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Editor's note: As a late write-in candidate for the Clarkfield City Council race, Erin Crosby was the only local candidate that the Advocate Tribune was unable to send introductory questions to. Fellow write-in electee Scott Vold, who appeared in the A/T's Voters Guide will join Crosby as a freshman on the council, while Dave Biermaier and Mayor Gene Kockelmen return as incumbents. Questions lingered after the election about Crosby's eligibility to serve on the council due to the fact the she works for the Clarkfield Care Center, which is owned by the city, but recently Clarkfield City Attorney Dave Gilbertson weighed in and said Crosby was O.K. to serve because the facility is managed by an outside party. Yet, Crosby will have to recuse herself when motions concerning the Care Center are made. The race is over now, officially, and Crosby has won herself a seat. The following is a Q/A that should help Clarkfield get to know their new representation.
A/T: Can you tell us a little about your background and why you ran for city council?
Crosby: I am 29 years old, married with four children. I have lived in Clarkfield for most of my life. I graduated in May of 2011, with an Associate of Science Degree in Nursing. I am currently working as an RN at the Clarkfield Care Center. I have also been a volunteer EMT for the Clarkfield ambulance and I volunteer for the Clarkfield Area Charter School as their nurse.
I ran for city council because I believe that I can make a difference in continuing to improve Clarkfield. There are many young families that have stayed here and many that are moving back to the area. I think I could be their voice and I am willing to listen. I want to see this town and the businesses in it succeed.
A/T: Were you surprised when you found out you had won a seat on the city council/ how did you find out?
Crosby: My sister Darcy called and left a voicemail at 2:30 a.m. saying I was voted in to the city council. I then checked my facebook to find out.
I wrote on my facebook page stating I was going to run for a "write in" candidate. I also put about 40 flyers on cars with the help of my kids the weekend before.
A/T: What do you believe is the appropriate role of a city councilman?
Crosby: Somebody that will listen and that will have a positive attitude. Someone that believes in Clarkfield and is willing to do volunteer work themselves to make the town grow. In small towns people have to do multiple tasks to make the town operate and run efficiently.
Page 2 of 2 - A/T: What do you feel is the greatest obstacle facing Clarkfield?
Crosby: I believe having local businesses that are able to stay here and residents supporting the local businesses and gaining new businesses for Clarkfield.
A/T: What is one thing that you would like to accomplish as a council or council member to improve the city and how should you or the council go about doing this?
Crosby: One of the things I can think of is having more activities for children/teenagers. There is an organization that was started called "Young Families of Clarkfield" that is hosting a 5K Walk/Run Santa Dash on December 8th at the EMS building in Clarkfield. They are raising money for new playground equipment at North Park. This is one example of how residents can better their town if they are willing to do a little work by fundraising.
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We will have another Commander's Call on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Adriano's Bistro and Pizza, located at 240 Lake Dillon Drive in Dillon.
Invited to attend will be veterans from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division of WWII. They did their training in 1943 at Camp Hale just outside of Leadville and learned to ski at what is now Ski Cooper. Just to hear of their experiences is priceless. Please plan on joining us ... RSVP at email@example.com and spread the word.

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Dear Listeners,
We're pleased to announce the completion of our main studio renovation work. As of last night, WMFO has resumed regular programming. Thanks to everyone who helped out with the project, and to our listeners for bearing with us as we completed our construction efforts.
The 2010 Fall Schedule will be in effect through the end of next week, at which point, we will be switching to the new Spring 2011 schedule.
Stay tuned for more great Freeform programming!
The WMFO Executive Board
Dear WMFO Listeners,
Beginning at 8 AM on Sunday, January 9th, WMFO will begin running on an automated schedule for the next week while we complete major renovations of our main studio. During this week, regular WMFO programming will not be available. You can still check out the archives of you favorite shows via the Schedule link on the left.
Thanks for understanding and stay tuned for updates of our Studio remodeling efforts.
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WMFO General Manager
Isn't it pretty?
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Come to the Open House on Friday to see what the station looks like behind the pretty website.
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Check out this video our Creative Content team created giving a tour of the station.
For those of you who want to see it in person, stay tuned for information on our upcoming open house on Friday, December 3rd.
