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This homemade costume for men entered our 2015 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Brenden, the 'Groot' costume creator:
Guardians of the Galaxy's GROOT. Brenden is wearing the costume. This was made in one week and cost $29 to make. I used a hoodie sweatshirt and a pair of old pants then glued foam pipe covers cut in half all over front and back. Then used tissue paper dipped in water and put all over. After it dried I spray painted it green and then glued sticks and green moss all over. The mask was a piece of construction paper with tissue paper glued to it and tree bark glued to it in parts.
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The property is situated in the middle of an attractive Victorian terrace of office buildings between Ecclestone Street and Elizabeth Street, being within a few minutes' walk of the Victoria Transport termini (Underground – Victoria, District and Circle Lines, Main-Line, Gatwick Express, Victoria Coach and Bus Stations.
The offices are approached through an attractive
entrance hall and are situated on part of the 4th floor, comprising
584 sq ft arranged as two inter-communicating rooms.
584 sq ft (54 sq m) approx
£55.00 per sq ft per annum, exclusive of all outgoings and VAT.
A new effective full repairing and insuring lease through the service charge provisions for up to three years.
We are informed that the rates payable currently equate to approximately £18.00 per sq ft per annum exclusive. Interested parties are advised to verify this figure with the local authority.
The service charge is currently running at approximately £10.00 per sq ft.
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September, 2016 Board of Directors Meeting
21326 Augusta Drive
Sterling, VA 20164
September 29, 2016
Board Members Present: Anthony DeRobertis President
Jeff Marsh Vice President
Angela Ojeda Treasurer
Stephanie Byers Secretary
Board Members Absent: None
Others Present: Anne Welsh Grounds Committee
Joe Barrows Sentry Management
Karen Case Recording Secretary
I. Call to Order: Mr. DeRobertis called the meeting to order at 7:07 p.m.
II. Resident Forum:
No comments.
III. Approval of Agenda:
MOTION: Mr. DeRobertis moved to approve the agenda as amended. Motion carried without objection.
IV. Board Officers' Reports:
President: Mr. DeRobertis has obtained the reflectors but not installed them yet on Tamarack Ridge fence. Board needs to think about when we will do another full reserve study. Most recent update was done in 2013. Also coming up fairly soon is resurfacing the townhome streets.
Vice President: No report.
Treasurer: Ms. Ojeda received the audit report, downloaded general ledger files from the Sentry website and requested reports from Entela. She is in the process of reviewing those documents. She has not contacted New York Life yet but will do so. The Auditor confirmed digital documents, instead of hard copy, meet the legal requirements.
Secretary: Ms. Byers has been acknowledging receipt of Ms. Welsh's emails to the Board and confirming that Mr. Barrows has been included on those emails.
V. Approval of Minutes:
Follow up from last meeting:
Advantage has provided confirmation via email that they will complete the transfer of the bushes at no cost as a way to make up for previous mistakes. No other written commitments from Advantage thus far.
Ms. Ojeda did look for the extra waterline tiles and they were not in the pool house. At Ms. Ojeda's request, Mr. Barrows asked Premier Aquatics to return them. Premier indicated they would not return the tiles because extra tiles were not purchased in the contract. Mr. Barrows will ask Premier if a box of tiles can be purchased.
MOTION: Mr. DeRobertis moved, Mr. Marsh seconded, to approve the August 25, 2016 Board meeting minutes as amended. Motion carried (3-0-1) with Ms. Byers abstaining.
VI. Committee Reports:
Grounds – Ms. Welsh acknowledged Ms. Ojeda for doing a wonderful job on the irrigation project. Ms. Ojeda reported on her walk with Yimis. She noted the area behind the townhomes looks like Advantage has not maintained it in a few weeks. Ms. Ojeda emailed pictures of the walk along with notes as to what area Advantage was to address. She noted the dry ponds are very overgrown and not being maintained. This led to a discussion about what the County regulation is and how the dry ponds should be maintained. Ms. Welsh indicated her last check of the regulation stated the County will clear the space for the drain; the rest can be left in a natural state or manicured. There was discussion about the pros/cons of letting it stay natural. Mr. Barrows will contact the County and confirm the current regulation.
