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For the first time, the City Council of Suisun City will start its day with Oms.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will read from ancient Sanskrit scriptures and deliver an English translation in a three-minute prayer on Aug. 27.
But he'll start and end with Om, the mystical Hindu syllable said to contain the universe.
Mayor Pete Sanchez said Zed is the council's first religious guest in many years. He can't remember an invocation delivered by anyone other than the city manager and occasionally another city official like himself in his 19 years on the council.
"When you hear the same prayer over and over, you start praying for something else," he said.
If Om sounds familiar, it might be from yoga lessons.
"People know a little about Hindus because of yoga," Zed said, noting symbols and images sometimes used as decoration. But Zed said people should know more.
Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, travels the country regularly from his Nevada home to educate people about his religion, which is said to be the oldest and third largest in the world with 3 million practitioners in the United States.
In 2007, Zed became the first Hindu to lead the U.S. Senate in prayer as its chaplain, and he did the same at the California Legislature later that year.
For Zed, these prayers are to educate leaders about Hindus.
"We should understand our neighbors," he said. "We must understand each other to work together more effectively."
Zed will recite from Rig-Veda, Brahadaranyakopanisha and Bhagavad-Gita, and he said he'll urge council members to keep the welfare of others in mind a message in Suisun's typical invocation as well.
Sanchez foresees Zed's invocation as the first of many from different groups.
"Every group wants to be heard," he said. "Hopefully this will start a new thing here and other city councils will do the same."
The Aug. 27 meeting takes place at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 701 Civic Center Blvd.
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David Connare, 46, also faces misdemeanor drunken driving and vehicular assault charges for the accident on Oct. 16, when he drove his 2011 Mazda Rove into the back of another southbound vehicle, knocking the other car off the road and into a bridge abutment and breaking a few ribs of the woman who was driving.
Connare waived his formal arraignment scheduled for Friday, filing his plea through defense attorney Eric Wilson on Thursday in Hillsborough County Superior Court.
Wilson would not comment on the case Friday, saying it was still early.
Connare was president of the Manchester Police Patrolman's Association at the time of the crash, which happened just north of the merger with I-293 North/Route 101 West. A grand jury indicted Connare on Dec. 21 on the felonies, mentioning he was driving at an "unreasonably high rate of speed" in both charging documents.
The indictment charging him with second-degree assault alleges that the other driver suffered serious bodily injury including fractured ribs because Connare consumed alcohol and then was speeding on I-93. The reckless conduct indictment alleges he engaged in conduct that placed or may have placed another person in danger of serious bodily injury by driving a motor vehicle, a deadly weapon as defined by state law, in a manner Connare knew to be capable of producing death or serious bodily injury.
Assistant Merrimack County Attorney George Waldron, the special prosecutor appointed to the case, also charged Connare with the misdemeanors of second-degree assault and driving while intoxicated.
The vehicular assault charge alleges Connare caused serious bodily injury while using a propelled vehicle and causing serious bodily injury by driving at an unreasonably high rate of speed in excess of the posted speed limit.
Documents at Hillsborough County Superior Court on Friday yielded little new information in the case, including how fast Connare was driving or any specifics on what led to the DWI charge. Police have not said whether Connare agreed to be tested for sobriety and there were no blood-alcohol results mentioned in the small court file.
Connare and the other driver were taken by ambulance to Elliot Hospital where they were treated and later released.
Connare resigned from the police force three days after the crash.
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Australian media publication Mumbrella is reporting that a PR stunt for the just released video game Watch_Dogs inadvertently triggered the evacuation of the NineMSN offices on George St in Sydney yesterday, due to a perceived bomb scare.
Front desk staff reportedly received a black safe with a pincode lock, and a letter informing a reporter to check their voice mail, but the reporter in question had no such mail and the safe was beeping. Police forced the device open to find Watch_Dogs promotional paraphernalia inside.
"We did check with other newsrooms to see if they had received a similar package as we thought it was a PR stunt, but no-one else had. We weren't panicked at any point, but given there was no note explaining what it was, we had to take sensible precautions."AusGamers actually received this same press kit featuring the game and can say with certainty, it didn't look or sound as menacing as is being touted by the above. These sorts of press kits are also pretty commonplace, making it unusual that this one would cause so much panic.
