CUCCO INTL TROPHY 2012
di Deltaplano 29 Luglio-03 Agosto
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Climbers Found on Palcaraju Oeste in Peru

 The bodies of Ben Horne and  Gil Weiss were found on Palcaraju --  RIP  --  Condolences to family and friends

http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/climbers-missing-on-palcaraju-oeste-t62742.html

http://pullharder.org/2012/07/29/goodbye-ben-and-gil/

http://pullharder.org/2012/07/10/the-peruvian-chronicles-north-face-of-ranrapalca/

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Drive-In Restaurants

Ok so we're cheating a little bit with this post seeing as how Drive-In restaurants became popular in the fifties, but they were still going strong in the sixties, so we're saying it counts as a Sixties Sunday post! 

Eat in your car!

I bet Lutz's Drive In was the place to be back in the day!

You can find the photo from e50e's photostream on flickr right here.

I want this to live in this photo!

You can find the the photo on kocojim's photostream on flickr right here.

I could go for a thick frappe from Richards right about now!

You can find this photo on bayswater97's photostream on flickr right here.

Such a fantastic sign!

You can see the photo from Phiredog's photostream on Flickr right here.