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Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, is one of the most eagerly anticipated occasions each year. This is the biggest and most significant event of the Chinese community, and it is observed by Singaporeans from all walks of life.
The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th day.
Symbolically, new clothes are usually worn to signify the new year. It is also the tradition for every family to thoroughly clean their homes to "sweep away" any ill-fortune, making way for the arrival of good luck. Chinese New Year also brings people together, and is marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known simply as "new-year visits". The highlight for children and younger members of the family during these visits comes in little red packets, or "hong bao", filled with money. Another significant tradition is the Reunion Dinner, which takes place on the Eve of Chinese New Year, and is an occasion for families to come together and eat.
During this time, the streets of the city come alive with the sounds of traditional music, the sights of hanging red lanterns and the tantalising smells wafting from the many night stalls set-up in various neighbourhoods throughout Singapore.
One such precinct is Chinatown, which, with its stunning street light-ups, night markets and decorations, is the focal point for Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore. The best time to absorb the lively atmosphere that Chinatown has to offer is during the Chinatown Street Light Up. This is when lion dancers, fire eaters and female dance troupes grace Kreta Ayer Square with their mesmerising performances. Armed with giant paper fans and intricately patterned umbrellas, they will provide you with street entertainment that you are unlikely to forget.
Folklore is very much at the heart of this festival. All across the city, you'll notice dragon and lion dances everywhere – lending a cheery, festive atmosphere to the occasion. Dragons and lions are prominent characters in Chinese mythology; its roots originating in ancient China when Nien, a mythical beast which tormented villagers was discovered to be afraid of the colour red.
Singapore bursts with all sorts of activities and events during Chinese New Year each year. The centrepiece of the festivities is the Chingay Parade, a grand carnival-like street parade with dazzling floats, thrilling spectacles like fire-eaters, magicians and sizzling dance acts. However, to accommodate more spectators, it is held on the expansive grounds of the Formula One Pit Building alongside the Marina waterfront.
Another popular annual Chinese New Year event is the River Hongbao. Held on the Marina Bay Floating Platform and the Esplanade Waterfront Promenade in mid-February, the vicinity comes alive with the throbbing beat of lively street performances, shopping and games stalls, lanterns and fireworks – a crowd favourite during Chinese New Year.
Nearby at the Esplanade, the annual Huayi Festival, which also happens in February, showcases traditional and contemporary Chinese arts in a variety of genres like theatre, opera and music, and includes visual installations by renowned Chinese artists from all over the world.
Come soak in the atmosphere in Singapore during Chinese New Year and be entertained by the many activities that happen around it. You'll leave understanding Chinese culture and its traditions better, as well as with more luck and prosperity for the rest of the year.


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SOCIAL work students are gaining experience behind bars in a unique initiative that sees them help care for vulnerable detainees in police custody.
Final year MA and BA undergraduates from Birmingham University have assisted in monitoring prisoners deemed a self-harm risk or with medical conditions, whilst offering emotional and practical support to others.
Ten students – all of whom received training on cell safety, custody procedures and legal issues, plus time shadowing experienced staff – took part in the three-month pilot project at Birmingham's Steelhouse Lane police station.
Collectively they completed 360 hours worth of CCTV and cell-door watch – and it's meant officers regularly drafted in to help monitor inmates were freed up to police communities and respond to emergency calls.
West Midlands Police Sergeant Andy Tanner is behind the Custody Placement Project. He said: "The students bring an academic approach to issues like mental health, drug addiction, social deprivation and causes of crime…they have been a hugely valuable addition to the custody block.
"Prisoners have responded positively: there's not been a single case of aggression, threats or abuse directed at students.
"Students offer a listening ear, advice and information about support services that could help prisoners. Sometimes detainees prefer talking to a young social work student rather than a police officer…they feel they can open up more.
"Recently a student spent several hours with a man upset after being charged with an offence. He told the student he normally struggled to confide in others and that the chat had done him good.
"Importantly, though, the project also provides future social workers with experience caring for vulnerable adults and juveniles…that's invaluable for their careers."
