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The Rita Gold Early Childhood Center serves to promote the growth and development of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families through four inter-related practices: child care and educational services for young children, transdisciplinary professional preparation for graduate students, ongoing research to improve practice and inform theory in early childhood care and education, and outreach activities for early childhood professionals locally, nationally, and internationally. Founded in 1982 as the Center for Infants and Parents and located at Teachers College, the Center now provides inclusive and culturally responsive care for infants, toddlers, preschool children, and their families who are affiliated with Columbia University.
Our mission is to build a safe, educational, and caring community through establishing and nurturing authentic relationships among children, families, graduate students, and staff members. We strive to help empower each member of our Center to better serve the community at large, to nurture a love of learning, and to foster the sense of wonder that is within us all. Together we demonstrate our commitment to continually discovering, creating, and sustaining a teaching and learning environment that supports inquiry, diversity, and equity.
Founded in 1982 by Leslie Williams and Annette Axtmann as the Center for Infants and Parents (CIP), the Center has long been providing quality early care and education for the youngest children and their families and professional preparation for graduate students whose studies focus on infancy. Over the years and with the support of Teachers College, the Center has grown from one part-time infant toddler room, primarily serving children of TC graduate students, into a more comprehensive service program providing full-time and year-round care and education. We now serve children from 2 months through 5 years of age whose families are currently affiliated with Columbia University as students, staff, or faculty. Early care and education is provided in three rooms, each with a mixed-age group of children. Adaptability to meet a wide variety of developmental needs is built into the program. The Center's growth and development has also been supported through the gifts of many kind and generous donors. We are grateful to Rita and Herbert Gold for their support of our most recent expansion.
The Center philosophy is guided by several principles which inform our work with children, families, graduate students, and staff.
We consider families as the primary caregivers and educators of their children and we ask them to participate in their children's care and education at the Center. Parents and teachers exchange information on a daily basis through verbal and written communication. Some parents are members of our advisory board, while others serve on the newsletter or fund-raising committees. All parents are invited to join the staff for ongoing parent-teacher seminars, individual conferences, small group discussions, and social events.
We prioritize human relationships in all aspects of our work. Research tells us that young children's learning takes place within the context of human relationships. We work to create and support positive relationships through ongoing staff collaboration, reciprocal communication between staff, graduate students, and families, and fostering a spirit of community among the children.
We believe that young children are competent and innately motivated to learn. Our teachers create curriculum based on careful observations of children. A safe and interesting environment is designed each day which allows children to engage in activities according to their interests and developmental abilities. Children are encouraged to participate in their own care and to take responsibility for the group to the extent that they are able.
We embrace an integrated and emergent curriculum that strengthens children's developmental potential. Interactions and activities in our classrooms focus on the whole child, and are designed to be flexible enough to take advantage of "teachable moments". We provide care and education for children in mixed-age groups that foster caring and community. Activities and materials are carefully selected for their potential interest to a wide range of children to accommodate developmental and learning differences.
We respect young children's sense of time (in the moment), and work to mediate their understanding of adult (parent and caregiver) expectations and schedules. We allow children to make choices and try to accommodate to the children's pace when possible during transitions. When adult schedules must be imposed, teachers try to take the child's perspective as they negotiate understanding and compliance.
The Rita Gold Early Childhood Center supports and promotes the growth and development of infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families through four inter-related practices:
Direct service to children and families
The Center provides child care and educational services for children from 2 months to 5 years of age whose families are currently affiliated with Teachers College and/or Columbia University, in an integrated curricular, multicultural, and inclusive setting
Professional preparation
Our program serves as a practicum site for students across the College who are interested in learning about issues of practice and research in early care and education. Our teachers serve as mentors to Masters students who are studying to become early childhood teachers. Masters and doctoral students from programs in music, art, school psychology, counseling, and speech pathology, among others, are also participant/observers in our classrooms.
In collaboration with our faculty director and classroom teachers, students and faculty from departments across Teachers College engage in descriptive and observational research on children's development and learning which informs early childhood theory and practice. Teachers, graduate students, and faculty present their work at local, national, and international conferences and workshops and publish their findings in scholarly journals.
Our Center engages in outreach activities which serve early childhood professionals in New York City, New York State, the United States, and countries around the world. We provide guided observations of the Center, inservice staff development opportunities, and international exchanges on promoting high quality child care and educational services.
Our curriculum is play-based and emergent, capitalizing on children's experiences in the world, their growing skills and competencies, and our constant belief in their ability to construct higher level meaning through engaging hands-on activities. Our approach to teaching and learning draws from several sources of knowledge, including widespread research literature that supports the essential value of young children learning through play. Within each of our classrooms, we employ a curricular style that begins with observing the children and learning from them about their interests and passions. We work to provide a space which supports their participation in curricular decisions.
Our teachers, all prepared as early childhood specialists, are well-versed at scaffolding learning for very young children "in the moment". Although well aware that there are times when direct instruction methods are needed, our teachers more commonly engage the children in exploration and discovery. Thus, teachers are prepared to respond to the ways that children construct their own knowledge, drawing on their deep understandings of young children's ways of being and learning. For example, as a child finds her name on her bin she is exploring print; on a community walk to the bakery, children learn about sizes and shapes of the various loaves of bread. As children eat their snacks, they explore colors, tastes, and smells, expanding on emergent language skills and sensory awareness.
Graduate students in early childhood music and art education provide special opportunities for our Center children to engage in musical and artistic experiences on a regular basis. The preschool children are also able, for a small fee, to take swim lessons once a week throughout the year in the Teachers College swimming pool. Field trips and special events are planned regularly based on children's evolving interests.
More information on particular activities within each classroom are provided in the Classrooms section of our Web Site.


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(Note: One year ago this week, Haitian journalist Jacques Roche was kidnapped and killed in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. The cultural editor of the Haitian newspaper Le Matin, as well as a television host and published poet, Jacques Roche joined the roll call of those in Haiti waiting for justice. Shortly after his murder, Michele Montas-Dominique, widow of slain Radio Haiti-Inter director Jean Dominique, published this open letter to Mr. Roche. It is sadly as relevant today as it was one year ago, when we involved with Haiti lost another irreplaceable light in a country that desperately needs them. MD)
Michele Montas-Dominique
A Note To Jacques Roche
New York, July 21, 2005
Courage, Jacques,
Today, you also are confronted with savagery in that descent into hell that has become our daily lot as a people, a descent into hell that was nonetheless predictable and avoidable, a descent into hell paved with so many stones of impunity.
Your fellow journalists will be standing at your side to say no to the unacceptable just as they said no for Jean Dominique and Brignol Lindor. The difference is that today the unacceptable has become the norm undoubtedly as a result of so many unpunished crimes.
Because you, Jacques, had believed in principles in a Haiti today devoid of law and faith; because you also believed that words could change life, they silenced you with a bullet to the throat and your tongue savagely cut. Silence, they kill.
Because you had the temerity to dream that men and women of good will could contain the onrushing violence, they assassinated you as well.
Today you will be put to rest with belated pomp, you will hear many official promises, and many crocodile tears will be shed on your tortured body. You will hear many promises to investigate. Do not believe too much in them. Your family will demand -- as we did and as the family and colleagues of Brignol Lindor did – the truth, but the investigation will continue forever because too many influential people, under an elected government as well as an interim government – mutatis mutandis – have an interest in protecting impunity.
The "Jacques Roche case" – this is the way they will refer to you – will collect arrest warrants that will not be served. They will find witnesses dead – as they found you – in a street corner and investigating judges will resign out of fear or a sense of powerlessness. You "alleged" murderers will continue to move about freely as with Ti Lou and Gimmy, who were accused of killing Jean Dominique and who, today out of jail, lead their own gangs in total impunity… An even if some day they are tried, your murderers later will probably be exonerated under the justice of the winners of the moment. Courage, Jacques, for at that moment you will need much more courage than you had when you were confronting your torturers.
They will praise you today the better to cover their impotence or refusal to act. Political leaders will shower praise on you and hasten to forget you once the Jacques Roche case ceases to be useful to them. Do not be surprised if they even spit on you should they find it useful to sit down with your murderers. You understand very well the extent to which the culture of forgetfulness, which is the comfortable mirror image of impunity, is nurtured in our country. Courage, Jacques, for you will need much courage to listen to "the words disguised by the wretched to inflame the idiots."
In the mean time Jacques, when you see Jean, tell him about the multifaceted violence, the gangrenous corruption, the loss of references, the shoving aside of principles and values, tell him about the bitter struggle for miserable power, and these elections, planned elsewhere, to serve a purpose. Tell him about the country "on the outside" drained of blood and abandoned to its own devices. Tell him about the wind of Maribahoux… But do not forget to tell him, Jacques, about the courage displayed daily by thousands of us, when confronted by savagery, stupidity, cowardice, the courage that you yourself displayed. Tell him about the resistance and tenacious hope. Tell him that your struggle has more than ever meaning and that no murderer can assassinate the dreams of his loved ones and your loved ones. I know that you will understand one another with few words.
Dreams like people put forth new shoots and flowers. And the murderers who roam the city cannot put an end to it. And the time will come for "your dream" to be born again.
Goodbye, my friend.
We will never forget.


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Rubbish left at the children's play area at Hookes Way, Newport.
CONCERNED parents are fed up with the state of a Newport play area, which has become a dumping ground for broken glass, condoms, beer cans and dog mess. The condition of Hookes Way play area has stopped some parents taking their children there because they are worried they could be hurt, or what they might find.The play area is a known gathering place for teenagers, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights, but parents are reluctant to challenge them for fear of repercussions.Roy Whiteman, of Spectrum Housing, which is responsible for the Hookes Way play area, said it was inspected weekly and if any other concerns were raised, they would be acted on immediately.He said a complaint about broken glass was made last week and it was cleared up within a day.Mr Whiteman offered to speak with users of the play area to hear their concerns directly.One father of three, who asked not to be named, said he would rather walk into town to use another play area.He said: "Last time we were there, my friend's son picked up a condom and was asking what it was. "It has got really bad, so we go somewhere else." A mum of one, who also asked not to be named, said she used to clear the mess herself.She said: "I went to play with my son and what we saw was dreadful — condoms, glass, women's trousers, knickers and more."Two weeks later it was still there with a pile of rubbish, dog mess and more bottles and I was really concerned about what my son would find next."Reporter: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Cinema of the surreal icon David Lynch follows up the success of his critically acclaimed 2001 feature Mulholland Drive with this dark mystery, shot on a handheld Sony PD150 digital video recorder. It is the tale of an actress whose personality becomes increasingly fragmented as she delves ever deeper into her work for a high-profile filmmaker. Kingsley (Jeremy Irons) is a director looking to adapt for the screen a Polish gypsy folktale that was previously stalled when the two leads were viciously murdered. Having offered the female lead to devoted actress Nikki (Laura Dern), Kingsley warns her male co-star, Devon (Justin Theroux), to maintain his professional distance, as Nikki's husband (Peter J. Lucas) is known to be notoriously possessive. As the passionate co-stars quickly cross the line and become lovers, Nikki's slowly slipping sense of reality causes her to eventually become lost in her character while the mysterious story of a Polish couple unfurls, and a trio of giant stage-bound rabbits (voices of Naomi Watts, Scott Coffey, and Laura Harring) lounge around on the sofa and tend to their domestic duties. Shot over the course of two and a half years and without a formalized script, Lynch's hallucinogenic look at a doomed film project features all of the abstract imagery and strange symbolism that have long made the director a favorite of film fans who embrace his disorienting approach to unconventional storytelling. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The cult-favorite television series which offered a fun-house version of '70s "after-school specials" returns in this big-screen prequel to the show Strangers With Candy. Middle-aged ex-prostitute, former drug addict and all-around lowlife Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) emerges from prison at the age of 46 ready to start her life over again. Jerri arrives at her parents' home to discover that her father Guy (Dan Hedaya) divorced Jerri's mom and remarried before slipping into a coma. Jerri's stepmom Sara (Deborah Rush) decides to let her stay with the family in the hope her presence might bring Guy around, though she doesn't seem very fond of her new "daughter." Jerri decides to complete the education she abandoned years ago by enrolling at Flatpoint High School, where Principal Blackman (Greg Hollimon) has bigger fish to fry than a middle-aged sex offender as a student. It seems Flatpoint's science scores have been dreadful, and only a first-place entry in the county science fair will maintain the school's accreditation. Science fair guru Roger Beekman (Matthew Broderick) is brought in with hopes of creating a winning project, but science teacher Mr. Noblet (Stephen Colbert) objects to using outside talent and starts a separate team of his own, bringing in Jerri to give her something to do. As it happens, Noblet's team comes up with a potential prize-winner with their Soup Can Superconductor, while Beekman foolishly accepts the help of art teacher Mr. Jellineck (Paul Dinello) and ends up with a dance routine instead of a science presentation. Determined to win out over Noblet's team, Beekman tries to get his hand on the plans for Noblet's project by convincing handsome Brason (Chris Pratt) to charm them away from weak-willed Jerri. Strangers With Candy also features cameo appearances from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Allison Janney, Ian Holm, and Kristen Johnston. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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One family comes face-to-face with the forces of the unknown in this supernatural thriller based on actual events. On April 14, 1755, something terrible happened to Lucy Keyes in the forest surrounding Wachusett Mountain. 250 years later, Guy (Justin Theroux) and Joanne Cooley (Julie Delpy) move their family into an 18th century farmhouse at the foot of the mountain to escape the city, and recover from the death of their youngest child to SIDS. It seemed like the perfect place to get a fresh start and raise their two young daughters Molly and Lucy. Upon discovering that the Keyes family had occupied the farmhouse at the time of their daughter's death, Joanne begins having strange dreams, and hearing haunting cries coming from the woods. After finding a letter admitting to the murder of Lucy Keyes, Joanne becomes convinced that Martha and Lucy Keyes' spirits are attempting to contact her in hopes that she can set them free from their earthly limbo, and begins to fear that their grieving mother plans to claim Lucy Cooley as a substitute for her own missing daughter. As Guy attempts to convince the townspeople to approve construction of a wind farm project that he's currently working on, his wife's sanity begins to slip and their marriage starts to falter. Joanne's attempt to expose the truth about Lucy Keyes' disappearance only leads to greater terror, however, when the townspeople turn on the family, and young Lucy Cooley vanishes into the woods one cold and windy night. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and parents, Elliot is a perfectly nice guy. And that's his problem -- he's safe and pleasant, but not very interesting, so as a consequence he hasn't had much luck with long-term relationships, and more than one woman has abandoned him for someone more exciting. Elliot believes his luck has finally changed for the better when he becomes engaged to Caroline Swann (Elizabeth Banks), a smart and attractive editor at a successful magazine. However, a few weeks before the wedding, who should come back into Caroline's life but Bradley Lake (Justin Theroux), her high school sweetheart and, according to many, the great love of her life. Bradley quickly makes it clear that he wants to win Caroline back, and generally in such circumstances Elliot would politely step aside, but just this once Elliot decides to fight for the woman he loves. Elliot gains an unexpected champion in Cecil Mills (Michelle Williams), a frumpy but adorable temp employee at his office who encourages Elliot to develop a take-charge attitude, though the results aren't quite what he expects. The Baxter was written and directed by Michael Showalter, who also plays Elliot; Showalter was a member of the sketch comedy troupe the State, and also works with the comedy performance trio Stella, whose other members, Michael Ian Black and David Wain, also appear in the movie. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The mysterious death of Lisa Fisher (Lili Taylor) -- revealed in the third-season finale, "I'm Sorry, I'm Lost" -- casts a dark shadow across the entire fourth season of this critically acclaimed HBO drama. As funeral director Nate (Peter Krause) grapples with single parenthood and the aftermath of his wife's apparent drowning, he makes his way back into the arms of ex-girlfriend Brenda (Rachel Griffiths). Their reunion does little to help Brenda's budding romance with a hunky neighbor (Justin Theroux), but it does plenty to upset Lisa's grieving family. Meanwhile, David (Michael C. Hall) finds his newfound domesticity with boyfriend Keith (Mathew St. Patrick) interrupted by a surreal carjacking incident. As David slowly cracks up, Keith goes out on the road to provide security for trashy pop star Celeste (guest star Michelle Trachtenberg), who at one point unexpectedly seduces him. Art-school student Claire (Lauren Ambrose), too, find herself batting for the other team when she takes up with audacious performance artist Edie (guest star Mena Suvari). The relationship doesn't last, but ex-boyfriend Russell (Ben Foster) does help Claire stumble upon the new artistic direction that will lead to her first gallery show. Fisher matriarch Ruth (Frances Conroy) slowly gets to know the real George Sibley (new series regular James Cromwell), whom she impulsively married before learning about his history of mental illness. Meanwhile, family man Federico (Freddy Rodriguez) finds his own marriage disintegrating after he gets caught up in an affair with a needy lap dancer (guest star Idalis DeLeon). With its even darker-than-usual storylines, apocalyptic imagery, and shocking revelations, the fourth season of Six Feet Under alienated some fans and critics. Nevertheless, the show remained a strong ratings performer during this slightly shorter, 12-episode run. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Just how far would you go to have the home of your dreams all to yourself? A couple start asking themselves that very question in this dark comedy directed by Danny DeVito. Alex (Ben Stiller) and Nancy (Drew Barrymore) are a young couple who are happy and successful, but lack one thing that they truly want -- the perfect home in Manhattan. Alex and Nancy think they may have found just the place they've been looking for when they discover the bottom half of a beautiful old duplex has opened up. While the couple are delighted with their new flat, they discover it has one major disadvantage they hadn't counted on -- their upstairs neighbor, Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), an elderly woman who soon makes their lives a living hell. Persuading Mrs. Connelly to move is fruitless, since she has a long term rent-controlled lease, and as things become more and more difficult, Alex and Nancy begin to wonder if she won't go away on her own, perhaps a more drastic (and permanent) solution may be in order. Duplex also stars Harvey Fierstein, Justin Theroux, James Remar, and Swoosie Kurtz. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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With Lisa (Lili Taylor) still missing, mortality hangs heavily in the air as Six Feet Under begins its third-season finale. Simultaneously, however, romantic and sexual liaisons spring -- and cling -- to life. Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) enjoys a chaste, quirky date with a sexy neighbor, while Federico (Freddy Rodriguez) finds solace from his marital problems in the arms of a stripper, David (Michael C. Hall) reluctantly agrees to reconcile with Keith (Mathew St. Patrick), and a defiant Ruth (Frances Conroy) decides to marry George (James Cromwell) after all. Her announcement elicits a variety of negative reactions from her children. A distraught Nate (Peter Krause) drips with contempt, while diplomatic David says the timing is just bad. Pouty Claire (Lauren Ambrose) can't believe her mother would try to replace the late Nathaniel (Richard Jenkins) so suddenly. But as Claire embarks on a fanciful tour of the afterlife, her departed father tells her that her hang-ups about the impending nuptials are her own problem. While wandering around the great beyond, Claire encounters a variety of deceased characters -- including, to her surprise, ex-boyfriend Gabe (Eric Balfour) and her own recently aborted child, who's being cared for by Lisa herself. Whether Claire's wanderings are a dream or a visitation, one thing's for certain: Lisa really is dead. Nate receives a fateful phone call confirming that her nearly unidentifiable body has been discovered. Unaware of the news, his siblings reluctantly attend their mother's wedding while Nate drinks himself into a stupor and instigates a bar brawl. Bloody and broken, he nearly drunk-drives to his own death, but instead he turns to the one person he's been fleeing from all season: Brenda. Originally broadcast June 1, 2003, on HBO, "I'm Sorry, I'm Lost" marked season three, episode 13 of the made-for-cable drama. In addition to the show's typical corpse-of-the-week opening, a second white title card eventually appears to announce the death of "Lisa Kimmel Fisher, 1973-2003." ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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The three most glamorous and butt-kicking private detectives in the business are back and ready to take on bad guys in this sequel to the 2000 blockbuster screen adaptation of the once-popular television series. Dylan (Drew Barrymore), Natalie (Cameron Diaz), and Alex (Lucy Liu) are once again summoned to the office of their boss Charlie (voice of John Forsythe), where they're introduced to his new right-hand man Jimmy Bosley (Bernie Mac) and given their latest assignment. It seems a pair of rings have gone missing and need to be recovered, but this was no ordinary jewel heist -- the rings have been coded with special information that can be used to access a list of every person in the FBI's Witness Protection Program, and when a handful of protected informants are murdered, the Angels are brought in to help crack the case. As the women search for the culprits, they encounter Madison Lee (Demi Moore), one of Charlie's former agents who decided that the wrong side of the law pays better, and Seamus (Justin Theroux), who once dated Dylan and wants revenge for her decision to turn him over to the police. Luke Wilson and Matt LeBlanc return as (respectively) Natalie and Alex's love interests, as does Crispin Glover as the Thin Man; John Cleese, Robert Forster, and Eric Bogosian also appear in supporting roles. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment with no idea of where or who she is. As it turns out, the apartment is home to an elderly woman who is out of town, and is allowing her niece Betty (Naomi Watts) to stay there; Betty is a small-town girl from Canada who wants to be an actress, and her aunt was able to arrange an audition with a film director for her. Betty befriends the injured woman, who begins calling herself "Rita" after seeing a poster of Rita Hayworth. While Betty's audition impresses a casting agent, and she catches the eye of hotshot director Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux), Kesher's producers and moneymen insist with no small vehemence that he instead cast a woman named Camilla Rhodes. As Rita attempts to put the pieces of her life back together, she pulls the name Diane Selwyn from her memory; Rita thinks it could be her real name, but when she and Betty find a listing for Diane Selwyn and visit her apartment, they discover the latest victim of a mysterious killer who is eluding police detective Harry McKnight (Robert Forster). Rita's emotional identity soon takes a left turn, and it turns out that neither woman is quite who she once appeared to be. David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as the pilot film for a television series; after the ABC television network rejected the pilot and declined to air it, the French production film StudioCanal took over the project, and Lynch reshot and re-edited the material into a theatrical feature. The resulting version of Mulholland Drive premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where David Lynch shared Best Director honors with Joel Coen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Two women connected by family are drawn closer by fate in this low-key drama. Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman in her early fifties who had already begun to sense time was running out for her when she learned that she has cancer. While Frances is fighting the disease through medical treatment, she decides it's a good idea to do some travelling before it's too late, and she pays a visit to Bob (Seymour Cassel), a former boyfriend who now owns a farm in rural Pennsylvania. To Bob's surprise, Frances strikes up a fast friendship with his wife Betty (Peggy Gormley), and Frances shares a confession with her -- while Frances maintains a close relationship with her son Morgan (Nick Stahl), she also had a daughter by Bob that she put up for adoption, and she's not certain if she should track down the child while there's still time. Coincidentally, Frances' daughter is Rebecca (Martha Plimpton), a successful lawyer who has begun to express a curiosity about her birth parents. Rebecca has been hired by a large communications firm to deal with the paperwork regarding the purchase of a radio station in Florida, and while in the Sunshine State, Rebecca gets to know the station's manager, Jimmy (Frankie R. Faison). As Jimmy and Rebecca ease into a short-term romance, he shares stories about the "Sleepy Time Gal," a mysterious female disc jockey who worked at the station back in the '50s; what neither Jimmy nor Rebecca know is that the Sleepy Time Gal was actually Frances. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Greg Berlanti directs this comedic romp about a quartet of gay yuppies looking for love in all the wrong places. Though photographer Dennis (Timothy Olyphant) longs for a long-term relationship, he continues his routine of one-night-stands until he meets neophyte queer Kevin (Andrew Keegan) at a birthday party. Dennis' associates aren't faring much better. Apartment mate and hunky actor Cole (Dean Cain) goes through boys like Kleenex, that is until he is courted by a closeted movie star. Taylor (Billy Porter) is ditched by his longtime boyfriend during a long distance phone call. And Patrick (Ben Weber) generally whines about how ugly he is. Romantic misunderstandings, drug dalliances, and hugs follow. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Bret Easton Ellis's dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with blackly comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the prototypical yuppie, obsessed with success, fashion, and style. He is also a serial killer who murders, rapes, and mutilates both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or reason. Donald Kimble (Willem Dafoe), a police detective, questions Bateman about the disappearance of Paul Allen (Jared Leto), whom Patrick murdered several days earlier. As Kimble stays on Bateman's trail, Bateman's mask of studied, distant cool begins to fall apart. American Psycho also features Reese Witherspoon as Bateman's girlfriend, as well as Samantha Mathis, Chloe Sevigny, and Guinevere Turner; the latter also co-authored the screenplay. Controversy followed the production from the start, when speculation that Leonardo Di Caprio would play Bateman sparked concerns that he would lure preteens to an R-rated movie. Di Caprio soon bowed out of the project, and original leading man Bale was reinstated. Later, a group of Toronto residents attempted to block filming in that city after Canadian serial killer Paul Bernardo claimed that Ellis's novel inspired his murder spree. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Fort Wayne Komets would like captain Colin Chaulk to add more leadership responsibilities next year as assistant coach. They also know the priority is for the 35-year-old center to lead the team on the ice.
``It's vitally important that Colin be a full-time player this year moving into the ECHL,'' General Manager David Franke said. ``If we do the assistant coach with him, that's fine, but we're going to need his leadership and direction from the locker room going to the players leading us into the new league.'
Two years ago the Komets got off to a disastrous start during their first Central Hockey League season in part because Chaulk was playing in Italy. Franke confirmed Monday the Komets are negotiating with Chaulk about the assistant position that came available when Gary Graham left to become head coach of Pensacola in the Southern Professional Hockey League. Chaulk eventually wants to become a head coach, so it seems like a natural progression for him to get the chance to step up.
``I personally think he'll be a great coach when the time comes,'' Franke said. ``He'll command respect, but we want him to be our player-assistant coach this year if we can work it out and see what we can do down the line with him, too. We're in the beginning stages of talking with him.''
Chaulk has played nine seasons in Fort Wayne and ranks in the top 10 in most career categories. He'll meet again with Franke sometime this week. Komets coach Al Sims said last week that he'd look forward to working with Chaulk if he accepts the assistant coaching position.
After retuning from last week's ECHL meetings in Las Vegas, Franke said he's starting to move on re-signing players from last season's CHL championship team and could have some announcements next week.
One player who has signed elsewhere who the Komets have not given up on is forward Mike Vaskivuo, the playoff's Most Valuable Player, who signed to play in France. It's likely Vaskivuo wants a two-way contract with an American Hockey League team.
``We're seeing what we can do working with some AHL teams, but nothing has been finalized,'' Franke said. ``It's something I'm working on to see if we can get him hooked up in the AHL. He's still definitely in the picture.''
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Cheesesteak Segway Tour
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- Sample Cheesesteaks from 5 different vendors
- 5 – mile Segway ride through South Philly
- Italian Market
- South Street
- Society Hill
This is a Segway and food experience like no other. For the visitor who has ever wondered who makes the best Philly steak, this tour allows the guest to decide for themselves. The tour stops at five different restaurants where they will get a taste of each kind of classic "Philly steak" (a steak sandwich with cheese sauce and onions, known as the "whiz wit" in Philly lingo).The route itself goes through the most energetic parts of the city, riding down Philadelphia's famous South Street, Italian Market and through Society Hill. Glide and taste on this two hour food tour via the two wheeled Segway!
What type of Cheesesteak do we try?
"wiz wit" or a Cheesesteak with cheese whiz and onions
Why don't we try other types?
So you can evenly compare all of the steaks from the 5 restaurants.
I can't eat 5 cheesesteaks in a row!?
You might…probably not. Each stop you will get 1/4 of a cheesesteak. By the end of the tour you will have eaten 1 & 1/4 of a cheesesteak.
What Cheesesteak places do we stop at?
We always stop at 5 stake places. It's hard to guarantee where we go because some places have longer lines then others or they're hours of operation vary. We stop at 5 from the following list:
Jim's Steaks
Pat's Steaks
George's Steaks
Lorenzo's Pizza & Steaks
Sonny's Steaks
Steve's Steaks
Steaks on South
How long is the tour?
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MARTIN, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee at Martin women's basketball team posted its highest scoring output of the season en route to a 78-62 victory over Saint Louis Thursday night at the Kathleen and Tom Elam Center.
The Skyhawks (4-6) trailed by four points before going on a 12-0 run with 2:34 remaining in the first half to regain control of the game. Three field games by junior Heather Butler in the final two minutes of the half, including a jumper at the buzzer, sent the Skyhawks into the locker room with a 37-29 advantage. Butler led UT Martin by tying a season-high with 28 points (10-for-25 shooting) and seven rebounds, while Jasmine Newsome built off her recent OVC Player of the Week selection by tallying 24 points (8-for-15 shooting), nine assists, three steals and no turnovers. Shelby Crawford posted a career-best 10 points while wrangling five rebounds.
For Saint Louis (4-5), Mallory Eggert posted a career-high 17 points along with eight rebounds, while Lorreal Jones tallied 11 points and eight rebounds. Courtney Webb and Desirae Ball rounded out double-digit scoring with 10 points each.
"Our experienced players were the difference tonight," UT Martin head coach Kevin McMillan said. "They did not allow us to put the game away. You earn what you get and you have to fight for what you want but Heather and Jasmine will continue to keep coming at you time after time."
After four lead changes in the first six minutes, UT Martin went on a 6-0 run over the course of 1:56 to take a 13-10 lead at the 12:39 mark of the first half.
UT Martin found its stroke from range at the 11:25 mark as Butler, Crawford, Newsome and Megan White made four consecutive threes to push their lead out 11 points with just under 10 minutes remaining in the first half.
However, then the Billikens countered with a 15-0 run to reclaim and extended their lead out to four with 3:27 left in the half.
A 3-pointer by White at 2:34 began a 12-0 run for the Skyhawks, giving the home team an eight point lead going into halftime, 37-29.
Newsome's 13 points led all scorers at the break, while Butler chipped in 10 points in the first half.
The second half began with back-and-forth baskets by both teams, with UT Martin winning the battle of the first media segment 12-11 with a basket by Butler at the 16:33 mark.
Senior forward Rickiesha Bryant set a career-mark at the 6:41 mark of the second half when the defender rejected Eggert's layup opportunity, marking her fifth block of the night.
A pair of free-throws by Butler at the 3:11 mark gave the Skyhawks their largest lead of the night at 19. She capped of her 18-point second half with a jumper at the 1:27 mark to bring the game's scoring to a close.
The Skyhawks will host Big Ten powerhouse No. 14 Purdue Boilermakers on Sunday, Dec. 9. Tipoff from the Elam Center is scheduled for 2 p.m.
"We want to bring the top-25 teams in the country to our fans so they can experience them live. The caliber of teams are incredible and I'm eager to see how we play," McMillan said.


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Iraq: The Devastation
Iraq: The Devastation
The devastation of
The illegal war and occupation of
I've been in liberated Baghdad and environs on and off for 12 months, including being inside Fallujah during the April siege and having warning shots fired over my head more than once by soldiers. I've traveled in the south, north, and extensively around central
Then, as now, for Iraqis, our invasion and occupation was a case of liberation from -- from human rights (think: the atrocities committed in Abu Ghraib which are still occurring daily there and elsewhere); liberation from functioning infrastructure (think: the malfunctioning electric system, the many-mile long gas lines, the raw sewage in the streets); liberation from an entire city to live in (think: Fallujah, most of which has by now been flattened by aerial bombardment and other means).
Iraqis were then already bitter, confused, and existing amid a desolation that came from myriads of Bush administration broken promises. Quite literally every liberated Iraqi I've gotten to know from my earliest days in the country has either had a family member or a friend killed by
Broken Promises
It was quickly apparent, even to a journalistic newcomer, even in those first months of last year that the real nature of the liberation we brought to
In December 2003, for instance, a man in
Sadiq Zoman is fairly typical of what I've seen. Taken from his home in
I visited his wife Hashmiya and eight daughters in a nearly empty home in
Her daughter Rheem, who is in college, voiced the sentiments of the entire family when she said, "I hate the Americans for doing this. When they took my father they took my life. I pray for revenge on the Americans for destroying my father, my country, and my life."
In May of 2004, when I went to their house, a recent court-martial of one of the soldiers complicit in the widespread torturing of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib had already taken place. He had been sentenced to some modest prison time, but Iraqis were unimpressed. They had been convinced yet again -- not that they needed it -- that Bush administration promises to clean up its act regarding the treatment of detained Iraqis were no less empty than those being offered for assistance in building a safe and prosperous Iraq.
Last year, the empty promises to bring justice to those involved in such heinous acts, along with promises to make the prison at Abu Ghraib more transparent and accessible, fell on distraught family members who waited near the gates of the prison to see their loved ones inside. Under a scorching May sun I went to the dusty, dismal, heavily-guarded, razor-wire enclosed "waiting area" outside Abu Ghraib. There, I heard one horror story after another from melancholy family members doggedly gathered on this patch of barren earth, still hoping against hope to be granted a visit with someone inside the awful compound.
Sitting alone on the hard packed dirt in his white dishdasha, his head scarf languidly flapping in the dry, hot wind, Lilu Hammed stared unwaveringly at the high walls of the nearby prison as if he were attempting to see his 32 year-old son Abbas through the concrete walls. When my interpreter Abu Talat asked if he would speak with us, several seconds passed before Lilu slowly turned his head and said simply, "I am sitting here on the ground waiting for God's help."
His son, never charged with an offense, had by then been in Abu Ghraib for 6 months following a raid on his home which produced no weapons. Lilu held a crumpled visitation permission slip that he had just obtained, promising a reunion with his son...three months away, on the 18th of August.
Along with every other person I interviewed there, Lilu had found consolation neither in the recent court martial, nor in the release of a few hundred prisoners. "This court-martial is nonsense. They said that Iraqis could come to the trial, but they could not. It was a false trial."
At that moment, a convoy of Humvees full of soldiers, guns pointing out the small windows, rumbled through the front gate of the penal complex, kicking up a huge dust cloud that quickly engulfed everyone. The parent of another prisoner, Mrs. Samir, waving away the clouds of dust said, "We hope the whole world can see the position we are in now!" and then added plaintively, "Why are they doing this to us?"
Last summer I interviewed a kind, 55 year-old woman who used to work as an English teacher. She had been detained for four months in as many prisons...in
But that, she assured me, wasn't the worst part. Not by far. Her 70 year-old husband was also detained and he was beaten. After seven months of beatings and interrogations, he died in
She was crying as she spoke of him. "I miss my husband," she sobbed and stood up, speaking not to us but to the room, "I miss him so much." She shook her hands as if to fling water off them...then she held her chest and cried some more.
"Why are they doing this to us?" she asked. She simply couldn't understand, she said, what was happening because two of her sons were also detained, and her family had been completely shattered. "We didn't do anything wrong," she whimpered.
With the interview over, we were walking towards our car to leave when all of us realized that it was
"No, thank you, we must get home now," said Abu Talat. By this time, we were all crying.
In the car, as we drove quickly along a
I had none. None at all.
Broken Infrastructure
Everything in
And yet when it came to the basics of that New Iraq, unemployment was at 50% and increasing, better areas of
I was then working on a report that attempted to document exactly what reconstruction had occurred in the water sector -- a sector for which Bechtel was largely responsible. That giant corporation had been awarded a no-bid contract of $680 million behind closed doors on
At the time, when travel for Western reporters was a lot easier, I stopped in several villages en route south from
The rest of that trip involved a frenetic tour of villages, each without drinkable water, near or inside the city limits of Hilla, Najaf, and Diwaniya. Hilla, close to ancient
He spoke of large numbers of people coming down with the usual list of diseases. "Bechtel," he told me, "is spending all of their money without any studies. Bechtel is painting buildings, but this doesn't give clean water to the people who have died from drinking contaminated water. We ask of them that instead of painting buildings, they give us one water pump and we'll use it to give water service to more people. We have had no change since the Americans came here. We know Bechtel is wasting money, but we can't prove it."
At another small village between Hilla and Najaf, 1,500 people were drinking water from a dirty stream which trickled slowly by their homes. Everyone had dysentery; many had kidney stones; a startling number, cholera. One villager, holding a sick child, told me, "It was much better before the invasion. We had twenty-four hours of running water then. Now we are drinking this garbage because it is all we have."
The next morning found me at a village on the outskirts of Najaf, which fell under the responsibility of Najaf's water center. A large hole had been dug in the ground where the villagers tapped into already existing pipes to siphon off water. The dirty hole filled in the night, when water was collected. That morning, children were standing idly around the hole as women collected the residue of dirty water which sat at its bottom. Everyone, it seemed, was suffering from some water-born illness and several children, the villagers informed me, had been killed attempting to cross a busy highway to a nearby factory where clean water was actually available.
In June, six months later, I visited
And then, of course, he -- like the other doctors I spoke with -- brought up their horrendous water problem, the unavailability of unpolluted water anywhere in the area. "Of course, we have typhoid, cholera, kidney stones," he said matter-of-factly, "but we now even have the very rare Hepatitis Type-E...and it has become common in our area."
Driving out of the sewage filled, garbage strewn streets of
Today, in terms of collapsing infrastructure, other areas of
While an ongoing fuel crisis finds people waiting up to two days to fill their tanks at gas stations, all of the city is running on generators the majority of the time, and many less favored areas like
Broken Cities
The heavy-handed tactics of the occupation forces have become a commonplace of Iraqi life. I've interviewed people who regularly sleep in their clothes because home raids are the norm. Many times when military patrols are attacked by resistance fighters in the cities of
Then there is Fallujah, a city three-quarters of which has by now been bombed or shelled into rubble, a city in whose ruins fighting continues even while most of its residents have yet to be allowed to return to their homes (many of which no longer exist). The atrocities committed there in the last month or so are, in many ways, similar to those observed during the failed U.S. Marine siege of the city last April, though on a far grander scale. This time, in addition, reports from families inside the city, along with photographic evidence, point toward the
Last May, at the General Hospital of Fallujah, doctors spoke to me of the sorts of atrocities that occurred during the first month-long siege of the city. Dr. Abdul Jabbar, an orthopedic surgeon, said that it was difficult to keep track of the number of people they treated, as well as the number of dead, due to the lack of documentation. This was caused primarily by the fact that the main hospital, located on the opposite side of the
He estimated that at least 700 people were killed in Fallujah during that April. "I worked at five of the centers [community health clinics] myself, and if we collect the numbers from these places, then this is the number," he said. "And you must keep in mind that many people were buried before reaching our centers."
When the wind blew in from the nearby Julan quarter of the city, the putrid stench of decaying bodies (a smell evidently once again typical of the city) only confirmed his statement. Even then, Dr. Jabbar was insisting that American planes had dropped cluster bombs on the city. "Many people were injured and killed by cluster bombs. Of course they used cluster bombs. We heard them as well as treated people who had been hit by them!"
Dr. Rashid, another orthopedic surgeon, said, "Not less than sixty percent of the dead were women and children. You can go see the graves for yourself." I had already visited the
Speaking of the medical crisis that his hospital had to deal with, he pointed out that during the first 10 days of fighting the
Both doctors said they had not been contacted by the
As I walked to our car at one point amid what was already the desolation of Fallujah, a man tugged on my arm and yelled, "The Americans are cowboys! This is their history! Look at what they did to the Indians!
And that, of course, was before the total siege of the city began in November, 2004. The April campaign in Fallujah, which resulted in a rise in resistance proved -- like so much else in those early months of 2004 -- to be but a harbinger of things to come on a far larger scale. While the goal of the most recent siege was to squelch the resistance and bring greater security for elections scheduled for January 30, the result as in April has been anything but security.
In the wake of the destruction of Fallujah fighting has simply spread elsewhere and intensified. Families are now fleeing
The intensification is two-sided. With each ratchet upwards in violence, the tactics by the American military only grow more heavy-handed and, as they do, the Iraqi resistance just continues to grow in size and effectiveness. Any kind of "siege" of
Despite a media blackout in the aftermath of the recent assault on Fallujah, stories of dogs eating bodies in the streets of the city and of destroyed mosques have spread across Iraq like wildfire; and reports like these only underscore what most people in Iraq now believe -- that the liberators have become no more than brutal imperialist occupiers of their country. And then the resistance grows yet stronger.
Yet among Iraqis the growing resistance was predicted long ago. One telling moment for me came last June amid daily suicide car bombings in
Three weeks ago, a friend of mine who is a sheikh from Baquba visited me in
The Bush administration has recently increased its troops in
What I wonder is, will I be writing a piece next January still called, "Iraq: The Devastation," in which these last terrible months of 2004 (of which the first half of the year was but a foreshadowing) will prove in their turn but a predictive taste of horrors to come? And what then of 2006 and 2007?
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist from
Copyright C2004 Dahr Jamail
[This article first appeared on Tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news, and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, long time editor in publishing and author of The End of Victory Culture and The Last Days of Publishing.]


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08.30 Departure from Balam Bali Villa
09.45 Arrival at Kintamani, view of the crater
10.00 Inside the crater near the lake
11.30 Lunch at a local restaurant and Bathing in hot spring waters
13.30 Visit to the temple of Tirtha Empul
14.45 Visit to the temple of Gunung Kawi at the bottom of a canyon
16.00 Return to the Villa
17.00 Arrival at the Villa or drop into Ubud
This excursion should not begin too late, in order to be sure of maximum
visibility on reaching Mount Batur, which rapidly disappears amid
clouds. It is imperative to depart at 08:30. To avoid increasingly misty
conditions with the heat of the day, we take you to this sacred
mountain directly. In volcanic terms this site is indeed impressive.
Batur is a volcano topped with an immense 'caldera', a giant crater
caused by an explosion or collapse of the magmatic chamber. The crater
is 13 km in diameter! It is edged by a cliff, part of which may be
travelled with the car. At a specific point, the lip of the crater
culminates at 2151 metres, it is higher than the actual Mount Batur
situated inside the caldera. A solid day's walk is entailed for
completing the route on foot. A picturesque if sinuous road descends
into the caldera, for the third part occupied by the Lake Batur. You
will see the special farming, mostly vegetables from cold latitudes,
like onions, cabbages and even strawberries. Slightly towards to the
West, a new volcano has invaded this giant crater, the present Mt.
Batur, rising to 1412 metres, a volcano within the volcano.
Mt. Batur might rather be avoided in view of the mafia of somewhat less
than pleasant guides. We propose rather a stay at the very nice and
relaxing hot spring water, managed by the community of the villagers in
Batur Caldera. Please enjoy lunch there: the fish is coming from the
fish farm in the lake. A superb pool offers you the possibility to swim
close to the lake, and to have an impressive view of the caldera from
inside. The circular vertical cliff is almost 40 km long! Several pools
give you the possibility to relax in hot water transported by bamboo
pipes. The temperature of the water is 38°C. Entrance fees are 10 USD
for an adult, and 15 USD if you include the meal.
Lake Batur is one of the sources of sacred or lustral water required for private ceremonies in both the family temples in Balinese homes and the temples of the Island. It is 300 metre-deep. The goddess of the crater waters is the feminine component of a religious duality, the masculine component of which lies with mount Agung discernible in the distance. The water temple was inside the caldera. However, the temple was in threatened during the eruption of 1926. All sacred shrines were dismantled and stored on the cliff of the caldera. Eventually, the remains of the temple were covered by lava, and decision was taken to rebuild the temple where the shrines were stored. Since than, the temple is no more inside the caldera, but on top of it. The high priest of the temple, the "Jero Gede", is the most important priest in Bali. The goddess Herself designates him to this task. After the death of a Jero Gede, a virgin girl performing a trance dance gives his follower's name. During the trance, she receives a call from the goddess, with the name of the following priest. The today's priest has been designated in that way when he was an 11 years old boy.
After the Batur Volcano, you are heading to the temples of Tirtha Empul and Gunung Kawi, in the direction of Ubud.
Although occupation of the site may again be traced back a thousand
years, the present temple is relatively recent. All Bali regularly
converges on Tirtha Empul to bathe fully dressed in the temple's sacred
waters provided by two ablution pools. Remain prudent in photographic
ambitions and you will be permitted to bathe with the appropriate
measure of sincerity manifested towards the Hindu religion. Bathe rather
in long shorts or sarong than in bathing suit.
These rituals are
to a certain extent the Bali version of the Ganges purification rites
practised by Indian Hindus. The reflection of the sacred river emulated
here scarcely exceeds a few metres in depth. If you should in fact
venture to the end of the brick quadrilateral enclosure found just
upstream of the baths, you will see the spectacular gushing of the
sacred spring, its bubbling stirs up the black sand around an expanse of
aquatic grass and algae.
Visitors leave with vessels of sacred
water, for their own devotions in household temples, and in order to
bless the daily offerings made by the Balinese.
The temple is
very active even further upstream. Do not hesitate to pass the gate and
observe the highly choreographed and codified gestures of prayer: with
the flower, without the flower, with blessed water, then with rice. Pray
yourself if you feel like it, you will not shock a soul, and the priest
in white will spray you with holy water. You will have no difficulty
finding a Balinese to teach you the gestures.
On top of the hill
still resides the luxury villa where Suharto would open his windows on
the host of beautiful young girls bathing below. Since the dictator's
death, the villa has become a residence for Heads of State.
The temple of Gunung Kawi is splendidly lodged in the depths of a gorge penetrated by the Pakrisan river descending the length of a peaceful village specialising in bone sculpture and engraving. The village shops on the main route (before reaching the parking lot) exhibit fine designs, with "ethnic" jewellery, reasonably priced although of considerable quality. In order to reach the sacred zone, the descent must be completed by 300 steps. A succession of royal monuments, tombs dug out of the cliff-side, may be examined at a first site on the left. They are qualified as tombs but are, in fact, rather altars carved into the shape of 'candi' Buddhists. These altars commemorate the legendary king, Anak Wungsu and his wife queen Betari Mandul, who reigned over the whole island. This reign at the beginning of the year 1000 was marked by a very strong link with Java. It was in this period that a part of the Island's religious system was established, organised around three temples: the temple of origins (Pura Puseh), the temple of the village (Pura Desah) and the temple of Death (Pura Dalem).
The visit continues on the other side of the bridge, with the enclosure of a classical Balinese temple, housing pavilions and pagodas. To the right at the end of the temple, a passage in the rock gives access to a curious collection of niches carved into the mountain face. To this day they continue to be identified as having been the cells of monks attached to some monastic institution.
Beyond the temple, lies a spectacular cliff from which sacred water pours through overflows into an ablution pool. Other 'candi' have been sculpted on the wall.
The visit may be pursued beyond this ensemble, as far as the shanty huts of a farmer who will serve you delicious coconuts that he gathers from local trees. Even further on, a promenade in the rice-paddies will lead you to a small but most refreshing waterfall. Return to villa or drop into Ubud.
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Comments about Spark Innovators Doodle Gelz Paint and Peel Stickers:
So far we have made 6 stickers and 10 letters and have not run out. The black is thicker due to the fact it is an outline and used to contain the other colors which spread easier. Use a tooth pick to spread the colors to the black edges as to not waste a ton of paint. Used with 5 and 7 year old and only part I had to help with was the black outline and they were able to finish it. Clean the tips of the paint with a paper towel before capping because as in any paint, the paint hardens and can stick to the cap making it hard to reopen. Only con so far is the fact you can not order refill paints separately from the kits.
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It's a neat concept. Unfortunately, before we even had the first design done, the black tip was stuck in the lid and you couldn't outline anything. The black comes out more slowly and the other colors almost run out.This is a cheap toy, but still way to expensive for less than 1 sticker. Save your money.
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