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It's time to review this column's investing recommendations during 2012. In what proved to be a strong year for global markets, I was cautious on exchange-traded funds focused on Asian and European stocks, and advised investors to look at hedged or targeted exposures given the wide variety of global economic woes. But those markets, it turned out, chugged along just fine. I was more positive than not on U.S. stocks during their rise this year, which turned out well. I was increasingly cautious about the run-up in the bond market and, later in the year, the price of gold. If you apportioned an equal amount of money to each of the 30 recommendations I offered, you'd be up by nearly 8% on a price basis as of early last week, more if you include dividends or time-weight the results. As any convert to stock-indexing will tell you, it remains awfully tough to beat the index.
Barron's Senior Editor Jack Hough joins The News Hub to explain why it's a good time to buy Brazil, Russia, or India stocks in 2013, and where you can find 5-6% yields in today's environment. Photo: AP Images.
A BIT OF CURMUDGEONLY-NESS in my first column (in February) served its purpose: I warned investors against many ETFs' propensity to own too much of a good thing, specifically with regard to Apple AAPL +0.04% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $100.57 +0.04 +0.04% Aug. 20, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 51.86M AFTER HOURS $100.48 -0.09 -0.09% Aug. 20, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 834,777 P/E Ratio 16.14 Market Cap $601.96 Billion Dividend Yield 1.87% Rev. per Employee $2,214,380 08/20/14 AHEAD OF THE TAPE: Bonus Point... 08/20/14 Overheard 08/20/14 Russia Tensions May Hurt Norwa... More quote details and news » (ticker: AAPL) stock. Indexes that weight holdings according to market value have to reflect the market as it is, not as it should or could be. This leaves investors at the mercy of booms and busts in big companies -- like Apple, and its rapid rise and fall. Shares traded at $502 at the time of the column's mid-February writing -- up 24% for the year -- and they're now up 28%. In between these two points, the stock surged above $700 and then painfully retraced the entire move, before rebounding to the $520s last week.
In March, I looked favorably on the idea of buying Japanese stocks with a yen hedge, in this case by owning the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity DXJ +0.24% WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund U.S.: NYSE Arca $50.20 +0.12 +0.24% Aug. 20, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2.49M AFTER HOURS $50.20 0.00 % Aug. 20, 2014 4:31 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 50,200 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 4.35% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » fund (DXJ). The idea was to bet on a Japanese post-tsunami rebound and a reassessment of the nation's place in the world. The fund is up by 11% this year, but my timing was off, leaving the position down by about 5% since publication. Japanese markets have rallied recently, as the yen has weakened and investors have warmed to last week's victory by the Liberal Democratic Party. It's still a worthwhile investment.
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The year's best-performing call, in March, was correct for the wrong reasons. I was cautious on owning the volatility-trading product VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term TVIX +1.15% VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short Term ETN U.S.: Nasdaq $2.65 +0.03 +1.15% Aug. 20, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17.75M AFTER HOURS $2.65 0.00 % Aug. 20, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » exchange-traded note (TVIX) on account of several weeks of wild trading, during which the product stopped tracking its index. It turned out that investors' bullish market outlook and steepening of the volatility-futures curve were the best reasons to avoid owning this product. It isn't a buy-and-hold investment, and, sure enough, it's down 88% since the column's publication.
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Sun, Aug 17 - 20, 2014
SoulCollage Retreat (2:00 PM - 12:00 PM)
SoulCollage is a process of discovery, play and community art making where we intuitively choose images and create small collages, eventually creating a deck of "cards", each card a "mirror of self and soul". Working with images allows us to express ourselves & souls in a way that deep play, creativity, and reflection.
We will work with SoulCollage - making cards, doing readings, exploring the Committee and Companion Suits, while allotting time for swimming, dreaming, walking and relaxing in between. Open to all from beginners to those more experienced with SoulCollage. Bring your cards, you sense of wonder and prepare to relax and renew!
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Carolyn Kay Bradley, Ed. S. is a retired school counselor with specialties in building school community, character education and PBIS. In addition, she is trained as a SoulCollage® facilitator and loves this process so much that she wants to share it with the universe!
Judith Prest, LMSW, a published poet, photographer and collage artist, holds certificates in Expressive Arts, Creativity Mentoring and SoulCollage® facilitation. A retired school social worker, she now does her "real work" of creativity coaching at retreat centers, retirement communities, prisons, community agencies and at Spirit Wind Studio, where she lives and works.
Wed, Aug 20, 2014
Yoga (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM)
Yoga with Genii Rutherford, RYT 200.
Renew, refresh and restore your mind, body and spirit. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat. All levels welcome.