Ms. Ojeda reported Yimis agreed to clean up the Backwater fence. Yimis also agreed to cut up the dead tree that was thrown over the fence as well as clean up that fence. Ms. Ojeda will forward the homeowner's address and Mr. Barrows will mail a letter to the homeowner informing them of the fence cleanup. Yimis indicated it will take at least three weeks to complete the items addressed. Mr. Barrows will follow up to confirm completion. Ms. Ojeda will forward her write-up of the walk to Mr. Barrows. Mr. Barrows will forward the write-up to Advantage for their comments/agreement.
Yimis provided a proposal to address the area of Tamarack Ridge Square and Maple Leaf Place that was discussed on the walk. The proposal will be discussed under New Business.
Parking – There was discussion about the commercial vehicles and boats that have been parked in the community and how we will address it. There was also discussion about vehicles parking on the driveway apron encroaching onto the sidewalk/street and how this will be addressed.
Tot Lot – No committee report. Ms. Welsh suggested the Board consider power washing the tot lot surface and the pool deck next spring.
Pool – Ms. Ojeda indicated she started the review process of pool regulations. There was discussion about current participation in the committee and committee's plan to research rules from other Counties to gather ideas. This led to discussion about concern that pool committee has not had a meeting to revise the pool regulations yet. Mr. DeRobertis indicated the committee was charged with updating the pool rules over three months ago. Committee members will research other county regulations, follow up via email, and hold a committee meeting to draft the update.
Ms. Ojeda reported the lower part of the drywall in the pump room is falling apart. The other Board members will look at it and then let Management know if any follow up is needed.
VII. Management Update/Old Business:
Fence Repair from Leaning Tree – Scheduled for October 5th.
Installation of Missing Stop Sign – Should be installed already; Ms. Byers will confirm.
Pool Pump Room Vented Door – On back order; scheduled for install October 5th.
Investigate Leak in Men's Shower Room – Management had the men's shower inspected by a plumber; no leak was found in the shower or pump. Observed water pooling along the tile wall; plumber suggested tile might not be sealed properly and water is seeping into drywall. Also shower floor might not be graded enough toward the drain. Management and Danielle are coordinating with the contractor to come back and correct anything that was missed.
Arrange for Ms. Ojeda to Meet with Advantage and BioGreen – Complete.
Taxes – Complete.
Renewal of Insurance – Complete.
Pool Winterization – In progress; submitted back to Premier
Fence on Backwater and Vines along Tamarack Communicate to Advantage – Already discussed under Grounds Committee.
VIII. New Business:
Snow Removal Contract – Ms. Welsh commented the amount of sand left after snow removal has been an issue. Board reviewed and discussed the snow removal proposals and the various options/costs of sand, chemicals and pre-treatment. Board agreed to have a small meeting with the vendor to discuss solutions for storing excess snow/develop an emergency snow plan with a map.
MOTION: Ms. Byers moved, Ms. Ojeda seconded, to accept the snow removal contract from The Kauffman Group, Inc. Motion carried unanimously (4-0-0).
Board and Treasurer Expectations and Upcoming Budget Process – Board discussed how the budget process went last year, lessons learned and how to move forward this year. Board agreed if it has not approved a budget by the October meeting, Mr. Barrows will provide a final budget for the Board to review and approve. Mr. Barrows provided copies of the draft budget he prepared; he will circulate it to the Board via email as well. Mr. DeRobertis noted the assessment allocation for common/townhome/single family needs to be corrected on the draft budget.
Approve Lighting – Board discussed one proposal received so far. Ms. Ojeda suggested the proposals should indicate a warranty and installation, labor and parts included. It was noted the project would require another electric meter with an ongoing bill. Ms. Welsh questioned whether it was aesthetically right to do the lighting.
MOTION: Mr. Marsh moved, Ms. Byers seconded, to table the discussion on the lighting. Motion carried without objection.
Review Proposed Pool Work –
MOTION: Mr. DeRobertis moved, Mr. Marsh seconded, to table the discussion on pool work until the next meeting. Motion carried without objection.
Approve Draft Audit – Tabled until next meeting.
