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Khoom Fay are traditional Thai lanterns, built from slim down weave paper with a bamboo skeleton. A burning cell bound to the lantern provides hot airThey ascend graciously, and are an amazing view, especially when discharged at constant time intervals to form a string of sparks up into the sky. They are every bit great by daylight or by night. Night releases seem more suited to the classical white lanterns whilst Coloring imparts itself nicely to Thai Lanterns freed in the day but that is just my own individual view.Carefully take out the Thai Lantern, without tearing the delicate paper. Ensure the lantern is not crumpled or hanging sideways and that it is full extended.. This is advisable done by taking the top of the lantern, softly rising it a couple of ft, then acutely dropping it. The unit will inflate due to air force.Have a helper light the wick whilst you hold the lantern vertical. After a few seconds the lantern will feel lighter, then rise gradually. Do not essay to throw it up into the air - just point it and let it go by itself. Then stand back and enjoy.These lanterns are intended for use by experienced pyrotechnic operators. Wear fire retardant wear and gloves, and have a bucket of water accessible.

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Everybody’s attraction for the theatre needs no further clarification. And, with the statement that the world-wide chartbusting hit Dirty Dancing the show is going to embark on the UK in a matter of months then this desire is not going to weaken any time over the forthcoming months!

The Hollywood movie Dirty Dancing starring Jennifer Grey & Patrick Swayze is a movie solely dedicated to dancing & its music created such an enjoyment that they still even today are several people’s favourite film songs of all time. Shortly after the film’s worldwide release in 1987, it went on to achieve an illustrious following international and its musical depiction is seeming to be make as much an impact in places throughout the world. It has been commented that all the well-known music songs from the motion pictures music score for example Do You Love Me, She’s like the Wind & Time of My Life, are all apart of the stage show as well as a number of spanking new songs. With more than thirty-five million soundtrack albums purchased to date, the show is predicted to observe loud applauses at the opening of each and every hit song that the actor performs. Although the story of the Hollywood film has been changed for the stage, well-loved key moments & beautiful scenes from the movie script are kept within the theatre show.

A Romantic show, Dirty Dancing is the tale of Baby and the love she shared with her dance instructor Johnny. The finish of this well-known love story displays the power of love to squash all hurdles. As the movie is completely dedicated to dance, the action sequences in the movie are very sensual and the same has been included in the theatre show version of the story.

In Australia the musical show has already achieved huge success. Every single show was time after time fully sold out for the complete 14 month period. In London too, if advance bookings are anything to go by, then the theatre show should be a great success and long lines are expected at the entrance of the Aldwych theatre in London.

Dirty Dancing musical tickets are already on sale for evening shows at the Aldwych Theatre. Advanced showings start from 29th September with Dirty Dancing the theatre show having its debut on the 24th October. Find great ticket offers on the Dirty Dancing and Phantom of the Opera London.

In the current state of affairs the way it is at the moment, aka the credit crunch monster is still rampaging. It is difficult to plan the perfect wedding without breaking into a sweat. Most of us can’t afford the sort of lavish affairs that involve swans waddling around the premises of a vast estate, and vas ice statues that drip volvic water, and champagne fountains that spurt the best stuff. Yet, most of us (I might be addressing the ladies more than the men at this stage) want a wedding that will stay lodged in the memory for a long time and unfortunately that seems to mean expense first and foremost. Not so. The reason wish Lanterns have proved to be so popular with brides the Uk over, is that they offer just the sort of grand spectacle that cascading waterfalls and a twenty piece jazz band offer, yet cost tuppence. They are a sensational alternative to a firework display that will give your guests a truly unique and calming experience. The wish lantern team also offer wedding packages that come with highlighters so that your guests can write wishes to the happy couple on them. It’s all about the personal touch.

