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Stardibs calls auction participants, Dibbers. They may browse the items according to categories which include Appliances, Cars, Fashion and Beauty, Food and Beverages, Gadgets, Gift Cards, Hotels, Kitchen Equipment, Sports, and Travel and Vacation. Meanwhile, for fans who want to buy their favorite celebrity items, they may also opt to browse the items on the site according to celebrity names.
For payment options, Dibbers can pay through PayPal, Ubiz/Unionbank or Pasabayad, Or If they don't have account with these payment gateways – They can still pay by depositing it in Unionbank/BPI. Winning Dibbers may claim their items at G/F Unit 14, East of Galleria, Topaz Road, Brgy. San Antonio, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.


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New Delhi: Khadi and handloom are transforming and empowering the poor by bringing positive and qualitative changes in their lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.
From the days of 'Khadi for Nation', India first saw 'Khadi for Fashion' and now the country was moving towards 'Khadi for transformation', Modi said in his monthly radio broadcast 'Mann Ki Baat'.
"Khadi and handloom have transformed the lives of the poorest of the poor and are emerging as a powerful means of empowering them. It is playing a very important role for Gramodaya."
He said that compared to last year, the total sales of Khadi and handicrafts increased by almost 90 percent.
"On Gandhi Jayanti, I have always advocated the use of khadi and handloom. What has it led to? You will be glad to know that on the 17th of this month on the day of Dhanteras, the Khadi Gramodyog Bhavan store in Delhi witnessed a record sale of Rs 1 crore," Modi said.
He said that during Diwali, the sale of Khadi gift coupons zoomed by around 680 percent.
"One can clearly see that today, the youth, the elderly, women, in fact, every age group is taking to Khadi and handloom.
"I can imagine how many weaver families, poor families and the families working on handloom must have benefited from this."

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* mailjaro [2011-10-13 22:20]:
> I have installed the GP/Pari calculator (version 2.3.5) - using fink - on my1) We would need more details: type gp -f in a terminal, then
> Mac (Mac Mini, 4GB RAM, 2,5 GHz Intel Core i5, OSX 10.7.2), and it works
> fine; except that the bnfinit(P) always returns with a stack overflow error.
> I have tried running GP with all kinds of stack sizes, have tried all kinds
> of polynomials P, my system seems healthy (with a lot of free memory etc)
> and commands like nfinit(P) work fine. Does anybody know what´s wrong/what
> to do?
What happens ?
2) 2.3.5 is a very old version, why not upgrade to version 2.5.0 ? See
[ I have no idea whether this is available under Fink, but you can
always download it from http://pari.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/download.html
then compile it yourself ]
Karim Belabas, IMB (UMR 5251) Tel: (+33) (0)5 40 00 26 17
Universite Bordeaux 1 Fax: (+33) (0)5 40 00 69 50
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At the COP15 conference in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama did not seem very pleased:
So America is going to continue on this course of action [toward carbon emission reduction goals] no matter what happens in Copenhagen. But we will all be stronger and safer and more secure if we act together. That is why it is in our mutual interest to achieve a global accord in which we agree to take certain steps, and to hold each other accountable for our commitments.
And perhaps a little doubtful of the outcome of the conference:
We know the fault lines because we've been imprisoned by them for years. But here is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward, and continue to refine it and build upon its foundation. We can do that, and everyone who is in this room will be a part of an historic endeavor -- one that makes life better for our children and grandchildren.
Or we can again choose delay, falling back into the same divisions that have stood in the way of action for years. And we will be back having the same stale arguments month after month, year after year -- all while the danger of climate change grows until it is irreversible.
Not precisely the speech Obama wanted to give, we suspect.
Another portion of Obama's speech appears to be rapping China's knuckles:
We must have a mechanism to review whether we are keeping our commitments, and to exchange this information in a transparent manner. These measures need not be intrusive or infringe upon sovereignty. They must, however, ensure that an accord is credible and that we are living up to our obligations. For without such accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page.
China has not notably wanted such a mechanism. We took a look at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's speech to see if he responded to or at least addressed the same issue. Answer: not really, though this glances against it:
Concrete actions and institutional guarantee are essential to our effort on tackling climate change. The international community should make concrete and effective institutional arrangements under the Convention and urge developed countries to honor their commitments, provide sustained and sufficient financial support to developing countries, speed up the transfer of climate-friendly technologies and effectively help developing countries, especially small island states, least developed countries, landlocked countries and African countries, strengthen their capacity in combating climate change.
And that's not a very close glance. (The nice thing about these international conferences is that leaders with drastically different approaches to governance can say the same kinds of things – call it generic poli-speak.)
We'll let the conference and its results shake out over the weekend and see where it all ended up on Monday. Our hunch: on to Mexico City and COP16!
Wen Jiabao. We'll reduce emissions this much if you reduce them that much.


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I love this quote I read on Eddy's stream today.
"There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything." – Henry Kaufman
— Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) August 25, 2016
Today with Stocktwits and Robinhood it takes an investor little time to get past knowing nothing.
Once you know a little less than nothing you are in the sweet spot of investing.
You should save and you should invest and the faster you make it a habit, the faster your net worth grows.
Once you start watching TV and every tick of the market, you are on the way to knowing too much and hurting your investment returns.
The big lie in financial media and of course from the investment banks is that people that invest for themselves 'trade from their mom's basement'.
First off, everyone lives above ground in 2016 and let's be honest, with hedge funds seeing their biggest withdrawls since 2009, the 'basement' dude is crushing the 'hedgie' (of course the 2 percent fee thievery dulls the hedgie pain).
Once you have built up some savings and made your first few investments, you must start to build your 'peloton' of trust. This is the next most important part of your investing life that puts you on the path of investing for 'profit and joy. In 2016, building this 'peloton' has never been easier. You can draft behind the best investors in the world if you engage in the social web.
