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|By Jean Stratton
During the Festive Holiday Season No One Is Ever too Old for a Toy
Harrison is five years old and in kindergarten. He wants a globe so he "can see where all the places are;" he also wants a new bike because his legs are too long for the one he has. His brother, Spencer, who is three, wants a fire engine, and both boys want "diggers". These are sit-on pieces of equipment with manually-operated shovels, "and you can dig very big holes in the sand."
Mary, nine, is expecting the latest Barbie and all the trimmings, including the Barbie radio-controlled Volkswagen Beetle pink convertible. Jennifer, 12, a jewelry maven, hopes for the Jewelry Design Workshop (with every bead ever made) and the Slide bracelet kit.
Jesse, 17, likes videos, DVDs, CDs, and the full range of high tech games.
Now, fast forward to Dave, 35, once an aficionado of dinosaurs, puppets, and "Build Your Own Bear." Today, he has his eye on "Soda Club", a motorized machine to make club soda at home in a jiffy.
His three-year-old daughter, Hannah, on the other hand, likes Bobble Heads, stuffed animals, and toy musical instruments.
Hal, now retired, still likes additions to his train set, but also is excited about his gift certificate for "oil changes for life". Last year, according to his wife, "he bought himself (from the family!) a book of coupons for discount car washes. A true romantic!"
S'mores Maker
His wife, in a moment of nostalgia, has asked for the new S'mores maker. "You don't need a campfire anymore to have s'mores. It comes with a little grill, plus ceramic holders for the graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows. It does not come with a book of ghost stories!"
She is also enthusiastic about the possibility of "Roomba" the futuristic robotic floor vacuum cleaner.
As she describes the phenomenon: "Just press a button to tell Roomba what size room to clean. The adjustable timer lets you customize its run-time, based on the size of the room. Once set, the cordless, rechargeable robot goes to work navigating around obstacles, avoiding stairs, guided by infrared sensors.
"It moves easily over thresholds and carpet-to-floor transitions. Roomba sweeps till it drops that is until its battery runs out after 90 minutes."
"My husband Harold's favorite toy store was a hardware store," recalls another friend. "His eyes would light up for even the slightest fitting or dry wall screw or glue gun. He positively strutted down the aisles with the saws radial arm saws, band saws, circular saws, jig saws, even wooden-handled hand saws.
"The year we bought the cement mixer, he knew he had a tool of reckoning. But he could be just as happy if we stopped in only for carpenter's glue, wallpaper paste, or single-edge razor blades.
Red Wagon
"Plumbing fittings were also exciting, especially if they had built-in gadgets. As for Harold's other toys, he talked one of his employers into getting him an airplane a Cherokee for work, of course! And there was the big shiny motorcycle for Sunday morning spins.
"But Harold could and would fix bicycles, dolls, and little red wagons, and he made toys, including a wooden riding airplane for one son. He could have been Santa, with his white beard which he kept trimmed, enough girth to fit the costume, and a rosy northern European complexion. Actually, I think he was Santa!
"Just remember that old saying: 'The only difference between men and boys is the size and cost of their toys!'" Indeed. Toys, like people, come in all shapes, sizes, colors, textures, and personalities. And whatever one's age, somewhere, a toy is waiting!
Toys, in one form or another have been with us since humans first figured out it was fun to play. An ancestor of chess is said to have been played in 6000 B.C., evolving from an Indian game Chaturanga. In 3000 B.C. a game resembling backgammon was played in ancient Samaria. Stone marbles were first used in Egypt (glass marbles were popularized in the U.S. in the 1800s).
Also in 3000 B.C., Egyptians made dolls from string, fabric, and paper and the first iron skates were used in Scandinavia.
Roller Skates
Kites were flown in China in 1000 B.C. (and probably before), the same time that stone yo-yos appeared in Greece (the popular Duncan yo-yo was introduced in the U.S. in 1929). Playing cards were used in Asia in 969.
In Colonial times in America, children enjoyed games such as hopscotch, tag, jump rope, blowing bubbles, spinning tops, cards, and puzzles. They usually had to make do with what they had toys had to be found around the house, or adults had to make them. Dolls were made from corn husks and rags. Leftover wood and string could be used to make spinning tops, and hoops from barrels were used in races and a variety of games. Roller skates came along in 1789.
In 1840, the first American doll-maker was granted a patent, and dolls began to be mass-produced in the U.S. In 1867, a westernized version of the Indian game "Parcheesie" was introduced in England. Parcheesie is the oldest continually-marketed American toy.
The popular Brio wooden train sets originated in Sweden in 1884, and were brought to the U.S. in 1977. In 1889, the Flexible Flyer sled came on the snow scene, and in 1900, Joshua Lionel Cowen created a battery-operated train engine as an animated advertisement in a store window display. To his surprise, customers were more interested in his toy train than the other merchandise, and it was the precursor of the longed-for Lionel trains of every boy's dreams.
In 1903, the first box of Crayola crayons was produced, and in 1916, John Lloyd Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, invented the famous Lincoln Logs. In 1926, Ole Christiansen, a Danish toymaker, began to manufacture toys with a new twist, and the very popular Lego was born.
Scrabble, then known as CrissCross, was invented in 1931, and Monopoly saw the light of day in 1935. The endlessly entertaining "Slinky" appeared in 1943, followed by the Frisbee in 1948 and the Hula Hoop two years later. 1949 saw the introduction of Silly Putty, and then Play-Doh in 1956.
Today it's Beyblades, Big Wheels, Hot Wheels, Power Wheels, Pac-man, Nintendo, Gameboy, GameCube, Finding Nemo and Freaky Friday DVDs, Palm Pilots, cell phone cameras, and all those tiny technological marvels. But the toys that have stood the test of time appear and reappear every Christmas: finger paints, kaleidoscopes, Chinese checkers, pick-up sticks, pogo sticks, jacks, jack-in-the-box, music boxes, drums, xylophones, trading cards, sidewalk chalk the list is endless, and everyone has a favorite.
Never more so than during the holidays, of course, and while it can seem like over-kill during the frenzied shopping scene leading to Christmas, many of us recall those special moments when a longed-for, unexpected, or "perfect" toy was waiting under the tree.
Train Wrecker
A World War II veteran recalls the year he wanted a train wrecker and a red bridge to go with his electric train set, and he got it. He continues to enjoy his trains as a hobby to this day.
His younger brother got his first full-size bike when he was 10. "It had an odometer, and I rode 20 miles the first day! I also always wanted the Thornton Burgess animal books for Christmas, and I would often finish one by the end of the day. The first one I got was "Paddy the Beaver." I still have all the Burgess books I received, and my children have enjoyed them over the years too.
"I also built lots of things with my erector set, and I liked to make model airplanes, which I would then fly off our fire escape. In the summer, for the Fourth of July, I put firecrackers in them and blew the planes up!"
There is something about seeing that first bike under the tree that takes the breath away. A Princeton neighbor remembers the thrill of her first bike, made even more meaningful because it was a long time coming.
"I had wanted a bike so much, and waited for two years," she explains. "The first year, my parents talked to me and said they weren't able to afford it. I was terribly disappointed. But then, the next year, it was under the tree. And I will never forget that wonderful red bike!"
A Lambertville resident, who grew up during World War II, recalls his first two-wheeler. "I was 10 years old in Columbus, Ohio it was red, with big fat balloon tires, and Dad held the seat until I got my balance."
