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The following statement regarding current conditions around Pa'an Town was given by a recently arrived refugee who lived there. Pa'an is the capital of Karen State, and there is no fighting in the immediate area. This man's name has been changed to protect him, although he and his family have no plans to return to Pa'an.
NAME: Saw Ghay Htoo SEX: M AGE: 40
FAMILY: Married with 4 children
In Pa'an I worked for the Agriculture Corporation, which is controlled by the government. In other words, it's all controlled by military men. It's left over from the BSPP times [Burma Socialist Program Party, Ne Win's pre-1988 dictatorship], when all farmland was national Property. The farmers had to buy their seed, fertiliser, etc. from the Agricultural Corporation and sell their crop to the Corporation as well. The farmers were left with just enough profit to survive.
Now it's still the same. Every farmer has to sell 3 baskets of unhulled rice per acre to the Agriculture Trade Corporation. Each basket weighs 4 pounds. The farmers are only paid 50 Kyat per basket, even though the market price is 150 Kyat per basket. To plant one acre takes one and a half baskets, and one acre can produce 20 or 30 baskets in a good year. The farmers often only get 15 or 1ess baskets per acre though, because at ploughing time they all have to go and hide from the soldiers to avoid being taken as porters. Also, the land is not fertile anymore because it has been used for so long with no fertiliser. The farmers can't afford fertiliser, so they can't grow enough rice. Some farmers have 7 to 10 acres, but some only have 2 or 3 acres, and they need about 50 baskets of unhulled rice to feed their family for the year. Apart from being forced to sell their rice to the Corporation, the rest of their rice goes to pay off their loans from the Corporation and to hire bullocks and workers. The farmers have to work very hard, but at the end their left with nothing. Many even have to eat rice soup instead of rice now, because they don't have enough rice to survive.
Everyone must also pay "porter fees" - the SLORC comes and takes money and, says it will be used to hire porters. In town, every family must pay about 80 or 90 Kyat per month. In rural areas, the troops demand 200 or 300 Kyat per month from every family. Each village or town suburb has a leader who is responsible to come up with the money each month. If it isn't enough, and it often isn't, the SLORC takes people as porters. Whether the fees have been paid or not, the soldiers also come around at night often, checking every house for "unregistered visitors" [Civilians everywhere are under orders to report all overnight visitors to SLORC authorities]. They say this is what they're looking for, but they really just want porters. At each house where they find an unregistered visitor, they take everyone in the house as porters.
I'm not sure what happens to the porter fees - maybe some goes for porters or to build roads and things, but I think maybe, the SLORC just uses it for themselves. All the money to build everything comes from the people - we're forced to pay different fees every month, always collected by the Army.
In the villages people are forced to act as sentries on roads, bridges, etc. If the soldiers catch them, sleeping when they're supposed to be sentries, they have to pay fines of chickens, rice or personal belongings. The SLORC also forces 10 or 20 people from every village to be in their militia. The soldiers don't give them any training, just give them a gun, take them along on patrol and order them to fight the Karen Army. The SLORC makes every family in the villages give 3 baskets of rice every month to support this militia.
Near Pa'an, every family that lives along the main road has to build a brick wall 5 feet high with an iron gate in front of their house. The wall has to be white. You must pay for it yourself, and if you can't then you have to leave. People don't want to lose their homes, so they have to borrow money to build the wall. For the families of military men, the SLORC arranges and pays for it.
Leaf roofs are not longer allowed either, except on the roofs of shops owned by military families. The SLORC does all of this so they can say, "Look, we have made the city beautiful and improved your living standards". I think it has something to do with the advice of Ne Win's astrologers.
Since 1988, many of the ricefields, have been taken from farmers because the SLORC has forced thousands of people to move to the fields outside Pa'an. They have forced people from Pa'an, Rangoon, and all over the country to move there. I'm not sure how many people are there now; but it's already about as big as Pa'an. The SLORC says they were moved because the places they stayed before were too crowded, but I think maybe it's another idea of Ne Win's astrologers. There are also some civil servants with over 20 years' service who moved there voluntarily. Every family has to pay 2,000 Kyat for a piece of ground 60 feet by 40 feet. There is no water, electricity, drainage or anything for the people there. Even in Pa'an town, only the few people who can afford a meter box can get electricity.
After 1988, all the people I worked with who had been involved in the demonstrations were transferred or arrested. Under the SLORC, I was only paid 750 to 800 Kyat per month, and I have 4 kids. It was never enough - hulled rice is 450 Kyat per basket, and a 1viss [1.6 kilogram] chicken costs 150 Kyat. We had to live on vegetables and fish paste, and whenever we got sick we had to go in debt. It was just impossible to live, so we came here.


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Dukes of Hazzard News: Good news for all Dukes of Hazzard fans that are going through Duke Withdrawal – the Dukes have returned to the CMT schedule!
The last time CMT aired a Dukes of Hazzard episode was November 17th. According to the CMT schedule at that time, the Dukes were only supposed to be off the air through Thanksgiving Day.
However, CMT changed their tune and their schedule without warning, leaving fans in a lurch.
It now appears that The Dukes of Hazzard will return to CMT on December 8th, 2014. Here's a quick rundown of upcoming episodes!
Monday, December 8th at 12 PM Eastern: "The Boar's Nest Bears": Boss Hogg blackmails Bo and Luke Duke into coaching his basketball team for a high-stakes game.
Monday, December 8th at 1 PM Eastern: "Boss Behind Bars": Jesse Duke has a wreck during a race due to sabotage, and Boss Hogg is framed as the culprit.
Thursday, December 11th at 12 PM Eastern: "Targets: Daisy and Lulu": Daisy and Lulu unwittingly possess stolen gems, and are pursued by vengeful jewel thieves. The Dukes, Boss Hogg, and Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane go to great lengths to protect them – with Boss and Rosco dressing in drag!
Monday, December 15th at 12 PM Eastern: "Enos's Last Chance": A mob hitman who was captured by Enos escapes from prison, and comes to Hazzard County to collect revenge.
Tuesday, December 16th at 12 PM Eastern: "High Flyin' Dukes": The Dukes get all up in the air when Hazzard County farmers are threatened by crop-destroying extortionists.
Wednesday, December 17th at 12 PM Eastern: "Cooter's Girl": A young lady comes to Hazzard County to meet her father for the first time, surprising Cooter when he's not exactly at his best!
Will CMT show more of the Dukes of Hazzard? Stay tuned, and we'll share updates as they become available! Like our Facebook Page for daily doses of the Dukes of Hazzard!


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4th of July Flag Toast and Watermelon Stars
4th of July food has historically been all about lunch around here, with leftovers available for grazing throughout the remainder of the day. This year, we switched things up a bit by going out for lunch and saving the big All-American feast for dinner. But first, my daughter and I threw together this super cute and easy breakfast:
sliced bread
cream cheese
1. Toast the bread and allow to cool a minute or two.
2. Spread with cream cheese.
3. Add blueberries and strawberries to represent stars and stripes.
For the Watermelon Stars, a cookie cutter makes preparation quick and easy. I use this one twice a year – Christmas and 4th of July!