Once you start building the 'peloton' you have two choices …you can go the path of the 'professional' or the 'pundit'. Charlie nails this post so please read it and print it out for your workspace. Everyone would do well to honor the code of the professional. When I started Wallstrip and Stocktwits my hope was that we could help people live a professional investment life without the fancy and expensive tools of Wall Street.
If you have never attended a Stocktoberfest do try and make this year your first. You will have a fantastic time. The event pulls together incredibly talented, approachable, professionals that will be there to share and expand their own peloton in a beautiful and energetic setting.
(BTW both Eddy and Charlie mentioned in this post will be speaking at Stocktoberfest on Oct 13-15th Eddy and Charlie are two of my favorite reads on the markets. Eddy is an awesome investor with his own ETF based on his market beating strategy).
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LIPSTICK DIARIES #34| ELF's runway pink ! + CUT CREASE MAKEUP !
I never really got into the cut crease type of look,
but quite recently I wanted to kind of experiment with the look but
keep everything wearable, still.
And this is how I wore this wearable cut crease!
For this look I used ELF's mineral lipstick in runway pink,
which I thought suited the look perfectly,
It's a muted nude pink, but it doesn't wash out my lips.
Kind of gave the look a bit of a bombshell look.
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Or the final nail in the coffin of the bibliophile driven bookshop.
I used to be a bookseller. It's a lovely job- selling books and buying books is an activity that really does tend to bring out the best in people. It's an activity that we engage in when we feel a little bit noble, a tad worthy, and maybe just a tiny bit pleased with ourselves. It represents an exchange that is clearly a part of a long tradition, of the constant interplay of literature and economics, and we hope when we buy a book that the cash handed over will be repaid manifold in a wealth of intangible riches.
To be more prosaic, as a job at university it was easy to do with a stinking hangover, had flexible hours, the customers tended not to be too awful (though never without their elements of occasionally parabolic eccentricity), and you could meet girls. Pace my wonderful wife.
The shop I originally worked in was the little branch of Waterstone's on North Street Brighton. It's not there now, but that funny little horseshoe shaped leaky shop was a fantastically concentrated example of the old school Waterstone's ethic. Every member of the staff planted their extraordinary personality on the section they ran, which with our bunch meant we had a fairly esoteric stock, and thus a similarly peculiar clientèle. We would routinely purposefully 'flood damage' books that got scaled out from HQ- whole crates of Princes Diana schlock was dunked in buckets of dirty drainwater.
Our events were occasionally riotous- trying to wrangle 200 surprisingly boisterous stoners in to see Howard Marks for one of his Mr Nice talks was quite a struggle, and I had to feel for my colleague who was 'volunteered' to look after him. We used the staff room (with it's glorious south facing rooftop suntrap) as a green room for visiting authors, and on this occasion it reeked of skunk for weeks after- my colleague who shall remain nameless staggered downstairs looking like he'd been hit by a bus before mumbling through a heartfelt but largely incoherent introduction to Howard. Ah happy days.
We did our own window displays- mine were rubbish, but many were extraordinarily beautiful examples of temporary urban art. I think we even had a transexual stripper in the window one year.
The point I am trying to make is that at one time, not so long ago, the UK was spattered with a chain of bookshops which each had a vibrant and creative ethos and community of engaged customers and which thoroughly and without any constraint reflected the most radical and literary of their local communities hopes and aspirations. And this from a shop! A profitable one too!
Now what do we have- anonymous, repetitive centrally managed battery farms of literary ubiquity. A stultifying published pap box shifter. I used to pop into a Waterstone's to get a mediated flavour of a town, to see what they read, what they were into, what events would draw them out- you could catch half of that from the locally designed and lovingly created window displays. No more- those windows are prime high street real estate- auctioned off as generic advert space to be identically dolloped without care or attention in hundreds of shops nationwide.
If this total collapse of passion and imagination had happened to one chain, one shop amongst may, this would be a tragedy, but it isn't. This bland monster has swallowed up two of the UK's other biggest bookshop chains leaving them too bereft of their signature quirks and sensibilities; Dillon's and Ottakar's (which had previously swallowed up Hammicks). Today on any given British high street you will probably only see one major bookshop, and it will be identical to the one you would see on any other high street. Its stock, displays and overall character will be utterly indistinguishable from any other Waterstone's on any other high street.
So they're dropping the apostrophe? Good. As a symbol of lost sense of any ownership by individuals it is salient. As a symbol for a collapse in any respect for literature, it is salient. As a symbol of a shift toward an all encompassing, ever spreading miasma of conformity and corporate anonymity, it is salient.
Local independent bookshops are the best.
Only got around to watching this at the weekend, but I think it illustrates the sort of beautiful crazy that used to be possible in Waterstone's and all the other little chains that it swallowed up, but now lies so far beyond the petty imagination of that corporate behemoth that it breaks one's heart.
Friday, January 13, 2012
The Apostropocalypse
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Still gutted the Travel Bookshop near Centre House shut. That place was awesome! Got my idea for the Egypt trip with a book called "With the Camel Corps Down the Nile" in there.
- January 13, 2012 9:01 pm
I managed two days working at the new Waterstones. It...was not good for the soul.
- January 18, 2012 3:12 pm
- Globalism said...
A beautifully put paean to a bygone moment, Ant - took me back there for a moment too.
Any readers interested to see some of those old window displays can do so from here:
(pics from the branch referred to above start from the fourth line)
- February 05, 2012 1:29 pm
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Arts on Sunday National Radio Rose Bank Project
The Rosebank project begins with the premise that through a better knowledge of place, communities grow and that culture is the mechanism by which this occurs. The project is centered in the industrial precinct and suburban area of Rosebank Rd in Auckland, New Zealand, built over an estuarine peninsula of significant ecological worth and geological interest; the site of the oldest market gardens in Auckland. In the western reaches of the upper Waitemata Harbour, Rosebank Peninsula has the Whau river on its western side, Pollen Island and Motu Manawa Marine Reserve at the northern end and Avondale Racecourse and Jockey Club at its southern end. There is a Primary, Intermediate and High School on or near Rosebank Rd and it has a business district with over 400 companies involved in service industries and light manufacturing from industrial ceramics, German Sour Dough Bread and kayaks.