Turf Renovation - Powerseeding – Board discussed the proposal for fall turf services. There was discussion about what is included in the grounds maintenance contract and whether powerseeding is needed.
MOTION: Mr. DeRobertis moved, Ms. Byers seconded, to approve the Advantage Fall Turf Services/Powerseed proposal at a cost of $5,110 on the condition Advantage provides a map of areas to be done before starting work and the work is completed by October 10th, 2016. Motion carried (3-1-0) with Ms. Ojeda opposed.
Budget – Already discussed.
ARB – Guideline Updates – Ms. Byers will circulate her comments to the Board via email for discussion at the next meeting.
Landscaping Proposal for Tamarack Ridge Square and Maple Leaf Place – Ms. Welsh indicated she was opposed to the proposal from Advantage. Ms. Byers suggested the discussion be deferred until Ms. Welsh provides a proposal with what she recommends for the area.
Ms. Welsh left the meeting at 9:04 p.m.
IX. Executive Session:
Board agreed by consensus to move into executive session at 9:05 p.m. to discuss delinquencies.
Board agreed by consensus to close the executive session and reconvene the general session at 9:07 p.m.
X. Decisions Made Following Executive Session:
Board agreed by consensus to approve the payment plan requests from homeowners W00086 and W00140 and to allow for the extension on the tree removals.
XI. Adjournment:
The Board meeting was adjourned at 9:10 p.m.


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Great Arrow Graphics, the greeting card company that makes every card by hand using traditional silkscreen methods sent to me a box of my latest designs. It's always exciting to see the finished products and hold them in my hands. I think they look great, feel great and even have a lovely smell of fresh ink! Let me know what you think and leave a comment. I will choose at random, three people and they will receive a nice sampler gift package of my cards. Not just the ones you see here but for other occasions as well!
So excited to see this design up on the BeforeandAgain's website! Of the eight designs they picked up last year, I think this is my favorite. What do you think? I am going to try and do some more hand painted art in the future.
I haven't seen the Hello Kitty 40th Anniversary exhibit in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo yet and definitely plan on catching it soon. But today I stumbled on the Flickr site of Joseph Senior, an illustrator living in New Zealand. Miss Hello Kitty takes on all kind of celebrity personality types. Check out the whole collection here. Fun Stuff!
Members of KISS
He calls this one Hello Gangsta Kitty
I've entered a design contest at Spoonflower.com and if you are so inclined, please vote for me at this link. The theme this week is 'Penguins' and I've entered my pattern "Penguin's Snow Day". There are quite a few entries, so I apologize that you'll have to scroll through dozens of designs. Be prepared for a big dose of cuteness. You can vote for as many as you like, but I'd appreciate a vote for me and tell your friends! My shop name is listed with the design as Popfortune which I will explain at another time why I chose that name.
Thank you for reading my blog, a bit of a clumsy stumbling effort through the last year as I was trying to get the hang of using the software. I'm still figuring it out, so I'm going to be patient with myself and keep moving forward. I wish all of you joy, peace, health and prosperity in 2015, in your families, in your work and in your personal endeavors. I did not mention yet that during the year I reconnected with a licensee that I lost contact with from a few years ago and I also signed several new contracts with new companies. I look forward to working with them to get them new art. But mostly I want to continue to make more art that conveys the feeling of innocence, wonder and joy of life that come out in my characters and designs. Art that people have said makes them feel happy. To do that I must stay connected to the most important things that matter and have gratitude for those blessings. Happy New Year!
Some one needs to scold this negligent artist for not keeping up with her blog! Not only that, but this artist also does not keep up with her press and online presence very well. Bad artist! Does this mean I will get a lump of coal for Christmas?
So to make up for it, this artist, ahem, ME, will post several bits of news from the year in review. To begin with, I JUST today discovered that Oklahoma Embroidery Supply and Design, aka OESD featured me on their blog way back in JANUARY! This was my very first collection, Cupid and Hearts Floral embroidery collection. I will continue to post more news every few days until the end of the year. Then I vow to be much better at this in 2015!


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Valentine's Cape Town
When it comes to Valentine's Day people, generally fall into one of two camps.