Keep it tuned to 91.5 FM, WMFO Medford!
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Thank you for visiting our new website. Please take�some�time�to explore and play!�This�website is very much a work in progress, and we want your comments and suggestions�before�we take it live.
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More groups oppose bills to reduce NC early voting
Published: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 12:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 12:30 p.m.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More liberal-learning groups are urging North Carolina's Republican legislature to back off legislation that would reduce early voting and end same-day registration during the early voting period.
Progress North Carolina led a news conference Monday at the Legislative Building to oppose bills last week to reduce 2½ weeks of in-person early voting by one week. One bill would bar Sunday voting.
More than 56 percent of votes cast in November's election occurred at early voting sites. Progress North Carolina cited a poll to back its position and pointed to long lines in 2012 in Florida when early voting was scaled back. An unaffiliated voter also spoke at the news conference.
Civil rights advocates spoke out publicly Friday to oppose the bills.
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Autism Speaks U Spotlight: University of Georgia
This guest post is by Asia Bartlett, a junior at the University of Georgia studying Special Education. She is very passionate about supporting the autism community and is an Autism Speaks U student leader. Autism Speaks U is a program designed for college students who host awareness, advocacy and fundraising events, while supporting their local autism communities.
Hey fellow autism advocates! While I personally do not have family members on the autism spectrum, those affected by autism have captured my heart in ways that I cannot describe. I had my first experience with a child with autism as a junior in high school and I watched as he began to slowly develop. When he said his first word to me after months of silence when I had been with him, I instantly knew where my passion lay. I decided in that moment that I was dedicating my time and energy from there on out to children and families affected by autism.
I am in my second year as the Executive Director of AutismUGA, an autism awareness organization on campus started just three short years ago in Athens. In our three years on campus, we have raised nearly $20,000 benefiting Northeast Georgia families affected by autism. A portion of our fundraising is annually donated to Autism Speaks in Atlanta and our organization is considering dual enrollment with Autism Speaks U.
Over the years, our club holds an annual "Presidential Spelling Bee" where the Presidents of on-campus organizations compete for their organization to raise money for families in Northeast Georgia affected by autism. We also organize our own annual Walk for Autism which includes a resource fair for parents and a kid's zone complete with stations ranging from crafts to music therapy to a bounce house! Once a month we host Get REAL Saturdays at a local elementary school and parents meet for a support group while we play games and activities with the children.
This November our organization held our first annual dart tournament in downtown Athens. The event was a huge success and benefited Autism Speaks! With approximately 200 attendees and over forty pairs entering the tournament, we raised close to $1,500 in our first attempt at this type of event! The school paper ran an article about our organization and flyers were placed all around campus. Students and community members were able to pre-register on the Autism Speaks U website up until the day of the event which made collecting entry fees a breeze for us. We are so excited about the buzz our dart tournament created on campus and we have had multiple people tell us they can't wait to participate in the event again next year. We had prizes such as footballs autographed by the Dawgs, local gift certificates and even a bar tab for the winners (it's a college town out here, so people were pretty excited!).
In 2011, we have big things planned including a "Parent's Night Out" where members of our organization will be babysitting so that parents can take a night off. We'll continue our traditions of the Spelling Bee, our Walk and REAL Saturdays while adding some great awareness events on campus like an awareness week we have planned around World Autism Awareness Day.
We are headed into the Spring semester with a newly elected Executive Board and a lot of passion for the upcoming year! You can learn more about AutismUGA and our awareness efforts on our facebook page and our blog, or by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you are involved with Autism Speaks U on your campus and would like your story to be featured on the Autism Speaks blog, please send it to email@example.com. Autism Speaks reserves the right to edit contributions for space, style and content. Because of the volume of submissions, not all can be published on the site.
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To Asia, GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need more people like you to help our autistic children


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I've try to edit Bravia5500.conf and I add 'BRAVIA KDL.NX7' in the UserAgentAdditionalHeaderSearch but nothing change.
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ATLANTA -- CBS Atlanta is reporting that a missing 5-year-old boy has been found.
A Levi's Call was issued for Ivan Montesinos III on Friday morning out of Habersham County.