Twenty five designers, artists or art collectives will explore, research and make; working with key community groups, developing a response to what they find, in the place, at the place. The practitioners are; Kerryn McMurdo, Darryl Torckler, Brit Bunkley, Nina Patel/Rohan Bush, Lonnie Hutchinson, The Everyday Collective, Waikare Komene/Martin Leung-wai, Craig Hilton, Nick Spratt, Matthew Bradbury/Grace Warne, John Pusateri, F4 Collective/William Bardebes, Rachael Allan, Kathy Waghorn, Dr Julieanna Preston, Fiona Jack/Salome Tanuvasa, Janet Lilo, Haru Sameshima, William Hsu, David Austin and Pedro Ilgenfritz.
The project will culminate in a walking event over one weekend 23-24th March. NB – There are free passenger vans (courtesy of UNITEC) circuiting continuously from the Avondale Train Station every 20 minutes approximately. Maps of the route detailing all the projects will be available, on site and in the vans as well as a downloadable PDF from March 11th. From anywhere on the route, visitors can meander through the industrial area and along the edge of the estuary. The public will find site specific, community based projects from a multidisciplinary group of artists, designers and performers.
An exhibition of texts, artifacts, photographs and moving image documentation will be simulataneously held at Unitec's Snowhite Gallery, linked to concomitant web content opening March 16th at 5.00pm. A public symposium on the relationship between art, enterprise and community will be run at Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae at Unitec in conjunction with the event, from 9.00 – 5.00, March 16th.
The Avondale school communities, the Avondale Community Gardeners, the Rosebank Business Association, the Motu Manawa Marine Reserve Restoration Group, the Whau River Catchment Trust and the Avondale-Waterview Historical Society Inc will be collaboratively involved in the venture, through the various artists projects. Each artist/designer will respond in their own way to the rich social, historical and environmental narratives unique to the area.
Here are some of the projects;
Brit Bunkley – Cyber Arachnid Habitat. A techno-arachnid installation inside a shipping container placed on Rosebank Rd. Digital scans made from a freeze dried Avondale spider from Auckland Museum are made into 3D rapid prototype prints to occupy the space inside.
Nina Patel, Kathy Waghorn, Rohan Bush – Flotilla Whau – A flotilla on the Whau with the West End Rowing Club, underscoring the river as a place of movement, transport history and recreation. A series of symbolic signals map out the long gone sites of production and acknowledge the shifting of materials, people and economies.
Dr Julieanna Preston – Moving Stuff: A two-day performative public installation, which explores the relationship between the ecological culture of the Whau River estuary and the economy culture of the industrial precinct along Rosebank Road. Come witness and participate in the material exchange.
F4 (Williams/Jowsey) and William Bardebes – Penny a Pound – An interactive, animated installation recalling Rosebank's horticultural history, the Dominion and the domestic science of our forebears.
F4 (Williams/Jowsey) – Rose-topia – An interactive animation which imagines a utopian Rosebank Peninsula from the perspective of some young people.
Kerryn McMurdo – Site-specific dances and performances, choreographed and created in collaboration with eight performers from the 'Seekers Dance Collective'. Performers occupy areas in and around Rosebank Rd and audience may follow them accordingly.
William Hsu and Nick Spratt – By the time it arrives it might have already been forgotten – A project that begins as you get on to the shuttle bus at Avondale train station, and will end six months later. During the walk, as you look to the skyline above the Whau, or if you look across the motorway towards Pollen Island, you might see kuaka flying past, preparing for their flight north. Beginning a journey that is thought to be the longest non-stop flight of any bird, they will spend the winter in China, Korea or western Alaska, returning to these shores in September.
Haru Sameshima – Rosebank Momento – In collaboration with Photoforum, an offering of published photographs contrasting the Motu Manawa Reserve, the River Whau and the business district of Rosebank Rd.
Dr Craig Hilton – How did we get to Jomac Place? – Road signs remind us of how we got here, the pole representing time. From the Big Bang, the formation of the first atoms, molecules through to volcanic earth, the recent advent of DNA and biology, all the way to the ridiculously recent advent of humans, Kiwifruit, horse racing and cabbages.
Pedro Ilgenfritz – Rosebank Intervention – Four actors/characters from LAB Theatre, interact with the audience in various points of the art walk. Meet these roving types as they connect with the environment, history and stories of the Rosebank Road area.
John Pusateri – Original Decay – Collaborating with a pressman from Croxley's, mass production print technology produces individually unique art works, depicting aspects of Rosebank. Flaw after flaw progressively changes the image through the print run to create a body of work looking at change, alteration, deterioration and evolution.
Waikare Komene/Martin Leung-Wai – The Garden of Avondale – Collaborative sculpture and Garden to Table project with students from the Rosebank School and Avondale College, culminating in a community celebration.
Darryl Torckler – Mud Work – photographic installation featuring two 360 degree panoramic prints of the Motu Manawa Marine Reserve (Pollen Island). Showing the under-water and the above-water landscape at full tide (split level image) and the other a night time panorama of the same scene with the tide out.
The Everyday Collective – Paul Woodruffe, Ilse Marie Erl, Faye Norman, Raewyn Graham.
The Everyday Collective – Cabbages, Horses and Science; Rosebank narratives – A documentary made using amateur Super 8 movie footage, digital film and still photography of iconic Rosebank places and people.
The Everyday Collective – The Planner, a steel waterfront sculpture of a figure that reflects on the decisions made in the 1950's that changed the peninsular into what we see today. (Kurt Bremer coastal walkway).
The Everyday Collective – The Kumara gardens; printed images depicting the seasonal cycle of the traditional Maori Kumara gardening as would have occurred in pre-European times (posted all along Rosebank Rd).