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Broken Places
Sandra Parshall
Poisoned Pen, Feb 2010, $24.95
In Mason County, Virginia, veterinarian Rachel Goddard and her assistant Holly Turner come to the home of noted cartoonist Ben Hern to see his famous dog and cat. They overhear a nasty spat between newspaper publisher Cam Taylor whose paper is in financial trouble, and Hern , who also uses the name of artist Benicio Hernandez. Ben refuses to give Cam any money to save the paper.
Rachel and Holly leave Ben's mansion, but sees Cam's car on the side of the road so they stop to offer assistance, but he is not there. They hear gunfire in the nearby woods and go to look; they find Cam's corpse. Not long after that, Cam's house burns to the ground; after the building cools a dead woman whose body has bullets is found inside. The sheriff assumes the second corpse is Cam's wife Meredith. Another person is killed and Ben's mom vanishes. If that is not enough Rachel's lover deputy sheriff Tom Bridger's former girlfriend Leslie Taylor, daughter of two of the dead, needs her ex allegedly for solace. Fearing for their loves and needing to know what happened, Rachel makes inquiries only to learn her late friend Cam apparently was trying to extort money from various sources like Ben.
The third Rachel Goddard veterinary whodunit (see Disturbing the Dead and Heat of the Moon) is a fabulous amateur sleuth with some police procedural elements as the heroine recognizes the potential danger she and Holly are in. Thus she investigates the homicides, but what she finds tear into her gut as she links the killings back to 1960s activism, 2009 blackmail and other secrets that have left corpses behind and threaten relationships with a destruction of trust.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Broken Places-Sandra Parshall
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The popularity of electric bicycles, or e-bikes, and other electrically-powered transport options is beginning to show a bit more, as seen by the announcement that the boutique retailer (and e-tailer) Urban Outfitters will soon be selling Jetson E-Bikes at five of their locations across the U.S..
"The Urban Outfitters shopper is looking for fun, savvy, stylish products that help make their lives more exciting and help them to express their individuality, so this partnership make sense for all parties involved. Electric bikes are quickly becoming the trending transportation alternative for everyone from city dwellers to students living on college campuses." – Josh Sultan, CEO of Jetson Bikes
One of Oprah's picks for her Favorite Things in 2012, the Jetson E-Bike is billed as the "best electric bike on the streets", and has a lot going for it as a commuter bike, with speeds up to 20 mph possible and a range of about 40 miles.
These E-Bikes look more like scooters than bicycles, but they still qualify as a bicycle in most locations (no special license or registration necessary), and riders can still pedal them manually when they want to (or when they get discharged).
The bikes feature front and rear lights, disc brakes, an LCD display with speedometer and charge indicator, and can carry up to two people. The lithium-ion battery packs can be either charged in place or removed from the bike, with a full charge taking about 4 hours. Jetson claims the battery packs are good for 1000 charges, with each charge using just 5 cents (USD) worth of electricity.
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WIth 60-plus streams flowing from the surrounding mountains down into Lake Tahoe, you'd expect there to be waterfalls, and you'd be right. There are dozens of small-to-medium waterfalls and hundreds of cataracts within the Tahoe Basin. Many of the places where water gets vertical are far up on the mountains in places where few people ever see them.
But what about big waterfalls? Is there anything really spectacular to see?
If your yardstick for spectacular is based on Yosemite waterfalls, then the answer is no. Same if you're comparing things to Yellowstone or Niagara Falls. But if you're thinking about other waterfalls scattered across the country, then Tahoe's biggest do a pretty good job by comparison.
What's the biggest Tahoe waterfall?
Eagle Falls at Emerald Bay. (Yes, 200-foot Cascade Falls is definitely in the running for prettiest waterfall in Tahoe, but it is much less voluminous than Eagle falls. You can read about hiking to Cascade Falls here.)
|Cascade Falls is at the very bottom of the pic
There is a lot of backcountry to the west of Emerald Bay, and all that snowmelt comes down in a rush when the sun starts to rise high in the spring. The river down from Eagle Lake to the highway is a constant, impressive cataract, and it is well worth hiking up to the lake just to see it. After that water rushes under the highway bridge, it tumbles off of two separate dropoffs for a grand total of about 210 feet. (For comparison, Niagra Falls, with really big-time-volume, is only 165 feet high).
|Upper Eagle Falls up close
Before you go to see Eagle Falls, please consider that approaching it from the bottom has three big advantages. One, you get more exercise hiking down from the Vikingsholm's parking lot. Two, you will see the grandest portion of the falls and see it from a great perspective. Three, you're unlikely to die.
No joke, that. In their rush to see the falls on the fast plan, some people pull over on the highway up above and scramble over the rocks for a quick look at the falls from above. That is fine unless you fall, which people have done to the lasting regret of those who are left spending their vacation making funeral arrangements. The rocks are smooth and slippery, and they slope down, and there are also little "ball-bearing" rocks to speed your descent over the precipice. Just to make it even riskier, there is a nice mist getting things wet so the rocks will be even slipperier.
|Upper Eagle Falls from the most dangerous vantage point. Don't get swept away!
Be safe. Park in the large Vikingsholm lot on the north side of the bay. Take a leisurely hike down the paved path to the castle and beach and then up the short path to the base of Eagle Falls. Bring a picnic lunch and eat on the beach. Take a tour of Vikingsholm while your at it. You'll have a better, safer time, get some easy exercise (about 2 miles round trip) and get better pictures, too.
|Lower Eagle Falls from below - the safest viewing place down near the Vikingsholm castle
A fun thing to do on the way back from Emerald Bay (assuming you came from the South Shore), is to stop at the Camp Rich Ice Cream Parlor for a treat. Or turn in toward the lake and drive to the Beacon Restaurant and have a drink out on the deck overlooking the water.
What is Tahoe's second biggest falls?
Glen Alpine Falls is at the southwest end of Fallen Leaf Lake near Tahoe's South Shore. At 75 feet, it isn't as high as Eagle Falls, but the river is as voluminous or maybe more, and it too is a fantastic picnic spot.
Glen Alpine Valley comes down from just below Lake Aloha and the Crystal Range behind and to the south of Mt. Tallac.
|The Crystal Range snowfields that feed Glen Alpine Falls
To get to the falls, plug "Fallen Leaf Lake, South Lake Tahoe" into Google Maps. You may have to zoom in a bit before Fallen Leaf Road appears. The easiest way in is the route from Highway 89 near Kiva Beach and Camp Richardson. It's a narrow, slow road, mostly paved but with lots of potholes. The road takes you through the forest and then, when it reaches Fallen Leaf Lake, shows you some of the world's greatest views looking across the lake at Mt. Tallac.
The road winds back and forth and is only one lane wide in many places, so be sure to drive slowly. It goes to the end of the lake and then continues on toward the forest for the equivalent of a couple of blocks. Soon, the road rises up at a steep angle and brings you right next to the falls. There are small areas here and there where you can park on the side of the road. As with Eagle Falls, please watch your step! This falls is less dangerous, but you can still fall on the slippery rocks!
|Glen Alpine Falls runs into Fallen Leaf Lake, which drains
into Taylor Creek, which in turn flows out to Lake Tahoe.
By the way, the road along Fallen Leaf Lake makes for a great bike ride, better on a mountain bike than a road bike due to the potholes. You can get there by riding the bike path that goes through the woods for several miles from South Lake Tahoe all the way out to Spring Creek Road. Between the beaches and Fallen Leaf Lake, you can have a great day. You can rent bikes at Anderson Bike Rentals near town.
By comparision, biking out to Emerald Bay is only for serious bicyclists. The highway is narrow, the switchbacks are steep, and the cars drive fast.
You will be smart to avoid both falls on weekends, especially in July and August. May and June are best after the snow melts off the road. (Fallen Leaf road is not plowed in the winter.) Going in the fall is beautiful, but the falls will have very little water.
The small little store at the end of Fallen Leaf Lake is also a good place to get a treat before you head back out.
Bring your camera and have fun!


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[Ask The Readers] iOS 7's New Jony Ive-led Design Direction: Yay Or Nay?
With a completely overhauled design, and a appreciable list of awesome new features, iOS 7 is arguably the most exciting version of iOS to date. But not everyone is a fan of the new design. Based on my own observations of the people I follow on Facebook and Twitter, half of them really, really like the change, while the other half thinks this signals the end of iOS as we know it. In this Ask The Readers feature article, we briefly discuss iOS 7's design, and then ask you to chime in with your opinion.
The overall structure of iOS remains the same with iOS 7. You have a grid of app icons spread over multiple pages and folders, you can double-click the Home button to get to the app switcher, swiping down from the top edge reveals the Notification Center, etc.
What has changed is how all of this looks and, consequently, how it works.
The new look cannot be called "flat" design, strictly speaking. It's certainly flatter than before, there's a stronger focus on typography, drop shadows are nowhere to be found, and skeumorphism has been completely removed, but iOS 7 does things like making heavy use of translucency to express layering of UI elements. For example, the new SBSettings-like Control Center with its myriad of toggles and buttons and sliders appears on top of the home screen grid.
I really love the use of bright, bold colors over white background throughout the OS, but the iconography is just bad, plain bad. The black Stocks/Compass app icon stands out like a sore thumb on the home screen, while the Safari and Mail icons simply look cheap.
And it's not just the app icons, but also the icons in use within apps and menus that look like mockups instead of real icons.
When making big, sweeping changes like these, you will get some backlash from the community. A design overhaul was long overdue for iOS, and that's just what Apple has given us. They've gone off-track in a few areas, but they will take notice of the criticisms, and improve the design as time goes by.
iOS 7 is to iOS what Ice Cream Sandwich was to Android (Editor's note: Oh no he didn't!). It's different, but it is better, and it will only get better in the future.
So, what do you think about the new design in iOS 7? Like it? Hate it? Join our poll or sound off in the comments section!
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Izgad is Aramaic for messenger or runner. We live in a world caught between secularism and religious fundamentalism. I am taking up my post, alongside many wiser souls, as a low ranking messenger boy in the fight to establish a third path. Along the way, I will be recommending a steady flow of good science fiction and fantasy in order to keep things entertaining. Welcome Aboard and Enjoy the Ride!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Yated Gets Its Jewish History Right (For Once)
The Yated Ne'eman, run in the States by Pinchos Lipshutz (who, I am informed, I may actually be related to), is usually one of the best representatives of what is wrong with the Haredi world. I do not deem fit to call it a newspaper. It is a propaganda reel that uses a newspaper format. I mean this quite seriously. They allow organizations to write articles about themselves and then publish them as news articles. They used to not have an official website. There was the Dei'ah veDibur site, which posted Yated articles. Now, I am informed there is an official site. How this works with the newest round of bans specifically for Haredi sites is anyone's guess. Recently I came across an article in this paper that took my breath away for being both well written, correct, and about Jewish history. The article was by Avrohom Birnbaum and titled "The 'Der Heim' Myth."
Birnbaum sets out to refute the common Haredi belief, preached by all the major Haredi news outlets and "history" books (with the Yated taking a leading role), that Eastern European Jewish life was some sort of religious utopia, full of pious learned Jews, untroubled by the temptations of modernity. Birnbaum quotes a Holocaust survivor as saying:
This view [of Eastern European Jewish life] is an outright lie. They are romanticizing one of the most terrible periods in our history. From what I remember, in addition to the terrible poverty, there was great spiritual poverty. People were leaving Yiddishkeit [Judaism]; falling like flies. One could almost say that 'ein bayis asher ein shom meis' [there was no house (in Egypt) in which there was no dead] – no house was without a meis, a spiritual causality, and in some homes it was 'ein bayis asher yeish bo chai' [there was no house in which there was life] – every one of the children was lost to Yiddishkei. Youth were rebelling against the old order, attracted by virtually every new ideology except Torah.
Birnbaum, himself, points out: "The greatest talmidei chachomim [Torah scholars] in the Mirrer Yeshiva of Poland … could not find shidduchim [marriage partners]. At the outbreak of the war, many were well into their thirties and still not married" because there was no supply of educated religious girls to marry.
This was such a wonderful article that I expect that by next week the editorial staff will print a retraction and Birnbaum will apologize for the article. The hordes of angry Haredi readers will be assured that no religious Jew would ever dare imply that Eastern European Jewry was anything less than a bastion of religious observance.
The reason for this is that the "Der Heim" myth is at the foundation of Haredi self understanding. Haredim see themselves as defending and continuing the legacy of Eastern Europe. Regardless of whether this is true or not, there is the issue of should we be trying to perpetuate Eastern Europe. The moment we turn Eastern Europe from a Haredi version of Fiddler on the Roof to a hellhole of assimilation then the answer would appear to be negative. Why should I try to maintain the Orthodoxy of bubbe and zeidy if I am not certain that bubbe and zeidy were all that Orthodox to begin with? (I often like to ask people who they think their bubbies were sleeping with that they have such European features.) More importantly there is the issue of leadership. How do we continue to look up to rabbis like Rabbi Yisroel Meir Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim) or Rav Chaim of Brisk once we recognize that they stood host to a spiritual holocaust and proved incapable of stopping it? The only person and system that was in any meaningful way successful at turning out religious Jews from one generation to the next was the Torah im Derech Eretz of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Therefore the only Jewish tradition that should have any credibility today among Ashkenazic Jews today should by Hirschian Torah im Derech Eretz. The rabbis of Eastern Europe would be left somewhere between Nero fiddling while Fiddler on the Roof burned and hapless King Lear. (Rabbi Kagan, to his credit, did help create the Bais Yaakov girls school system. This was, in essence, a Hirschian project, designed precisely to create educated religious brides for the thirty year old rabbinical students in the Mir.)
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The pendulum can swing too far either way. My father grew up in a frum pre-war home and no one was on the verge of leaving "the derech". On the other hand none of them continued cheder past grade 8 and all wer expected to go and find trades.
The truth is always between the two extremes. The haskalah damaged the frum community but was not on the verge of wiping it out. 99% of Jews were not uber-pious chasidim. They were 3 dimensional characters like you and me.
- January 31, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- The Bray of Fundie said...
In keeping with the Haredi ban on the internet, they do not have an official website, but there is the Dei'ah veDibur site, which posts Yated articles.
Formerly true...but no longer.
how new this iste is I don't know but for the sake of accuracy you ought to ammend the post.
- February 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- The Bray of Fundie said...
The hordes of angry Haredi readers will be assured that no religious Jew would ever dare imply that Eastern European Jewry was anything less than a bastion of religious observance.
I am not angry because of such an implication but because the article is shallow ans fails to articulate the superiority of pre-war European Jewry IN SPITE of all these factual deficiencies.
I'm also angryu at you for your caricature of Kahredim as naive, gullible fools. Most Kharedim over the age of 14 are well aware of all the deficiencies of pre-war Jewry described in this article.
- February 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM
- Izgad said...
Thank you for point out the Yated website. I made the changes.
"I'm also angry at you for your caricature of Kahredim as naive, gullible fools."
I do not believe that Haredim are naïve gullible fools. I believe that many of them are quite intelligent radical skeptics, who reject the very legitimacy of the historical and scientific methods of inquiry. This allows them to accept any premise that suits their purpose, no matter how absurd, with a straight face.
- February 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM
- The Bray of Fundie said...
snark offered up with a straight face ARGHHHHHH
- February 2, 2010 at 12:13 AM
- Izgad said...
That was not me being snarky. That is the world as I honestly see it based on numerous conversations with Haredim.
- February 2, 2010 at 6:56 AM
>The reason for this is that the "Der Heim" myth is at the foundation of Haredi self understanding.
I think you're overstating how much Charedim actually believe this myth, and how much it means to them.
>Haredim see themselves as defending and continuing the legacy of Eastern Europe.
As defending what they see as the best of Eastern Europe. They do not wish to recreate Eastern Europe in toto, but rather to perpetuate in America what was Charedi society in Eastern Europe.
>Why should I try to maintain the Orthodoxy of bubbe and zeidy if I am not certain that bubbe and zeidy were all that Orthodox to begin with?
Why do Chassidim soldier on? Surely Satmars don't think that everyone was Satmar before the War. They don't believe that Satmars existed before even the first Satmar Rebbe. Ditto Lubavitch, Karlin-Stolin, etc. The point of their efforts is not to restore the universal Charedi society but to establish a utopia founded on the old-timey values of the Greatest Jews ever of all time - the specific, very narrow brand of Judaism of their intellectual predecessors.
Similarly, MO Jews don't think that everyone was Modern Orthodox or that people 500, 600, 700, 1000 years ago were either Modern or Orthodox.
>How do we continue to look up to rabbis like Rabbi Yisroel Meir Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim) or Rav Chaim of Brisk once we recognize that they stood host to a spiritual holocaust and proved incapable of stopping it?
The same way they look up to the current crop of nonagenarians. What has Rav Elyashiv done to stop our spiritual autoholocaust? The only groups to have made any headway with this are Ohr Sameiach, Aish and Lubavitch. None of whom charedim are particularly fond of.
- February 2, 2010 at 7:04 PM
- The Bray of Fundie said...
I love Ohr Sameach
- February 3, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- The Bray of Fundie said...
they are mekarev jews to what is IMO a stream within normative Judaism (unlike Chabad) then they mainstream them (unlike Aish)
- February 3, 2010 at 5:31 PM
- Mikewind Dale said...
Good mention of Rav Hirsch. I like to note that Rav Hirsch came to a wasteland with only one youth still wearing tefillin (Jacob Rosenheim), and he built a whole kehilla. By contrast, the Hungarians started strong but merely succeeded in standing their ground. Which type of Orthodoxy is stronger?
- February 4, 2010 at 2:01 AM
- Ha-historion said...
Wow, this finally gives me an excuse to look into the Yated.
I am expecting some juicy back and forths in the Letters to the Editor section..
- February 5, 2010 at 1:45 AM


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Charlottesville Mural Project
Visit The Charlottesville Mural Project Website
A Program of The Bridge, the Charlottesville Mural Project showcases the talents of artists and designers while creating a more interesting visual landscape in the city.
The Charlottesville Mural Project was launched in 2011 as a program of The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative. With some planning and generous sponsorship from The Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, the CMP was started with an attainable and focused mission. The CMP functions on many levels by commissioning murals, serving as a consultant, and working as a catalyst for public art in Charlottesville. The CMP works closely with paint companies, rental companies, the City of Charlottesville, and the Board of Architectural Review. Since its launch in 2011, the CMP has been instrumental in producing murals all over town and beyond! The CMP has broad curatorial interests–from modern street/graffiti art to wheat-pasted photographs to educational and "themed" murals. We partner with painters, illustrators, photographers, graffiti artists, non-profits, and schools. We support local artists by ensuring we pay them for their talent and labor. We also believe it's important to inspire youth with creative, public art projects. By involving kids and young adults in projects that visibly change the landscape of our city, we help instill a sense of pride and involvement in the community. Additionally, murals are a great way to encourage teamwork and artistic expression.


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Macau – World Heritage and Casinos
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After spending 4 days in Hong Kong, I decided to spend a night at Macau before continue my journey back to Vietnam. Approximately one hour after departed from Hong Kong Macau Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui via Turbojet ferry, I finally arrived in Macau. Like in Hong Kong, I did not make any preparation. After asked around, I hoped into a public bus and alighted at...Read More


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As covered by our previous postings of the Hole in Wall project which started of as a curious experiment and continued as a chain of experiments across rural india has finally crossed its boundaries and reached schools in UK and italy and is all poised to challenge all kinds of barriers like language, culture, age to education. Dr. Sugata Mitra Speaks at TED.
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India, a rapidly growing economy, having recorded 19% reduction in poverty over a decade, still has poor literacy rate with around 400 million people unable to read and write. Fakir Chand Kohli, widely regarded as the father of India's software industry decided to address this challenge through software application for reduction of literacy rates. The project poses great potential for improvement of women literacy. (54% women are literate as compared to 76% men)
"Launched in February 2000 in the Beeramguda village in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh, this ground-breaking project seeks to combat illiteracy with a new approach to learning, using multimedia and flashcards to fortify the learning experience". The Computer-Based Functional Literacy (CBFL) method, primarily focused on reading, is designed to provide a basic 300-500 word vocabulary to adults over the course of 40 hours – 'about a third of the time of traditional training', and essentially based on the theories of cognition, language and communication.
A typical class has between 15 and 20 people and is held in the evening hours. CBFL curriculum provides flexibility to adjust to the varied schedules of working adults with families, and does not require trained teachers. A detailed analysis of CFBL is given here and the pictures here.
""You don't need a state of the art computer for this program to really fly," says Tata Group Chairman Ratan N. Tata, which means that the training can be conducted on donated 486 Pentium computers deemed obsolete by many users but adequate for CBFL."
Today the CBFL project is operational in more than 1,000 centers in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, and it has helped more than 50,000 people learn the most basic reading. More centers are in the process of being set up. CBFL has been field tested in five of India's 18 languages — Telegu, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, and Bengali, with the help of government and NGOs in various locations throughout India. Tata claims that if implemented properly, the project can make 90 per cent of India literate in three to five years, thereby transforming the third world workforce.
CBFL has even been exported to South Africa, thanks to the interest of First Lady Zanele Mbeki. A TCS team is helping experts in that country to map the sounds of unwritten South African languages and develop a script for use in computer-based literacy training.
A similar program previously implemented in Nagrota Surian in 2005 was ASHA which aimed at teaching 15000 adults how to read and write in a period of 3 years.


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Rock Band 2 for the Wii is just one month away and since I don't have a 360 but do have a Wii I'm rather excited about the release. Even better is the news from Harmonix, makers of RB2 for the Wii. If you have the Wii guitar from Guitar Hero III you will be pleased to know that it will work with RB2.
And chances are a lot of Wii owners did get Guitar Hero III instead of the original Rock Band that was stripped of many features in its conversion for the Wii. So if you're a guitar only player you can save some money by just getting the Rock Band 2 game. Or get the whole package and have an extra guitar on hand.
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As per my belief, art talent test decides only how easy create art be there. People talented are speedy with their improvement, but this doesn't indicate that all the other people aren't fine; rather they require only more time and patience.
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If art talent test only depends on talent then what's the position of art school due to that only special, talented people can graduate and become enhanced? Also while the art teachers saw that you're not improving since you're not talented, then they will most likely give up you elsewhere. After that, you'll end up spending more money to gain this natural art talent which is not possible with the way of thinking that art aptitude test depends on only talented people and can make art.
Practical Art Talent Test:
Over the long period, I've observed an artist's art, in the beginning, is fearful. Nevertheless, they work hard and then in the end they graduate and get hired to work in the industry as a qualified creator.
Anyone can draw/paint/ be artistic too. Also to make it well or worst is the level of time and patience you take to complete the section. Within five minutes if I make a doodles it's not going to look good. The majority people have to practice and work hard for a good part. Some art talent tests you may take on online.
One more reason I think changes things the artist's creative stream. While you just draw without any objective, then it might not be as well as when you draw because it presents some purpose in your lifetime.
Which I at any period believe that you can proceed in your learning of art, considering that the mind never stops studying until you're departed. Art aptitude test offers you the space you give yourself to develop. People sit on creating good art; they're anxious about making bad art, but it is true to make good art you have to make bad art earliest!
From what I read, some people can have plenty of talent, and no skill and the same goes for a person with plenty of skill and no talent. So, it's, either way, true for art aptitude test. Talent is created and grows when you are overly passionate about a specific subject and skill appears on repeated practice.
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8th October 2015
Premier Power is pushing ahead with plans to expand its workforce to cope with an increase in it's workload and expanding customer base.
Premier Power managing director explains; we have seen a steady increase in enquiries and orders during the last twelve months. We now feel it's time to increase our work force to fulfil our customers requirements. During the last twelve months we've been busy developing new exciting products which are nearing their launch dates following extensive testing. These new products will appeal to our current market places and open up new opportunities in new ones. We also want to expand our specialised engine build services to offer more customers engine rebuild services on performance engines and clients the opportunity for us to be involved with prototype engine build projects.
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• Able to work as part of an enthusiastic team and be self-motivated.
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• Have experience working on engine installations, either on dynos or in vehicle would be considered an advantage but not essential.
• Have a flexible approach to time spent at work when workload requires.
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To be begin with, you should look at the Automatic Updates Configuration to see how it is currently setup. There are a number of options which can account for the feature not working in the way that you are expecting.
Depending on your Operating System, you will access the configuration of Automatic updates in a different way.
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After accessing the option you will be given three options. These are pretty self explanatory, but are basically
The option you choose depends on the one that you are most comfortable with.
The updates will be downloaded in the background using a feature called smart downloading which uses spare bandwidth to download the updates, thus not interfering with your browsing and other work.
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If you have the new Automatic Updates client (yellow shield) then you have a number of command line options available to you.
wuauclt /detectnow - this forces the client to detect any updates on the automatic updates server. This could be the server at Microsoft or an internal Automatic Updates (WSUS) server.
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow - as well as forcing the client to look for updates, this resets the cookie that is used by the process. If you have changed the configuration of the server, for example by setting up group targeting, then this will ensure that the latest settings are used. The switches must be used in the order shown.
wuauclt /demoui - this allows you to see what icon is currently in use and how it prompts for updates. Useful for demonstrations of the process to new users, or creating user guides
wuauclt /showsettingsdialog - this shows you the settings for automatic updates
wuauclt /showwu - On Windows XP this will start Windows Update, on Windows Vista and higher (including 2008) this will open the Windows Update GUI
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Incessant loud beeping from a mobile phone at 4.30am is just about my idea of hell, I'm not a morning person. I'm grouchy, dopey and virtually useless first thing in the morning. So I wasn't in the best of moods when Katrina woke me by holding the noise to my ears!
Nor am I a particularly good person for travelling. I love going to places and I love different modes of transport but I have an incredibly short attention span so just over an hour on a hot minibus at this hour equally isn't my idea of a good time. I just feel sorry for Katrina having to put up with me during this trip!
There was a good reason for being up this early however. One of the biggest attractions in Central America are the Mayans, or rather their ancient cities such as Tikal (where we were visiting), Chichen Itza and Copan of which we know comparatively little about. With this being the alleged year of impending doom according to many people predicting the apocalypse, there has been greater coverage in the media of the Mayans too.
By the time we'd arrived at the site the sun was baking down on the Guatemalan rain forest and it was only just after 6 in the morning. Getting used to the heat here is taking me some time – northern boys weren't made warm weather!
When you arrive at Tikal, there is just a car park, a restaurant and a few stalls selling souvenirs. Apart from that, you can't see anything else apart for the green of the forest, and before heading in we were introduced to Boris, our guide. I'm not entirely sure we'd booked a guide but Boris was pretty insistent we follow him so we did along with a handful of other tourists from Israel.
Looking back on this I sure am glad we were with him – Tikal is surrounded by dense forest which is navigable via a few pathways with relatively few signs. It's definitely a good thing in terms of a getting what feels like a more real experience however we were told of a tourist getting lost for 8 days in here some years ago.
As we walked Boris explained a little about the background to Tikal such as it potentially being home to over 100,000 people in its heyday 1,000 years ago or so as well as the fact all the forest which now surrounds it would not have been seen for miles around with the land used for agriculture. The best guess as to what happened at Tikal are that the people migrated further south into Guatemala due to drought or to flee stronger surrounding kingdoms.
By this time we had come to a 'small' pyramid in the jungle which we climbed to the top of, and already we could feel the strain. Curiously, the average Mayan person was only about 5ft 3in and the kings were maybe 5ft 9in – incredible given the steps to the top of these structures are at least 1ft in height each! Add in the fact the king would be draped in gold and jaguar skin (very bling) and I'm not sure they tried to fit into their surroundings.
A further walk through the jungle brought us to an incredibly large structure simply known as Temple IV and immediately we were eager to clamber up the rickety wooden steps to the top of it. Despite being so early in the morning the climb in the heat had both of us sweating and a little short of breath and the view took a little bit more of that away. Looking out from the temple across the expanse of jungle below all you can make out are a couple of other temples peaking over the tree canopy, the odd Macaw flying from tree to tree in the distance and a curious roar of which we did not know the source.
I could have stayed at the top of that temple all day and just watched the day go by but there is a great deal more of Tikal to see before the sun becomes unbearably hot and at the same time taking advantage being one of the few people on the site.
Back on the ground I asked Boris what the noise was, to me it sounded like a lion or a dinosaur both of which would take you by surprise in the middle of Guatemala! He simply said it was a howler monkey and we could go find them and within a few minutes of the ever increasing roars there they were, high in the trees, defending their territory against another group of spider monkeys.
I'd heard of howler monkeys before but never realised just how appropriate their name was. They actually used the noise of these creatures to create the sound effects for dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park. And while we're on the subject of movie trivia, Tikal was also the location of a small scene in Star Wars Episode IV.
Moving on through the forest from the monkeys we were coming to the main centre of Tikal where many temples are located and were left to explore on our own after some final information from Boris. Clambering over these kinds of things really does make you feel pretty good about yourself but you can only imagine how the explorers felt re-discovering these ruins amongst the rainforest.
A couple of hours of clambering and doing our own little exploration we'd grown tired and sat to reflect on what we had seen. I've been lucky enough to visit other ancient cities like Pompeii, Angkor Wat and Borobodur however I still find new ones just as impressive, although by this time I needed a huge drink of water – Lara Croft movies make these things look so much more glamourous!
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The Compton Group has interests ranging from fundamental electrochemistry (theory of electron transfer and of mass transport) to making chemical sensors; the companies Senova and OxTox have spun out of Group research in recent years. Current work also focuses on electrochemistry in nanoelectrodes, room temperature ionic liquids and in bioelectrochemistry. We adopt a bottom-up approach developing new methods to investigate the kinetics and mechanisms of interfacial reactions.


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|The History of Kung Fu San Soo
Photo from Kung Fu San Soo of the Monterey Peninsula.
by Rich Robson
In order to trace the roots of Kung Fu San Soo it is necessary to go back to a time in Chinese history referred to as the "Warring States" period which began in the 11th century and ended in the 3rd century BC. This period was characterized by a feudal system where great overlords ruled grants of land given to them by rulers of the Chou dynasty. Each overlord, in an effort to maintain control over their land, developed their own system of fighting. Naturally, the best fighting systems would continue to improve while the ineffective systems tended to decay and disappear.
About a thousand years ago, three such overlord families, Tsai, Li and Hoi, united in the construction of a Buddhist temple in the village of Pon Hong, Guangdong Providence of Southern China. This temple came to be known as the Temple of Kwan Yin, the goddess of mercy. It was in this temple that San Soo had its roots as the three families combined their respective arts into one.
About 200 years ago, a young man named Chin Moon Don lived in this temple. At the age of 30 he left with the two training manuals which contained the techniques that make up San Soo. These books remained in his family for four generations until a man named Chin Siu Hung came to possess them. He was an extremely large man, 6'5" tall and weighing over 320 pounds. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a well known San Soo teacher.
A nephew of Chin Siu Hung, Chin Siu Dek began his study of San Soo at the age of 5 and became Hung's prized student. Dek learned extremely quickly and loved the grueling workouts. In 1935, when Dek was 21 years old, he left China for the port of Los Angeles with a passport under the name of Jimmy H. Woo. As fate would later prove, this turned out to be an extremely fortunate move.
Chin Siu Hung was 73 years old when the Japanese invaded China. In 1942 he was forced to fight a death match with the regimental karate champion of the Japanese army. The Japanese commander thought such a display would surely demonstrate the power of the Japanese army. In fact, it took Hung less than 20 seconds to kill the karate warrior! Enraged, the Japanese commander ordered Hung and most of his students immediately killed by machine gun fire. This basically ended San Soo in mainland China. Had Jimmy not immigrated to the United States, San Soo would not exist today.
The San Soo fighting system contains punches, kicks, leverages, and throws. There also is much emphasis put on the mental attitude that one needs to approach a dangerous fight situation with a calm and collected mind. It is a highly fluid and dynamic system; the techniques are altered to fit the particular situation at any given moment. It is highly aggressive and offensive in nature. The San Soo fighter is trained to be in control under any circumstance. It is based on biological and physical principles that have been researched and developed over a period of more than 2,000 years. When properly understood and applied, the techniques used in San Soo will give the fighter the optimum chance to prevail over any opponent.
Rich Robson is a 2nd degree black belt and owner/chief instructor at the Kung Fu San Soo Club, 3388 30th Street, San Diego, CA 92104. For more information on Kung Fu San Soo, call Master Rich Robson (619) 297-0424.
Martial Arts articles of interest by Jade Dragon Online:
Part 1 of our two-part series Martial Arts: An Overview
Part 2 of our two-part series Martial Arts: An Overview
The Roots of Martial Arts
Profile: Sifu Share K. Lew
Kung Fu San Soo web sites:
Kung Fu San Soo of the Monterey Peninsula
Kwan Yin Kung Fu San Soo Website
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Hatters striker Charlie Walker is determined to keep his place when Luton travel to Morecambe this weekend.
The 24-year-old made his first start for the club since joining in the summer during last Saturday's 1-1 FA Cup draw at Bury.
When asked about his chances of retaining the shirt at the Shrimps on Saturday, he said: "I hope so. It will be tough because Cully (Mark Cullen) is doing well.
"John (Still) likes playing one up sometimes so it will be hard but I'll keep my head down and I'm hoping I'm going to break in and keep my place."
Walker got his big chance after an injury to striker Paul Benson, who broke his leg during the 3-0 win over Mansfield.
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Here we are --officially counting down the nights on one hand until Halloween arrives. There is so much happening all during this week up to Monday night so you have a chance to fit your fair share of Halloween fun, Jack O' Lantern gawking, winning costume contests, and haunt-going into your free time. We don't envy you having to narrow down your agenda but we've whittled down some Top Picks for your Halloween week.
The Boston premiere of Rise of the Jack O' Lanterns kicks off their 4-night run this Thursday, October 2th and runs through Sunday, October 30th.
Being indoors, you can check it out during the day or night with a breathtaking exhibit of over 5,000 Jack O'Lanterns, carved giant pumpkins, pumpkin carving demos, full scale displays, and more Located inside the Boston Seaport World Trade Center--a truly enormous space--this will be an incredible, memorable event this Halloween season and we'll be there ourselves on Thursday night! Find more info (and a link to discount code).
It's Halloween Week and there are four haunted attractions open Wednesday, October 26th including Fright Haven in CT and thirty-two open on Thursday, October 27th including Fear Town and Haunted 20,000 Leagues in MA, Haunted Acres and Haunted Overload in NH, Fright Haven in CT, and House of the Dead in Maine. Click for a list of which haunts will be open weeknights.
Many haunts will be opening this Sunday, October 30th to help you make the most of your Halloween weekend. Visit Seven Cedars Haunted Hayride in RI, The Haunted Graveyard and Fright Haven in CT, Fright Fest at Six Flags New England, Haunted 20,000 Leagues, and Fear Town in MA, Haunted Overload and Haunted Acres in NH and House of the Dead in Maine.Here is your complete guide to which Haunted Attractions are Open this Sunday, October 30th.
Which 26 Haunted Attractions are Open on Halloween Night?
It's not a given that New England haunted attractions will be open on Halloween, especial as the 31st lands on a Monday this year. There are twenty six that WILL be open including Ballroom of Horror at their new location and Fright Fest at Six Flags New England in MA, Haunted Overload features Fright Night Lite and Haunted Acres is holding a costume contest, and Seven Cedars Haunted Hayride in RI will be sending their hayrides deep into the pitch-black woods of Smithfield.
Top Event Picks for the Upcoming Week
Rise of the Jack O'Lanterns this week and you can check it out too Thursday through Sunday in Boston. It's Frightful Friday Ghost Stories at Gore Mansion in Waltham and the Haunted Attic tours continue Thursday and Friday at the Old Manse in Concord. Saturday through Monday you can support haunters giving back to their community at Nightmare Marlborough's home haunt and bring with you a can of food for admission. Also Thursday through Sunday will be the Haunted House at Naumkeag in Stockbridge.
Get into the Halloween spirit in Walpole which will be hosting Pumpkin Carving in the Park during the early afternoon.
Tricks, Treats, and Treasures on Monday and there is a Family Halloween Festival in Sandwich at the Heritage Museum and Gardens on Friday and Saturday.
In Somerville, the Ballroom of Horror opens on Thursday and runs trough Halloween and they'll host a Family Day on Sunday, Oct 30th.
Tricks, Treats, and Treasures on Monday and there is a Family Halloween Festival in Sandwich at the Heritage Museum and Gardens on Friday and Saturday.
In Somerville, the Ballroom of Horror opens on Thursday and runs trough Halloween and they'll host a Family Day on Sunday, Oct 30th.
Find TWO Dia de los Muertos celebrations in Cambridge at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology-- the adult celebration happens Saturday night and the family celebration will be held Sunday at noon.
In Newbury, MA on Sunday you might want to check out Cradle to Grave: Lamplight Tour of Coffin House and First Parish Burying Ground which is a nighttime haunted history tour complete with beer tasting.
On Friday you can find the Hallowed History Lantern Tour at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford and the Wadsworth Mansion Halloween Bash in Middletown.
The Hale Homestead in Coventry will be treating you to an evening of spooky tales and refreshments at Things that Go Bump in the Night on Friday and in Norwalk on Friday through Sunday you can enjoy Ghostly Sightings at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum.
If you're a fan of the SyFy Channel's special effect make-up challenge Face Off then you will want to make a beeline to The Haunted Graveyard at Lake Compounce in Bristol where on Saturday Face Off contestant Tyler Green will choose 3 lucky customers to do their Halloween makeup!
In Bridgeport on Saturday, kids families may want to make a point to swing by Spooktacular! at the Discovery Museum and Planetarium and for adults on Saturday night the Connecticut Renaissance Faire transforms into Halloween Knights from 6:00pm onward in North Haven.
Halloween revelers might love to party at the Atomic Age Halloween a retro-themed event at the Lyric Hall in New Haven on Monday night. Your ticket gets you food, a DJ, live music, and many surprises.Middlefield CT will also be home to this year's Vampire Ball which includes dinner, dancing, live music, and a cash bar. Naturally, you'll want to go all out with your costume if you want to compete for cash prize for best costume.
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On Halloween night at Haunted Acres in Candia you can enter their Annual Costume Contest to win cash prizes and you can even take $10 off general admission tickets when you wear a costume on that night!
Also on Halloween, Haunted Overload in Lee will feature their special Fright Night Lite which is a variation of their "regular" event. On Lite Night you can experience the full show inside the attraction but without the scares.
Friday night in Concord is the Haunted Mansion Masquerade for dancing, games, food, a bar, palm reading, mediums, portraits and more.
Friday and Saturday in Portsmouth is the annual Ghosts on the Banke which is a family-friendly evening of ghostly tales, safe trick or treating, a costume parade, a bonfire and more.
If you're in the Portsmouth area any day or night leading up to Halloween, take a driving or walking tour of the 65 scarecrows across Portsmouth and the Pease Tradeport during Scarecrows of the Port.
If you're in the Portsmouth area any day or night leading up to Halloween, take a driving or walking tour of the 65 scarecrows across Portsmouth and the Pease Tradeport during Scarecrows of the Port.
It's the final week and a half of Roger Williams Park Zoo's Jack O'Lantern Spectacular in Providence which runs nightly through Nov. 6th. At this zoo this weekend you will also find the family-friendly Spooky Zoo on Saturday and Sunday which features trick or treating, animal encounters, costumed characters, music and zoo admission. Another family event worth checking out is the A-Mazing Halloween Party at Escobar Farm's Corn Maze in Portsmouth on Saturday.
Don your best costume on Friday and head out to Newport Vineyards' Halloween CarnEvil in Middletown for a special Halloween party complete with costume contest, creepy cocktail hour, circus performers, a sideshow, tarot reading and live music (21+ event).
Poe: Tales of Fear and Suspense is a theatrical dinner event on Monday October 31st (plus 4 nights in early November). Try Longfellow's "Haunted House" tour, reading, and adult beverages taking place nightly now through October 31st. At Port City Musical Hall, Prince lovers will celebrate his music at Purple Brainz: a Halloween Tribute to Prince on Saturday the 29th. Also on Saturday, if you are in Kennebunk, join in the All Souls Walk to partake in a cemetery tour and to soak up local haunted history. It will also be your last chance to catch the WICKED: Haunted Walk in Mexico, ME on Friday and Saturday.
On Saturday in South Burlington, the Dark Circus Masquerade Ball might catch your eye with a costume contest for a $200 first prize, live performances, roaming circus characters, a DJ and even a special discount with your Nightmare Vermont ticket stub. For non-scary Halloween family fun, consider VINS Nature Center's Hoots and Howls event in Quechee on Saturday where you'll find snakes, owls, bones, gooey science experiments, storytelling, games, and crafts.
If you're lucky you can snag a seat on the Halloween Express Train Ride (non-scary) leaving from Burlington to Shelburne which features costumed characters, Halloween storytime, treats, and more during the 60-minute trip.
Where has Halloween New England been lately?
We spent a wonderful Thursday night at Barrett's Haunted Mansion (Abington, MA) and loved the addition of The Compound. Friday brought torrential rain but nothing held Haunted Overload (Lee, NH) back on that night because everyone put on an incredible show despite the weather challenges. We were thrilled to fit in a trip to Haunted Hill in Cumberland, RI to wrap up our weekend and especially loved meeting some crazy haunt-going fans there who spend their Halloween season much in the way we do!
Where is Halloween New England headed this weekend?
We've got an ambitious Halloween week lined up and we hope to fit everything in! We've penciled in Rise of the Jack O' Lanterns (Boston, MA) for their opening night Thursday, Haunted Acres (Candia, NH), 20,000 Leagues at 5 Wits (Foxborough, MA), The 7-1-5 Haunted House (Canton, MA), Vengeance in the Valley (Guilford, VT), Mike's Haunted Maze (Sunderland, MA), and Seven Cedars Haunted Hayride (Smithfield, RI). Fingers crossed that we can get everywhere we want to go!
Haunted Houses & Trails Opening Thursday, October 28th, 2016
Rise of the Jack O' Lanterns Boston (MA) - non-haunted Walk
Sandy River Farms (ME) – Haunted Corn Maze
Haunted Houses & Trails Opening Saturday, October 30th, 2016
Ballroom of Horror (MA)
Coppal House Farm (NH) – Spooky Corn Maze


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Whether it's a magical scene in a film, an unforgettable live performance, a picturesque sunset, a romantic gesture, a transcendent work of art, a killer YouTube video, or one of those beautifully serendipitous moments, we've all had the experience of seeing, hearing, and feeling something that gives us goose bumps, that makes the hairs on our arm stick up, that sends chills down our spine, and that warms our heart wide open.
What is that all about? Why does that happen?
I've come to believe that those sensations are an expression of our soul's recognition of itself in another or in the very thing we are experiencing, whether it's love, inspiration, or natural beauty.
I also believe that those enlivening moments are an unequivocal call from the Divine to step more fully into being that which we truly are, to nurture and express our own gifts more passionately, to love more wholeheartedly, and to honor the blessing of this life more fully in the present moment.
When those special experiences come, it's as if the very thing that triggers us to have those sensations is reflecting to us our own potential, our own talent, our own capacity for love and for contribution to others. It's as if the Truth is speaking to us directly, in those places where we feel it and can't deny it, saying: "Yes, my child, what you are feeling is real. What you have witnessed is true. And you have it too."
And what is that "it" that is at the root of those magical moments?
It is the perfect infusion of our spiritual essence and our human nature into something transcendent. It is the awe-inspiring performance or visual or gesture, coupled with the witnessing presence of another. It is the unknowable being experienced through and by the one who cannot name or describe it. It is heaven on earth.
I've come to believe that those moments and the sweet nectar that they contain are what this life is all about. And each time we have the privilege of tasting that sweetness, we get the opportunity to know our true selves more fully and to step forward in the direction of our highest self more boldly. That out-of-this-world feeling is the North Star leading you to your destiny; follow it and it will lead you home.
So…What gives you goose bumps?
Much love,
Chris Assaad is a man on a mission with an unwavering commitment to spreading Peace, Love, and Inspiration around the globe. Chris is a singer/songwriter and inspirational artist from Toronto who left a promising career in law several years ago to pursue his dream of a career in music. Since then, Chris has been actively using his voice to enCOURAGE others to follow their dreams, express their creativity and live life to the fullest.
You can listen to and download Chris's latest release "Into The Light" for FREE here and find him on Facebook or Twitter.
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A lot of people aspire to become rich, but not everyone understands what it's actually about. It's partly related to money, but it's not entirely about that.
To know if you've already achieved such status, the main factors you should consider are your lifestyle and financial freedom. Aside from those, it's also worth considering your savings and your ability to focus on things other than money. Can you afford vacation, retirement, treatment, education, and cars without incurring any debt and changing your lifestyle? If yes, then you might be one of the wealthy people on the planet.
What Rich People Do and Don't Do
Rich people don't brag. They aren't the chattiest persons at parties. They don't name-drop, because they don't feel any need to attach themselves to celebrities. They barely care whether you're familiar with them or not.
Instead of showing off, what they do is focus on honing their craft and/or improving their business. When they dress, they always choose comfort over style. They also tend to be picky with the people they want to chat with. More often than not, they hang out with people whom they consider as smarter than them. They're more interested in learning something new instead of finding a potential business partner. Another thing that they do (that poor people don't) is that they save.
Is It Worth It?
Being rich is all about your ability to control your finances for the better. You treat money as a tool, and not as an end-goal. With the stability that you have, you can sustain your lifestyle and help a lot of people. However, it comes with a price. You'll encounter people who simply want to take advantage of you. They'll try so hard to impress you. But then again, you'll also find people who will admire and respect you for who you are as a whole, and not just based on your wealth.


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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Trailer 2012 - Official movie trailer in HD - starring Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett - Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug."The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" hits theaters on December 14, 2012."The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. The Hobbit official trailer 2012 is presented in full HD 1080p high resolution.THE HOBBIT 2012 MovieGenre: Adventure | FantasyCast: Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Luke Evans, Elijah Wood, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Richard Armitage, Ian HolmDirectors: Peter JacksonWriter: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran WalshThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey official movie trailer courtesy Warner Bros.Cieon Movies is your daily dose of "everything movies", a mainstream channel with wider coverage from G-rated to R-rated movies and includes both theatrical and DVD releases, with an extended selection of officially licensed movie trailers and movie clips.Tags: "the hobbit trailer" the hobbit official trailer 2012 "the hobbit" hd movie teaser 2011 "an unexpected journey" "hobbit trailer" "the hobbit trailer 2012" "hobbit trailer 2012" "the hobbit official trailer" "cate blanchett" "ian mckellen" "martin freeman" cate blanchett ian mckellen martin freeman "the hobbit movie" "the hobbit 2012" "movie trailer" "film trailer" "official trailer" "trailers 2012" movies trailers film films today week month year new
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Oh gosh I haven't updated my blog for 2 years
because I have been having diarrhoea! And boy did time fly. Well, I'm gonna try to at least make this blog look like it is somewhat alive, but no guarantees. Wish me luck!
P/S: I said "TRY" because I'm not like some passionate
hardcore-insane-crazy bloggers like my good friend Naomi. I tend to forget this blog from time to time. Hehe.


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Advocate or Activist, what's the difference?
In a recent community meeting, I was asked if I'm an activist or an advocate. My immediate answer was that I'm an advocate. Afterwards I pondered my answer because the word activist has always been less than desirable to me.
Over the past 25 years, I've often been called an activist and it was a description used to dismiss my work as being "radical". I believe the word was used in the context as being an insult and it invoked a picture of being a radical or militant person.
I think that most of us can agree that radical or militant behavior is less than desirable and is dismissed by many, putting the actions down to someone who is fanatical. Radical or militant is often associated with violence an extreme and undesirable direction to follow. I certainly don't condone it and I believe that violence begets violence.
Over the past couple of years, a huge building binge of chicken warehouses by the poultry industry on the Delmarva Peninsula has invoked division within our communities. This is what my conversation was about when it came down to the question of advocate or activist. My involvement in the issues, is supporting what the community interest are and their interest was decided by those affected. This is what defines advocacy or activism.
On the other hand, there are a few activists involved in the issues. I say activists because involvement came from an already decided campaign coming from somewhere other than the community and represented concerns other than decisions made within the community. Forcing the will of others than those affected, never works, and is doomed from the beginning.
Representing non-profit organizations, activist have a defined campaign in mind long before they disperse into communities. I say this because most often funding for campaigns come from private foundations or individuals. Most of us within the non-profit world who have ever applied for funding know that goals are decided for a specified amount of time and are for specific objectives. The funds applied for are granted before the issues are defined by communities.
Any who've worked on any of the issues surrounding the poultry industry know that there are several factions within the community and most often those different factions don't agree because they have differing concerns. Finding the common thread within the community and moving forward with agreed upon concerns are the goals of an advocate and it goes a long way toward developing common allies within the community. An alliance, if you will!
Attempts to bring together differing factions are sorely hampered by activists because they bring a previously decided campaign to the table which is often different than anything within the individual communities. This becomes a weapon for industry to use and its representatives can often be heard saying that these activists have a hidden agenda which brings about doubt and further divides communities.
According to the dictionary the following applies –
- Advocate – one who supports or promotes the interests of a cause or group
- Advocacy – the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal
- Activist – one who campaigns to bring about political or social change
- Activism – the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change
It's a fine line between the two words, definition wise. However, understanding the difference between supporting or promoting (advocate) and a decided campaign (activist) easily defines the difference between the two. One could say that actions speak louder than words!
Providing assistance to communities in efforts to address its issues within is essential to success. Telling communities what it's issues are and how it will address those issues won't result in positive outcomes.


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Across Canada, consumers are looking for different ways to save money in their budget. Many have already made common expense cuts such as reducing or eliminating their cable service plan, cutting down the minutes on their cell phone plan and more. With the country's level of average consumer debt increasing in 2011 over previous years, it is clear that these basic budget cuts are simply not enough for many consumers. Living on a tight budget creates a situation where credit cards and other forms of debt are relied upon, and this can cause a situation with debt to deepen and grow worse. More creative money-saving ideas can be explored and put to use to save money and avoid creating new debt. Here are some great ideas you can put to use today.
Reuse Common Items
When it comes to finding money to pay off debts, every dollar matters. A great way to reduce your expense at the grocery store is to reuse common items. Not all items can be reused, but quite a few can. For example, you can use the same dryer sheet for several loads without having an issue with static electricity. Plastic water bottles as well as plastic sandwich bags can be rinsed out and used several more times. Other items like tin foil, the plastic containers that sandwich meat comes in and more can also be reused multiple
Feed the Dog From the Table
Many high-end dog food brands tout how their dog food is made from "people food," and they charge a high-end price for you to give your dog such delectible meals. So why not give the family pet some table scraps from time to time? When the dog eats leftovers that people will not eat, the amount of dog food purchased over time will decrease. This can result in savings. Before feeding a dog table scraps, however, be sure it is something safe for him to eat.
Order A La Carte
Eliminating restaurant meals from your budget is one way to reduce spending, but most people do enjoy a meal out at a restaurant from time to time. When you review the menu, look for the restaurant's a la carte options. Many times, you can create a meal that is more suitable for your hunger level as well as your palate by ordering a la carte. Why pay for extra sides that you won't eat or three enchiladas when you only want one? A considerable amount of money can be saved by ordering a la carte at restaurants.
Invest in a Rain Barrel
Have you ever wondered why you would pay for something that falls freely from the sky? During the dry season, you can pay a fortune trying to keep your lawn and garden watered. When you invest in a rain barrel, you can store excess rain from the last big rain event to use during dry spells.
Consolidate Your Credit Card Accounts
Credit card accounts are well-known for having high interest rates. These high interest rates, coupled with a revolving loan term, can make it difficult to pay off your account balances. Each month, a large portion of your credit card payments contributes to paying off new interest charges. The debt you carry on credit card accounts creates a hidden expense in your budget that can easily be reduced. When you consolidate your credit card accounts into a single installment loan with a lower interest rate, your interest charges will be
reduced immediately. This means that your debt payments become more effective at reducing your debts. You may enjoy a lower monthly payment, but you also will benefit from a reduction in the amount of interest you pay each month.
Consumer debt is a significant issue for many Canadians. You can put some of these ideas to use to save money on your budget each month immediately. To learn more about debt consolidation for debt help and apply for a consolidation loan, contact a debt specialist at a reputable debt consolidation company such as Debt.ca.


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I am a practical artist. It may sound mundane but it's true. I make hand thrown dinnerware for the pure pleasure of knowing that my pieces will be used everyday by its owner. I love making repetitive shapes and the challenges it brings to achieve that perfectly stacked pile of plates and bowls. Lining a set of mugs up in the kitchen cabinet and having them all look the same brings me great satisfaction.


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When Louis Carlat and his colleagues at the Thomas Edison Papers, based at Rutgers University, began working on Volume 7 of the papers in 2006, they benefited from what Carlat calls "an explosion of available electronic and digital historical sources."
Those online sources helped Carlat and his team uncover new information about Edison's personal and professional life, including the intriguing possibility that his first wife, Mary Edison, died from a morphine overdose on August 9, 1884.
"We were only able to find out as much about Mary's death as we did by using those sources. We would never have been able to get this far otherwise," said Carlat, managing editor of Volume 7, Losses and Loyalties: April 1883 – December 1884, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
The evidence is circumstantial, not direct. During the 1880s, Carlat explained, doctors administered morphine and other opiates often, and for all sorts of complaints, especially to young, middle- and upper-class women. Morphine was easily available without a prescription. "Just about every medical concoction you can think of in the 19th century had morphine or some sort of opiate in it," said Paul Israel, director of the Thomas Edison Papers.
The researchers started with a "snippet," excerpted from an unidentified newspaper, which said that Edison had tried to revive his comatose wife with electric shocks. Using proprietary databases such as NewspaperArchive.com, researcher Scott Bruton traced this fragmentary claim to a much longer unsigned article that included allegations that Mary Edison had been a longtime morphine user and had died of an overdose.
"At that point the story crossed with another line of research based on a rare interview Mary had recently given to the same paper that we found – of course – online," Carlat said. "We surmised that the interviewer was likely the author of the death article, which gave the story some credibility."
The researchers then tried to learn all they could about morphine. They made heavy use of Google Books, which functioned for them as a huge subject catalog. "Otherwise, you spend half your time just figuring out which books you're most likely interested in," Carlat said. They read about "congestion of the brain," a broad description with many possible causes that was given as the official cause of Mary Edison's death.
"It turns out that doctors considered congestion of the brain to be a physical symptom of opiate overdose, and at least one medical text prescribed electric shock as a way to revive victims, just as Edison reportedly tried," Carlat said.
The researchers were unable to confirm this version of events, but they at least had a plausible story that fit the timeline of events. In 1884, Thomas Edison's world was changing rapidly. Financing for his electric light system was drying up and he was planning to cut his losses and get out of the business altogether. And then Mary died, leaving Edison with three young children (ages 8 to 12), no real job, and no clue about what to do next. He had to borrow $500 to bury his wife.
By the end of 1884, Edison had begun to recover from his financial and psychological troubles, Carlat said. The Thomas Edison Papers team is already working on Volume 8, which covers 1885 to 1887, and tentatively titled, "New Beginnings."
It depicts Edison's life as he settles his business problems, returns to the laboratory, meets and marries Mina Edison, his second wife, and starts a second family.
To learn more about Thomas Edison and the work of the Thomas Edison Papers, see this Rutgers Magazine article, In Search of Thomas Edison