CBS Atlanta says the boy is OK and was returned to his mother.
Initial report:
CLARKESVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities in the northeast Georgia County of Habersham have issued a Levi's Call in their search for a missing 5-year-old boy who is believed to be in danger.
Authorities have issued an amber alert for 5-year-old Ivan Montesinos III early Friday morning.
He is described as 4 feet tall, 42 pounds, with blue eyes and short brown hair.
Authorities say he was last seen Thursday morning.
They believe he may be with a man, whose relationship to the child is not clear at this time.
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Baron will be there with the first production model/last prototype. I won't be going down to qualify for the Rapha Roller Races, but wish I was. We'll be coordinating a group outing (bikes, beers and a fist full of ones) with a posse of our Portland friends on Saturday night after we get bored at W&K. Then on to cross in the morning.
With blessings from the 'Roller Cycling Record Holder'...the only team invited from Seattle will descend upon PDX to unleash a Sabotage and represent!
Galen—Dapper Lad—is taking the [Yahoo! Bike Yodelicious](http://bikehugger.com/2008/10/yodelicious_took_a_picture.htm) with him to the event . . .


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Who's on the A-Team? Our 'Pretty Little Liars' Recap
It was another rough week in Rosewood for the Pretty Little Liars. In a nutshell here's what happened to the four besties.
Spencer finally spills the beans about Toby being a member of the A-Team. Aria and Emily don't exactly take it very well – especially Emily. But Toby is adamant and tells them to "stop thinking about Toby as the person that you thought you knew and start looking at him for who he really is!" Not surprisingly, very quickly after letting the cat of out of the bag, Spencer receives a funeral wreath and a note stating – "Someone close to you will pay for your loose lips."
Spencer, whippersnapper that she is, quickly discovers that Emily is the Liar being hunted. Despite Emily's desperate search for the missing Toby, it's Spencer who, after following Mona into the woods, discovers her ex-boyfriend's dead body. This leads to a stay at the Insane Asylum.
While Aria seems concerned about Toby, domestic issues are getting the best of her. Ezra's kid Malcolm and his mom Maggie are re-locating to Rosewood and Aria isn't sure she's ready to be a stepmother. She gives it a shot by babysitting for Malcolm, but that doesn't turn out so well. By the episode's conclusion it seems likely that Aria might be swapping spit with Wesley in the near future.
Hanna is on a mission to keep her mom out of jail. She, like Aria, is concerned about Toby, but she is preoccupied with her own domestic matter – a.k.a. – Detective Wilden and the hit and run. Hanna convinces Ashley not to go to the police on one condition – Hanna can't tell her friends about the accident. Of course this promise is not kept. After finding Detective Wilden's unoccupied car in her garage, Hanna gets Aria to help her push it into the lake. (The car contains video surveillance of Ashley hitting Wilden.) If you caught the last 60 seconds of this week's episode, it seems like Detective Wilden is dead. (Was he in the trunk of the car? Did Ashley kill him or was it the A-Team? Is he really dead? This is Rosewood after all.)
Emily is on a mission to find Toby. Despite Spencer's pleas for her to stop her search, Emily can't help herself. She ends up in a dark alley after Toby sends her a cryptic text message. It's in this dark alley that she spots the mysterious lady in the red coat. After a brief hunt for the speedy lady in red, Emily finds an envelope on the front seat of her car (the window has been smashed in). The items inside the envelope make it clear that Toby is a goner. Or is he?


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Iraqi stock traders watch the sales screen at the Iraq Stock Exchange in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. The Iraqi mobile phone company Asiacell sold a 25 percent stake to investors Sunday, raising more than $1.3 billion in one of the region's largest share offers in years. The floatation on the low-volume Iraq Stock Exchange was seen as a test of investor confidence. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)


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DOE accepting comments on Complex Flow Workshop Report
March 23, 2012
Understanding the complex, multi-scale aerodynamics involved with modern wind plant systems is a significant technical challenge for future wind technology innovation, and represents a large potential impact toward reducing the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of wind farms in the United States. In order to address and better understand these processes, The Department of Energy hosted a workshop titled " The Complex Flow Workshop" on January 17-18, 2012 in Boulder, CO. The workshop consisted of several breakout groups and was designed specifically to examine complex wind flow into and out of the wind turbine environment.