The Everyday Collective – Seeding the Cloud – Everyday Collective artists lead special guided walks exploring the public and industrial environment of Rosebank Road, gathering interesting detritus to fashion into wearable jewellery. Onsite workshops will facilitate the necessary techniques and fastening materials to make pieces you can keep and treasure, reflecting the peninsula and creating awareness of issues of sustainability and social responsibility within our environment.
Matthew Bradbury/Grace Warne – A berm-side, tactile landscape installation dealing with the potential for ecological mediation of industry and its impact.
Rachael Allan – The Purfex Story – The trailer from this full length documentary celebrating NZ's only mannequin design and manufacturing company, situated for 20 years on the Rosebank Peninsula. Here is a link a concurrent exhibition about Purfex at Lopdell House Gallery in New Lynn
Lonnie Hutchinson – 'Kei te aroha au i koe' – Te Reo Maori becomes a physical pouwhenua or tohu in neon. 'Kei te aroha au i koe' (I love you) inspires the values the mauri and wairua in ourselves (nga tangata) and of the peninsula – (te whenua). A huge aroha mai to all the conservation work, gardening groups, and industry on Rosebank who are working together to preserve these values.
Kathy Waghorn – The Fluid City Roaming Laboratory – A collaborative, participatory laboratory roaming Rosebank Rd, with scientists and experts in microbiology, geography, planning, education, dance and architecture from The University of Auckland.


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Author Chad Stone joins BookGoodies podcast hosts Deborah Carney and Karen Garcia to talk about books, writing and current projects.
Confessions of a Middle-Aged Babe Magnet: One Man's Brave Adventure Into Dating Again in the 21st Century is a humorous memoir that's also a dating and relationships advice book. Chad Stone gave himself the title of Middle-Aged Babe Magnet because he needed a confidence booster. And it worked!
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Chad Stone is a middle-aged dating success story. After his long marriage ended, he dove headfirst into the dating pool. Unfortunately, he hadn't been on a date since Ronald Reagan was president. But with good humor and an open mind, Stone began looking for the last love of his life. His adventures are laugh-out loud funny in some places and poignant in others. In the end, Stone proves that anyone can find love–no matter how old they are.
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A bright but cold Boxing Day saw several hundred members and guests from both CRFC and Old Tiffs assemble at Cobham for the annual boxing day game. Originally fought for the Ebenezer Cup and now for the Matt Cragg Cup, the two teams started apace with fast flowing rugby and excellent spirit on both sides (and probably too many mince pies yesterday). First blood went to Cobham, who then continued to build with a further two tries before half time. The second half saw further success for Cobham with the crowd roaring on Old Tiffs to go over the line in the last moments of the game.
Clubhouse bars, both top and bottom, were packed and following the game, players and guests assembled upstairs for the award of the Cup by Debbie and Paul Cragg and their family. Debbie spoke from the heart both about the loss of Matt some four years ago as well as the positives that had come out of such a heartbraking event in work they do for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) charity - www.c-r-y.org.uk.
The Man of the Match ceremony took place in usual Cobham style with Richard Philips doing the honours for the hosts.
Huge thanks to Jacky Harris, Courtney Sargood and their staff for all their efforts in organising and staffing this event and to Richard Spratt whose Hot Rocks staff kept the BBQ hut going providing much needed sustenance to hungry souls.
A very good day at the club and many thanks to Pete Smith and all at Old Tiffs for making this such an important part of the Christmas calendar.


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Saturday, October 26th at 2 pm sharp, we're going to Thrill the World, right here in Portland! Location to be announced… All Zombies Invited!
We're the Portland outpost of the international 'Thrill the World' simultaneous Thriller dance! We dance our zombie pants off every October in Portland.
This is our seventh year dancing together as Thrill the World Portland. So many zombie events in Portland serve only to line the pockets of the organizers, but we are proud to be a fundraiser for SMYRC, Portland's Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center (www.smyrc.org). We are humbled by the great work they accomplish for & with queer youth in town, and grateful for the opportunity to support the organization.
We'll be scheduling Thriller dance practices once autumn rolls around. We expect to begin practices in late September. While there are other Thriller dance events around town, we are the only official Thrill the World event in Portland. Join us in working to break the record for the most folks dancing simultaneously around the world in a single dance!
Everyone can participate – no matter your age or ability level. We have dancers from wee to seventy (and above). Zombie costumes not required, though most folks gore themselves up beforehand.
(You are MORE than welcome to host your own practices with friends outside of these – just download the script and videos from www.thrilltheworld.com, or hunt up the instructional videos on youtube by doing a search on the term INESSENS).
We strongly encourage this for those who already know the dance but need a refresher, and who want to recruit others to join in the fun. If you do host your own practice, send us a note so we can keep track of how much space we might need to dance.
For more information, seek us out at facebook.com/thrilltheworld.portland or email us at email@example.com. Happy Thrilling, zombies!


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President Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday for an unannounced visit, in which he commended U.S. troops for the sacrifices they have made and said he was hopeful that a bilateral agreement signed by the end of the year would allow for "limited" troops in the country.
"Of all the honors that I have as serving as president, nothing matches serving as your commander-in-chief," Obama told troops in Bagram.
Obama thanked the soldiers for progress in Afghanistan, including the recent Afghan election, more local girls in school and Afghans reclaiming their communities.
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But that plan is contingent on with Afghan President Hamid Karzai's successor signing a bilateral security agreement, which Karzai himself has refused to authorize.
"For many of you, this will be your last tour in Afghanistan," Obama told the troops, crediting them with the lead Afghan forces have taken to secure the country.
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A pool of White House reporters and photographers accompanied the president under the strict condition that they not report on the trip until authorized, due to security considerations.
It initially was unclear if Obama would meet with Karzai, but the Afghan president issued a statement saying that he was asked to meet Obama at Bagram Air Base, but he turned down the offer and said he was ready to host him at the palace instead.
He did promise to shake the hand of every single service member on the base following his remarks. "I might not be able to take a selfie with everybody but I'll shake every hand," the president said.
At least 2,181 members of the U.S. military have died during the nearly 13-year Afghan war and thousands more have been wounded.