He has warm Christmas memories, and like many boys, he loved his trains. "When I was eight and my brother 12, we got a Lionel train set for Christmas engine, coal tender, cattle car, searchlight car and barrel car, and red caboose, plus tracks and switches. It was a big set the engine had a 'chugger' switch so you could turn it on and it would chug!
"Each Christmas thereafter, we got additional tracks. We were also given a passenger train set engine plus three coaches. We had a finished attic in our house, and we set it all up there.
Wooden Castles
"When I was 10," he continues, "I got roller skates and a scooter. The roller skates were needed, as birthday parties of friends were skating parties at local rinks. We also had Lincoln Logs, erector sets, and Buck Rogers Model Space crafts pop guns, ray guns, and sling shots. I had a collection of brightly colored metal cars and trucks, even a trailer home, and one of my favorite toys was a wooden copy of a ferry boat that floated in the bath. It held four to six of the metal cars."
In addition, he reports that he was the fortunate recipient of special handcrafted toys. "My father had a basement workshop, and made us wooden castles with towers and drawbridges, etc., and with our weekly allowances, we bought metal soldiers, tanks, horses, guns, etc. to man the castle. The cannons had a lever and pellets to insert you pulled the lever and it shot the pellets.
"In his shop, my father glued colored calendar pictures onto thin plywood and with a jigsaw cut us out jigsaw puzzles. We often did them after Sunday dinner, when we made popcorn and listened to 'The Shadow', Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and 'One Man's Family' on the radio no TV yet!"
Another now grown-up boy remembers his trains and his favorite erector set. "I was 12, and I made a Ferris Wheel. There was a motor that came with it, and the Ferris Wheel went around. I loved it!
"I loved my Tinker Toy set too. It was big, but not as big as my friend Teddy's. He always had toys and trains bigger than mine. He had trains that coupled and uncoupled. Mine didn't uncouple, but I worked and worked with the wire on my small train set, and finally figured out a way for them to uncouple. I also made a platform out of boards with a hole in the middle for a tree, and throughout the Christmas season, the trains ran around the tree. Maybe the fact that I had to improvise and create mechanical things helped lead me to my career as a civil engineer."
Transportation, whether trains, planes, cars, trucks, boats, bikes, wagons, and even doll carriages, has had a very strong attraction over the years. And an early interest in a toy vehicle often leads to a continuing fascination as time goes on.
A Wayne, N.J. resident, who loved building model cars, now spends any free time he has working on his collection of real classic cars.
The afore-mentioned Hal "loved his tricycle, then bicycle, and his wagon I have a picture of him pulling the wagon with a cute little girl in it a precursor to his yellow convertible and other classic cars," says his wife.
Silver Dumpster
A Princeton neighbor's favorite toy was a green and silver dump truck. "It was the kind you can climb into and pedal around," he remembers. "Santa brought it on my fourth Christmas, and I was thrilled. Its silver dumpster on the back tipped when you pulled the lever, and whatever it was filled with stones, pine cones, or dirt would tumble out.
"On the front was a blue and yellow license plate that had my initials. I remember a day or two after Christmas, I pedaled the new truck over to a grassy spot near our neighbor's back porch. It was mid-morning, and seemed especially peaceful and still. I sat and parked there and began to sing 'Silent Night'. When she heard me singing, our neighbor, Mrs. Yocum, came out and said, 'Good morning, Charlie. It's so nice to hear you singing.'
"'Oh, that's not me,' I replied. 'That's my radio!'
"Reflecting on this experience that took place more than 60 years ago, it's as real to me as though it happened yesterday."
Charlie's son, Rob loved the enduring Matchbox toys, and there were never enough, recalls his father.
"He would study them in the store display for weeks before Christmas and choose his favorites. There were double-decker buses, red trucks, and sleek blue sedans. Some had trunks that lifted, and some had doors and hoods that opened.
"After the gifts were opened on Christmas morning, then came the ritual of building a garage with the wooden blocks around. It was a marvelous garage, with parking spaces for each of the trucks and cars. The wooden block doors could be swung open to allow the vehicles to enter and exit. The garage even had a ramp and roof-top parking.
All Smiles
"When we were in graduate school in Scotland," he continues, "there was not much money for toys at Christmas. When we walked into the little village where we lived, Rob spied a small silver race car in the window of a toy shop. He fell in love with it and checked it out whenever we were in town. One morning, shortly before Christmas, it wasn't there, and he was crestfallen. Santa must have known, for that very car mysteriously appeared under our tree Christmas morning. When Rob discovered it, he was all smiles, and in his delight, he exclaimed: 'A silver race car! Just what I always wanted!'"
What cars, trains, and planes mean to boys, dolls often are to girls. Barbies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Strawberry Shortcake (back again), Madame Alexander, Sparkle Plenty, Little Lulu, Madeline, bride dolls, the new Bratz Funk dolls with attitude they encompass generations and cultural changes.
Nearly every female, no matter her age, seems to have a favorite sometimes even with bittersweet recollections. A former New York City resident, who grew up during the Depression, recalls "Joanna."
"She was a lovely doll very special. Then my two brothers broke her. I had other dolls, but never one like Joanna."
Her disappointment was assuaged the next Christmas, however, when she received her first watch. "I had wanted one very much, and I wore it to show all my friends and even my teacher, who admired it."
My neighbor remembers receiving a baby doll when she was five, and she can recall her down to the last detail. "She had a molded head with a beautifully painted face and painted curly, brown hair. Her eyes opened and closed, and she had real eye lashes. Her body was soft and stuffed, but her hands and feet were molded and painted and looked real. She had a long pink dotted Swiss dress with a bonnet to match. Beneath the dress was a wondrous petticoat that made her dress fluff and flow. She was very loved.
"I still have my doll, packed in a large shoe box in the basement. Every once in a while, I peek into the box and look at my precious doll! As I do, memories return of my joy at finding her under the tree on Christmas morning."
Doll memories seem to be especially important. For example, there is the Shirley Temple doll and her steamer trunk. A New York City friend remembers this well-loved toy.
"I was five when I got my Shirley Temple steamer trunk. When the trunk was opened, she fit on one side, and her clothes hung on the other side. Beneath the clothes was a drawer for her shoes and her comb and brush because she had lovely black hair with ringlet curls. At the top of the trunk was a handle, and I could take her with me wherever I went. This was in the days of travel by ship, so I felt very au courant with my steamer trunk.
Love of Travel
"I played with her endlessly, and the play proved to be geography lessons. I needed new places to go with Shirley, and my mother and grandmother willingly supplied them, with stories about their life in different places. I loved this beautiful doll, and this is the one I remember of all the toys I had and there were many, as I was an only child and an only grandchild! Is it possible that my love of travel started with Shirley Temple?
"The only other thing from my playthings I remember so vividly were my Wonder Woman comic books. They were read to me so many times that I learned to read with them. When we had to read Dick, Jane, and Spot in first grade, it was agony. They had no magic bracelets or terrific boots and they never went anywhere!"
"I still have most of my 'Nancy Ann' Storybook dolls in a glass case," reports another friend. "I had lots of baby dolls, as well as a doll carriage, bed, high chair, and doll house. I also loved all the cooking toys refrigerator, stove, oven, baking sets, etc. And I loved tea sets. My friends and I would dress up our dolls, and we'd sip tea and eat Oreo cookies."
A Princeton friend, originally from Ohio, remembers a special Christmas when she and her sister were seven and eight, and their mother made outfits for their dolls.
"Mine had a green velvet coat and puffy hat and my sister's had a velvet cape and bonnet. Sewing was hard for my mother, and that was a wonderful surprise for us."