Either it's one of their favourite fake-holidays and the most romantic day of the year, or they consider it a made-up day created by greeting card companies to make money.
Whichever camp you fall into the day is almost upon us, and it's a great excuse to go out and do something you wouldn't usually do. We've rounded up a few ideas to get you started.
Visit the End of the World
Love your partner "to the ends of the Earth"? Take them there! The most southern tip of Africa lies just one and a half hours from Cape Town. Towering more than 200m above the sea, Cape Point boasts spectacular views. Skip the grueling walk from the car park to the lighthouse and take a scenic trip on the funicular. From that high perch, the ocean stretches the horizon, and you can see the Indian Ocean meet the Atlantic.
Ride Off into the Sunset
The Western Cape boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Which is great, until they get so packed, you can barely find space to put down a flip-flop nevermind a towel. For Valentine's Day, why not make the effort to go a little further and experience a whole lot more. Pack a picnic and head to picturesque Noordhoek. Start your beach experience with a horseback ride along the coast. After you've dismounted, find a secluded spot and tuck into that picnic!
Stick to the Streets
Promenades and long walks on the beach, not your thing? No problem! The walls of Woodstock are covered in fascinating works of art waiting to be discovered. Book a walking tour with a local guide and explore a world you've only glimpsed. Following an insightful outing find a table at one of Woodstock's many endearing eateries for a romantic meal.
Waddle Away the Day
Want to see what true love looks like? Look no further than Cape Town's Boulder's Beach! Home to thousands of penguins, most of them mate for life, and you can catch a glimpse of their romance only 30mins outside the city. Get up close and personal with some of nature's cutest creatures while enjoying dramatic views of the Atlantic Ocean.
There are almost countless options for you to explore on Valentine's Day in Cape Town. Whether you decide to head out on an adventure or do something romantic at home, the most important thing is spending it with the person you love doing something you both love.
Until next time,
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True North Hearth & Home
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At the beginning of 2015, after over 8 years of working in the Roaring Fork & Vail valley's, Wes Ehlers, Matt Ehlers, and Zach Ryan accomplished their goal of opening True North Hearth & Home. We knew that the Roaring Fork and Vail valleys needed a top notch fireplace, hot tub, and outdoor kitchen supplier. We have the experience and ability to provide anything you may need: from "builder box" fireplaces to "one-off" custom built and certified fireplaces, from budget hot tubs to luxury spas and swim spas, from charcoal grill carts to beautiful custom built outdoor kitchens. We look forward to the opportunity to earn your business and forge a lifetime business partner.
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We guess you've heard this before, but it's actually true. As we are an owner operated company we have a deep commitment to our business and our customers. We have the largest variety of products available in the area. Installation – This is where True North truly shines. With almost 40 years of collective experience, we take the time and pride to do it right! We feel the install is the most crucial aspect of our work, for a safe and reliable fireplace in your home. Our main focus during the install are the following:
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Wes Ehlers
Wes' construction background stems back to college where he studied Construction Management. In the past 17 years Wes has earned a wide variety of experience in the construction industry, everything from framing houses to structural steel and for the past 8 years, fireplaces. In 2007, Wes moved to Glenwood Springs to work for a local fireplace business. He started out installing and doing service work, which gained him a lot of knowledge about fireplaces. Then in 2009 he was promoted to management and sales. In January of 2015 Wes decided to partner up with younger brother Matt Ehlers and long-time friend Zach Ryan to start True North Hearth and Home.
Matt Ehlers
Matt is Wes' brother from Northern Wisconsin. He got involved in construction at an early age. Matt met Zach in college and also worked for the same fireplace and hot tub store in Duluth, MN, installing and servicing fireplaces. In 2007, he came to Glenwood Springs to work for a growing fireplace and hot tub company. Over the past 8 years, he has gained the knowledge and experience to manage your project from start to finish.
Zach Ryan
Zach got his start in the hearth business at age 15 at his father's fireplace retail store, in Hutchinson, MN. He worked there as an installer, service technician, and salesman until he became manager. In 2003 he went to work for a company in Duluth, MN as service manager where he gained knowledge in wood stoves and hot tubs. In 2007, Zach came to Glenwood Springs for a new opportunity where he learned all he could about the fireplaces and hot tubs in the luxury home market.