There are still about 32,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, down from a high of 100,000 in mid-2010, when as Obama sent in additional soldiers to quell escalating violence.
Obama spent just a few hours on the base before getting back on Air Force One and flying to Europe to refuel before heading back across the Atlantic.


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It was kind of funny how much attention my dye job attracted. Kim, my stylist, said she had done streaks of color but had never done a full head of such an unusual color. The other stylists kept stopping by to see how it went as Kim progressed with the dye job. My original plan was for almost all of the hair to be purple with a few streaks of turquoise. It was all going swimmingly. My turquoise streaks were in, my hair was over halfway done, Kim and I were chatting, and she turned to get more dye on the brush. She commented that it looked like we would have just enough purple to do the job. As she turned back, I heard a rather loud crash followed by a loud "Shit" from Kim. Generally when your stylist says SHIT, it isn't a good thing. As she turned back, something knocked the remaining purple onto the floor and we lost about 2/3 of what was in the bowl to splatter. Poor Kim was so upset but I laughed and said "Just do the underneath back with the turquoise. It's not like I'm going for normal and we have enough left." Well, it turned out that the spillage was a serendipitous mistake. In the back, the purple merges into the turquoise and the turquoise fades towards the ends. It totally looks like it was done on purpose and I told Kim she should claim it was planned. The lady having her hair done next to me commented that she wished she was brave enough to do something like that because it looked really cool.
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Hot stones. Pleasant scents. Wooden rollers. Deep breaths. Getting that stupid knot out of your shoulder. A massage sounds nice. Massaging kale? That sounds kind of…weird. What's the deal with massaging kale anyway? Why do we do it?
Great questions. Glad to see you're so interested in the field of leafy green education. Of all the greens we like to consume, kale is definitely the most stubborn. Not in its opinions on politics or nineties sit coms. We're talking about its texture. Regardless of variety, raw kale is kind of tough, which is why we love cooking it—it holds its own and maintains integrity even in long-cooked soups, stews, and braises. But we also love eating it raw in salads, which is where that massaging process comes in. Working those greens with your hands a bit takes the edge off, and renders them tender enough to eat without cooking. You don't always have to do it—more on that later—but if you're going to, here's how to do it.
Let's start with the stems. And by start, we mean throw them the hell out. Kale stems are tough and fibrous. We don't need that. You can slice them out with a knife or rip them out by running you fingers along either side of the stem. It's less precise, but it works.
Now, we massage. Hit those leaves with a pinch of salt and a squeeze of lemon or a splash of vinegar, and then start crunching them between your hands. The trick here is not to over-massage. You know what's worse than tough kale? Mushy kale. Over-massaged kale loses that texture we love so much. Rub the kale leaves together between your fingers, until they just start to wilt. The way to tell if you've hit the right point, as it is with most things, is to taste. You want to massage the leaves to the point where it you can feel a crisp and resistance in the bite, but aren't struggling to tear away or chew. It should feel more crispy than rubbery.
So when do you need to massage kale, and when should you not? By and large, we only massage kale for salad when we're working with big, leafy pieces, for a salad we're planning on serving immediately. If the kale is getting shredded into thin pieces or chopped to bits, you don't need to work it over before serving it raw—whatever dressing and tossing you're doing already should render it tender enough. Also, if you're going to dress a salad well ahead of time and let it hang out in the fridge, massaging isn't necessary. Acids like citrus juice and vinegar break down the cellulose in kale in the same way that massaging it does. That means that if you aren't serving your salad immediately after dressing it, you shouldn't massage it. Just let it hang out in a bowl with the dressing. And if you're working with tender baby kale, the kind you find packed in plastic tubs with the salad greens, you definitely don't need to massage it—that stuff is delicate enough to eat on its own, and massaging it will just wilt it in a gross way.
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Despite a deluge of complaints – some of them posted right here on this blog – AT&T says it is happy with the roll-out of the long-awaited MMS update for the Apple iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S. On Friday, the update was released to iPhone owners across the country, temporarily putting serious strain on the network.
Throughout the day, users experienced various problems with the picture-messaging service: Many couldn't send or receive MMS text messages at all. Some reported that it was taking up to 20 minutes to send each message. Other frustrated users got halfway through dispatching a text, only to be greeted with an error message.
"Up and running in Atlanta," one of our readers wrote early on Friday afternoon. "But when [the MMS service] updated it bricked my phone for a bit. Had to do a hard reset just to start it back running. VERY slow. Sometimes fails to send but guess it is from all the traffic." Others were more succinct: "Updates phone. Tried to send a message. Failed," reported a reader in Las Vegas.
To judge by the volume of complaints on the official AT&T Facebook page, many users are still having problems sending picture messages. But in an email this morning to Computerworld, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said the company was "pleased" with the way the MMS service had been implemented on the iPhone.
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December 31, 2007
Minority Women, Breast Cancer & Hormone Replacement Therapy
Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS
In 2002, the landmark Women's Health Initiative Study reported that the long-term use of hormone replacement medications, consisting of two female hormones in pill form, was associated with a 26% increase in the relative risk of breast cancer (among other serious diseases as well, I might add). More recently, the Centers for Disease Control has reported a significant and unprecedented decrease in the incidence of breast cancer diagnosed in 2003. Other large scale public health studies, most notably from California, have also subsequently confirmed that a significant decrease in the incidence of breast cancer appears to be ongoing in the wake of the dramatic reduction in the use of hormone replacement therapy medications since the Women's Health Initiative Study initial results were published in 2002.
