Icarus Cup (Coupe Icare) is a four-day exciting, daring and hilarious Masquerade Flights that feature fancy-dressed paraglider and hang-glider pilots competing for handsome prizes. The event which was started in 1973 as an offbeat tourist attraction by the commune of St-Hilaire, situated high in the Rhône-Alpes of south-east France, has now become a major annual festival. You will notice that the participants fly through the air with ease, and they are wearing all sorts of … [Read more...]
The Right Price for your Service
Are you selling some sort of service? Would you like to get the best rate of pay for your services? I believe this may have frustrated you some points in the past, as setting a price for service offering is often fraught with pitfalls. Often what seems to be logical could prove to be very wrong. If like most people, you set your price based on the income that you want to generate, i.e. USD60,000 a year and think that you should charge a daily rate of USD600 for a 100 days of chargeable … [Read more...]
How to make a moisturising Lip Balm
If your lips often dry and you do want to make your very own lip balm, to be exact—a coconut and lime lip balm, the following could be useful then. Ingredients to make a 40g (1.25 Oz) coconut and lime lip balm 1 tbsp coconut oil 1 tsp shea nut butter 1 tsp almond oil 1 tsp beeswax 4 drops lime essential oil 1 drop lemon essential oil How to Make Heat the ingredients (i.e. coconut oil, shea nut butter, almond oil, and beeswax) in a bain-marie until the wax has … [Read more...]
Why saving may not be good
Are you telling me that saving is no good? Isn’t that someone has come up with the notion of ‘saving for a rainy day’? It is not that I am against saving in principle; however, you have to be very careful if your saving does cost you money. It may sound strange when we say that saving can be bad for your financial health! What I am trying to say is that we can’t just blindly think that ‘a penny saved is a penny earned,’ although this is words of wisdom from Benjamin Franklin. To accept … [Read more...]
Healing and Antiseptic Minty Fresh Mouthwash for All
Would you like to make your own minty mouthwash? If so, I am going to share with you a simple do-it-yourself minty mouth washroom which is alcohol and sugar-free. When used regularly, it will be healing and antiseptic. The following are the ingredients needed to make a 100ml (3.5fl oz): 100ml (3.5fl oz) mineral water 1 tbsp dried peppermint 1 drop peppermint essential oil 1 drop tea tree essential oil 1 drop myrrh essential oil 1 tsp table salt 1 tsp aloe vera juice … [Read more...]
Buon Ma Thuot – Elephant Races
This is happened in Vietnam's Dak Lak province and in April yearly. Elephants still roam wild but they do serve as a good partner for human. The spring Elephant Race festival at Don Village, by the Serepoe River near Buon Ma Thuot is the hallmark of M'Nong martial tradition. Hundreds of elephants will crowd a racing ground of some 500 m (1,640 ft) long. The handlers will use kreo (iron stick) to prevent the elephant from dawdling, and other will use koc (wooden … [Read more...]