The project has proved so successful that the force is planning to roll out the initiative to custody suites in Wolverhampton, Bournville and Coventry in conjunction with other universities.
Birmingham University Social Work Education Director Gary Hickman, said: "It's offering our studens exposure to people with a range of issues in a challenging work setting. It's an ideal development opportunity and will help prepare them for their future career. All students agreed they would recommend this opportunity to fellow students; the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and should increase their employability in what is a competitive job market."
And student Kamal Kaur, added: "Communication skills are essential for social workers and this project has helped immensely. I've had chance to speak with several prisoners – often it's challenging because they may feel they've been unfairly arrested or are simply angry they've been caught.
"I was surprised with the high level of respect a prisoner is given by custody staff…it helps diffuse confrontations. Detainees can tend to initially be un-cooperative but many I've spoken to have welcomed the chance to talk about their lives and families, plus also their criminal behaviour and the causes of it."
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Artists such as Laurens Tan operate in the post-industrial era of increasing obsolescence and imminent arrivals of new models, versions, upgrades and downloads. Theirs is an era that yearns for endings and becomings that are already past, or never over. The aesthetic rhetoric of the last decade, where advertising has ruled the image waves, is one long home delivery of deep fried quotations ('in 90 seconds or your money back!'), recycled mythologies and reconstituted histories. Artists and audiences alike have become quiz show geniuses at picking differences between the art marketing genres and isms of the 20th century. From kitsch Koons souvenirs in the high Rococo style to post-Marxist/ post-Freudian/ post-semiotic Kruger slogans with aditude, today's artists are media savvy. Laurens Tan is no exception: he recognises that his art works are commodities that depend as much on external market forces, media agendas and cultural currency futures as they do on any Modernist aesthetic notions of internal formalities at play. The singular art work is dead, long live the multimedia image/sound/text/T-shirt/logo. The merchandising exists before the object. The venue is virtual before it is actual. The artist is a media construction, an event born from an advertising strategy rather than a garret loft.
Not content with exhibiting solely in gallery spaces, or focusing purely on metacritical aesthetic issues for art's sake alone, Tan works across traditional boundaries of media and creative practice. Official funding discourse would now place him in the hybrid arts slot, but this would be too narrow. Tan is concerned with drawing together and re-working industrial design and cultural media fields as disparate as tourism havens, gambling casinos, funeral parlours, entertainment arcades, high art theatres and Internet virtual shopping malls. Tan is an art director in the strict sense: he both designs and coordinates the funding, manufacturing, installation and distribution/publicity of major public sculptural objects that both fascinate and challenge the viewer's sensibilities and assumptions.
Tan's recent work, Octogene, is an imposing digital video sculpture installation mounted in the foyer of Sydney's Capitol Theatre. Its body of shiny galvanised steel houses eight porthole video windows and a large central projection screen. Combining flybys, walk throughs and moonscans of real and fantastic landscapes, Octogene is populated by even more incredible life forms.
As the throng enters the theatre a few people notice a crustaceous form of pulsating electronic organs that has somehow attached itself to the wall just above their heads. They take with them into the theatre an image of this carnivalesque memento of nostalgic fascinations. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be, but then again, as Arthur C. Clark once quipped, the future ain't what it used to be either. Retro-futurist fantasies of cars look like Cold War rockets and televisions built like aircraft carriers rise up before one's eyes. The title Octogene comes from the H.G. Wells story In the Days of the Comets, provoking a link to the sublime relationship between technology and art. In Wells' day this relationship was mechanical and utopian. Now it is electronic and often dystopic. Tan highlights current dependencies on digital micro-narratives, snapshots and loop-dreams that form the virtual menu of our own futurist addictions.
The 1960s Jurassic technology (in keeping with this year's Biennale theme) of the shell-like carapace of screwed sheet metal panels looks as fragile as a cicada compared to the latest post-Gulf War stealth bomber's seamless black carbon fibre body. Silence, invisibility and precision have replaced horsepower, rumble and showy speed as desirable attributes of not only military technology, but also of economics, games of chance and even the aesthetics of science and art.