Cost: Free Admission for overnight guests and Day Pass Holders or $8.00 per session
Location: Pavilion - Weather permitting
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
Journaling Workshop (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
Discover the many benefits and techniques of journaling. We will spend our time together writing from a variety of prompts; some are thought-provoking, some will help bring clarity to our life and put you in touch with your deepest self and others are just plain fun. Due to the private nature of journal writing, we will not read our writing to each other as a general practice. Beginning and experienced journal writers welcome. Bring a notebook or journal and a favorite pen.
Lynn Sickles is an experienced journal writer and workshop facilitator. She believes that writing down our thoughts, ideas, emotions and memories and the details of our day to day life can be an insightful and empowering tool that helps bring clarity to our life. Journal writing is important to living a peaceful, happy, healthy and balanced life and helps women on the journey of self discovery.
Free for overnight guests and day pass ($15 purchase) holders.
$8.00 for workshop only or season pass holders
Reservation recommended - 518-668-9690
Location: Fuller House Parlor
Thu, Aug 21, 2014
Pilates with Linda (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
Pilates with Linda Schaffer - certified Pilates, Yoga and Group Exercise Instructor
Discover better posture by moving through a series of floor exercises designed to increase your strength, flexibility, stamina and concentration. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a mat.
All are in Trix except for 7/24 and 8/14 will be in Gazebo (weather permitting)
$8 per session, Free for overnight guests and Day Pass Holders.
Space is limited, please call ahead.
Location: Wiawaka Grounds
Fri, Aug 22 - 24, 2014
Writing Your Memoirs (2:00 PM - 11:00 AM)
During this weekend course, students will be given the tools to begin to tell their own stories. Thinking and writing about our lives are powerful activities of discovery. We will consider ways to begin and events to include in the writing of memoir. Our group will share writings and ideas in a safe and helpful environment. Memoir is a valuable gift we can create for ourselves and posterity.
"For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?" (Faye Moskowitz in the And the Bridge is Love)
Presenter: Bio
Irene Baldwin has been writing and teaching memoir to students of all ages and abilities for many years. She holds degrees in English from SUNY Plattsburgh and SUNY Albany. Irene was a teacher of high school English and enrichment for four decades at Cambridge Central School in Cambridge, NY. Irene is a writer, a poet, an educator and a lover of words. "Everyone has a story to tell; my goal is to facilitate the process that brings much satisfaction and self-knowledge to each student
Fri, Aug 22, 2014
Massage (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
Massage available every Friday. Please call ahead to book!
$45/half hour
$70/full hour
As a graduate of Mildred Elly College with an associate's degree in Massage Therapy, I am passionate about using my intuition and education to provide each client with the most effective treatment possible. I pursued the field of massage because I have always had the desire to work with people and make them feel their best. I know that no two sessions are alike and I will customize a unique massage experience to meet every client's individual's needs in order to promote their overall health and well being. I like to blend my styles of Swedish, relaxation, trigger point, and deep tissue massage to create a customized massage experience that addresses the needs of each individual. This will be my third season working with Wiawaka and I look forward to another beautiful season on their grounds. I also look forward to meeting each of you!
Sat, Aug 23, 2014
Eden Energy Medicine (9:00 AM - 6:00 PM)
Eden Energy Medicine Sessions
Call ahead to book, or walk in.
$35/half hour
$65/full hour
Eden Energy Medicine is a powerful way of working with your body's interweaving energetic patterns by accessing 8 systems, the best known of which are the chakras, meridians & aura. Gentle touch connecting points across the body and work in the body's energy field unclogs blockages and reinforces optimal energetic patterns so that the body can heal itself.
Ellen O'Connell took informal Energy Medicine classes for 5 years before earning a scholarship to Donna Eden's 2 year Energy Medicine Certification Program, graduating in February 2011. She continues to augment her studies of energy healing with classes in flower essences, properties of crystals, and healing sound. She also teaches in Saratoga. Ellen practices at The Garden, 434 Church St., Saratoga Springs.
Sat, Aug 23 - 24, 2014
''The Beauty of Herbs'' Herbal Basics and Art Meet in the Wild (9:30 AM - 2:00 PM)
Join Certified Herbalist, Margo Mullein, and Hudson River School Painter, Patti Ferrara, for two day workshop on discovering and revealing the beauty of wild medicinal herbs.