She also remembers a surprise for her own little girl many years later. "There was a book about a little girl living on an island, who had a wooden doll, and my husband made one just like it for her. She loved it, and then later, shared it with her own daughter, Meghan."
Handmade dolls are certainly special, and those children lucky enough to receive one or more never forget them.
"My grandfather was very handy with woodworking," recalls another friend. "He made a cradle for my dolls. It was all handcarved and beautiful. I loved it. Still sitting in it today is the doll that came with it.
"He also made a dollhouse that was a replica of the house we lived in, and a little wood hutch with little drawers that I filled with silverware and plastic dishes for my dolls."
The American Girl series of dolls has been very popular over the past years, and nieces Kristen and Katie, when they were nine and 10, were big fans. Each doll, from a different era of American history, has a wardrobe, accessories, and books about them.
The American Girl concept has blossomed, and there are now American Girl Tea Parties in fancy department stores. You and your doll attend the party together!
Over the years, many little girls have enjoyed cutting out paper dolls and still do today. "Dressing up" the little cut-outs in their new paper finery can encompass hours of fun.
"My sister and I played with paper dolls for a long time," says a Princeton friend. "We had a lot of different outfits for them, and it was one of our favorite things to do."
Toy Tradition
This friend initiated a new toy tradition a few years ago, when she began decorating Christmas packages with tiny toys. Little ornaments, miniature wooden reindeer, Santas or snowmen, sparkling angels, and silver bells make her gifts even more appealing.
"I just felt it was an added decoration for the gifts," she says, "and now it has become a true holiday tradition."
Stuffed animals are among the most popular toys, and many grown-ups have been known to keep their favorite in a safe place in the closet, attic or right out in the open. Ever since the teddy bear was named for President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, these soft bears have been a big-time toy.
"Stuffed animals were favorites in our house," says a neighbor. "Bears, dogs and cats, dinosaurs, raccoons, monkeys and rabbits were everywhere. There were also soft, stuffed puppets that came to life when you put your hand inside. Each Christmas, new characters were added to the menagerie. They sat sentinel under the tree until it was taken down. Then they joined the profusion of other well-loved animals on our son's bed."
Another popular animal toy was "My Little Pony." Girls, especially, were enthralled with these pastel ponies, and loved to brush their long tails and manes. Meghan, now grown up at 21, remembers "Cotton Candy."
"She was one of my favorite toys when I was little, and she was pink. I was just a toddler, so I don't really recall getting her, but I've had her for as long as I can remember. I still have her; she's packed away in the basement with my other old toys. She didn't wear out I just eventually outgrew My Little Ponies."
The memory lingers, however.
The story of a particular teddy bear falls into the category of "Most Meaningful Toys Ever." "My daughter had a small teddy bear made of alpaca that she just loved," remembers a Princeton neighbor. "It went everywhere with her, and then one day, she lost it. I told her I wasn't able to get her another, and she was crushed. Then time passed, and on Christmas morning, when he was peeking out of the Christmas stocking, she was simply thrilled. It was the best Christmas if you could have seen her face!"
Teddy's Story
The story of Teddy does not end there. He is now safely packed away a little the worse for wear in the now grown-up little girl's basement. As her own daughter, who also played with Teddy, explains: "He's worn out; all of his fur is gone except for little patches behind his ears (It's been 'loved off', as Mom says). He's been patched and repatched to keep his stuffing from coming out. Finally, we bundled him up in a pair of doll pajamas to keep his stuffing in."
While boys like teddy bears too, overall, they are attracted to more action-packed toys, says a mother of three males.
"My boys especially enjoyed the large box of unpainted wooden building blocks. The part they liked most was watching their father carefully build a high and elaborate tower, looking at it in joyful suspense for about 15 seconds, then knocking it down with their little knees and elbows. This gave them the greatest possible satisfaction! They would do this for as long as the consenting adult could cope. Girls do not do this!"
One now grown-up girl does remember receiving a lot of boy-type toys, however. As she explains, "My father really wanted a boy, but he had three daughters. So, I, as the oldest, received 'boy' gifts at Christmas Lincoln Logs, baseball glove, race car set, and microscope. I was a girl, but I loved them all!"
On the other hand, she also fondly remembers her miniature kitchen. "It had a sink you could actually fill with water, a stove, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer, and small plastic food, which you could put in the refrigerator."
Another young girl especially enjoyed her kitchen which she received when she was four. As her mother recalls: "She had opened all her other presents, and then saw a note saying there was a surprise for her in the dining room. When she went in, there was the kitchen all set up. She was really surprised. She just looked at it with a big smile, and said 'The Kitchen!' She played with it all the time, and we would make up menus, and she pretended to make food, using the pretend stove, oven, food, and refrigerator.
Pretty Cute
"Another gift she and her brother Brian loved was a pretend store. It was the same type big and plastic, but the checkout register had a scanner, and it made the same noise as at the real store. There were even credit cards they could use, and when you ran them through the register, it said 'Credit approved'. It was pretty cute."
As anyone with a dog or cat in the family knows, pet products are a big business. It is reported that 54% of dog owners and 41% of cat owners purchase holiday gifts for their four-legged friends. Pets are the focus of a big variety of toys, supplies, and more unusual products.
For example: the BowLingual Dog Translator. This state-of-the-art tool claims to translate Rover's bark, which is transmitted by a microphone unit that clips to a collar. "A hand-held unit analyzes the voice print based on breed and sex, then displays information to indicate the possible meaning. It is programmed with over 5,000 voice prints from 80 breeds."
Bubble Buddy, the original bubble-blowing dog toy, sends streams of Sizzlin' Bacon-scented bubbles into the air to entertain everyone, including the pooch. Other scents are available.
Cats like bubbles, too, and Bubble Kitty offers catnip-infused bubbles for feisty felines. Bubble-jumping and pouncing is a great form of exercise during the long winter months!
What better gift to give your lovable canine than that of fresh breath? Dogs love the tantalizing mint flavor of Tastems Mint, which are 2.5-inch diameter pressureless tennis balls that withstand the sharpest teeth and most playful pups.
Magic Cat Hat
Perfect for the curious cat, Magic Cat Hat is a big, colorful plush hat that turns upside down to reveal four enticing cat toys bells, catnip, balls, and plush toys, which easily retract back by pulling a tangle-free cord.
"Thing in a Bag" is specially designed to bring out kitty's natural stalking instinct. The bag's exterior looks like an ordinary brown lunch bag, but inside are crinkly-sounding materials and a randomly activated motor that makes the "thing" come alive.
Imaginative toys, puzzling toys, baby toys, funny toys, friendly toys, learning toys, high tech toys, magic toys there's a toy for every taste and talent, including that most "Marvelous Toy", captured in a catchy 1960s song, recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
"My father homeward came one night
"It went 'Zip' when it moved.
years have gone by too quickly it seems,
May all your toy-filled dreams come true!


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Welcome to the first of EX's updates from the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England – and what a cracking opening weekend of the tournament it was. Here are a few of the things we saw, learnt and loved from games 1 through 8, complete with our checklist of some great places to watch all the action in Singapore.
"Unexpected" would be putting it mildly. In fact, some have called it the biggest upset in any sport, ever! Japan's astonishing 34-32 victory over South Africa, their first win in a World Cup for 24 years, was thoroughly deserved – let's not forget, after all, that this was the most experienced Test side ever fielded by the Springboks. What we loved most was the Brave Blossoms' refusal to settle for a draw via penalty kicks twice in the final five minutes, a strategy that paid off when New Zealand-born Karne Hesketh crashed over in the corner to seal the miracle win.