When any new technology blasts onto the market it initially mediates its radical ability to construct new languages and images by stroking old cultural icons. Old 1960s TV sci-fi shows such as Lost in Space, The Jetsons and The Thunderbirds look jokingly clunky, even naive, in their adherence to social, moral and political values that read as hopelessly rigid at worst or as dumbly innocent at their analogue best. Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers and biomorphing viral Aliens all exploit the metaphorical laws of simulation and inversion. Tan cleverly marks out the aesthetic and political mythologies at work in nostalgia dressed up as innovation.
Tan marries these popular cinematic and TV forms with the logic of shopping mall information kiosks, casino poker machines and domestic interactive games such as closed circuit Nintendo or open ended Net-based sites. The virtual technology of Tan's work peeps out of its hermit shell, belying its true nature - that of infinite mutability. The secure vision of the decorative ornamental facade from the past (the post-modern motive par excellence) cushions the blow for the milder at heart. Tan's Octogene revitalises the traditional wall-mounted sculptural form by literally pumping new electronic energy into dumb base materials while sparking associations to past experiments in technologically inspired art.
Octogene reminded me of the wonderfully unwearable costumes of Oskar Schlemmer's mechanical Triadic Ballet from the 1920s Bauhaus - a philosophy embedded in the hydraulic and thermodynamic relationship of body to space. Then I was transported to the plastic snow dome worlds of Lost in Space and The Jetsons, worlds which testified to Cold War atomic economies of material progress, rupturing Christian family values in the face of increasing teenage alienation and counter-cultural politics. Tan, in turn, delivers us fresh millennial metaphors for our digital gambling habits with an ecology of the mind that perversely winces at the disappearance of seahorses from our coral reefs while revelling in the pleasures of surfing the Net.
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The high-stakes budget standoff that Republicans and Democrats have just three days to resolve is not just a political fight. If lawmakers fail to avert the fiscal cliff, a slew of painful tax changes — including an end to breaks on everything from payroll taxes to dividends — are set to kick in, triggering an automatic $500 billion tax hike that will affect nearly all Americans in some way.
But what's the view from the bottom of the fiscal cliff? And how much would it cost you?
To answer these questions, the Tax Policy Center — a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two left-leaning think tanks — produced a study summarizing just how zooming over the cliff would play out for different tax payers. (See: Toppling off the fiscal cliff: Whose taxes rise and how much?)
Of course, lawmakers may yet make some sort of deal (or at least kick the can further down the road). If that happens, some but not all of these tax hikes are still likely to go into effect as part of any deal to fix the nation's giant budget deficit. But just which ones is anybody's guess. (See: Full coverage of the fiscal cliff.)
Some details about the study: The Tax Policy Center broke taxpayers into five income segments, while also splitting the top quintile into smaller groups in order to show the effect on top earners in greater detail. We give the top income level for each cohort and the bottom income level for the top 0.1%, since for them, the sky is the limit. To make its estimates, the Tax Policy Center used "cash income," which includes extras, like contributions to retirement plans, which you don't list on your tax forms.
You can also see a Web cast explaining the study on the Tax Policy Center's site. (See: Fiscal Cliff: How Much Would Taxes Rise in 2013?)
1. The Poor
- Income: $20,113
- Average tax rate hike: 3.7 percentage points
- Average tax hike in dollars: $412
- (Bottom Quintile)
Almost everyone would take a hit from the fiscal cliff, and the poor are no exception. One big reason: They've been benefitting from two emergency measures passed in the wake of the financial crisis in hopes of boosting the economy: A two percentage-point cut to payroll taxes and a 2009 stimulus bill expansion of certain tax benefits, like the child tax credit. While President Obama has proposed making some of these 2009 provisions permanent, few have suggested doing so with the payroll tax, which pays for Social Security. That means these low earners will likely pay more even if there is a compromise that avoids the cliff.
2. The Middle Class
- Income: $64,484
- Average tax rate hike: 3.8 percentage points
- Average tax hike in dollars: $1,984
- (Middle Quintile)
Middle earners benefit significantly from the Bush-era income tax cuts, which slashed rates across the board. While those cuts are also set to expire next year, both Republicans and Democrats have said they'd like to extend them for these taxpayers. That means unless there is a standoff, the hit to this group could be smaller.