But doubts persist in the minds of some who still will not accept any linkage between hormone replacement therapy and the risk of breast cancer, despite very solid data recently showing that the greatest reduction in the incidence of breast cancer has been for the type of breast cancer that is known to respond to the female hormones estrogen and progesterone. Indeed, it was about 5 years ago that I sat down and wrote a book that reviewed and analyzed decades-old (and more recent) scientific data that presaged the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study, and that unequivocally linked lifetime exposure to estrogen with a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. The 5 decade monopoly of a single pharmaceutical company over the hormone replacement therapy "business," and that company's little-known history of sponsoring what amounted to disinformation campaigns about the safety of these medications is an important backdrop to the larger issue of hormone replacement therapy and cancer risk, and one that was extensively covered in my book as well. While the traditional print publishing industry has always been somewhat capricious and opaque, even to many publishing insiders, I was still not prepared for some of the responses that I received from major publishing house editors (most of them women). Many of these editors accused me of having some sort of intrinsic bias against hormone replacement therapy, and several implied, or overtly stated, that I must somehow have the misogynistic goal, as they saw it, of depriving women of the most effective available treatment for their menopausal symptoms. Taken aback that my efforts to educate women (and men) about a known—and preventable—risk factor for the most common cause of cancer in American women (and the second most common cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer) were somehow perceived by publishing house editors as being anti-women, I shelved the project in disgust….
A new study in the journal Breast Cancer Research takes a look at recent trends in breast cancer incidence among minority women in the US, in the aftermath of the research findings that I have already mentioned, but which were based upon the study of predominantly American women of European descent. This study is important not only because it shines the light of clinical research upon ethnic minority women in the US, but because it also evaluated recent trends in breast cancer incidence according to sub-types of breast cancer, and in particular, hormone-responsive and non-hormone-responsive breast cancers.
Using the largest prospectively compiled cancer database in the US, the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (or "SEER") cancer registry, the study's authors analyzed SEER data from 1992 through 2004, and assessed the incidence of breast cancer among women from the following ethnic subgroups: Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, African-American, and non-Hispanic White. Tumor hormone sensitivity status, tumor size, and other important tumor factors were also specifically analyzed.
The findings of this study are fascinating, and further implicate recent breast cancer incidence trends with changing trends in the prescribing of hormone replacement therapy following the 2002 release of the Women's Health Initiative Study results. Specifically, the study found that the overall incidence of breast cancer declined significantly during the period of study in Asian/Pacific Islander (by 8.5%) and Hispanic women (by 2.9%), and was essentially unchanged in African-American women. These results are in comparison to the 14.3% decrease in the incidence of breast cancer noted, during the same period, for non-Hispanic white women. When the authors then looked at the trends for the incidence of non-hormone-responsive tumors in this same population of women with breast cancer, the findings were striking. The incidence of non-hormone-responsive breast cancers rose significantly among African-American women (26.1%) and Hispanic women (26.9%), who were already less likely to use hormone replacement medications than non-Hispanic white women before 2002, and who are even much less likely to use such medications now.
Taken as a whole, this study shows a trend towards fewer breast cancers in American women from minority ethnic groups, albeit not as pronounced as has been recently observed among non-Hispanic white women. At the same time that overall breast cancer incidence is declining in at least two groups of minority women (and is stable in a third group), the incidence of non-hormone-responsive breast cancers, which are not affected by hormone replacement therapy drugs, is increasing among the two ethnic minority populations of women that rarely use hormone replacement therapy drugs in the wake of the Women's Health Initiative Study's 2002 report.
While some who still do not see a link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer have proposed that a recent (and small) decrease in the number of mammograms being performed can somehow explain the unprecedented decline in breast cancer now being observed throughout North America (where, not coincidentally, the risk of breast cancer is among the highest in the world), the findings of this new study do not mirror recent trends in mammography when broken down by ethnicity. The findings of this new breast cancer study do, on the other hand, generally parallel the ongoing trends in the use of hormone replacement therapy drugs in postmenopausal women. Perhaps it's time for me to dust off that old manuscript and have another look at it….
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All Studio & On Location sessions are typically booked 1-2 months in advance.
I pride myself on exceptional customer service and a commitment to each family's relationship and the creation of unique art for their home. During your complimentary online or phone consultation, I will get to know you. We'll discuss your goals and personal style, so that I can create a session for you that complements YOU. Great portraits begin with a great relationship. Tell me about your home and your vision, and I'll add in my creativity to make it happen.
Studio sessions take place in my Elgin home studio. The session fee includes my time and talent along with backdrops, props and clothing changes. If you see something you like in any of my galleries, be sure to mention it before your session. I work with controlled studio lighting and a plethora of props and set designs. The studio offers a fun but relaxed environment where I create a look that is timeless and sophisticated. When the weather is warmer, let's take it outside! On Location Sessions make for some amazing and unique images, especially if the location is special to you. So consider carefully where you'd like to have your session, or I can recommend a spot for you.
I take pride in my work and only shoot with top of the line equipment. I currently shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III, 50 1.2L, 24-70 2.8L, 100 2.8L Macro, 16-35 2.8L
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Eagle Point Solar is a solar developer offering a full range of services including, design, engineering, installation and operations and maintenance. Founded in 2010, the company has grown to 45 full time employees in the following disciplines: sales, electrical engineering, design and optimization, installation and finance. Based in Dubuque, Iowa, Eagle Point Solar has clients in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. The company's focus is on the long term quality and performance of the solar arrays that are installed. This drives the philosophy of using high quality components manufactured in the United States for all projects, large or small.


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Hubble's View of NGC 5584
The brilliant, blue glow of young stars traces the graceful spiral arms of galaxy NGC 5584 in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Thin, dark dust lanes appear to be flowing from the yellowish core, where older stars reside. The reddish dots sprinkled throughout the image are largely background galaxies.
Among the galaxy's myriad stars are pulsating stars called Cepheid variables and one recent Type Ia supernova, a special class of exploding stars. Astronomers use Cepheid variables and Type Ia supernovae as reliable distance markers to measure the universe's expansion rate. NGC 5584 was one of eight galaxies astronomers studied to measure the universe's expansion rate. In those galaxies, astronomers analyzed more than 600 Cepheid variables, including 250 in NGC 5584.
Cepheid variables pulsate at a rate matched closely by their intrinsic brightness, making them ideal for measuring distances to relatively nearby galaxies. Type Ia supernovae flare with the same brightness and are brilliant enough to be seen from relatively longer distances.