Meeting famous people is often a surreal experience for both parties. In 1956 when Elvis Presley arrived in Hollywood he and his entourage stayed at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. One day he got into the elevator. “What floor?” asked the operator. “Tenth please.” The operator looked at him with disdain. “You can’t go up to the tenth floor. Elvis is staying there. No one is allowed there.” A bemused Presley said,” I know. I’m Elvis.” The hotel employee stared at him for a long moment then said,” Well I don’t care who you are, you can’t go to the tenth floor.” The amiable singer agreed to go to the eleventh floor and walked down the stairs to the tenth.

Some entertainment organizations are so vast that employees don’t always recognize the people at the top. Walt Disney who often was harsh with those who worked for him, had no patience for anyone at Disneyland who was rude to the customers or as he put it, the guests. One time when an unfriendly security guard prevented he and his wife Lillian from getting on a ride, Walt fired him reasoning the man would be unpleasant with others. But if someone was doing their job they had nothing to fear from the boss. Once, when Walt was on hand for a demonstration of a new ride a young girl working there chided him for lighting up a cigarette, it wasn’t allowed. Disney, who eventually died of lung cancer, asked, “Whose idea was that?” “Walt Disney’s.” Walt stubbed out the cigarette. “That’s good enough for me.”

Sometimes the famous have a difficult time not being the center of attention. Once at a party at Louis B. Mayer’s house, the mogul was expressing his admiration for a female,” The red hair, the legs, I have never seen such beauty. She walks so regally like a queen”. Greer Garson the new queen of the MGM lot was standing nearby. She walked up to Mayer’s circle and said,” Why thank you Mr. Mayer.” It turned out LB was talking about his new horse.

It’s hard sometimes for stars to remember that not everyone cares about who they are or what they are doing. One time Laurel and Hardy were filming a strange scene in Venice Beach that required the boys to run down a narrow alleyway with their wives chasing them. The women would shoot at them causing innocent men to run out of their nearby apartment buildings in their undergarments and run away, with Stan and Ollie doing double takes. Before shooting the scene Laurel gathered the extras around,” Listen fellas, it’s costing us a fortune to rent out these apartments so I want to get it right the first time. Now when you hear the shots and run out into the alley, don’t linger. We only want you in the scene for about ten seconds.” After the director shouted “ACTION!” the boys ran down the alley, their wives fired their guns, the men in their undergarments ran out and disappeared quickly following Stan’s instructions to the letter. All except one guy who was about thirty seconds late, ran the wrong way, and bumped into Laurel, ruining his close-up.”You bloody fool. You ruined the shot!” shouted Laurel. “I’m not in the movie,” replied the runner.”

Sometimes legends don’t recognize each other. After twenty years in Hollywood Alfred Hitchcock finally became super rich after producing the low budget Psycho (1960). His agent Lew Wasserman convinced him to trade the movie rights for shares of stock in Universal, making the director the third biggest owner of the studio. From then on Hitchcock loved picking up the Wall Street Journal to see if he was wealthier. While directing his last film Family Plot (1975) Hitchcock would arrive at Universal early, sit in his chair and joyfully read about Jaws (1975) which was adding millions to his stock’s value. One day his morning routine was upset by an uninvited young man hovering around the movie set. Hitchcock, who seemed to have eyes in the back of his head called a crew member to have the intruder removed. It turned out to be Jaws Director Steven Spielberg who wanted to meet his idol.

Just because you’re recognized once doesn’t mean you will continue to be. After losing his driving privileges because of drunkenness Sean Penn was forced to ride the city bus. One day another passenger came up to him. “Hey you look like Sean Penn. But I know he wouldn’t be riding a bus.” Penn replied,” How do you know? Do you know Sean Penn?” “Yeah I worked on a film he starred in.” “Oh yeah? Well, what do you think of him?”. “Oh God, he was a total $%#%!”

Stephen Schochet is the author and narrator of the audiobooks Fascinating Walt Disney and Tales Of Hollywood. The Saint Louis Post Dispatch says,” these two elaborate productions are exceptionally entertaining.” Hear realaudio samples of these great, unique gifts at www.hollywoodstories.com.