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The Port House – a Zaha Hadid masterpiece
Zaha Hidid, was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was described by the The Guardian of London as the 'Queen of the curve'. Her major works include the aquatic centre for the London 2012 Olympics, Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum in the US, and the Guangzhou Opera House in China. Some of her designs have been presented posthumously, including our Port House.
The new Port House repurposes, renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new headquarters for the port – bringing together the port's 500 staff that previously worked in separate buildings around the city.
As an Antwerp inhabitant, it feels a bit shameful to tell you that it took me more than one year to get up close and personal with this new architectural masterpiece.
But when I did, boy did I like it. This building is a true masterpiece. Interesting from every angle.
So let's start with the least obvious one. I approached the Port House via the harbour and I liked this point of view immediately. How this 'boat'-shaped piece peeks out above these old building. Just Luv it!
Marc Van Peel, president of the Port of Antwerp, said: "There was only one rule laid down in the architectural competition, namely that the original building had to be preserved. There were no other requirements imposed for the positioning of the new building. The jury was therefore pleasantly surprised when the five shortlisted candidates all opted for a modern structure above the original building. They all combined the new with the old, but the design by Zaha Hadid Architects was the most brilliant."
I'm happy that the one rule was respected by the architects. Antwerp has lost enough beautiful old buildings. It would be such a shame that this one would have disappeared also.
Up close and personal
So after I crossed the water, I went all up close and personal on this building.


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To apply for financial aid funds that are awarded by the UI Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA), you must file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as soon as possible after applications open. Some funds are limited and awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact the Office of Student Financial Aid for detailed instructions and assistance.
Thank you to alumni, donors, and friends of the College of Education for their generosity.
The application for most of the scholarships opens late in fall semester, and awards are celebrated in the spring.
A variety of assistantships and grants are awarded in the College of Education each year. Appointments are usually made in late spring for the coming academic year.
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My year in three objects
Before moving too far into 2011, I thought I'd do one final post looking back at 2010. Inspired by the BBC/British Museum project with a similar name but a much more ambitious remit, I decided to come up with the three objects that capture my year. The results of my musings surprised me; my mind turned not to objects that represent the 'big' things such as finishing my thesis but to objects that speak of smaller but no less profound changes and developments. And in no particular order, the results are:
1) My stitch counter
This is a small plastic tube with two revolving number counters. You slip it onto a knitting needle and use it to keep a tally of the rows knitted, turning it up one with each row. It is no exaggeration to say this little item has transformed my crafting life, making all the scraps of paper & little pencils behind my ear redundant. It has speeded up my knitting by a rate of knots too. A simple yet ingenious invention. The fact that it belonged to my grandma adds a further layer of poignancy to the item.
2) My jazz shoes
My jazz shoes were a birthday present from an aunt & uncle. Bound up in these two small bits of leather are various layers of meaning: a lovely gift in themselves; a new hobby; one of my favourite hours of the week; a commitment to sport and fitness that is relatively new to me – and was one of my big resolutions of 2010; a changing attitude towards my body – a new type of relationship with everything from the neck downwards and a new perspective on my own physicality, which seemed particularly significant in a year that followed a major illness. I have never really danced before & one year ago, I could not have even begun to imagine how much I enjoy it. I may be in danger of sounding like a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, but dancing has changed my life.
3) Souter Lighthouse, pictured
As with the jazz shoes, there are many layers of meaning to Souter Lighthouse. At the most basic level, it is a reminder of my lovely and somewhat impromptu summer holiday. At the same time, it reminds me of freedom and independence – the sense of bravery that I felt when deciding to holiday alone. It is also symbolic of desires and aims achieved during the last twelve months. I had long wanted to visit the lighthouse, and 2010 was the year that I did. So Souter features as an icon of all the things I did that I had dreamt of doing before: becoming a Quaker; getting better at knitting; doing regular exercise; making a simnel cake; finishing my thesis; buying a car; improving at crochet…And I hope that this list will roll on into 2011 too.