On Saturday, we begin at 9:30am with a guided meditation to open our hearts and minds for a walk around the lovely grounds of Wiawaka. During which we will meet and greet wild growing herbs, and discuss the many stories, and uses of the plants that we see. At the end of the morning session, participants will identify one plant that really resonates with them, and the one they will work with for the rest of the workshop. Saturday evening, after dinner, Patti will teach participants how drawing their plant can deepen their experience of it. This evening session prepares the participants for the next morning's work. An evening fire will round out our time together.
On Sunday morning after breakfast, we meet in the garden for a silent labyrinth walk. Then we'll go to our plants, and capture their beauty in two ways: first with watercolors - resulting in a finish painting in an 8x10" matt. Second, by making an herbal vinegar, discussing the many benefits and uses of this type of herbal preparation. Stay after Lunch, and return to our art supplies to make tags or labels for the vinegar's.
2-day Workshop and Materials: $57.00
with meals $97 (Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday lunch)
with meals and lodging $159 (Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday breakfast & lunch)
Margo Mullein began her work as a plant intuitive at the age of 5 when her first tree spoke to her. Since then, she has been building a practice as a certified herbalist specializing in a seasonal approach to living in balance and harmony with the earth. She is the founder and director of Walking Root Healing Herbs Gardens & and has begun a new facet of her Health and Wellness career, now working with Elders. Her most current passion....following the Celtic wheel of the year.
Patti Ferrrara is a self taught multi medium artist who has always been inspired by nature. She has taught workshops in both oils and watercolors. Ferrara lives in the Catskill Mts., and pursues her art daily.
Location: Wiawaka Center for Women
Mon, Aug 25, 2014
Introduction to BELLY DANCING (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
Introduction to Belly Dancing
5 session class, Monday evenings at 6-7 pm. July 7, 14, 28, Aug 11 and 25. $50 for the 5-class session of $15 per class.
Please call to register.
Location: Wiawaka Retreat Center for Women
Wed, Aug 27, 2014
Yoga (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM)
Yoga with Genii Rutherford, RYT 200.
Renew, refresh and restore your mind, body and spirit. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat. All levels welcome.
Cost: Free Admission for overnight guests and Day Pass Holders or $8.00 per session
Location: House of Trix - Wiawaka
Wed, Aug 27, 2014
Women Artists of the 20th Century with Kate Duddiing (4:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
Tiffany lamps are well-known and easily recognized by their images of nature.
But how they were created, by The Tiffany Girls, was unknown until 2005. Listen as Kate shares the recently-discovered stories of these women artists of the early 20th century.
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White took photos around the world from the 1920s till the 1960s. Initially she photographed architectural subjects, including the photo on the cover of the first Life magazine. But she then became captivated by people's faces, and so she told their stories.
Did you ever wonder why Georgia O'Keeffe painted those huge flowers and the bones in the desert? Kate shows 25 photographs of Georgia's paintings while sharing Georgia's own words about them - a virtual tour by the artist herself.
Again this would involve a slide show for each story - I bring my own laptop, projector and screen.
a southwestern style dinner will be served following the story hour.
Overnight guests & Day pass holders - $15
Season pass holders or event only - $30
Location: Fuller House
Thu, Aug 28, 2014
Pilates with Linda (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
Pilates with Linda Schaffer - certified Pilates, Yoga and Group Exercise Instructor
Discover better posture by moving through a series of floor exercises designed to increase your strength, flexibility, stamina and concentration. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a mat.
All are in Trix except for 7/24 and 8/14 will be in Gazebo (weather permitting)
$8 per session, Free for overnight guests, and Day Pass holders.
Space is limited, please call ahead.
$8 per class, free for overnight guests or Day Pass Holders
Location: Wiawaka Grounds
Fri, Aug 29, 2014
Massage (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
Massage available every Friday. Please call ahead to book!
$45/half hour
$70/full hour
As a graduate of Mildred Elly College with an associate's degree in Massage Therapy, I am passionate about using my intuition and education to provide each client with the most effective treatment possible. I pursued the field of massage because I have always had the desire to work with people and make them feel their best. I know that no two sessions are alike and I will customize a unique massage experience to meet every client's individual's needs in order to promote their overall health and well being. I like to blend my styles of Swedish, relaxation, trigger point, and deep tissue massage to create a customized massage experience that addresses the needs of each individual. This will be my third season working with Wiawaka and I look forward to another beautiful season on their grounds. I also look forward to meeting each of you!
Sat, Sep 20, 2014
DIVINE SALVAGE: Collections, Bundles and Frames (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
DIVINE SALVAGE: Collections, Bundles and Frames
A workshop that explores the human penchant for collecting
and our attachment to possessions, habits and ideas.
Presented by Doliver Productions - Sandi Dollinger & Joan Oliver
The Indo-European root of the word "art" is "to arrange" or "fit together." In this sense, art is whatever is described as having undergone a deliberate process of arrangement by an agent. We begin by collecting, then playing with the materials or objects, organizing them in a variety of ways making new combinations, trying things, then observing the arrangements we have made. ( How to be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith, 2008, p. 15)
The workshop will employ a sequence of exercises (art, writing, performance) and dialogue that culminates in a ritual to release and/or honor the outcomes revealed during the inquiry.
$40 - lunch and workshop
Sandi Dollinger is an Albany-based playwright and theatre professional who also teaches as an adjunct English professor at the College of St. Rose. She has taught workshops in playwriting at Pyramid Life Center and worked as a volunteer teacher in cities in Poland, Lithuania and Honduras. Sandi lives in a flat in Albany with her cat-muse, Nunzia.
Joan Oliver is a visual artist, poet and independent grant professional. She has received national recognition for her drawings and paintings, been acknowledged for her poetry and generated over $17 Million in grants. She holds a master's degree in library science from SUNY Albany. She resides in an 1890 farmhouse in Glenmont, NY, with her Schnoodle, Scupper, and tabby, Meena.
Location: Fuller House Parlor - Wiawaka
Sat, Sep 27, 2014
Fall Foliage Plein Air Painting (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
Subject matter for the workshop will be the landscape, the beauty and unique character of the gardens and architecture of Wiawaka: Fuller House, Rose Cottage, Mayflower Cottage, The Lake House, Wakonda, The Boat House, and of course, the incredible views! Each student will chose whatever site interests them to paint. The Sessions will include painting demonstrations, discussions of painting techniques, principles, tools and private as well as group critiques of finished works.
All levels are welcome to attend, beginning to advanced. (Students who prefer to work in other mediums, pastels, charcoal or pencil sketching, watercolors or acrylics may discuss this option with the instructor.) Students must come equipped with their own supplies including a portable easel. A list of suggested supplies will be available in advance upon registering. It is not necessary to purchase every paint color listed, the important ones will be noted.
Cost to attend - $15 day pass to Wiawaka
Also must pay instructor $50 for half day (9-12 or 1-4pm) or $100 for the whole day. Pay instructor day of but you must pre-register with Wiawaka by calling 518-668-9690
Make a retreat of it for $100!
Includes overnight lodging, lunch on Saturday and continental breakfast on Sunday (Dinner on your own Saturday night) Artist fee paid directly to instructor. Friday can be added, with a continental breakfast served on Saturday morning for an additional $85
Deborah holds a Master's Degree in Art from the State University at Albany, New York.
Currently she is an instructor for the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, New York, where she teaches painting and drawing. (www.artscenteronline.org). She has been teaching at the Arts Center and maintaining an art studio in the Ilium Building in Troy since moving back to upstate New York from Maine in 2001.
Gallery Affiliations: The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Clements Gallery, The West End Gallery
While living in Portland, Maine, Deborah was the Director of the Tramonti gallery and freelance artist for the Georgetown Collection. A popular Trompe l'oeil muralist in Portland and on Peaks Island, she was commissioned to execute large scale paintings for the Wyeth Family Exhibit now owned by the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland and commissioned to create landscape murals by the Carroll Reed Corporation for locations in West Palm Beach, Florida, Charlotte, North Carolina and Fort Orange, New Jersey. Selected by the Maine Arts Commission for the State of Maine Arts Festival Exhibit at Thomas Point Beach and selected to execute permanent Murals at Sea Road School, Kennebunk, Maine.
Moving back to upstate New York was a return to Deborah's childhood home and the surrounding environment inspiring a return to "easel-size" paintings, working in the studio as well as on site, or plein air. Her focus is the natural landscape, the farmlands and fields of the region and the Adirondacks, the fading images of the barns and farmhouses, the architecture that was once so familiar and plentiful now rapidly disappearing.
Her paintings are representational executed with loose, broken brushwork combined with palette knife painting using a color palette derived from nature.
In her oil painting classes Deborah urges her students to develop the painting techniques that best convey their personal interpretations of the landscape. "Although I teach representational painting it is not a goal to simply reproduce a photographical image. I am more concerned with students understanding the process and being comfortable with that, and have the work be expressive, rather than being overly concerned about the end product. I want my students to fall in love with the act of painting and not be intimidated by the process."
Location: Wiawaka Center for Women
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Has Halloween now dampened Bonfire Night?