And South Africa weren't the only former World Cup champions to feel the pressure from a rugby minnow. Argentina pushed the All Blacks all the way at Wembley on Sunday, with the Pumas leading by four points with 25 minutes to play. New Zealand proved too classy in the end, running out winners by 26-16, but the result – not to mention Richie McCaw's ill-disciplined yellow card for a tripping offence – suggests it won't all be plain sailing for the Cup holders.
If the Wallabies were hoping for an early stumble by England or Wales to make their passage through the RWC a little easier, it didn't happen. In fact, while you'd hardly say that either side was convincing in their wins over Fiji (35-11) and Uruguay (54-9), they did both pick up the all-important bonus point, putting even more pressure on the Aussies ahead of their tricky opening encounter with Fiji (Wednesday night / Thursday morning, Singapore time).
EX watched Sam Burgess bludgeon his way to a memorable man-of-the-match performance for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in last year's NRL Grand Final, and in view of that effort we weren't surprised to see him make an impact when he came on for the final 20 minutes of England's opening game. With head coach Stuart Lancaster hinting at changes to the English lineup for the vital matchup with Wales at Twickenham on Saturday, Burgess is now firmly in the frame as a potential match-winner.
All kinds of people were weighing in on the Japan win over South Africa – even this famous children's author …
Prince Harry's turn as a peasant gardener.
Keep your finger on the pulse and track the current standings at RugbyWorldCup.com.
Boomarang Bistro & Bar
60 Robertson Quay, #01-15 The Quayside | 6738 1077
For a weekly update of all the RWC action and other sports coverage at this ever-popular Aussie-flavoured bar and resto right on the river at Robbo Quay, sign up for regular email updates of the Boomarang Sports Bible.
Fern & Kiwi
3C River Valley Road, #01-02/03 The Cannery Clarke Quay | 6336 2271
If all the sporting action on the screens of this All Black-barracking bar is giving you a hunger, you'll be happy to know that rugby even figures in the food choices here, with the bar's renowned Haka Burger proclaimed as "the biggest, baddest burger in town".
Bungy Bar
3E River Valley Road, #01-07 Clarke Quay | 6339 5707
If the Romania vs Canada game isn't proving as exciting as you thought it was going to be, you can always have a crack at the G-MAX Reverse Bungy, just a stone's throw away from the booze-fuelled Bungy Bar at Clarke Quay.
Harry's Bar
28 Boat Quay and other outlets | 6538 3029
Sport figures heavily at every Harry's Bar across the island, and the Rugby World Cup is no exception. Be sure to check the website to see which of the outlets are showing particular games – it varies from venue to venue.
Muddy Murphy's
111 Somerset Road, #01-02 TripleOne Somerset, Singapore, 238164 | 6735 0400
There are screens galore at Muddy Murphy's, so you can "multi-task" with your sport watching. Don't miss the RWC lucky draw, with official World Cup rugby balls and other prizes to be won, just by spending $50 at the pub. See the Facebook page for details.

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Cherry Outlook Pt 2
by Bob Larson, click here for bio
Program: Fruit Grower Report
Date: June 07, 2018
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Northwest Cherry Growers president BJ Thurlby says it will be a few months before we know for sure …
THURLBY-10 = 18 … "In that time period, we have regular varieties of cherries like Bing which are going to be starting harvest here in probably the next seven days. And then we'll, we have late varieties like Skeena which are a variety that comes on and matures much later than Bing. So, we'll have those right up until the middle of August if not longer."
Thurlby says one challenge growers have had to deal with in recent harvests is finding pickers …
THURLBY-11 = 14 … "Drive down any road, you'll see 'Harvesters Wanted,' you'll go to any packing facility you'll see 'Workers Needed' and I'm seeing signs all over the place, so the reality is we're short on labor and that's kind of the world we've been living in for the last five or six years."
Labor aside, Thurlby says we're going to have a beautiful cherry crop …
THURLBY-12 = 24 … "Here in another week, you're going to start seeing them showing up in the stores and we've had optimal growing conditions in May. It's been a beautiful May over in Eastern Washington. We've had lots of days in the 70's, some lower 80's, and we've got sugar buildup in this fruit. And, when we start the season that way, that's a huge positive. Now we just kind of sit back and harvest it and hope that Mother Nature doesn't bring in a rain storm or a hail storm or the next tragedy that can happen if you're in agriculture."
Thurlby says estimates for this year call for 23-million boxes 20-pound boxes will be shipped to about 40 countries, down from last year's 26.5-million boxes.
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So what does it mean to walk in the Spirit? Today is one of those days where I wish you were sitting across from me in a coffee shop with a cup of coffee, so that we could have this discussion eye-to-eye. How I wish I could hear your thoughts on this. Maybe you too struggle understanding this concept like I do. Maybe you experience victory on some days while other days are filled with defeat?
I'm reading a great book by Charles F. Stanley called the Wonderful Spirit-filled Life. It is a great read, much to ponder and to explore; a book I can really recommend.
I don't know about you, but good enough is not good enough for me.
I do not just want to get by every day in my walk with God. I truly believe that it must be possible to live a life filled with the fruit of the Spirit if the Bible talks about it. God is bigger than my temper and my impatience. I do not want to settle for mediocre if He said it could be otherwise.
Dr. Stanley writes, "The power of the Holy Spirit is available only to those whose intention is to carry out His will."
Good one.
Do I vie for His power added to my will? If so, no wonder I'm getting nowhere!
Every time I study the fruit of the Spirit I end up at John 15, the very well known verses from John 15, "5 'I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.'
Each time I have to ask God what it means?
What does this look like in day to day living? How do I remain in Him? Jesus answers this question just a few verses down by saying that when we obey His commands we remain in Him. Yet He desires our obedience to be so much more than that of the Pharisees who was excellent at obeying the commands, but lacked love for Him.
"The Spirit-filled life is a life of faith," according to Dr. Stanley.
Do you remain in the Vine? Does your life look different from those who do not proclaim Christ? Are your days filled with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. I know I want mine to be filled that way.
I will end this with another quote from Dr. Stanley, "Apart form the Helper (Holy Spirit) life is reduced to doing the best we can......The Spirit-filled life begins once we are absolutely and thoroughly convinced that we can do nothing apart from the indwelling strength of the Holy Spirit."
How does this play out in your life? I would love to know.


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Devono is a two-time graduate of CEHS, having earned both his master's in education administration and doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the College. Prior to his 12 years of service as a superintendent, Devono was the administrative liaison for Harrison County Schools and a school principal for 25 years.


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Bonds of Faith and Chance Encounters
May 30, 2017
There are times you'll meet a stranger with whom you'll click, and in the shortest time period, divulge all your inner thoughts and beliefs to that person. It's a feeling of a delirious high when we get our feelings across to a sympathetic ear, regardless of whether the chance encounter between you two will ever come to pass again or not.
I look back at all the times I've put my faith into somebody and revealed my secrets and innermost feeling and insecurities to them. Whether a stranger, an acquaintance, a lover, or a friend, that bond has only been forged when I believe that there will be a nonjudgmental (or maybe just noncritical) ear to listen, and I presume the other person's faith and knowledge that I will deliver pure, unadulterated words of truth that need not be unmasked. What trust such a momentous conversation and dialogue can have… I am grateful for these incredible experiences.
I've learned other the years that these chance occasions are always unexpected and shocking. Bonds forged once are not automatically renewed, nor are somewhat distant relationships automatically excluded from a plausible connection in the future. It's the combined forces of time, place, moment, and present emotional and mental state that determine if the 'click' between two familiars or two strangers is there or not.