Brand-new artist promotion service “Artist’s explosion in Japan”
by fishthemusic.com (Bigfish Network Inc.)

What fishthemusic.com does;

1. We play your song on our web-radio “music-islands.com.”
http://www.music-islands.com/

Now web-radio “music-islands.com” has approx.3,000 unique users
a month, and more than 300 visitors a day, with over 50,000
pageviews (Oct. 2005). It’s increasing day by day.

To play your music on our web-radio, is to easily recognize your
music to Japanese music fans.

2. Set your own page up in Japanese, at our “music-islands.com”
blog, that includes your basic info (Genres, location etc.),
plus your self-description (your catch-copy or/and strong
points) on it, It also includes one mp3 sound file. So it is
submitted into Japanese podcast portal websites. Our blog sends
ping to Japanese several other portal blog sites at every update.

Of course, we link back to “your original website”, “your
myspace URL”, “your Apple iTunes Music Store page” and “where to
buy CD”. It means, our visitors are able to easily jump into
your music, whenever they love you!!

3. If you give us an additional approve for Pod-safe usage, we
provide your song to other Japanese Podcasters and let your
music make more exposure in Japan,..

We also put your song at 2 other Japanese social networking
services (SNS).

One is “recommuni.jp” … music SNS, it has 10,000 members.
(Oct. 2005) We post your mp3 sound file for free download to
Japanese music fans there. It’s on for a month. It’s one of the
most effective cyber promotions in Japan.
http://www.recommuni.jp/

The other is “jammy.jp”. This is also new music SNS that
launches on January 2006 and is expected to have 20,000 members
until April 2006. We also set up the web-radio station on it and
play your song.

“jammy.jp” is managed by Japanese famous music publishing
company “Hipland Music Corporation”. It will invite many
Japanese music business people; labels, promoters,
producers…etc. So those who have be interested in your music,
can easily visit your website and contact you directly.
http://www.jammy.jp/

And more,

In 2006, we are going to invite 1 artist, at least, to Japan,
and set up a few stages for show case gigs, somewhere in popular
nightclubs in Tokyo or so. It will be our first experience and
really challenging for us, though,,, Details are not fixed now.
We may have a contest at our website for it, anyway……

What you do for it;

Give us a non-exclusive license for everything we have described
above. Email me your Basic information, and one mp3 file
(128-192k) with our application form below. We don’t need CD
anymore.

Pay Set-up fee through our secure online form. 3,000 Japanese
Yen will be charged (about $28.00 US dollars) for setting your
song in our online radio, and 2 other music SNS that we describe
above.

As soon as everything has prepared, we will set up your page and
play your song,2 other SNS community websites as well. We’ll be
glad to promote you and hope our promotion actually works well
for you here in Japan. ARIGATO.

After a hand is completed in online poker you’ll never find me
showing my cards, win or lose, to the rest of the table. I
always muck. In fact my settings are pre-selected to “always
muck”. You pay to see my cards, and if I’ve lost a hand online
there can be no reason to show my beaten hand. But now I ask
myself if this is the best strategy? Because there are times in
poker when it pays to show. That’s certainly true in live-game
poker, but what about the online variety, which is a very
different animal? Let’s look at this in more detail, especially
as it pertains to online poker.

There are three very good reasons to show your hand when you
have won a pot. The first is to create confusion in the minds of
your foes. The second is to provide disingenuous information.
The third reason is to get under everyone’s skin, and hopefully
push some poor rube over the edge and on tilt. An example is
when you win a hand with a stone bluff. You advertise those
rags. Players are wondering how you could stay in with such
slop, never mind bet, raise, or re-raise. Players might wonder
out loud, and even get slightly miffed. All the better.