Astronomers search for Type Ia supernovae in nearby galaxies containing Cepheid variables so they can compare true brightness of both types of stars. They then use that information to calibrate the measurement of Type Ia supernovae in far-flung galaxies and calculate their distance from Earth. Once astronomers know accurate distances to galaxies near and far, they can determine the universe's expansion rate.
The image is a composite of several exposures taken in visible light between January and April 2010 with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
NGC 5584 resides 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.
NASA, ESA, A. Riess (STScI/JHU), L. Macri (Texas A&M University), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)


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Saxenhammer & Co. is a leading boutique investment bank focused on special situations in Germany and across continental Europe.
Saxenhammer & Co. ranks amongst the top firms in this segment. The firm's track record comprises the execution of over 180 successful transactions across all major industries with a success rate of over 90%. With an international reach through partner firms, Saxenhammer & Co. is engaged in cross-border transactions.
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A-Train is Promoting Today's Event. The crowd is taking their seats in anticipation of the first match. TFW Videographer, Adam Chan is on the Job! Read More »
We're Live at the Sports MMA LA Tournament!
JP Scarano and sister, Cassandra, are helping out at the registration desk as the Sports MMA LA Tournament is about to begin! Stayed tuned for updates throughout the day. Read More »
Bellator MMA Releases Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez
8-19-14: Exclusively for TFW by JP Scarano Update: 8-20-14: As predicted by TFW, Eddie Alvarez has signed with UFC and will fight Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone in Las Vegas on 9-28-14 on the UFC 178 fight card. Today the MMA world was shocked to hear that the long time Bellator MMA fighter and current Bellator MMA World Lightweight Champion, Eddie Alvarez. ... Read More »
Gustafsson left out in the Cold with Jones – Cormier Rescheduled Match?
Alexander Gustafsson was preparing to rematch with Ultimate Fighting Championship Light Heavy Weight Champion, Jon Jones, but was hurt during training. As a result, Daniel Cormier got the call to face Jones for the UFC Light Heavy weight Championship match on September 27th of this year. Jones and Cormier were really getting into each other's heads and turning the heat up ... Read More »
Kyle Stewart Wins Impromptu Army vs Marines Title Match at IKC 50
Kyle Stewart of the Fight Club 29 MMA Team won the IKC 50 Grand Champion Open Weight Title just a little bit ago. The bout had an unusual twist to it. Kyle is a Marine and his opponent was Army. According to TFW staffers who were present for the fight it proved be be a classic battle between two fine ... Read More »
Panoramic Views of the Venue at IKC 50 from TFW
For those of you who could not make the IKC 50 today, August 3rd, here are a couple of shots that show the inside of the huge room it is taking place in at the Long Beach Convention Center. The fight arena contains 8 rings. We'll try to get some panoramic shots of it when the next round of competition ... Read More »
The Fight Scene at IKC 50
Here's a great picture that shows how large the IKC event is inside. This image shows just a portion of the venue. We hope to have more stills for you fight fans tomorrow when we have a TFW still photographer on site to give TFW Videographer, Adam Chan, a break! Speaking of Adam, he managed to sneak in a pose ... Read More »
Benny "The Jet" at UKC August 2nd, 2014
Another nice surprise came JP's way at IKC today. He ran into Benny "The Jet" Urquidez whom he has interviewed for TFW in the past. Here TFW captured Benny as he was posing with a budding martial artist. He is such a humble man for being such a fierce warrior in the ring! Can't wait to see who else is ... Read More »
TFW Cameraman has Training Session with Sifu Leo Fong at IKC 50
Even our cameraman, Adam Chan, gets a chance to participate in IKC 50! As seen in the photo below, Adam receives instruction from Sifu Leo Fong who was one of Bruce Lee's students as well as a good friend to him. Sifu learned many things from Bruce and he was helpful in getting Bruce started on his Jeet Kune Do ... Read More »


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The coordinates for this day were in Lansing, beside some railroad tracks, and easily accessible.
excellentdude: I was planning on not geohashing today and trying to make it out later in the week. When today's coordinates came out, though, I had to try for them. They were in Lansing and the closest ones to where I live yet. I could have gone for another public transport geohash, but I did not feel like taking 2.5 hours to go 8 miles there and back. From the satellite view of the map I could see the coordinates were near railroad tracks and right inside a service turnoff for them. I drove out there, and of course the service turnoff was buried under snow and not visible from the road. I pulled into the auto body shop parking lot across the street and headed out. Luckily some large vehicle had turned into the railroad service turnoff earlier in the day. I was able to follow those tracks straight to the hash point and not have to get knee deep in snow!
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Po joins forces with a group of new kung-fu masters to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.
KUNG FU PANDA PART 2: This has got to be one of the best animation jobs in the history of the universe, including not only fur and trees but great, even subtle expressions scary atmospheric dungeons and truly horrible wolfish creatures. The first Panda was really a revelation and is really one of my favorite animations of the year in a year where there were really good animations. In this second one, the animation is just as good, if not better, and the plot is better; kids will love it because of the pratfalls, and adults will love it because of the innuendo. I mean, to be quite honest, I think this is Jack Black's best role. Seth Rogan is always better in animation than he is in real life. I am not crazy about Angelina Jolie in this, but I can live with her. Gary Oldman is a chilling villian and Dustin Hoffman is a wise teacher.The plot is — well, the plot is a little bit looking for my dad and who I really am, but who cares. It is an animation, but I think you will enjoy it. I will give it four stars


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Among all the inflatable games recreations, the inflatable twisters are a standout amongst the most fascinating and well-known inflatables. Many children and grown-ups are anticipating the mid-year. In summer, they can encounter the fun and the cool slides, jumpers, great tunes and pool time. Presently, another diversion will be added to your excitement arrange: the inflatable twister amusement. The amusement makes you and your kids playing on the mammoth inflatable twister sleeping pad rather than on your customarily uncomfortable floor based twister. What's more, the inflatable twister diversion takes this conventional floor amusement to another level. The bouncy playing territory of open air twister amusement is 4.5m by 4.5m, which can oblige up to 10 turning members. It likewise accompanies a 3-foot wheel to train players of what member to put on what shading. That would make for 40 hands and feet extending, ripping at their way onto one of 64 shaded spots. Sounds rather riotous. The inflatable twisters support you and bob when you contort, tumble, and fall. What's more, bunches of fun? Everybody can play around with the inflatable twister. Additionally, the inflatable twister is an extraordinary lawn amusement and functions admirably with chapel, corporate, and school excursions
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Covenant of Love is a ministry for all couples at Queen of Peace who are either married or preparing for marriage. Our team hosts a monthly Date Night with free childcare that gives couples an opportunity to fellowship with one another while deepening their Catholic faith.
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Joblot of 10 Scarves Voxish Industries 100% Silk 'Wearable Art' Various Designs
Part No: SKU13243WC
Condition: New
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Joblot of Scarves Voxish Industries 100% Silk 'Wearable Art' Various Designs
You will receive: 10 Voxish Industries 100% Silk 'Wearable Art' Ladies Scarves
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I Care
I Care was launched in June 2002 by the LHC Foundation Trust, a registered NPO Organisation) and PBO (Public Benefits Organisation). I Care is dedicated to finding a sustainable solution to challenges facing street children in South Africa. Our programme is holistic and covers Awareness, Outreach, Rehabilitation, Housing/Shelter, Education and Skills/Job Creation. Awareness: I Care educates the public that giving money to street children actually keeps them on the street. Our motivation to the public is: 'Don't give me money, give me a future'. There are so many other ways they can help.
Outreach: I Care establishes relationships of trust with children, essential for further intervention to take place. I Care have Hope Centres in Durban and Johannesburg where the children's basic needs are met i.e. medical, nutritional and emotional. It is a safe place to come to off the streets and it is from here we are able to begin their rehabilitation or reunification process.
Rehabilitation: I Care run three Khuthaza (encourage) rehab programmes each year. The 3 month Christian based programme is run over 3 months. We work with the children assisting them to overcome substance abuse, provide life skills training, HIV Aids education and counselling and many other relevant subjects. We have a rehabilitation facility with the capacity to take 20 boys per programme. The children are accommodated in this facility while they attend the programme and whilst there our aftercare team are assessing the home situation and preparing the family for reunification. Those boys that are unable to return home, for various reasons – (see pie chart), will be taken into one of the I Care family homes
Housing: I Care have 3 purpose-built houses in Lower Ilovo and a rented house in Boksburg, Jhb. Each house a family of 6 children and 2 house parents. We re-create a family unit for the children. They remain with I Care for a period of approximately 18 months while a long-term solution to their home situation is arranged.
Education Many street children have missed out on formal education and lack basic literacy and numeracy skills. I Care have registered a school to prepare children for going back into mainstream education. Others attend special needs schools while staying with us.
Skills Training I Care work with children until they progress into adulthood, and work to provide an avenue for their entry into an independent self-supporting lifestyle. This avenue often entails rehabilitation at an adult rehab centre and then placement within a company or on a formal skills training programme.


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The Maritime Union of Australia is rallying today to call on Chevron to keep resource jobs for Australians rather than choosing to use foreign labour.
The MUA is demanding that the jobs from resource projects go to Australian workers first, and that the company invests in training young people.
At the same time, Chevron contractor Allseas has lodged action with the Federal Court to prevent the Immigration Department checking the visas of its employees.
Chevron and its contractors have previously been caught using dodgy foreign labour in the Gorgon project in WA rather than hiring Australian workers.
"Chevron says it is all about local jobs for Australians on our massive resources projects," said MUA Assistant National Secretary Ian Bray.
"Yet theChevron contractor Allseas this week started proceedings in the Federal Court to test whether work done on the north-west shelf be exempt from the Migration Zone.
"Not only that but they have the audacity to try to ban inspectors from the Department of Immigration from properly investigating their vessels until the case is adjudicated.
"This isyet another disgraceful act from a company with a poor record in this area."
"All we are asking is the right for Australians and their communities to benefit from the resource boom," said MUA WA Deputy State Secretary Adrian Evans.
"We want to ensure that these good jobs go to local workers, that our communities benefit from the flow-on effects, and that our kids are given training so they can have jobs in the future.
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October is my favorite month of year in New York City. It's still warm enough to enjoy outdoor activities with the kids and the trees in Central Park are always spectacular. This year, there are a few special events happening around the city that are great for kids.
The American Museum of Natural History has a new show at the Planetarium through December 31st called Journey to the Stars. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this show has incredible, never-seen-before images from telescopes on the ground of space. My kids (ages 2 and 4) loved it — I imagine this would be a crowd pleaser for all ages.
My girl's favorite holiday is unquestionably Halloween. Trick-or-treating in Manhattan is a bit unorthodox — kids ride elevators up and down a building in search of candy, rather than walking from house to house. On Saturday October 24th, Central Park is hosting their annual Pumpkin Festival. There's a terrific haunted house for older children, hay rides, face painting and pumpkin carving.
The Bronx Zoo has an October program called Boo at the Zoo to celebrate Halloween. They are having the first ever Haunted Safari and wildlife magic shows along with pumpkin carvings and loads of bats. Children wearing wildlife costumes get in free when accompanied by a paying adult.
The Modern Museum of Art is offering Tours for Fours, a morning drop in program on most weekends in October designed for four year olds and their parents or caregivers. Kids are introduced to painting and sculpture along with photography and an interactive gallery. The program is free after admission to the museum.
If you're adventurous, Riverside Park is offering free kayaking on the Hudson every Saturday and Sunday through October 11th. Meet at Riverside Park at 10am, wear a bathing suit or t-shirts and shorts, and sneakers. Children must know how to swim. There will be a 20-minute instruction prior to leaving.
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