I've come to take these chance encounters, and moments of 'truth speak,' as priceless gem-like milestones in my life. Not quite epiphanies, as I tend to relegate those to only my academic endeavors, but more a meeting of serendipity. These are the bonds of faith.
For those individuals who forge that bond with me, I am eternally grateful for your compassionate ears.


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Climate change affects our destinations, and therefore our bottom line, and we acknowledge that our greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming. We have a carbon management strategy in development to reduce this contribution, covering aviation, water transport, major premises, ground transport and flagship hotel properties.
In 2008/9, we started to report our energy consumption, paper for brochure production, company cars, staff travel to work, copy paper, recycling and business flights for Crystal employees to The Carbon Neutral Company and Crystal's direct carbon footprint was established by a third party as 1375 tonnes in that year. In the period April 2009 to March 10 when we measured our carbon footprint again, we reduced the CO2 emissions to 1001 tonnes. In April 2011 we decided to get certified for a longer period than just a year and we agreed to report for several years running until October 2017. Each year we could reduce the emissions, another step in the right direction. Crystal is proud to be a CarbonNeutral® office.
Carbon emissions from aviation
The main airline we use is Thomson Airways. Thomson's aim is to reduce the environmental impact of its fleet of aircraft by replacing older aircraft with new, more fuel-efficient models and by pursuing a fuel conservation programme to ensure that its fleet is as fuel efficient as possible. In 2010/11, the fleet's average emissions were 76g of CO2 per revenue passenger kilometre (CO2/RPK), which compares very favourably with both global scheduled airlines and low-cost airlines.
In June 2016, TUI Group, Thomson Airways' and Crystal's parent company, completed its annual submission to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) – the independent organisation that gathers climate change information from companies throughout the world. Our submission contained detailed information about our carbon impact, risk and opportunity, and our approach to carbon management.
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MEMS Sensor Testing Challenges and Requirements
Today MEMS sensor test requirements are far more challenging than just a couple of years ago. MEMS markets such as mobility, automotive and medical are driving new requirements. While some of these requirements may be easily achieved in an engineering lab environment, they can be a major challenge for high volume manufacturing (HVM). Environmental combination sensors are seeing a strong growth due to its wide breath of potential applications in consumer and automotive applications. These environmental sensors have very stringent temperature requirements which can be challenging to achieve in HVM.
With lowering ASP in the sensor market MEMS suppliers are focused on testing at higher levels of parallelism in order to reduce CoT. The target level of parallelism extends beyond the 256 sites on a single touchdown that is currently being done today. In addition the trend of multiple sensor types of sensors on a single chip 9DOF, 10DOF and even 12DOF are driving new test requirements. The ability to test multiple sensor types in a single insertion along with test cell modularity and flexibility will be key to addressing these integrated sensors.
Finding flexible solutions for handling all the different types of MEMS packaging and sizes that we see today as well as what will come in the future will also be something MEMS suppliers will need to consider. Low cost and small form factor for the mobility and automotive markets are main drivers for the MEMS WLCSP growth. Handling MEMS WLCSP brings new test requirements in the already challenging HVM environment.
This paper will explore some of the key attributes and technical challenges in testing high accuracy specification MEMS devices. It will discuss the market drivers as well as other factors contributing to the more stringent specifications and new test requirements. The paper will address the key test cell characteristics that can help MEMS suppliers navigate the challenge faced today in HVM as well as what may come in the future.
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This program is simple. I like the simplicity of it because it suits my life as a busy mother of two. I also like how easy it integrates into my life. Basically once I signed up, their recommended food and diet, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, just plopped on my doorstep at certain hours. I even didn't have to go to the grocery store as often which sort of lightened my load in housework! The only thing I really miss is eating out. This program sort of prohibits you or discourages you from eating out often or at all! It basically pre-plans all the meals for you. Believe me, this is actually helping my life, but once in a while, I really do miss eating out. I have to admit, I am a sucker for Burger King. Especially when I am on the go.
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I hate to admit it, but I really do miss their burgers and fries! I guess it's no pain no gain though. I am finding that although it's slow for me to take off the pounds, I feel more energetic. I don't really feel a difference just yet on about 4 weeks of the program, but I do feel more energy. Maybe it's because I'm in my own skin and I don't really see the difference. My husband says he sees it, but maybe I'm too hard on myself. I really want to look like what I looked like in terms of weight and fitness level when I first met my husband. I know this is what every mom of two and post – pregnant woman dreams of, but I guess I truly do have high expectations of myself. Luckily, the pre packaged meals actually don't taste that bad, and despite missing Burger King, I am really enjoying the food, and the program which is way better than Diet Chef. The breakfasts include oatmeal, muffins, granola, and pancakes. I can't argue with that! The lunches and dinners are a variety of soups, stews, chicken, pasta, and pizza. For dessert, you even can have brownies, cake, and cookies. Somehow they slip nutrition through nuts, vegetables, meat, and dairy into the meal plan packages. You don't eve notice that you are eating healthier because it just tastes so good!
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Chronic Masturbator Turned Into My Slave
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Masturbator alert! More loser adventures in phone sex for you to read and relate too or laugh with me.
Meet chronic masturbator Bradley.
"Princess Melissa can you be my therapist who tells me she wants to help my sex addiction and the fact that I am a chronic masturbator to turn me into her slave instead. I tell you all my secrets and info thinking it's just for therapy. I go to strip clubs a lot where the women dominate me tease me which makes weak confused and helpless and the drain my wallet and there is nothing I can do about. You tell me as therapy I need to have to only call you on Niteflirt instead and I tell you know what but you use my weaknesses to get me on cam naked jerking its pretty easy to tease me into it then record me and get embarrassing pics of me and then make me stay home online naked on my bed in cam or online on skype keeping my cock hard to pics and videos for you instead of going out. You tell me your going to use me to do experiments on me. I keeping begging you to let me go out but you don't let me and make you pay you a large financial domination fee and say it's for my own good that you force me to stay home naked edging to your photos and videos. Then you can check on me during the night either at your computer or smart phone on skype and if I don't turn on my cam and you see me on my bed naked jerking then make me pay a penalty. Later make me pay to final cum and go to bed, Can we set up time for this?"
Loser Bradley has been jerking off on cam for me for the past week, I have a nice collection of humiliating evidence as to what to complete and total loser he is. I've been draining his wallet daily watching the cha-ching go bling bling in my bank account. He did fuck up once and had to pay a $250 fee which I thought was being totally generous. Like I give a shit though right?
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Let's play a game of "Do what I tell you" in todays round of open of your wallet and spend. A small but powerful new goodie bag that I've posted on Niteflirt.
Pregnancy Fetish Phone Sex
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This was a really creepy phone sex call, I found myself totally grossed out during and after this one. So, this guy called my femdom phone line and I had him hypnotized for over an hour talking about the millions of black babies his wife was about to produce. Are you already intrigued and wondering where this is going to go? I'm sure you are so go ahead and read the introduction he sent me.