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103 1633 W 11th Avenue, Vancouver Listing #: R2317795
This gorgeous 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 LARGE decks is the most extensive, high end renovation in Fairview you will ever see. Designed by Maison D'etre and completely rebuilt by Greycor, this renovation includes a brand new kitchen finished with an induction extra wide cook top, Miele and Kitchen Aid appliances, bathrooms with heated floors and towel racks, new flooring, baseboards as well as new drywall insulation, pipes and electrical. Not to mention a 3 panel folding door that opens completely to overlook the generous outdoor space. All completed with new potlights and backlighting throughout. Over 200K+ worth of upgrades all done to code with permits, ready to be enjoyed! Brand New Roof just completed! 19+, No rentals,1 small dog OR two cats. OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY MAY 26TH 2-4
Taxes (2018): $1,764.80
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Before travelling to Rome I tracked down a few local food bloggers for some tips of where to eat. After all, where better to look for some good old honest reviews? Some guide books can't be trusted for their honesty and the only one I do trust (David Downie's 'Food, Wine, Rome') was written a few years ago, and although it can still be relied upon for those classic die-hard Roman restaurants, I fancied somewhere new.
After studying a few blogs, including Elizabeth Minchilli's Eat Rome, My Life in Two Parts and GT Food & Travel I booked a table at L'Osteria di Monteverde for our first night on the basis that service was going to be friendly, food was going to be good (and a bit innovative) and it was going to be reasonably priced. I'm pleased to say that my research paid off and we had an excellent evening.
Trudging up from Trastevere to Monteverde was a bit of an effort in 30°C heat, especially as it was up a bit of a hill (didn't I leave those behind in Sheffield?) and by the time we entered the restaurant we were both a tad hot and bothered. Thankfully the place was air conditioned and we soon cooled down.
Far from being intimidated by the all Italian menu, we were pleased to find that we had hit on a local restaurant not some tourist attraction (I know, I know, a tourist wanting to get away from tourists – it makes no sense – but that's just how it is). Having said that, although we knew what the pasta dishes were (the menu included all the Roman classics) and we could work out some of the ingredients, we did need a bit of assistance from the waiter. Thankfully his English was pretty damn good and he was pleased to take us through the main dishes in a helpful, but non-patronising manner.
Dishes ordered we chose our wine; a Frascati (hailing from the Lazio region, Frascati was the drink of choice all week), and this was a particularly delicious bottle. Priced at around €16 it was expensive for Rome, but more than reasonable for those of us who are used to British prices.
Proceedings kicked off with an amuse bouche of sea bream. Served on spoons, it was the perfect mouthful and although it was sea bream, it tasted of mackerel (of the tinned variety!). I missed how it had been cooked, but there was some tomato in there, which explains the tinned fish taste.
Wanting to experience the whole Italian dining experience without stuffing ourselves to the brim we decided to share an antipasto of steak tartare with truffle oil and mushrooms. The waiter insisted that he arrange for the dish to be split onto two plates rather than have us struggle over the one. This was a good idea, especially as on first mouthful, I know there was no way I could have shared my plate with anyone!
Fat, juicy chunks of raw steak were served in a tidy pile topped off with raw white mushrooms and sprinkles of Parmesan. Truffle oil wasn't overly strong letting the beef do most of the talking and it was delicious. Simple and delicious. It was refreshing to see a beef tartare without the usual chopped onion, capers and the like… and the meat fared better for the chopping rather than passing it through the mincer.
We had also ordered a contorni, which I had thought would be served as a side with the secondi, but it arrived with our antipasto. It was a bit bizarre and it confused us no end, but strips of courgette with truffles and Parmesan would be good at any stage of any meal at any part of the day. The truffle was stronger in this dish and there was plenty of Parmesan making a simple dish of courgette truly luxurious!
On spotting those traditional Roman pasta dishes on the menu, I couldn't resist a primi course. I hadn't had an all'amatriciana before and as it's a real classic, I was keen to give it a go. Rigatoni was cooked perfectly; al dente so that there was still a slight white ring inside the pasta on biting. The tomato sauce was delicious and rich and guinciale (think pancetta made from the pork cheek) was fatty, but crispy adding further texture. It was brilliant! After falling in love with carbonara on my last trip to Rome it's fair to say that the all'amatriciana is my new passion and I will be curing my own pork cheek so that I can master this one at home.
Gav didn't fare so well as his ravioli stuffed with aubergine was a little under seasoned and although the tomatoes and their juices served with those fat pouches of pasta were good, he could have done with a bit more as the flavour worked well with the creaminess of the aubergine.
Onto secondi and I went for the squid special. I liked the simplicity of the grilled squid served with chicory, but the squid was a bit overcooked for my liking. It wasn't impossible, but was disappointing given the quality of the food I'd had so far.
Now it was Gav's turn to win the best dish competition (doesn't everyone want to win this competition?). His sea bream had been grilled on one side only, leaving the underside very barely cooked. It was served on a bed of pearl barely; something we rarely see being used, and why? It has such a great texture and we should use it more. It was good, by the way. Cooking the fish on one side is something I'd only previously seen in a sushi restaurant, but the technique makes perfect sense and allows for the best of both worlds in one mouthful.
By this point I was stuffed, full of both wine and food. Gav did manage to squeeze in a dolci. Strawberry sorbetto was a bit more elaborate than we imagined from the menu as it was served with some sugar work and apple. It looked beautiful, but I stuck to the alcohol and had some of the distilled white spirit flavoured with lemon on offer.
What a start to our holiday?! Apart from a couple of glitches in the squid and the ravioli, the food had been excellent and well worth the trek from Trastevere. Service had been absolutely spot on; friendly, smiley and chatty and we left the restaurant on a high.
(And for those concerned about Roman pricing… for the shared antipasto and contorni, a primi and secondi each, a dolci, 2 bottles of wine and 2 spirits we paid €114; again not cheap, but comparable to Sheffield prices).


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You guys, I did something nearly fashionable!
Our University held an "Uncorked" event at a local concert venue, where there was a live band, hors d'oeuvres from all over town, plus wine to top it off! This fundraiser made money for a scholarship fund dedicated to local students. Although we are quite nearly the same as the broke students we were a month ago, J and I got an email that offered 2 tickets for less than the price of one regular ticket! We still did our part, but sure tried to also get our night's worth of fun out of it!
The dress code was "Derby attire." I consulted my frat-tastic friend who works for the University on what to wear and the conversation went like this:
But I did have a well-shaped dress for the occasion (if only it were floral!) to wear. So I played along with it to see what I could come up with. Justin had a nice coral-orange tie and he even picked out the jewelry in the store from the mere memory of what color his tie truly was. And it turned out pretty great! I wish there were some better colored pictures of the final product, but here were all the components! I also haven't worn earrings in a decade (lies, maybe a year?) so that was something fun and new. I think wearing them always make me look older. I take what I can get. The lady that cut my hair that same day asked if I was 12.
The Look:
Dress: Banana Republic
Shoes: Payless (I know, but they are really comfy!)
Jewelry: Icing
It was so fun to dress up and go somewhere! We watched the Belmont Stakes the next day, too, in true Derby fashion. But I didn't wear a hat…some people did, but I wasn't sure if people were actually going to!
This fashion link up today is going to Sunday FUNday and StyleElixir!
Sparkle On!


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I'm almost done with the October Joyful World piece, but I decided not to wait for the finish, and instead do this post so I could show the lovely gifts I got from my longtime blogging buddy, Lee. Lee had a giveaway for her recent blogaversary. I didn't win that, but she decided to reward me anyway for being a long time commenter. What a treasure trove of goodies she sent!
Lee has been working on woodland animal fobs this year and she sent me the most adorable owl. Her work is always just exquisite and this fob is hanging from a cabinet nob now. I just love it.
Next we have this assortment of charms and findings to use as embellishments. Can you see the cute mouse among all these toys? I actually thought it was a pig at first, but my eyes aren't what the used to be.
Still more... a lovely little notebook with a beautifully stitched floral cover, a vintage cookbook with designer recipes and charts, plus an owl-themed card. I feel completely spoiled. Thanks again, Lee.!