A draft workshop report is now available online and provides an overview of workshop proceedings as well as the results and outcomes of the event. The Department of Energy is now accepting public comment to this report and will do so until 11:59pm on Friday, April 6, 2012. Please submit all comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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About the Book
"With prose as silky and enticing as her protagonist, Drake has composed a love letter to the vampire genre."
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"Jocelynn Drake will have you coming back for more."
—New York Times bestselling author Jeaniene Frost
Vampire enforcer Mira must stop an ancient coven in Pray for Dawn, bestselling author Jocelynn Drake's fourth action-packed Dark Days novel. A treat for fans of Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, and Kim Harrison—who has praised Drake's Dark Days series as, "a must-read addition to the urban fantasy genre, filled both with action and satisfying characters"—Prey for Dawn will keep you reading well into the darkest part of the night.
Pray for salvation . . .
Pray for daylight . . .
Murder has pulled Mira out of the shadows and back into the living world . . .
As the fire-wielding enforcer of the nightwalker coven wrestles with the mind-destroying ghosts of her dark past, the slaying of a senator's daughter in Savannah threatens to expose her kind to the brilliant light of day. The dawn of chaos has come. The naturi have broken free of their eternal prison to feed on the defenseless and unbelieving of an unprepared Earth.
Mira and Danaus—vampire and vampire slayer—must unite to prevent the annihilation of their separate races. But for Danaus the challenge is intensified, for he must also fight the bori who covets his soul. And Mira, the nightwalker he must protect—whose power is the Earth's last hope—is rapidly going insane.
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"The action is riveting, the violence intense and the plot gripping. Score another win for Drake!" — Romantic Times BOOKclub
"An unflinchingly self-assured first novel, chiseled with subtlety and irony into a darkly suspenseful and blessedly surprising story. In exacting detail, and with prose as silky and enticing as her protagonist, Drake has composed a love letter to the vampire genre. I wish I'd written it." — Vicki Pettersson
"Nightwalker is an action-packed, stellar debut. Jocelynn Drake will have you coming back for more." — Jeaniene Frost
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- On Sale: 06/29/2010
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The Keys to the Password Vault by Matthew Scott (aurionPro SENA)
By Greg Jensen-Oracle on Jun 18, 2013
Super user accounts are, unfortunately, a necessary evil. It's just a fact of life in the IT industry that someone, somewhere, has to have the ability to make fundamental (and therefore potentially catastrophic!) changes to key systems.
One of my least favourite experiences as a consultant was gaining access to an account though a process that was reminiscent of a spy thriller – the password was typed onto a card, which was cut in two, with each half stored in a separate safe and each key entrusted to a meticulous security officer. Navigating the procedures to get the halves together in time to be useful was a trial of persuasion and scheduling – I can see why Tom Cruise prefers to abseil in through the roof instead of filling in yet another form!
Compliance officers are increasingly scrutinising privileged accounts and the processes that control access to them – not surprisingly, since surveys have shown that up to a quarter of IT professionals have experienced misuse of such accounts, and almost half of all companies fail to manage these accounts in accordance with the law (http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240111956/One-in-four-IT-security-staff-abuse-admin-rights-survey-shows). The results can be spectacular and sobering – the UBS trader Kweku Adoboli cost his company $2.3 billion after making disastrous trades using a privileged account which he was not authorised to use.
Thankfully, there is now a better way. As we've seen in this series, with the ESSO suite the technology exists to manage user passwords without the user having to actually 'know' that password. It is possible to extend this functionality to include those previously hard to manage privileged accounts by introducing Oracle Privileged Accounts Manager (OPAM). OPAM acts as a secure password vault for privileged accounts, but unlike other password vaults it can be connected directly to the ESSO Logon Manager agent so that passwords can be requested, obtained and used, all from the user's desktop.
OPAM is particularly useful for companies with large, decentralised UNIX environments. We are currently engaged with a large financial organisation which has several hundred servers, with various distributions of Linux and UNIX that are managed by different teams. With OPAM, all those precious root accounts have for the first time been corralled together in one location, where they can be released as needed to any authorised user. OPAM is equally adept at managing identities stored in directories, including Windows service accounts within Active Directory.