"Princess you are a hypno therapist who is evil. my wife and I came to you (separately; she, then me) because we have been trying to have a baby but have been unsuccessful so far.
after you hypnotize me, you show me that:
my wife was already under hypnosis before I came into your office. you have laid her out on a hospital bed, she is nude except for black stockings & black patent heels. there is a filthy/beat-up bucket hanging above her bed, with a clear tube coming out the bottom, and you have inserted the other end of the tube into her womb. inside the bucket is the cum loads from hundreds of different black men. there is a valve that you can open and close to start and stop the flow of their cum into her womb. right now the valve is closed; nothing has happened… yet.
through your hypnosis you are going to rewrite my mind so that the sight of this now turns me on, and you will program me so that every time I see cum flowing through the tube, I will get more and more aroused… and I will want to see more and more cum flowing each time you open the valve.
you will reprogram me so that I want her to get pregnant with a black baby, where we won't know the father. you program me to hope for twins/triplets or even more. you program me to take care of the babies while she cuckolds me with black thugs. you program me to have no problems with the humiliation from raising kids which are obviously not mine.
first you can ask me if you should open & close the valve to let a single load into her…
then after that, ask me if you should fill her with two loads at once, and so on and so on,
building up to a gallon at once, then finally ask if you should release the bucket's remaining contents all at once…"
You're either really grossed out or really turned on by reading that, I'm sure most of you freaks are getting all hot and bothered and want the same thing. By the time the call was over his slut whore big black cock craving slut of a wife had given birth to about 40 hood rats and thugs. I turned him into the worlds most busy Mr. Mom while his wife was an endless cum dump baby making machine.
He Has A Haircut Fetish
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Awesome new humiliation junkie caller on Niteflirt this past week with a hair cutting fetish. Evan had fairly shaggy hair and wanted to be forced to cut it. Forced to shave it off and make his body bare. How was I going to make this happen over the phone? I had Evan get on Skype for me, he was ready with his haircutting scissors but afraid to start cutting into his hair. He also had an electric razor for shaving everything off and I was determined to make him chop it all off. His haircut fetish was now mine for the clipping, he was in tears with the first snip, by the first massive chunk came off his dick got hard and he wanted to take a jerk off break. There was no jerking off until he buzzed his pubes bald. It took a little over 2 hours to turning this loser into a bald beauty. The tears were flowing and so was his nasty dick. I think I have a haircut fetish now, so who wants to cut their hair off on webcam for me?
"My name is Evan and i am a 21 year old novice submissive and i am interested in phone sessions. ive actually got a big time fetish for forced haircutting and shaving (anywhere on the body really) done by a dominant woman. my hair is brown, straight, and shaggy-long. I am brand new to the online scene, and i started looking here because i have tried to find an actual experience of this nature, but there are no local dominant women who like this fetish of mine.I would love to know anything that you can tell me about how this would work when i called you because i will fully admit that i am very nervous to do so."
Carpet Humping Loser
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I've always loved the guys who fuck pillows, couch arms, floors and other random things. Pillow humping in particular always makes me laugh and I love getting screen shots of that to share with my friends and, well anyone else who wants to have a good laugh. This phone sex email came.
"Princess Melissa,
I am a loser that can only wank of to porn and pictures of beautiful woman like you and deserve to be verbal abused and humiliated.
I am that much of a loser i have to pretend to fuck a pussy by having sex with the chair or hump the carpet and i know i deserve to be verbally abused while i do this, but at moment i'm at my friend's house and she is out at moment but could come back with friends any time soon so i have to be careful. If you make me do this as they would get mad at me if they walked in.
Please let me know if you will make do this, S"
Loser Sam called and he got on webcam for me. I made him fuck his ugly couch, I had him stick his small dick in between the cushions and hump away. It was like the ugliest fat gut flopping onto a couch making gross noises. I'll spare you from the screen shots. He lasted all of 10 minutes before he pulled his little dick out and sprayed it on a towel that he put over a pillow. Not everyone can get pussy, so you kinda have to take what you can get. Keep fucking those pillows boys, its the best pussy most of you will ever have.
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French-Arabic Talking Dictionary for Windows is great for any speaker of Arabic that would like to learn French. Besides the comprehensive list of French words, this program also uses BST Text-to-Speech software for aloud pronunciation of French words in the most accurate and understandable manner possible.
French-Arabic Talking Dictionary for Windows has a number of other features. These include instant translation, a customizable user vocabulary, instructions on French grammar, customizable interface and more.


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Streamzoo – Share and discover streams of mobile photos and videos December 20, 2012Posted by Ced in Apps, Mobile, Online, Photo, Video.
Tags: android, apps, ios, network, Photo, sharing, social, Video, web
Streamzoo lets you share your mobile photos and videos, using iOS, Android, or the Web. This is another nice alternative mobile photo sharing network.
18 filters, 15 borders, 6 crop ratios, rotate and flip, 4 tilt-shifts, and edit hue / saturation / brightness / contrast.
Also, it has a gaming aspect, where you get to unlock badges for uploading photos. This keeps sharing a bit more fun and competitive.
You can cross post to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr. One unique feature of the service is that at a certain point, you can upload photos using the web app! (I very nice feature, especially if you are manually moving your photos from another sharing service.)
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Pratham Institute for literacy, education and vocational training was set up to provide individuals with skills to improve their employment prospects. The profile of students is typically those who have dropped out of school or have only completed their education up to year nine or ten.
To provide vocational skills training and subsequent job opportunities to underprivileged young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
To learn more about the various programmes, please visit www.prathaminstitute.org
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Church Point Postal Codes
Church Point city is located in Nova Scotia, Canada
You can search for the Church Point NS postal codes by its streets and block numbers
Church Point Area Code is 902 and Time Zone is Atlantic (GMT -04:00).
Church Point is also known as Concession
Church Point Postal Code - Nova Scotia
Church Point Postal Code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British and Dutch postcodes, Church Point - NS postal codes are alphanumeric.
The first three characters (alpha-numeric-alpha) of the postal code which represent a geographic area in Church Point.
The last three characters denote a Church Point local delivery unit (LDU). An LDU denotes a specific single Church Point address or range of addresses, which can correspond to an entire small town, a significant part of a medium-sized town, a single side of a city block in larger cities, a single large building or a portion of a very large one, a single (large) institution in Church Point, Nova Scotia, such as a university or a hospital, or a business that receives large volumes of mail on a regular basis
If you want to send a mail to Church Point City, you should use the corresponding Postal Code.


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About AKOS
AKOS (Intelligent City Automation Systems) is an IT project that is designed to support the formation of a civilized city structure based on laws, regulations and standards in the e-Turkey transformation process.
AKOS platform is composed of the most advanced modern city information systems software available. Platform gathers information about the city and its citizens within the compass of internationally accepted methods and particular standards, transferring the knowledge to a safe database studiously, determining and managing the relationship between data, process and local government needs.
This way, the platform serves as an ideal channel for local governments to administer their social, cultural and municipal services meritoriously in the most convenient manner.
AKOS is indeed the most effective way to timely identify the citizens' needs and problems, designate priorities to related issues using objective criteria, encourage public participation in producing solutions and bring out a transparent, participating and productive way of governance for municipalities.
Until this day SAMPAÌ has been considered worthy of more than thirty rewards for the implementation of modern city information system projects within the framework of AKOS platform.


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ACCEO Smart Vendor version 8 now seamlessly integrates with GFK's POS Tracking for specialty pet stores. ACCEO Smart Vendor automatically sends the sell-through data to GFK for analysis. No need to run special reports or download files, ACCEO's Smart Vendor handles all of this for you!
GFK tracks Pet Specialty trends which can be used by retailers and manufacturers alike. GFK helps their clients analyze the competitive landscape and identify important market trends. Manufacturers leverage their data to understand changes in market share and brand performance for their own brands as well as their competitors', while Retailers leverage the data to understand the best products to stock on shelves.Contact our POS experts to learn more about this new module.