For years now, Halloween has been ballooning as an event in the UK, influenced heavily by the US. But is it squashing the indigenous Bonfire Night?
The dust has now settled on the Halloween-Bonfire Night period.
Many people will have noticed the crowds of twenty and thirty-somethings staggering through British city centres as zombies, vampires or in less ghoulish fancy dress.
Trick or treating children are legion, but the occasion has become a significant date in the social calendar for adults as well. It's now viewed by many chains as the third biggest retail event of the year in the UK after Christmas and Easter.
Supermarkets devote aisles to spiders, skeletons, witches and vampires. Tesco sold 28 different types of Halloween cakes this year and two million pumpkins.
'Remember, remember...'
- Observance of 5th November Act passed within months of 1605 gunpowder plot, making church attendance compulsory on that day
- By late 17th Century, festival had gained enduring reputation for riotousness and disorder, but political encouragement came from William of Orange whose birthday (4 November) was conveniently close
- Guy Fawkes effigies popular only from the 18th Century - earlier bonfires used effigies of popes and prominent Catholics
- Guy Fawkes mask - originally seen in graphic novel V For Vendetta, about disguised revolutionary - has become international symbol of protest groups such as Anonymous and Occupy
It's big business, says Tim Angel, chairman of fancy dress firm Angels. The total retail market for Halloween has grown from £12m in 2001 to £300m in 2011, he estimates. When it comes to fancy dress, the costume market has grown by a factor of 30, he adds.
The Halloween-flation seems to emanate from the US.
But is this a zero sum game? With Halloween and Bonfire Night so close, is the latter in decline?
One aspect, the traditional Penny for the Guy seems to have largely fallen out of favour a while ago, a trend bemoaned by traditionalists.
"When I had kids we'd never heard of Halloween," Angel says. "But it's replaced Bonfire Night up to a point. Most kids don't know the history of it (Guy Fawkes)."
But judged by another measurement, sale of fireworks, Bonfire Night is healthy.
Firework sales have grown for the last three years, says Phil Murray, chairman of the British Fireworks Association. That said, they are dwarfed by the money going on Halloween, he admits. Retailers' preference for Halloween paraphernalia - and safety restrictions - create problems, Murray says.
Fireworks have been shunted to the back of supermarkets. Shops now have strict age restrictions. Children under the age of 18 are banned from buying them and many supermarkets ask people who look under 25 to show ID.
Waitrose and Tesco figures suggest sales of sausages, toffee apples and fireworks are all up. A YouGov survey suggests people actually prefer Bonfire Night to Halloween. The same YouGov survey suggests that despite Halloween's growth more money is still spent on Bonfire Night.
Changing attitudes
- People in UK are expected to have spent £650m on Bonfire Night and Halloween in 2012
- Halloween has traditionally been marked more in Scotland and Ireland than England
- More is still spent on Bonfire Night (estimated £386m) than Halloween (£268m)
- 45% of people questioned say Halloween is "unwelcome American import"
- 67% adults support restriction of fireworks to "properly organised displays"
- Source: YouGov
And it's still easy to find a bonfire or a fireworks display. In Lewes, the celebrations are still organised by a slew of societies. Elsewhere, the associations with Guy Fawkes and anti-Catholicism may have faded, but fires continue.
Firework sales perhaps don't tell the full story.
The pressure on parents is shifting from Bonfire Night to Halloween. "The pressure to spend on Halloween is increasing each year," says Siobhan Freegard, founder of Netmums.
"Where once families would make basic outfits for kids such as a sheet over the head for a ghost, now children are clamouring for professional costumes and asking adults to dress up plus host a party too."
It's not just costumes. Part of Halloween's thrill for children is it gives them permission to demand sweets from total strangers. "They've grown more aware of trick or treating as confectionery firms now bring out ranges weeks in advance, ramping up the pester power factor," Freegard says.
It's probably not a case of Bonfire Night decline, but rather a shift in priorities.
It may be that both festivals can spur each other on. Some firework manufacturers are already embracing Halloween by creating new products like the ghost fountain and the pumpkin fountain, says Murray.
There are new trends in the bonfire ritual. Guy Fawkes masks have proved popular and some of the more quirky bonfire societies have replaced the Guy with effigies of celebrities in the news - including Lance Armstrong and Mario Balotelli - and even politicians.
The emphasis has moved. The bonfire with a Guy on top - indeed the whole story of the Gunpowder Plot - has been marginalised. But the spectacle remains.