To calm the fears of any compliance officers who may be reading these words nervously, it is possible to implement workflows to control the request process. This may include approvals from a higher authority, complete with email or mobile notifications to the approver. And of course ESSO and OPAM feature end-to-end audit trails – from request, to check out, to each use of the privileged account, through to check in. Tracking who has being doing what with each account has never been easier.
In addition to managing privileged accounts, the ESSO suite also allows users to distribute their personal accounts in a similar manner. Many of us have experienced the frustration of needing access to a system, a record or an email only to discover that the person with access is on holiday or otherwise unavailable. In extreme cases, this may require that the absent user's Windows account be reset to allow another user to log on and gain access. ESSO's Account Delegation allows these key users to pro-actively devolve their account credentials to another user for a set period – no passwords required!


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SANTA CLARA -- When the 49ers were getting ready to open their $1.3 billion stadium, coach Jim Harbaugh compared the team's new field to the fairways at the famed golf course where the Masters tournament is played. The team and its partners billed the new grass as a super-resistant strain capable of withstanding the pounding of 300-pound linemen, saying divots would be "virtually nonexistent."
But the $1.4 million playing field installed four months ago could not even withstand its first week of NFL football.
The team ripped up a 100-yard stretch of grass running down the middle of the field and began the process of installing a new playing surface on Thursday, a day after Harbaugh cut short a public practice at the stadium and just days before the team's final home preseason game.
The field was beat up -- causing some players to fall Wednesday -- following the Niners first game at the stadium last Sunday, a preseason loss to the Denver Broncos. The Niners apologized to the 10,000 fans who made the trip to Wednesday's training camp session and would only say in a brief statement that the field would be ready for Sunday's preseason game against the San Diego Chargers.
"One game shouldn't have caused it to fall apart," said Kevin Morris, executive director of the National Turf Grass Evaluation Program, a leading nonprofit that tests grasses. "It's a problem for the team for sure."
The thick-cut sod the team is installing is meant as a temporary fix and cannot generate the deep roots needed for the field to withstand a beating long term. It is used occasionally at other sports stadiums where fields are damaged at the end of a season, or following a concert, but it's rare for a team to replace its turf early in a season.
It's not the first problem with the field. Last month, trucks carrying heavy equipment for a black-tie VIP gala featuring a John Legend concert damaged part of the area near the south end zone. At the time, Niners executives brushed off the damage and said it would be fixed quickly. But this week, more than a month after the concert, there was still a large brown stain behind and inside part of the end zone.
The 49ers declined to provide media access to the publicly-owned stadium or answer questions on Thursday, and asked its outside turf grower not to comment. The team also took down the stadium's live cam for the first time since construction began 2½ years ago, though TV news choppers and cellphone-wielding fans on tours posted photos of the sod ripped out.
Among the unanswered questions: How the team will sod the field for its primetime regular-season opener on Sept. 14 against the Chicago Bears, whether the stadium's sand base contributed to the issues, and if the public Santa Clara Stadium Authority will be on the hook for the costs.
Grounds crews tried to patch some of the divots on Tuesday, filling in holes with 1-by-3-foot pieces of sod before the practice. Then on Wednesday, the third and final free Levi's Stadium practice was called off after 45 minutes when wide receivers Stevie Johnson and Bruce Ellington and several other players slipped and produced new divots, creating injury scares for players with multimillion-dollar contracts.
Fans took notice, too.
"Once we sat down in our seats, I kind of chuckled -- look at this great stadium, and the money spent, and look how crappy the field is," said Rick Randall, 48, of Manteca, who was at Wednesday's practice. "I was kind of expecting nice, green lush grass. It didn't look much better than Candlestick."
The team gave Wednesday's fans vouchers to the stadium museum and finished practice at its private training facility next door.
The conditions were in stark contrast to the portrait painted by officials when they installed the 2.5-acre field in April, by which time it had already been growing in the Central Valley for 18 months.
"You grab this grass and try to tear it -- it's tough stuff. It doesn't pull apart," Greg Dunn, a sales manager for turf grower West Coast Turf, said in April. "Divots should be almost non-existent in this stadium." The team's head groundskeeper, Matt Greiner, said at the time that the fast recovery rate was what prompted the team to choose the sod, called Bandera Bermuda.
Dunn said he was busy Thursday and referred calls to a colleague, who said the 49ers asked the firm not to comment.
The 49ers were set to become one of the first NFL teams to use the Bandera Bermuda strain for a full season, though the Oakland Raiders installed it after the A's season ended last year, and the Chargers have played on it. It's also used at one of the Stanford football practice fields, and in baseball at the San Diego Padres' Petco Park and Sacramento's minor-league baseball stadium.
The question now becomes whether the 49ers will be able to have the field ready for Sunday's preseason game, which the 49ers insist will be the case.
"It's kind of concerning that they spend $1.4 million on this field and it's already not good," said Allen Tang, 37, of Santa Clara, who was also at the practice. "To me it seems kind of hard to believe they can fix something so fast, but I'm not an expert on this."
Staff writer Cam Inman contributed to this report. Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at Twitter.com/RosenbergMerc.


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Mother's Day Traditions Around the World
Mother's Day is celebrated in different ways around the world. Every year as May approaches, sons and daughters around the world plan on celebrating their mothers.
Read how other countries honor their mothers through their own traditions below.
Mother's Day in US: Here in the United States Mother's Day is a national holiday and is celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm. On this day people reflect on the importance of mothers in their life and thank them for their unconditional love and support. Mother's Day is celebrated in USA in a big way and has been commercialized to a great extent. It is considered as the next big day after Christmas and Valentines Day. Phone lines record a heavy traffic and card sales reaches its peak and restaurants are filled to their maximum capacity. Traditions for this day generally include things like breakfast in the bed, giving flowers, cards or gifts, and treating them to a meal.
Mother's Day Traditions in other Countries:
Mother' s Day in Australia: Mother's Day falls on the same day in Australia as it does in the United States and is celebrated in a similar fashion. There is a tradition of wearing carnation on Mother's Day in Australia (as is in the US). A colored carnation signifies that a person's mother is living while a white carnation is used to honor a deceased mother. Besides their own mothers, children honor their grandmothers and other women who love and care for them as a mother does. Mother' s Day in Australia. In Australia, Mothers Day is celebrated with lot of enthusiasm and joy. It falls on the same day as in US - on the second Sunday in the month of May and is celebrated in a similar fashion as in US. People of Australia take Mothers Day as an opportunity to express gratitude to their mother. Children show love to their moms by gifting flowers and cards to them. Just as in US there is a tradition of wearing carnation on Mothers Day in Australia. A colored carnation signifies that a person's mother is living while a white carnation is used to honor a deceased mother. Besides their own mothers children honor their grand mothers and other women who love and care for them as a mother does. Children ponder over the role of mothers in their lives and acknowledge the hardships their mother go through while raising them up. As a mark of respect children pamper their mother on Mothers Day by treating them with breakfast on bed and with gifts and cakes. In Australia, Mother's Day has been commercialized to a great degree as it is in US. Marketers try to play on the emotional aspect of the festival to sell their goods, and card manufacturers and florists particularly see a high business.
Mother's Day in Canada: In Canada, cards and flowers are the most commonly used methods of expressing love for moms. Mothers Day is a the most popular festival after Christmas and Valentines Day. Just as in USA, Mother's Day in Canada is celebrated in the second Sunday in the month of May. As Mother's Day is a festival with strong emotional value, it has been commercialized to a large extent with compelling advertising strategies in the technologically advanced country of Canada.
Mother's Day in France: The French do not celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May as the Americans do. Instead, mom's special day is reserved for the last Sunday in the month of May. A family dinner is the norm, and traditionally the mother being honored is presented with a cake that looks like a bouquet of flowers. Consider making your mother a flower bouquet cake on the last Sunday in May and celebrate Mother's Day with the people of France.
Mother's Day in India: Mother's Day Celebration in India are slowly catching. The concept of celebrating Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May is very new in India and it can be said that in a time span of less than a decade, Mother's Day has been a great success. It is a remarkable achievement for a foreign festival to make its presence felt in the vast and culturally diverse country like India. Indians too take Mother's Day as a time too reflect on the importance of mothers in their life. They take it is time to think about all the pains their mother took while they were sick, the hardships she went through in bringing them up and all the sacrifices she made so that they lead a better life. In the capital city of Delhi, Mothers Day is celebrated in a big way and has been commercialized to a great extent. Big companies launch various women oriented products on the day and restaurants try to lure people with attractive advertisements. Media too creates a big hype about the day with special programs and features. Looking at the fast pace at which the excitement for Mothers Day is growing it will not be long when the Mother's Day will be noted as the national festival of India.
Mother's Day in Ireland: In Ireland, Mother's Day is not celebrated on same day as in US. Mother's Day celebrations in Ireland take place on the fourth Sunday in the Christian fasting month of Lent. The history of celebrating Mothering Sunday, or Mother's Day in Ireland, can be traced to the medieval practice where children from poor families were sent to work as domestic servants and apprentices to work with the rich. Once in the year in the middle of the Lent these children were given a day off to visit their 'Mother Church' and worship Virgin Mary. After visiting the Mother Church or Cathedral of their home town these children visited their mothers and presented them with flowers they picked along the way. On Mother's Day, people in Ireland present flowers and cards to their mothers to express love and gratitude.
Mother's Day in Mexico: In the North American country of Mexico, Mother's Day is celebrated on a fixed day of May 10 as opposed to the Mother's Day in US that falls on the second Sunday in the month of May. Mother's Day in Mexico is celebrated in a colorful fashion. Children honor their mothers and thank them for their efforts in bringing them up and According to a custom in Mexico, sons and daughters make themselves present in the house on the eve of Mother's Day on May 9. The day is celebrated with gusto as churches in Mexico organize special mass. The highpoint of the event is the orchestra which plays "las mañanitas" and distribution of 'tamales' and 'atole', the traditional early-morning meal to all local mothers.
Mother's Day in New Zealand: In New Zealand Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in the month of May. The manner of celebrating Mother's Day in New Zealand is much the same as that in US. The festival of Mother's Day has turned out to be a big day for the people of New Zealand. There is a big euphoria over the day and people celebrate the day by going out for picnics and dinners. Markets see a busy time as people make it a point to buy gifts for their mothers, grandmothers and friends and relatives who are mothers. Flowers and cards business particularly flourish at this time of the year.
Mother's Day in South Africa: In South Africa, Mothers Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in the month of May. People of South Africa celebrate Mother's Day in its true spirit by acknowledging the importance of mothers in their lives and thanking them profusely for all their love and care. Young children present their mothers with homemade gifts while the elder ones buy gifts for their mothers. In South Africa, Mother's Day is taken as an opportunity to thank not just mothers but also grandmothers and women who are like mothers.
Mother's Day in Spain: Unlike the United States and several other countries, Mother's Day in Spain is celebrated on December 8. Spaniards pay tribute not only to their own mothers on this day, but also to the Virgin Mary. Mother's Day in Spain includes religious celebrations across the country. As December comes this year, consider taking a moment to honor your mother on December 8 with the Spaniards of the world.
Mother's Day in the UK: Mother's Day in UK is celebrated with great excitement and verve but it does not fall on the same date as in US. In UK, Mother's Day celebrations takes place on the fourth Sunday in the month of Lent. Since the Lent days are not fixed, the date for Mother's Day changes every year. Mother's Day came to be celebrated in UK in 17th century as Mothering Sunday, much before the custom began in US. The tradition of celebrating Mother's Day began much earlier in England than it started in USA. In fact, England was the first country in the world to dedicate a day for mothers as early as 1600s. They called this day for mothers as 'Mothering Sunday'. The tradition of Mothering Sunday stopped with the advent of Industrial Revolution in England when the working conditions and life pattern changed. In the present time, original meaning of Mothering Sunday has been lost and has taken the form and name of Mother's Day in US. In UK, there is a tradition of making a rich almond cake for mothers called 'Mothering Cake' or 'Simnel Cake' (seen to the left) on Mother's Day.
Source: Mother's Day Around the World
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