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Every night, twelve very pretty princesses sleep in twelve beds in a large and luxurious palace bedchamber. But every morning when they emerge from it, their beautiful shoes are worn to threads, even though the room had been firmly locked overnight. The princesses either cannot - or will not - offer any explanation for this, and the King and Queen fear that their daughters are bound by some evil spell. Many try and fail to solve the riddle, forfeiting their lives in the process. Can a humble soldier, already exhausted from his experiences on the battlefield, fare any better...? This timeless story is retold for a new generation of young readers - who will be enchanted by this very big adventure!


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Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela
By Rory Carroll (PenguinPress)
"To lead" and "to seduce" have a single root in the Latin language. They are intimately tied in Venezuela as well. For all of President Hugo Chavez's failures as a leader, he was a supremely successful politician, a brilliant beguiler. It is a testimony to his seductive powers that after 14 tempestuous years of rule — two of them in the clutches of a devastating illness, which finally claimed his life earlier this month — he continues to have a near mythical hold on the Venezuelan people. Even as the country crumbled about him, even as he leaves a legacy of ruin, the multitudes adore him. Irish journalist Rory Carroll has gone a long way to explaining this leader-seducer in a riveting expose, "Comandante."
Carroll covered Latin America for the Guardian from 2006 to 2012. While reporting on news of the region, he kept returning to his foothold in Caracas, ever more fascinated by the one-man phenomenon unfolding in the place he called home. Chavez was the big story — the only story. "He bestrode society like a colossus, commanding attention, everywhere his voice, his face, his name. It did not matter whether you despised or adored him; you looked. Covering Venezuela was like wandering through a vast, boisterous audience that simultaneously booed and cheered the titan who turned the presidential palace, Miraflores, into a stage."
"Comandante" traces Chavez's single-minded rise to power, from humble boyhood in the dusty town of Barinas through a meteoric trajectory in the army and, eventually, to his 1992 military coup attempt that landed him in prison and made him a national hero. But nowhere is Carroll's portrait more fascinating than in his account of Chavez winning the presidency in 1999, his subsequent, ubiquitous presence on television, and his careful fashioning of Chavismo — a ferocious brand of anti-capitalism with a folksy smile — a cult that is unique in the annals of Latin America.
Chavez, Carroll takes pains to explain, was no dictator — he was a democratically elected head of state. Nevertheless, he managed to walk a fine line between pop hero and strongman. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote after spending a day in his company, "I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I had just been … with two opposing men. One to whom the caprices of fate had given an opportunity to save his country. The other, an illusionist, who could pass into the history books as just another despot." He was magnetic, funny, well-read and he managed to persuade the majority of his countrymen that things were getting better even as the nation whirled into an abyss.
It is that illusionist we get to know in "Comandante": Here is a consummate performer, a president who projected himself alongside the image of Venezuela's national hero, Simon Bolivar, then appropriated live television day after day for hours at a time, "mulling, musing, deciding, ordering." He chatted up the man-on-the-street, turned cameras on himself during palace conversations, worried over the price of milk with mothers, joked with hard-drinking laborers. "He would sing, dance, rap; ride a horse, a tank, a bicycle, aim a rifle, cradle a child, scowl, blow kisses; act the fool, the statesman, the patriarch."
At any given moment of the day, the figure of the president, with a bright, winning smile and a torso "of reinforced concrete," would be seen flickering in living rooms of Venezuela, like some strange, Orwellian phantom. Eventually, "Hello, President," a marathon Sunday program in which the chief executive wandered the streets of Caracas dispensing wisdom, history lessons, and cash like a talk show host on steroids, "became like the lottery, everyone looking to get a job, a house, something" from a beneficent government. Never had a country been run like this. Never had Latin America had a leader who thought like Marx and dished like Oprah.
Chavez called it a revolution.
And a revolution it was. In the course of it, he upended the Venezuelan aristocracy — that old, corrupt, entrenched establishment of oil tycoons and beauty queens. He made the poor his cherished children. To keep firm control of his message, he abolished the ministries' press offices and centralized the news. He renamed the country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He forged ties with Fidel Castro and shunted petrodollars to Cuba. He nationalized Venezuela's huge reserves of oil, gave away fortunes, created a new class of rich (merrily referred to as the Boligarchy), built miles of housing for the indigent and, when the bills came around, printed more money until the over-leveraged economy foundered. His goal, when all was said and done? To unite Latin America in a firm alliance of revolutionary republics that served as a bulwark against the United States.
Firmly anti-American, fiercely populist, Chavez devoted his entire career to turning Venezuela upside down. For him, it was the darker races, the marginalized, the needy who deserved the country's riches. Carroll shows how Chavez's shoddy understanding and willful manipulation of the economy ended by raining misery on the very people he meant to save. We see, in this vivid narrative, a government that is Shakespearean in its failings. By 2000, one year after Chavez was installed, a campaign everyone could believe in — rout the corrupt! elevate the poor! invigorate the nation! — had produced a clone of Cuba's faltering communist state. "Fatherland, socialism, or death!" had replaced the old Venezuelan battle cry, "Patria o muerte!," and Chavez made no secret that he would go to any length to see that things went his way.
Little by little, there were defections. His most devoted lieutenants were increasingly discomfited by his shift to bellicosity, his tendency to oust any official who disagreed. By 2002, his massive and very public firing of government officials prompted a march on Miraflores Palace. What began as a protest turned into a full-blown coup and attendant massacre. State television showed none of it; the opposition's channel broadcast live footage of the corpses and blood. When Chavez surrendered the palace and was shuttled off into captivity, it didn't take long for his generals to bring him back. Chavez returned to his presidential seat chastened, but not for long. Who was to say that the violence hadn't been staged to smear an innocent president?
By 2007, when Carroll was asking Chavez why he had abolished term limits for himself but claimed to be aghast at officials who strove to become regional dictators, all pretense appeared to be over. Chavez's government now intently began eavesdropping on those it considered suspect. Threats were handed out to anyone who grumbled. As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was ushered out, cocaine dollars rushed in. A wave of unimaginable crime followed.
There was more: Oil money had made it cheaper to import than to manufacture; cheaper to buy other countries' food than to invest in agriculture. The poor were eating, but the country was suffering a dire anemia. And although it cost a Venezuelan a mere dollar to fill his automobile tank, inflation soared, topping the charts in the hemisphere. A Boligarch boasted that he had paid $25,000 for a watch; his female counterpart, as much for a party dress.
By 2011, this faux economy fooled no one. The judicial system had been virtually shut down. The constitution had been rewritten. Disillusionment among officials was rampant. Protests erupted throughout the country — sometimes numbering as many as 10 a day. The vision of Chavismo had slumped into disrepute, and Latin American presidents, even those who claimed to be Chavez's friends, politely turned away and looked to Brazil for enlightenment. But to the Venezuelan poor, he continued to be a beacon. For all the country's problems, they insisted that his heart was in the right place. As a result, he swept the 2012 elections, his loyalists draping the streets with baffling banners: Long live Chavez! Down with the government!
Carroll's book ends well before Chavez's health took a sharp turn for the worse in December. Indeed, it closes as the Comandante makes a triumphant return from his first operation in Havana and leads the campaign that swept him to another term. That is not a drawback, necessarily, but something else is: Carroll too often falls into the lamentable British habit of making Latin Americans out to be clowns and their troubles ridiculous farces. "Keystone Kops," "ridiculous," "cartoonish," "clownish," "fool" — these are just a few of the epithets delivered with a sneer. It's an annoying tic, and a tiresome one.