3. The Comfortable
- Income: $108,266
- Average tax rate hike: 4.2 percentage points
- Average tax hike in dollars: $3,540
- (Fourth Quintile)
This group is another big beneficiary of the temporary payroll tax cut and the earlier Bush-era income tax reductions. One difference: Far more of these payers could be stung if Congress fails to raise the threshold for the alternative minimum tax, an alternative set of tax rules that does away with many deductions. Since Washington has done just that repeatedly in previous years, it's a fairly good bet it will this time as well, absent a standoff. Politicians can't risk angering the middle class.
4. The Rich
- Income: $506,210
- Average tax rate hike: 5.2 percentage points
- Average tax hike in dollars: $14,871
- (Top 95% to 99% of incomes)
Obama campaigned on letting the Bush-era income tax rates expire on family incomes above $250,000 and won. But many of these high earners are the Main Street doctors, lawyers and business owners that Republicans see as the backbone of the economy. One area where the parties seem to agree: If no action is taken, the $5 million exemption for the estate tax could drop to $1 million next year, while rates jump to 55% from 35%. Neither side wants that to happen.
5. The Masters of the Universe
- Income: $2,655,675
- Average tax hike: 7.9 percentage points
- Average tax hike in dollars: $633,946
- (Top 0.1%)
Many Republicans don't want to raise taxes on anyone. While it's hard for many people to have sympathy for someone that pulls in more than 100 times what those at the bottom of the scale earn, they've got a lot of political clout. Among the provisions that could affect them most: hikes on capital gains and dividends. Rates these earners pay on dividend income could leap from 15% to more than 40%.
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damaged or unsatisfactory we have a full 30 day return policy.
Quantity Pricing – Almost all our
products have built-in quantity pricing, meaning the more you buy, the more
you save without having to call or bargain for a better price.
What happens when I place an order?
You add items
to the cart and fully checkout.
You will
receive an order number on the spot, and a full receipt will be sent to your
email address.
We reserve up
to 3 business days to process you order (but usually we get it out the same day
if order before 3pm Central time on any weekday).
When your order
is sent out of our warehouse, you will get a UPS tracking number via email.
You can see exactly where your package is with this tracking number, plus it
shows you the scheduled delivery time.
You become a
satisfied customer.
If for some
reason you are not satisfied with your order, make sure to
contact us with your
feedback or issue.
Pictured – Packing up some boxes for the 3pm shipment:
Product Samples for Bulk Orders:
If you're interested in ordering a large quantity (generally 3X the quantity as
the largest bulk discount show) and want to see a physical product before
ordering: Place an order for one, pay for it as usual, and when you later place
your large order you may request a refund for your sample purchase. Simply
contact us via phone or
email for the refund.
Shipping Rates & Times:
Shipments are calculate by adding the
base rate of
each item to a real-time weight based fee used by UPS. You can calculate
shipping costs by adding items to your shopping cart and clicking Checkout.
Canada orders must use Canada Shipping and all international orders (outside
U.S. and Canada) must select International Shipping. This chart gives you
a rough idea of what shipping will cost:
U.S. Standard
4-7 Business Days
$6.50 + weight
U.S. Expedited
2-3 Business Days
$12.95 + weight
U.S. Express
1-2 Business Days
$18.50 + weight
Canada Airmail
4-9 Business Days
$15.50 + weight
International Airmail
7-14 Business Days
$24.50 + weight
The following map shows approximately how many business days a package sent by
Standard shipping would take to arrive. Keep in mind we reserve up to
three business days to process and send packages, however we do our very best to
send orders out the same day.
Orders are processed within a maximum of three
days, if this limit is exceeded we will notify you of your order status by
email. We generally get your order out for shipping the same day if ordered
before 3pm Central Time on a weekday, but we still reserve up to 3 business days
to process orders.
Canadian orders must select "Canada Shipping" and
International orders (anywhere outside the U.S. and Canada) must select
"International Shipping". The following is a list of countries we
currently ship to: