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Calling all LGBT theatre lovers!!!! This is your opportunity to join an exciting meetup group where you will receive numerous free and discounted ticketing offers to live Los Angeles area theatrical and concert events. We have strong hands on relationships with a multitude of Los Angeles area producers that present both large scale as well as intimate plays and musicals who are just as excited as we are to give you the gift of live theatre at a fraction of the cost. In addition, many of our even …
Greetings, Show Queens in Training!! Hope you join our Theatre group. We're almost a year old - with 300+ members. The idea is simple - see plays, find out what's going on in the local theatre scene - and hopefully make a new friend. Sometimes we have 5 people going - sometimes 25 or 30 - hard to tell! It's a way to meet new people - gay and hetero - who like plays. It's a way to see more plays, and find out about plays. And since everyone is on a budget, we mostly schedule plays with the …
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An appreciation and performance society dedicated to enjoying the exquisitely silly light operas created by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. The Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896. The best of these shows became immensely popular and immediately swept across the British Empire. Produced professionally at the Savoy Theatre in London, and then by professional music halls and …
Our membership is Free and Open to All Good People!!! APP fosters professional and social activities among Asian Professionals. Our events may relate to Arts, Business Network, Camping, Clubbing, Community Service, Concerts, Cultural Activities, Dating, Dining, Education, Entertainment, Golf, Happy Hour, Hiking, Food, Leisure, Museum, Music, Network, Party, Scholarship, Social Activities, Sports, Tennis, Theatre, Travel, Vacation and others. Many of our activities are free or discounted!! Every …
We are a group of individuals who want to see an explosion of performing arts in Anaheim and Orange County. We are Music, Dance, and Theater professionals and we are also Donors, Community Members and Civic Leaders with an impassioned desire to see this explosion become the reason people flock to Anaheim. This group is connected to major Arts organizations in Anaheim and throughout the OC, but we want the artists of Anaheim to have a say in the things we are doing. We don't want to just talk abo …
The Diligent Actors Workshop is a weekly meeting of actors every Saturday morning in North Hollywood to hone our craft. We go that extra mile and put in the extra work necessary to not only succeed, but excel. Thousands of actors have come through since it's inception. The workshop consists of scene work, improv, monologues and numerous emotional exercises to strengthen our internal life as an actor. Also from time to time, we have a special guest speaker come in and shed some light on their jou …
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Let's get together for SDSU alumni events such as Hollywood Bowl - Pantages Theatre plays; SDSU football and basketball viewing parties, business networking, volunteer events, panel discussions, job recruitment, mentoring. There are leadership, event marketing opportunities for those that want to become involved in the board of directors and want to direct the course of the chapter. Join us today! SDSUAlumni(dot) org/la - aztecsla(at)gmail(com).
This group is for anyone who appreciates the Arts in its various forms. We'll attend Events at Galleries, Theatres, Dance Clubs, Museums, and many other fun venues. Join us if you enjoy discovering new artists, listening to good music, dancing to new rhythms and even finding a new restaurant or two. This city has so many hidden gems, we'll explore together and make new friends.
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This is a group for anyone who lives in the Los Angeles area and wants to explore the city through health, fitness, great eating venues, shopping, and local tourist attractions. Our goal is to experience the things we pass by everyday on our commutes, in our community, and places we have not explored although we live here. Hiking, horseback riding, walking tours, salsa dancing, theatre, brunch, shopping and adventure. We enjoy the thrill of life and want to experience all that this city has to o …
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Let's dine out with people in our age group. I like to schedule Brunches & Dinners with friends old & new. We will also try to include other events like live theatre, wine tasting & more. All suggestions are welcomed & appreciated. I also organize two other groups that have been very successful so far. Single men & women. At the events you will have to pay for your meal, tax, tip & parking if necessary. I will require membership dues beginning one dollar opptional donation will be appreciated t …
The TCM Classic Movie Fan Club is targeted to Southern California viewers of the Turner Classic Movie network (though we are a fan group and NOT directly affiliated with TCM or its parent company Time Warner). Members of our free, non-commercial group will have the chance to attend classic movie outings and see these films on the big screen in an audience setting with other like-minded TCM viewers and classic movie buffs throughout Southern California (and especially in the greater Los Angeles a …
There was a lack of community theater in the west end of the valley, but we have changed that! We are a group of passionate people who love everything about live theater. And we're always looking for more folks like us. You know who you are--you used to do theater, perhaps in high school or college, and you yearn to do it again--maybe not professionally, but in a great community theater! This place is for you. It's actually the place for everyone.... no matter what your experience, we are a …
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PHANTOM! LES MIZ! SWEENEY TODD! GREASE! CABARET! CHICAGO! GUYS AND DOLLS! WICKED! Do you love musicals? Do you love a night out at the theater? Do you love to debate the best and worst shows of all time? Then this group is for you! I am creating a society of musical theater lovers who want to meet up a couple times a month for dinner and a live show! First we do dinner, then we choose a musical that is playing in and around Los Angeles, then we do drinks after to talk about the show! A truly ma …
This is a meetup for filmmakers interested in finding support to complete their productions. This may be through the sharing of funding information, finding crew members for their films, seeking advice regarding production challenges, sharing information on new technologies, etc. We welcome anyone involved in production, pre-production and post. In addition, anyone on the business side of the film industry can join, as well as writers, serious actors and actor/producers, etc. Our venue, the Ne …
SO YOU THINK YOU'RE A MOVIE FANATIC! Do your eyes sparkle whenever you hear the phrase Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You? Do you spend most of your break times at work raiding Ain't It Cool News, Deadline Hollywood, Variety or The Hollywood Reporter for the latest movie news? Are you looking for a cool group of friends to see new flicks with on OPENING WEEKEND? Are you SICK AND TIRED of having 500 movies in your Netflix queue...and NO ONE to watch or discuss them with? Do you get into intense d …
Our group has been part of the Valencia Public Library Book Group for over twelve years. We love reading! We read and discuss contemporary literature, classics, biographies and non-fiction. These meetings result in intellectually stimulating conversation and great friendships. We are setting up this Meetup because we want to expand our reading group to include additional cultural activities such as movies, museums, theatre, and other fun events. These activities may relate to the books we are re …
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This is a networking group for artists in Los Angeles. We have an artsy space in Hollywood (on Melrose), the Neon Venus Art Theatre, and we feature exhibitions from LA artists, in addition to featuring weekly acting showcases, Improv performances and stand-up. http://www.neonvenusarttheatre.com Goals for the group: 1. To form groups to attend art shows, art events, etc. (you can suggest a meetup) 2. We also want to work with teachers and develop courses for children and adults on painting, phot …
Our group is putting together a weekly mixer/networking event on Thursdays from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Spanish casual venue Solo Tapas at the Chinese Theatre (6801 Hollywood Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Inside the movie theatres, Hollywood, CA 90028). The idea is to bring together everybody who loves the rich culture of Spain and the tasty food and wines.
Angel City Chorale, conducted by Founder/Artistic Director Sue Fink, is a multi-talented, multi-cultural group of 160 men and women singers that truly reflects the spirit of Los Angeles, the city it calls home. Recognized for its signature blend of musical styles and commitment to community, Angel City Chorale strives to give back to the Los Angeles community through the gift of song, donations and volunteerism. Offering a diverse selection of musical material including classical, jazz, folk, g …
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This is a social, business and performing group for serious artists, BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND NON-PROFESSIONAL, devoted to the craft of acting, writing, voice, movement and more...for FILM, TV and THEATER. The organizer is Jason Bennett, Runner-Up for BEST ACTING COACH in New York CIty in 2010 and Runner-Up for BOTH Scene Study Teacher AND Best Acting Coach in 2011! Jason Bennett is an acting and musical theater teacher and founder of "The Jason Bennett Actors Studio." AND IS NOW LA. Read more on o …
Come see live music, dance, theater and more at the new Valley Performing Arts Center at California State University, Northridge!
Welcome to the ORANGE COUNTY MOVIE MEETUP! Our group specializes in hosting movie events at theatres across the OC. We are all about good times, making friends, and, of course catching the latest flims from Hollywood to indie/arthouse and everything in between. Thanks for checking us out & we'll see you at the movies!
Downtown Riverside has much to offer! You can hike Mt. Rubidoux in the morning and see the sun rise, or take a mid morning stroll through Fairmount Park. Enjoy a glass of wine at the Mission Inn or dinner at The Salted Pig . See a favorite band or play at the Fox Theater or check out an exhibit at the Riverside Art Museum. And if you live here you can do it all without getting into your car! I started this group in Dec. 2012 because I moved back to Riverside after 20 years in Orange County and w …
This is a group for singles in their 30's-50's who live in or near Azusa. We believe we can enjoy gathering together for happy hours, movies, theatre, house parties, dinner or a night out on the town....suggestions are always welcome. We hope to share fun encounters with you soon.
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IE Couples is for married and otherwise committed couples around the 30-40's age range in the Inland Empire and surrounding areas. It gives everyone opportunities to meet other couples, engage in fun events and establish meaningful friendships. Some of our events have included: trying new and good restaurants, BBQ's, house parties, movies, hiking, biking, the beaches, bowling, golfing, wine tasting, day trips, travel, Vegas, theatre/plays, live music, karaoke, happy hours, game nights, etc. arou …
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This meet up is open for parents of young actors (ages 18-25) to meetup and discuss acting technique, industry connections, and support each other's endeavors. We support kids interested in acting classes in pasadena and surrounding areas. Join our group and suggest places to meet up.
Did you know Corona has its own community choir? Founded in January 2010 by director Angela Rosser, the Circle City Chorale is comprised of singers 18+ from Corona and surrounding areas. We hold open auditions in January and August for each season (Spring and Winter). We will post audition dates for the next season when they are set. We rehearse on Monday nights from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, at the Corona United Methodist Church at 2880 California Ave in Corona. We use the church for rehearsals but …
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Hello to all lovely and sophisticated ladies out there! Our group is open to women from their late 20's, 30's to early –mid 40's looking to make new awesome girlfriends. We encourage all ladies to be proactive in the meetup activities as we explore interesting venues, restaurant locales, and fun events around Orange County and its surrounding areas. Some meetups we will be hosting are: happy hours, wine tastings, luncheons & dinners, Sunday brunches, movies, spa days, comedy clubs, and arts & cu …
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This Meetup is for Employees of Vision Solutions, Inc. in Irvine who want to get together for some non-work events and activities. Joining this meetup requires working at Vision Solutions, Inc. By joining, you agree to the following disclaimer: Vision Solutions, Inc. Release of Claims Regarding Participation in Off-Duty Recreational, Social, and Athletic Activities I would like to voluntarily participate in recreational, social, or athletic activities organized through the Vision Solutions Irvin …
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Council's £7,000 charity ball raises just £2,500
5:00pm Saturday 28th April 2012 in News By Emily Walker, Chief Reporter
A council spent £7,300 on a fundraising party which raised just £2,500 for charity.
Taxpayers footed the bill for waiters, gold, silver and bronze painted flowers, food and drink at the Mayor's Ball in Crawley.
But only £2,671.08 was recouped through ticket sales for mayor Carol Eade's chosen charities, 4Sight and Crawley Hospital League of Friends.
More than £5,993 was spent on catering, including food, drink, cutlery and waiters.
Another £1,202 was spent on flowers and £143 on printing invitations.
The mayor, Conservative councillor Carol Eade, declined to comment to The Argus on the costs or charitable contributions of the party, instead deferring to council leader Bob Lanzer.
Councillor Lanzer said the party had, in fact, been relatively cheap compared to even more lavish events in previous years.
He told The Argus: "The cost varies from year to year depending on whether we have sponsorship.
"The costs were paid from taxpayers' money. I think we can always look at reducing the costs.
"In the last six years since my party has taken office, the costs have gone down.
"We have made quite a lot of changes."
Coun Lanzer added that the event was about more than just fundraising and was a way to thank community organisations for the work they did voluntarily.
He added councillors had this year been asked to pay for their own tickets rather than being handed them for free as previously.
He added: "There is a difference between price and value.
"In value, we recognise the important contribution the voluntary sector provides.
"The civic ball is about celebrating the continued voluntary contribution in the community.
"If we didn't do that it would be a lot more expensive if the council had to fund all these services at the tax payer's expense.
"When you see glitzy charity events on TV, I doubt very much they raise more than they spend."

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August 31, 2012
The History of the Lunch Box
Considering what passed for children's fashion in the 1970s when I started elementary school—patterned polyester pants with coordinating turtlenecks—it's no surprise that picking out new clothes was not my favorite part of back-to-school shopping. Instead, I considered my most important September decision to be choosing the right lunch box. It had to last all year, if not longer, and it was a personal billboard, much like the concert T-shirt was to older kids, that would tell my classmates what I was into. The message I hoped to get across was: "Hey, I dig Snoopy. Wanna be friends?"
An added bonus of my Peanuts lunch box was that it was covered in comic strips, so just in case the lunch box failed to provide a conversation starter, I always had something to read as I ate my cheese and crackers, apple, and alphabet soup from the coordinating Thermos that fit neatly inside the metal box. (I guess my mom didn't get the memo about Quiche Lorraine, which was a popular lunch item in the 1970s, according to a fun series of food history posts, called What's In Your Lunch Box?, that Smithsonian intern Ashley Luthern wrote for the blog).
Sadly, the metal lunch box has mostly gone the way of the overhead projector. Today's kids often tote their lunches in soft insulated polyester versions that fit easily into backpacks, just the latest development in the long and distinguished history of midday-meal transporting devices.
The seemingly inactive Whole Pop Magazine Online has an illustrated history of the lunch box—cutely named Paileontology—that traces the origins to the 19th century. Back then working men protected their lunches from the perils of the job site (just imagine what a coal mine or a quarry could do to a guy's sandwich) with heavy-duty metal pails.
Around the 1880s, school children who wanted to emulate their daddies fashioned similar caddies out of empty cookie or tobacco tins. According to the timeline, the first commercial lunch boxes, which resembled metal picnic baskets decorated with scenes of playing children, came out in 1902.
Mickey Mouse was the first popular character to grace the front of a lunch box, in 1935. But the lunch box as personal statement really took off in the 1950s, along with television. According to Whole Pop, executives at a Nashville company called Aladdin realized they could sell more of their relatively indestructible lunch boxes if they decorated them with the fleeting icons of popular culture; even if that Hopalong Cassidy lunch box was barely scratched, the kid whose newest fancy was the Lone Ranger would want to trade in his pail for the latest model.
Cheap vinyl lunch boxes made a brief appearance in the 1960s, but metal continued to dominate the lunch box scene until the 1980s, when molded plastic—which was less expensive to manufacture—took over. Aladdin stopped making lunch boxes altogether in 1998, though Thermos continues to make them.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has a sampling of images online from its lunch box collection, which includes some cool-looking miner's pails and popular models from the 1950s and 60s, many of which are in this post.
What kind of lunch box did you carry?
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My very first lunchbox was Flipper and my second was a bright fuchsia colored Osmond lunchbox. I wish I still had my Flipper one!
The one I most remember was plastic and purple. My best friend had the same one in green!
[...] Back to school: a history of the lunch box. [Smithsonian] [...]
I had a Family Affair lunchbox and a Hot Wheels. I still have the Family Affair and several different Aladdin thermoses.
Great article and some interesting links too which I hadn't seen before! I am a massive fan of the 1940s/50s boxes by given my age (34) my real favorites are ones from the 1980s. Dukes of Hazzard tops my list!
Ahhh, memories. Thanks for the article, I remember that Disney one!
I have an authentic Brady Bunch lunchbox and a Superfriends one. That marked the first two days I discovered Ebay. Had to banish myself from that site forever a few days after.
Nice article! AND… I had that same lunchbox as a kid!! My old man has it somewhere in his garage!!!
I can't remember my first lunch box, but the coolest was definitely my one with Evel Knievel jumping a bunch of cars on his motorcycle (picture here: http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2500000/Evel-Knievel-Vintage-1974-Lunch-Box-lunch-boxes-2585716-800-717.jpg)
My kids' soft, insulated boxes with no pictures are downright boring in comparison. Perfect post for back-to-school time!
I remember one of my early lunch boxes in elementary school. I used it to bash the head of a kid who bothered me! I was banned from the bus for two weeks, had to walk to school those two weeks , and write "I will not hit anyone on the bus" 100 times. But it was worth it. He didn't bother me any more.
I had a Bionic Woman metal lunchbox…growing up, my neighbor (a boy) had an older sister and unfortunately had inherited her old "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" lunchbox! He HATED that lunchbox…bet he wishes he still had it now..could have sold it for a pretty penny!!
[...] in the sand over cartoon heroes, there will always be a future for the lunchbox. [WholePop via Smithsonian Mag Image credit: NMAH] Tagged:designfoodhistorylunchboxestaste [...]
[...] chalkboards, and menus with covers like the old black-and-white composition books. A collection of vintage lunch boxes on the wall. We would serve from-scratch versions of Hostess chocolate cupcakes (the kind with the [...]
I had an Aladdin lunchbox kit – red tartan rectangular metal box with a matching thermos. It was snazzy!
I have about 140 lunchboxes. I adore them. Great artwork, silly illustrations, lovely colors. I'd be happy to donate a few to the Smithsonian if they need a few more examples! :-)
I don't remember my 1st lunchbox BUT I do remember I ALWAYS wanted the one shown above,Disney school bus. My mother would tell "Thats a boy lunchbox"
40 years later I found it on eBay (mint condition) ! !Elizabeth III :-)
You must have lived in a rich neighborhood, everyone in my school carried their lunch in a paper bag.
Alas, I was one of those rare few subjected to the lowly "brown paper bag"!
The only one I ever had was a Batman & Robin lunchbox from when I was in first grade. One of the first days of the term, I was yelled at in the lunchroom by a teacher because the thermos was in the box. We had been told we weren't allowed to bring the thermoses because the glass inside could break, and it was a safety hazard. I was very upset, probably even cried, because I knew I had told my mother we weren't allowed to have the thermos. It was only when I went to eat my sandwich that I realized what had happened. My lunchbox and the exact same one of another student had gotten mixed up in the coat closet where we were told to leave them until lunchtime. When I unwrapped a cream cheese and jelly sandwich, something my mother would never have packed for me, I realized someone else had my box. Perhaps scarred by the incident, I walked home for lunch most days for the next six years. This was the 1960s, and that was still allowed then.
Though I didn't save that box, my very first purchase on eBay, years later, was that same Batman & Robin box. Without a thermos! The kits with thermoses were far more expensive; my assumption is that many of the thermoses were thrown out because kids were not allowed to bring them to school just as I wasn't, and the scarcity drove up the price of the kits that still had them.
Remember many of these. I never had one, family couldnt afford them
Metal lunchboxes may have been mostly supplanted by plastics nowadays, but I still think they're the better choice: my kids inevitably tore through the soft plastic cloth before the end of a school year. A slightly dented metal box is still a perfectly useful metal box.
(This year, I sent my son off to school with a TARDIS-imprinted metal lunchbox. He told his classmates it was bigger on the inside.)
I had a Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids box for a while. Hey, Hey, Hey!!!
Great post, i also build a price guide for vintage lunch boxes here http://www.greatestcollectibles.com/lunch-box-price-guide/ hope its helpful.
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My first lunch box was a dark blue box with Roy Roger's horse Trigger rearing on the front. Loved that box. It saw me all the way through grade school. Years later I read in a lunch box book that the artist did a lot of food advertising art and that Trigger looked a lot like a rearing Cornish game hen.
I still have my Lost in Space lunchbox. I actually used it at work for a year. It was well received. I found out how much it's worth, retired it and cleaned it up. It's now on display in my sci-fi museum area in my home.
One of my delinquent buddies quit school at 16 in 1969 to embark on a scavenger career. He cruised the alleys in the Chicago area suburbs and NW Indiana with a pick-up and trailer collecting rags, metal, furniture and whatever else he could sell for recycling or to "junke shoppes". He hung onto old printed lunch boxes, radios with that had Elvis, Hopalong Cassity or others on them along with anything else that looked cool while stoned on weed. He's been doing the same thing all these years and is cementing his retirement thru E-bay selling off all the wierd crap he's saved. He used the printed lunch boxes to hold small items related to the characters printed on them, like toys, doll clothes, doll parts, accessories, Happy Meal toys, etc. Says there's a lively market for all that mess, too!
Where we lived (in the 50′s) everyone went home for lunch except for a few kids. The rest of us envied them with their cool metal boxes. We would plead with our parents to let us stay in school for lunch so we could get a box with a favorite character on it, but it never worked.
The only one I ever remembering having was Annie Oakley and Tagg. I had a pony and a be-be(?) gun and pretended I was Annie Oakley. Thanks for bringing back great memories!
In Nebraska, 1973 or 1974, my mom let me get a Speed Buggy, with dreamy Cory on one panel. Later, my mom picked out this (totally NC) soft, plastic, zippered, weird, textured, oval, starfish-patterned, nerd alert lunch tote. I hated it and wanted to use my Speed Buggy, but she had thrown it out. I'm still scarred.
My husband, who used to get one each year (envy!) said he had an Evel Knievel, Six Million Dollar Man, AND Star Wars! What a brat!
My mom went the vinyl route. Fire engine red with a generic rocketship and spaceman theme. Never used the thermos, as our school served cold milk.


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This is the actual evaluation that I submitted for my chief resident while on my 3rd year surgery clerkship. Nothing has been changed whatsoever. I was browsing through my comments today and happen to come across it. This asshole's name has been removed for obvious reasons. He did, however, know who the evaluation was from at the time of submission.
Typical surgeon mentality, he fits the bill well. Mad at the world because you lost a fellowship? Pissed because, well, your life really just sucks and you know it? After experiencing this rotation, I have to say that I hate surgeons. I would never, ever choose to work with them on a daily basis. My core surgery month was perhaps the worst month of my life. OB/GYN is a close contender.I was told the following by Dr. XXXXX on day 2 of the rotation: "No independent thoughts, no independent actions."
Well, I took this to heart and would not do anything unless specifically told (note: I was never asked to do anything, I was always told to do it). This meant not showing up for cases unless I was specifically told to do so. As expected, I was reprimanded by Dr. XXXXX for not being in the OR during a case. No independent thoughts, no independent actions: You didn't specifically tell me to be in the OR during the case therefore I am not to think independently nor act independently. You reap what you sow. I didn't want to be your retractor bitch anyway, so I win.
I'll end this with a quote:
"Surgeons have little lenses attached to their glasses in the OR; it gives them a narrow view of the world. At least they wash their hands." -Michael Gregor, M.D.
Sums it up well, I think.
This asshole is now an attending somewhere unknown to me "living the dream."


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Nicholas Hope, PhD
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How Islamic Learning Transformed Western Civilization: Review of 'The House of Wisdom'
Table of contents
1. Introduction2. The House of Wisdom: Model of the institutional setting of science in Islam3. Outline of a vibrant and dynamic tradition of knowledge creation4. Instances of originality and impact on the West5. The European Middle Ages vs. Islamic Enlightment6. Endorsements7. About the author8. Table of contents9. Resources and bibliography
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1. Introduction
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Figure 1: Front cover of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons (Bloomsbury, 2009).
The structure of the book is arranged roughly according to the divisions of the times of prayers in Islam. The four parts of the book are entitled respectively Al-Isha/Nightfall (part 1), Al-Fajr/Dawn (part 2), Al-Zuhr/Midday (part 3), and Al-'Asr/Afternoon (part 4). They correspond to the raise of Islamic civilisation, the wide-ranging scope of its political and social power, coupled with a dynamic intellectual and scientific vitality, and its beneficial influence on the civilisation of the pre-modern Western world. This original structure of the book, organised in function of the daily Muslim prayer times, starts with Isha (nightfall) in the 10th century, when the Crusades first began and Europe was shrouded in darkness. Fajr (dawn) and Zuhr (midday) are devoted to a description of the events in the period around the 11th and 12th centuries when Muslim civilisation was at its zenith. 'Asr (afternoon) corresponds to the 14th century and marks the first appearance of "the West". Even though Lyons does not ask what happened at Maghrib (sunset), there is certainly an assumption that it represents the "end" or decline of science and learning in Islamic lands. However, such a view should take into account that the cyclic vision of civilisations must consider the role of interculturality in handing on the products of human spirit to the next civilisation, where they continue to live and to prosper in a new context.
The historical context of the rise of civilisation in the lands conquered by Muslims since the middle of the 7th century and the context of the intercultural transmission of knowledge around the Mediterranean Sea can be summarized as follows. For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Augustine had decreed that belief, not reason, should be the guiding light of Christian thinking and partially as a result Europeans lived in a world of nominal literacy and subsistence farming, where blind faith, superstition and sorcery took the place of medicine, and the church harnessed nascent aggression among the kingdoms to its own ends in the pursuit of astonishingly violent and cruel holy wars - the Crusades.
Islamic culture, however, was thriving and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and discussion that dazzled the likes of Adelard of Bath who ventured to the Near East in search of the scientific riches pouring out of cities like Antioch, Baghdad or Cairo, whose libraries held hundred thousands books at a time when the best European libraries housed, at most, several dozen. In the frame of a dynamic scientific and intellectual tradition, the scholars of Islam could measure the earth's circumference, a feat not matched in the West for eight hundred years; they discovered algebra; were adept at astronomy and navigation, developed the astrolabe and other astronomical instruments, translated all the Greek scientific and philosophical texts, including the whole corpuses of Aristotle, Galen, Ptolemy, etc.; they made paper, produced lenses and mirrors, and developed theoretical as well as practical branches of knowledge. Without them, and the knowledge that travellers like Adelard brought back to the West, Europe would in all likelihood have been a very different place over the last millennium.
Figure 2: Photo of author and journalist Jonathan Lyons (Source).
Among the examples the author presents we quote the following contributions:
The list of the protagonists of this intellectual and scientific adventure of creation of knowledge and its spread westward include:
Figure 3: Aristotle teaching astronomy. The Arab scientific tradition was greatly influenced by the work of the classical Greek scholars, whose "natural philosophy" represented a complete system of knowledge that encompassed both the physical sciences and metaphysics, and upon which the scholars of the Islamic tradition commented extensively. © Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul (Source: House of Wisdom Gallery).
To the same institution were attached two astronomical observatories (marasid), one installed at Baghdad, the other at Damascus, where Muslim scholars devised in particular new astronomical tables (zij or zidj), correcting the astronomical data inherited from the ancient, especially those furnished by Ptolemy.
The Bayt al-hikma properly so called does not appear to have survived the reign of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil, which began with a sensible political shift from that of his immediate predecessors, although there is subsequent mention in Iraq, during the 3rd/9th century, of several scientific libraries, owing their existence to private initiative and the fact that the caliph al-Mu'tadhid had sought to favour the work of various scholars whom he had installed in his place. Only the Fatimids were later to found similar official academies, of which the most important was the Dar al-hikma established by Al-Hakim in 395/1005.
Indeed, since the short-lived appearance of the Bayt al-hikma of al-Ma'mun, several libraries had been founded in Iraq and Persia providing not only information on traditional learning, but also an introduction to classical sciences ('ulum al-awa'il).Such establishments were very successful in Egypt under the Fatimids, where Shi'idoctrines provided a favourable climate for the development of Greek sciences. The Cairo palace soon housed a large collection, and one of its librarians was the writer al-Shabushti(d. 388/998). The vizier of al-'Aziz, Ya'qub b. ?illis (d. 380/990), organized meetings of men of letters, jurists, and theologians in his own residence, and granted them financial allowances, but this initiative was soon over-shadowed by the Dar al-hikma (sometimes dar al-'ilm) which Al-Hakim housed in the north-western part of the western Palace. It contained a library and reading-room, and served as a meeting-place for traditionists, jurists, grammarians, doctors, astronomers, logicians and mathematicians. The Cairo Dar al-hikma was administered by the Da'ial-du'at, who invited learned men to meet there twice weekly. It was closely associated with the propagation of Shi'idoctrine, and charged to give instruction in Isma'ilidoctrine, which has also been called hikma since the time of al-Mu'izz. In 435/1045 a new catalogue was prepared, and it listed at least 6500 volumes on astronomy, architecture and falsafa (philosophy). The institute was closed at the end of the 5th/11th century by the vizier al-Aftal, but al-Ma'mun reopened it in 517 H/1123 CE in another building, to the south of the eastern Palace. It had already been looted in 461 H/1068 CE, in the reign of al-Muntasir during the civil wars, and when the Fatimid dynasty came to an end (in 567 H/1171 CE) the library was once more closed. Salah al-Din Al-Ayyubi sold the palace treasures, including the books, but fortunately some of them were re-purchased by enlightened men and therefore preserved.
3. Outline of a vibrant and dynamic tradition of knowledge creation
Figure 4: A page from the manuscript of Al-Qanun fi 'l-tib (The Canon of Medicine) by Ibn Sina, written in the 11th century. It served as the leading medical text in the West for more than five hundred years. © National Museum, Damascus (Source).
The library was officially called "the House of Wisdom". It was a monumental structure, accommodating translators, copyists, scholars, scientists, librarians and the swelling volumes of Persian, Sanskrit and Greek texts that flooded into Baghdad. Not surprisingly, it became a magnet for seekers of knowledge from across the Muslim empire.
Jonathan Lyons tells the story of the House of Wisdom, the caliphs who supported it and the people who worked there, at a riveting, breakneck pace. In quick succession we meet scholars such as al-Khwarizimi, the illustrious Muslim mathematician and founder of algebra, the geographer al-Mas'udi, who described major sea routes to Persia, Cambodia and as far as the Malay peninsula in The Book of Roads and Kingdoms, and al-Kindi, the first Arab philosopher. But Lyons is more concerned with how what was happening in Baghdad and other Muslim cities was transferred to Europe. So he focuses on a string of colourful translators and scholars who travelled to the Muslim world and took its knowledge and discoveries back with them.
Adelard of Bath, for example, travelled to Antioch and Sicily in his dogged pursuit of what he called studia arabum, the learning of the Arabs. An early pioneer of Arabic teaching, he translated numerous works of spherical and theoretical astronomy, including al-Khwarizimi's astronomical tables, which introduced a new body and vocabulary of mathematical knowledge to the West. His translation work enabled Adelard to write his treatise on the use of the astrolabe, which revolutionised the way Western men understood the Universe. Another Briton, Michael Scot, could not get enough of Muslim learning. His extensive translations of the works of Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sina, undertaken during the 13th century, introduce corpus of Greek and Arabic philosophy to the West.
Figure 5: A Muslim and a Christian playing a duet on the lute in 13th-century Spain. This work was dedicated to Alfonso the Wise, the Christian ruler of Castile, Leon, and Galicia. © Monasterio de El Escorial, El Escorial, Spain/The Bridgeman Art Library (Source).
Islamic thought and learning transformed medieval Christendom beyond recognition, Lyons writes. A key import was natural philosophy, the precursor to modern science, and the idea that came with it: the notion of a university as an intellectual, cultural and social institution. Roger Bacon, the 13th-century English scientist and philosopher, travelled through Muslim Spain dressed as an Arab and was among the first to teach natural philosophy in Paris. Without these imports, Lyons says, the Renaissance would not have been possible and European "progress" as we know it would have been inconceivable. Arabic learning gave Europeans their ideological and intellectual identity - indeed, Lyons suggests, "the West" itself is a Muslim invention.
But the West's gratitude to Islam was expressed in its willful forgetting of the debt it owed to the Muslim world. This process began with the successors of Adelard and Scot and had four core themes: Islam distorts the word of God; it is spread solely by the sword; it perverts human sexuality; and its prophet, Muhammad, was a charlatan, an anti-Christ. It was thus necessary to write the Arab learning out of history and to claim direct descent from Greece. As Petrarch, one of the most prominent 14th-century anti-Arab intellectuals, declared: "I shall scarcely be persuaded that anything good can come from Arabia." Scot's mastery of Arab learning led Dante to dump him in the lower depths of Hell, among the sorcerers.
Thanks to enlightened modern efforts, such as those of Jonathan Lyons and others, those simplistic judgements, founded on religious hostility rather than being rooted in real historical facts, are decisively corrected.
4. Instances of originality and impact on the West
Figure 6: A European copy of al-Idrisi's map of the world, originally created at the commission of Roger II the ruler of Sicily, in the mid-12th century. © Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (Source).
The answer is that they once led the world in astronomy. Muslim scientists were mapping the heavens, and pondering our place in them, while Europeans were still gazing at the night sky with baffled awe. To judge from some scientific narratives, the baton of knowledge about astronomy passed directly from the Greek Ptolemy in the 2nd century CE to Copernicus in the Renaissance. In fact, just about everything that the Western world knew of the celestial sphere in the 16th century had come to it via Arabic learning, including Ptolemy's works, which were translated and refined between the 9th and the 13th centuries. Actually, the scholars of Islam didn't just read Ptolemy; they added to and challenged him, with data gathered at observatories such as the one established in the 820s in Baghdad by the greatest of the "scientific" rulers, al-Mamun of the Abbasid caliphate.
Astronomy is just one example of the enormous debt that the West owes to the achievements of Islamic science during the periods we still insist on calling the Dark and Middle Ages. While Europeans struggled until at least the 12th century with the mere rudiments of mathematics and natural philosophy, the Abbasid caliphs of the 8th to 13th centuries were promoting a rationalistic vision of Islam within which it was a sacred duty to inquire into the workings of the world. This programme was founded on the remnants of Roman and Hellenic culture, to which the Muslims had direct access in centres such as Alexandria, Harran and all intellectual centres of that Middle East they pacified and unified. They prepared Arabic versions of the works of Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy and Archimedes, and set up schools and libraries such as the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
As well as preserving classical scholarship, Muslim thinkers also innovated in many fields: astronomy, optics, cartography and medicine. The camera obscura, for instance, a kind of pinhole camera in which an outside scene is projected onto a wall in a darkened chamber as light enters through a small hole, was first studied experimentally by the Iraqi physicist and mathematician who settled in Egypt Al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) in the 11th century. Roger Bacon later used the device to study solar eclipses, and old masters from Van Eyck to Vermeer may have employed the projection method to achieve their micro-realist detail.
Islamic mapmakers, meanwhile, were drawing recognisable outlines of Europe, the Gulf and the Indian subcontinent while Westerners were still dividing a disc world into absurdly stylised quadrants. (It was a Muslim map that guided Vasco da Gama beyond the Cape of Good Hope to India at the end of the 15th century.) And in chemistry the Arabs went far beyond the tentative efforts of the classical world, bequeathing us words such as alkali and alcohol, alembic, elixir and alchemy. The standard theory of the alchemical transmutation of metals was laid out in the writings ascribed to the 8th-century scholar Jabir ibn-Hayyan, in which nitric, hydrochloric and sulphuric acids - central to practical chemistry then and now - made their debut.
The Muslims also benefited from contact with China, from where they learnt how to make paper, and India, from where they got the "Arabic" numerals that were far superior to the cumbersome Roman system for arithmetic calculations, along with the concept of zero (the word itself is Arabic). These and other discoveries were passed on to the West in due course.
The fruits of the golden age of Islamic science are summarised briskly and engagingly in the book of Jonathan Lyons. His book, The House of Wisdom is keen to dismantle the myth that Islam is fundamentally opposed to science, and he shows clearly that the Islamic civilisation was driven by a strong thirst for knowledge and rational inquiry.
Lyons's more specific focus is on the story of how this knowledge opened Western eyes in the 12th century, a period now regarded as a kind of medieval renaissance. The hero of his book is an Englishman, Adelard of Bath, one of the few Europeans open-minded enough to see that they had much to learn from the "heathens". Too often dismissed as a mere translator, Adelard not only gave the West its first view of Euclid's Elements and the astronomy and algebra of the Baghdad mathematician al-Khwarizmi (whose name is preserved now in the word algorithm), but was also an original thinker who helped introduce medieval Europe to the Islamic vision of a universe governed by the rational design of a hands-off God.
5. The European Middle Ages vs. Islamic Enlightenment
Figure 7: In November, scientists using the Hubble space telescope reported the first sighting with visible light of a planet circling a star other than our sun. The discovered planet orbits 25 light years away around one of the brightest stars in the sky, called Fomalhaut or Alpha Piscis Austrini (Source). The name Fomalhaut is derived from fum u'l hût (mouth of the fish), the Arabic initial name of this star. Fomalhaut is not alone in having an Arabic origin: there are well over 100 other stars, including Betelgeuse, Aldebaran and Deneb (see FSTC, Arabic Star Names: A Treasure of Knowledge Shared by the World).
In contrast with the thriving later intellectual tradition that flourished in Europe from the 17th century, the second chapter of Jonathan Lyons' book describes how European intellectuals in the Middle Ages were knocking on the gates of the learned and sophisticated Islamic lands. He explains that Fibonnaci's father sent him to a Muslim family to learn his math - he would have learned double-entry bookkeeping, an innovation that had not yet reached the North.
When European monestaries might hold a couple of dozen volumes, Arabic libraries held hundreds of thousands of books. When a Muslim ruler decided to donate books to a new school, he sent 80,000 from his personal collection.
Adelard of Bath was born around 1080 in England's west country. His father was a powerful ally of the local bishop, and he was a wealthy, highly educated man who'd studied at cathedral schools in France. But he condemned contemporary learning and longed for an idealized past - "I judge the ancients eloquent and call the moderns dumb."
He had no interest in crusading. Instead, he resolved to learn Arabic and return with Arabic learning. We believe he was in Antioch in 1114, based on evidence of an earthquake he survived. He know he learned to wash a cadaver until the neural systems emerge from under the skin to study their structure.
He came home a changed man, determined to teach his peers about the wonders he studied in the East. He is worried that his peers reject modern scholarship from the Arab world at their peril and overfocus (as he had) on the classics of Greek literature. He brings back a book of alchemy which teaches how to tan leather, color glass and dye cloth green. And he brings back the astrolabe, the most powerful computer of its day, capable of telling time, defining true north, and measuring the height of a building. Alas, they only work if you know the latitude - we can read astrolabes based on what latitude they're set up for.
Read more of this chapter below in the following extract (Chapter 2, The Earth is like a Wheel, p. 28 ff.):
"Seven years before the earthquake that shook the moral foundations of Crusader Antioch, Adelard surveyed the world around him and pronounced it rotten. His recent studies at the famed French cathedral school at Tours had provided him with the best education of his day. He enjoyed the support and patronage of the powerful bishop of Bath, the French court physician and scholar John de Villula. He practiced the art of hunting with falcons, a sign of his noble rank and the life of leisure it generally afforded. And he was an accomplished musician, who years later still fondly recalled the time he had been invited to play the cithara, a forerunner of the guitar, for the queen.
"In short, Adelard of Bath was the model country gentleman. His father, Fastrad, was one of Bishop John's richest tenants and most senior aides, ensuring a life of privilege for his son. The family appears sporadically in official documents of Church and state. The Pipe Rolls, or royal accounts, later list Adelard as the beneficiary of a pension from the revenues of Wiltshire, in southwest England. Still, young Adelard saw little of value in the contemporary world, and he despaired at the state of Western learning in particular. "When I examine the famous writings of the ancients – not all of them, but most – and compare their talents with the knowledge of the moderns, I judge the ancients eloquent, and call the moderns dumb," he proclaimed in the opening line of his coming-of-age essay and first known work, On the Same and the Different.
"Adelard's disdain for the "the moderns" was understandable, for the West at the end of the 11th century was a mess. Daily life staggered under the burden of rampant violence and social instability. Bands of mercenaries, answerable neither to king nor God, prowled the countryside, their commanders' word the only law of the land. Across Europe, primitive farming techniques could no longer keep pace with a growing population, while antiquated inheritance laws left many impoverished and desperate. Violence – inflamed by the weakness of central political authority and uninhibited by the tenuous moral grip of the Catholic Church – was the currency of the day. As Pope Urban had acknowledged at Clermont when he called the First Crusade, religious leaders were helpless to halt the chaos across the continent. The best the Church could do was to redirect its flock's baser nature against the infidels to the East.
"Not even Adelard's remote corner of England was immune to the troubles. It was just two decades since the Norman Conquest, and political and social strife still plagued the land. The uneasy relationship – for centuries punctuated by bouts of armed conflict – between what today comprise the distinct nations of England and France was a regular feature of late medieval life. At the same time, political, cultural, and personal ties ran deep, and so it was not surprising that Adelard could pursue higher education in Tours and that many leading officials and courtiers, like Bishop John, hailed from the European mainland. In 1086, as a young child, Adelard had seen his native West Country town of Bath, including its once-proud abbey of black-robed monks, almost burned to the ground during an uprising against the heir to the throne, William the Red [William Rufus]. The rebels had hoped to secure the rule of William's brother, Robert of Normandy, but their bid for power ended in bloody failure and considerable destruction. Robert, eldest son of William the Conqueror, later died a royal prisoner.
"Things were little better inside the elite cathedral schools. The chaos and disorder that swept in with the barbarian invasions of the western Roman Empire, beginning in the 4th century CE, had just about destroyed formal education and the perpetuation of classical knowledge. The Muslim conquests three hundred years later sealed the West's isolation by choking off easy access to the Byzantine Christians based in far-off Constantinople, where some traces of the Greek intellectual tradition could still be found. The wonders of classical learning were all but forgotten, or at the best pushed to the extreme margins of European consciousness. Invaluable texts were lost through inattention, destroyed by the illiterate hordes, or simply rendered unintelligible by the general ignorance of would-be scholars or simply by the lost ability to read Greek. The aristocracy of the Roman Empire read the Greek masters in the original, so there was no need at the time for Latin translations of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, the engineering wonders of Archimedes, or the geometry of Euclid. The wholesale disappearance of Greek as the language of learning meant centuries of knowledge virtually vanished from the collective mind of Latin-speaking Europe.