There are times when you want to show only one of your hole
cards, something you cannot do on any of the online poker rooms,
at least not to my knowledge (as yet - note to poker software
developers: add that functionality, namely “show one hole card
only”. It could be to online poker what the double-click was to
computers, and if there are any royalties you know where to find
me.) So this is a tactic of misinformation that only works in a
live-game, and it can work very well.

Showing your cards can also be a forward-thinking strategy at
your local card room in that it helps to create a table persona
for you. Players now think you play very loose based on that
bluff, and next time you come out firing it will be tough for
them to put you on any hand. This is advisable if you’re about
to spend a long session facing a mostly unchanging table.

Now for the cons of showing your cards online. First of all the
value of a table persona is diminished in online poker because
of the incredibly high rate of player turnover. You’re
advertising for people who won’t be there in five minutes time,
let alone five hours time, and who probably are not paying
attention in any case. The fact is that in a number of online
games the only players who will notice your hand are those still
in the pot. The others have run to the kitchen before the cards
are in the air for the next hand. Showing your cards online
frequently looks like inexperience and nothing more.

I think a good player gains a lot by seeing other player’s cards
at the conclusion of a hand, and my advice to rookies or even
intermediate online players is to never show unless you are
compelled. The good players already have an edge over you - why
give them an even bigger advantage? There is no greater sign of
weakness then when a beaten player still feels the urge to show
the table his second-best hand. Your K9 outkicked by a KA? Don’t
show me that in the misguided hope that I’ll feel sympathy for
your plight. All I’ll feel is delight that you handed me a
glaring weakness in your game, and the next time you play with a
weak kicker like that pathetic 9 I’ll be right there to pick up
the pieces.

David Blaine and David Copperfield’s popularity have inspired a
lot of people to learn magic. And with that, there are also a
number of stores that sell magic paraphernalia for those who
would like to learn the art of magic. Below are some of the
popular equipment used for magic:

Visible Sawing - the participant lays flat on a bench or table.
Then, the magician places a wooden stock over the participants
mid-section. The saw is turned on and is used to cut the
individual in half. After the saw has been turned off and the
stock is removed, the participant stands in front of the
audience unharmed.

Victory Cubes - is a new stage inclusion that can be used to
make tricks more well-executed. Perfect for blocking those
angles that might reveal the trick’s secret, or as a prop
container. These instantly make a magic show show bigger and
more valuable.

Magic Rose - the magician is holding a full sized white rose and
sprinkles it with glitter dust. Then he approaches one of the
female specatators and gives it to her. Suddenly, the white rose
turns to red.

Vanishing milk pitcher - it looks like an ordinary pitcher. The
magician present the pitcher to the audience to show that it
does not have any holes. He places liquid (usually milk because
it is more visible than water) on the pitcher and covers it with
silk cloth. A few magics later and the liquid disappears from
the pitcher. The magician even turns it upside down to prove
that there is no liquid on the pitcher.

Giant Deck of Cards- there’s a deck of cards available which
falls perfectly in between the standard poker-size cards and the
typical jumbo decks. The Anglo Giant cards measure 3.5″ by 5″
and their large indices make it easy for audiences to see the
cards even from a distance.

Magnetic finger Tips - is used to perform routines with Coins,
Silverware, Cling Rings other metallic objects. It can also be
used in a trick to move objects.

Wand - it is a slim stick used by magicians to execute some
magic tricks.

Collapsible top hat - a black satin lined hat that folds flat
when tapped by a wand and springs back to normal when touched
again.

Chinese coins - can be used for enthralling type tricks and
other magic coin techniques.

Coin bender - a specially made tool for magicians that bends
coins during an act.

Feather Flower - this item can be compressed into a thin bundle
than can fit on either your coat sleeve or into your hat. Then,
they pop open when reached.

Threads - This is almost invisible to the naked eye. It allows
you to perform tricks that make objects float.

Fire Wallet - this wallet fires up when opened.