But at its best, his book is informative, a sprightly chronicle of Venezuela's dizzying journey under its Comandante. And, despite the author's protestations that Chavez was no dictator, he has ended up telling us just that. Here is a lively portrait of a new Latin American genus: the democratically elected caudillo. As Garcia Marquez so presciently said a few years ago: "The dictator is the only mythological figure Latin America has ever produced; and his legacy is far from over."


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A brand new colorway of the Air Jordan XX8 is set to release at the end of this month.
This "Do The Right Thing" edition of the Air Jordan XX8 comes in a white, gym red and photo blue colorway. Featuring a unique design on the shroud upper which is also found on the Jordan Spiz'ike and Jordan Son Of Mars. They feature a white and blue upper with red accents, a green inside sitting on a speckled yellow outsole. A limited release, look out for these at select Jordan Brand accounts worldwide on Saturday, June 29th, 2013. Retail is set at, $250.
Enjoy the official images below of the "Do The Right Thing" Air Jordan XX8 in white, gym red and photo blue. If you're interested in picking these up when they release, be sure to check in with your local spots to see if they will be receiving them. Those of you looking to lock down a pair now can, grab them from eBay here.


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Have you checked out one of the numerous web sites that offer online adult dating services? These web sites usually have very seductive advertising. They brag about their huge user base as well as posting numerous testimonials and success stories. Adult dating can in fact be very fun and very exciting, but you need to be aware of possible dangers that these adult sites don't inform you about.
Before signing up to use the services of one of these sites, this is what you need to know. When talking about these adult websites, we're not talking about your usual type of dating service. The sites cater to a clientele that wants to pursue some form of sexual relationship with someone else. And this is what separates them from other casual dating sites. When you finally decide to meet someone from an adult dating site, you need to understand that you shouldn't expect your normal type of date.
The other person that you meet usually expects something much deeper. This is the main reason that is so important to be very careful when passing out details about yourself, such as you work address or where you live. Wait until you have established some level of trust before exchanging any details. Don't give out any information to someone that you have just met. If the other person appears to be avoiding answering questions of a personal nature, then don't give them any of your information.
Once you've decided that it is time for a face to face meeting, choose a place that is very public, such as a coffee shop or a restaurant. Don't invite this person to your place on the first meeting. While it is possible that you feel a certain level of trust, it is still a bad idea to let them know where you live right away. You don't know this person's background and there is the possibility that they could be an ex-convict or a rapist. Try to let a friend know the details of your plans beforehand. Let them know where your meeting this person as well as their name.
You want to be very careful of dates that request money from you. Oftentimes they will tell you depressing stories about their current financial situation. And because you've started to develop an intimate relationship with them you run the risk of believing their story. If this personal lives in another state and wants you to send money for a bus or a plane ticket, don't do it. You don't want to get yourself in a situation where you send someone money in the hopes of seeing that person, and then they never appear, leaving you with no way to get your money back.
One of the other warning signs that you should look out for is strange behavior. They might seem very mellow as well as sincere, but then turn around and yell at you or show other signs of violence. There's a good chance that these mood swings can be indicative of something much more serious that may come back to haunt you in the long run.
Now with all that being said, don't let that deter you from checking out one of these adult dating services. If you are ready for some adult encounters, the sites offer an easy way to meet someone looking for a sexual encounter. Just make sure that you use your head and exercise some level of caution when joining an adult dating web site. Also, make sure you check out reviews and feedback for what ever site you choose to join.
Adult dating can actually be one of the most fun and rewarding activities you can participate in online. Be cautious and make sure you understand the rules of the game when it comes to adult dating online.


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From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith, 27 April 1800
Philadelphia April 27th. 1800.
My dear Mrs Smith
I have been so much engaged that I have not been able to get time to write you a line this week. I have paid some visits to the Secretarie's ladies, and took tea with them, and one to Mrs. Senator Read, all of which you know by experience takes up time. we had on Thursday 14 couple of young ladies and gentlemen to dine, Bingham, Hares, Whites, Wilsons, Peter's, Rush's, Pinckney's, Breck's, Reads and Bard, and Miss Duane from New York. Whilst at dinner Thomas rose, or rather just before I left the table, he came and whispered "suppose we have a dance this evening," with all my heart provided it is thus accidentally struck up, but you must not sit long at table. They all came to the drawing room to tea, & in the meantime the tables were cleared, the room lighted up, and by eight o clock they were all dancing, they kept it up till 12, when they all retired. A happier or pleasanter circle I have not seen together. Maria Morris, was also of the party, & two Miss [. . .], several of them expressed great satisfaction, coming so unexpectedly, when it was so little contemplated, said they should place it amongst the happiest evenings of their lives. You will see from the trial of Cooper, from that of three French Pirates Fries that neither calumny, treason, or Piracy, are tolerated by even Philadelphia juries. May justice and judgment be the stability of our Government, and Mercy temper justice where it can, may our laws be a terror to evil doers, whilst they encourage those who do well. I believe these decisions will work out our safety. I consider them of much greater importance than the mutiny's on board a ship or two, one of which was occasioned by a refusal to let the sailor's have lights, it shows however a spirit of disorder and insubordination which must be quelled and by severity if no mild measures will do. I think however that representations should be made, and precautions taken to gaurd against surprize. We should at all times be ready for defence.
Your affectionate / Mother
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Set-up costs for a new business
To give your business the best chance of success, it's important to start with a clear idea of the costs involved, both to start the business, and then to keep it running.
Financing business growth
You have a great idea, feel sure it will work, but don't have the money to finance it. Where do you go?
Funding vehicles and equipment
Just about every business will need to spend on equipment, even if it's just for a computer and mobile phone.
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General advice: This information is general only and does not constitute any recommendation or advice. It is current at the time of publication, and is subject to change. It has been prepared without taking account of your objectives, financial situation or needs. Because of this you should, before acting on the information, consider its appropriateness, having regard to these matters. Consider obtaining personalised advice from a professional financial adviser and your accountant before making any financial decisions in relation to the matters discussed in this document, including when considering the finance options for your business.


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(TERRE HAUTE) - New details have been released in the death of a 9-year-old boy with special needs in Terre Haute.
The four people arrested in the death are now facing additional charges after it was discovered that the four had been using meth at the time they were taken into custody.
Police say 9-year-old Cameron Hoopingarner, who suffered from cerebral palsy and was also blind, died of starvation and weighed less than 15 pounds when authorities recovered his body.
FOX59 news reports that just before 4 a.m. Tuesday, February 21, medical teams responded to a home in the 11000 block of E. Lewsader Avenue in Northern Vigo County. The call was in response to Cameron Hoopingarner in cardiac arrest.
Cameron later died at Union Hospital.
After an investigation, police served a search warrant at the home. They arrested 33-year-old Chad Kraemer, 56-year-old Hubert Kraemer, 53-year-old Robin Kraemer and 30-year-old Sarah Travioli.
Hubert and Robin Kraemer were Cameron's guardians.
All four were charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death and neglect of a dependent. Chad Kraemer and Sarah Travioli were also charged with failure to report child neglect.
"It makes me mad, makes me mad that somebody could do this to a child, let alone a child that has physical handicaps and was blind...was given to a guardian to take care of. And this is how he gets treated? This is what he deserves? To be starved to death? What kind of animals are they?" Sheriff Ewing said.
Sheriff Ewing said photos from the scene reminded him of photos from Auschwitz.
The boy's guardians, Hubert and Robin Kraemer, their relative Chad, along with Sarah Travioli, are all charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death.
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