Figure 8: Photo of Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The name of the college refers to the importance of the name to the memory of the Arab people. Dar Al-Hekma College is a private higher education institution. Its mission is to provide selected degree programmes of the highest quality to academically qualified women. The College fosters creativity and emphasizes the important role in society of women as the first builders of the family and the first educators of the nation.
"More vexing than sloppy royal accounting was the inability to measure the hours of the day or keep the calendar. Even by the sleepy standards of medieval Christendom, time was a serious business, linked as it was with the pursuit of heavenly salvation. The Rule of St. Benedict, which governed tens of thousands of monasteries from the 6th century onwards, required eight sets of prayers at specific times every twenty-four hours. The practice was based on a reading of two verses in Psalm 119: "Seven times a day I praise thee" and "At midnight I rise to give thee thanks." This was relatively simple during the day, when the changing position of the sun could provide a rough guide to the hour, but at night the monks of the Latin West were left literally in the darkness of their own ignorance".
6. Endorsements
7. About the author
Author and journalist Jonathan Lyons has spent his professional and personal life exploring the shifting boundaries between East and West. After more than 20 years as an editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters — mostly in the Muslim world —, he is now a researcher at the Global Terrorism Research Centre and a PhD candidate in sociology of religion at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He lives in Washington DC and teaches courses on Islam and how to cover it journalistically at George Mason University in Virginia, USA. For more information on the author and the book, visit: www.jonathanlyonsportfolio.com.
8. Table of contents
Note to Readers ix
Significant Events xi
Leading Figures xv
Prologue: Al-Maghrib/Sunset 1
Part I Al-Isha / Nightfall 7
1. The Warriors of God 9
2. The Earth Is Like a Wheel 28
Part II Al-Fajr / Dawn 53
3. The House of Wisdom 55
4. Mapping the World 78
Part III Al-Zuhr / Midday 101
5. The First Man of Science 103
6. "What Is Said of the Sphere ..." 125
7. "The Wisest Philosophers of the World" 142
Part IV Al-Asr / Afternoon 163
8. On the Eternity of the World 165
9. The Invention of the West 186
Acknowledgments 203
Notes 205
Selected Bibliography 229
Index 237
9. Resources and bibliography
by: FSTC Research Team, Sun 26 July, 2009


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Yeah it's tomorrow my big day Cyber Monday when a great bargain can be found.
Without moving your butt off the couch -- yoga passively sit on -- no way.
-- I don't know what sites are offering the best deals tomorrow joining us now is retail analyst.
He felt provocateur she is analyze this stuff -- gonna provide us with some great deals wanted to see this nice to see you guys tubes all right so a lot of people were a little upset because well we did some great Black Friday deals they were emailing us and saying we got to the Wal-Mart and they told us who were already sold out the night before had to drive across town to try to find a -- that may have -- TV left Cyber Monday though.
And -- to move.
Right and a lot of these retailers are having these deals all week long so it's not just Cyber Monday it's cyber week and -- -- me mentioning Wal-Mart.
They're doing that as well same thing with target and that just to give you some numbers and -- -- 177.
Million people are expected to log on for Cyber Monday.
Online sales are expected up 12% this year.
Just to put that in perspective 68 billion dollars worth of purchases are supposed to happen on sacrament and work productivity will plummet.
Right online -- were way up on Friday.
Cutting into the brick and mortar stores so let's talk about some of the deals Wal-Mart everybody wants to get their hands on a flat screen during this time a year what's their deal.
Right well Wal-Mart is is as you said is providing a Samsung forty inch and LED 1080.
TV it's an HDTV ads for 429.
Now the reason why this is a good deal is -- has.
Electronics are really and I tell people that people if you want to buy electronics he should do it now because there's such an over inventory they're starting to bring those prices down and like he said the inventories in the starts and -- Over the next couple weeks so.
There's that also target -- well they have this TomTom portable GPS percent 89 dollars now I don't.
Really drive but I know people -- what -- the governor do yet that would be they come in handy if you're driving all over the.
They're on sale all over the place the GPS devices probably because the iPhone right because yeah I think one can use their iPhone -- you can download the TomTom map on -- Smartphone those in need that in dash LCD panel on their screen yes that's something great -- when you have your best -- yes I offered some great deals online as well.
Espy is really trying to ramp up their online sales right now -- -- heard they've had some pretty miserable sales in the stores.
This is the one I'm most excited about because I love headphones -- beats by Dre.
There aren't giving a -- are selling the beats by -- on sale for a 179.
Dollars which usually they're about a hundred dollars more than that that.
There apparently really -- you couldn't you know go running with them you can.
A lot to the other colors and styles I'm apparently big fans are right there are some web -- -- -- kind of bring it all together for you if you don't wanna visit eighteen different retailer's web sites where -- ago.
Right we'll shop cake is a really great web -- that for example gives you redeemable points so if you're out there shopping and you wanna go to -- for example.
You buying items scanned and then you start getting points -- -- look like airline miles you can redeem those points for other things -- you're out there.
Retail me not as a cook a coupon navigator it's the -- it's that.
Coupons so when -- -- gonna do is you.
Download the app you can you can either go online -- you can put -- -- download the -- it -- all those coupons that you are.
Are using.
And personalize is that is well.
And I think my wife uses -- tell me not sometimes to say hey you know we're gonna sign up for this particular website it's going to be hundred dollars -- -- -- found found every tell me not coupon.
Saves -- 10% to simply go to the website you'll find out if there's a coupon code you can use.
Exactly and when I -- too it's just it's becoming more personal and there's another one huckster.
It just came out that what can you price alerts as the price comes down on those items so what you do -- you.
Basically it works its interest you go on you say oh I want these tests to specific items they put it in a little folder -- an asset price drops.
That comes out of nowhere TO can.
So you can be -- -- -- yes it's your own -- -- exact like he's a great stuff great information and that's tomorrow I think in the offices around the country there's going to be quite a bit of time people spend online.
Actually after the super ball in the you have to think sixteen and good information that all right coming up.
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