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Onions are a good source of quercetin. Why do you care? Because quercetin is excellent at protecting you from skin cancer.
I'm particularly interested in skin cancer protection because I didn't protect myself from sunburns when I was young. I got two extremely bad sunburns: once when watching a sea otter playing just off the Carmel Monastery beach I got a third degree burn. Years later my boyfriend had a sports car and my nose got badly sunburned repeatedly ~~ Now I'm fighting the consequent risks.
Quercetin compared to Tomoxifen ~ Read more.
6/29/09 — I was too late to buy yellow onion sets. (Onions from my last sets lasted 3 – 4 years.) So, I'm planting onions from atop my Egyptian walking onions. (They are both darling and flavorful in my brown rice dishes.)
From tediously peeling the tiny onions I gravitated to using the leaves and bulbs. Great in the Spring! But as weeks progress the stalks become as woody as bamboo, making them more suited to fishing poles than dinner. (I exaggerate, but you get the idea.) Now, years later, I pop the unpeeled onions in and they cook beautifully.
Removing the little bulbs causes the main bulb to enlarge to somewhat resemble yellow, white and purple onions.
Because I cook with onions, particularly yellow onions when I can get them, in order to benefit from their high levels of quercetin, which is supposed to fight skin cancer, I'm curious to know whether my plentiful Egyptian walking onions work as well as yellow onions.
Although Egyptian Walking Onions are an heirloom they are seldom named in nutrition lists. That being the case, I had to approach the research from a different angle. Luckily Google's Scholarly Articles was able to help:
It may not jump out at you, but the fact that quercetin is highest in yellow onions underscores the fact that quercetin is a flavinoid and flavinoids are named for their color. I learned this when I was working on my page about figs:
Flavonoids in general are a broad class of compounds defined by their pigmentation, or in other words, color. The term "flavonoid" comes from the Latin word "flavus," which means yellow. Thus, flavonoids applies to lemons, oranges, grapefruits, yellow figs, etc.
Flavonoids exert a multiplicity of neuroprotective actions within the brain, including a potential to protect neurons against injury induced by neurotoxins, an ability to suppress neuroinflammation, and the potential to promote memory, learning and cognitive function. The neuroprotective potential of flavonoids: a multiplicity of effects, David Vauzour, Genes and Nutrition, 2008.
Consumption of flavonoid-rich foods throughout life limits neurodegeneration and prevents or reverses age-dependent loses in cognitive performance. For this reason drug companies are intensely interested in flavonoids as a part of their quest for new drugs promising to enhance brain performance. Drug research has shown flavonoids to be beneficial in dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's. Keep in mind, the functionality of flavonoids is not dependent upon being made part of a drug, you can benefit from flavoids by eating fresh fruit and vegetables, preferably grown by you in your garden without the use of pesticides or RoundUp. Read more.
So, it looks as if yellow onions are the way to go, and that walking onions, though prolific in themselves, are not prolific in quercetin. The thing is, if you are seldom able to get yellow onions, but you have an ample supply of walking onions, over a week you may get just as much quercetin if you consistently use your walking onions in your cooking. And, if you cook using the walking onion greens, you're getting a lot of great nutrition.
Nutrients in onion greens
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Easiest way to use tiny onions
8/25/2013 ~ Yesterday I discovered that I don't have to peel the little onions, just cut off their bottoms and let the papery top layer flake off. Easy, EASY. I put a scad of them into my brown rice… It was delicious!
Check out other foods with quercetin:
List of plant foods and beverages containing quercetin
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Ecumenism at the grassroots
What Is Ecumenism to Me?
2. Ecumenism at the grassroots: Flagler Beach and Flagler County, Florida
I began to learn as much about ecumenism and Christian Unity as possible, and in 2006 I learned that in 2008 "The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" will observe its 100th anniversary. So during Holy Week 2006, I shared with Phyllis Rotunno — the earliest and most steady supporter of the Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church website which I started upon my retirement — my wish to do something for Christian Unity at Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church in Flagler Beach, Florida. The two of us have been trying to get an opportunity to talk to our then pastor, Fr. John Tetlow, until one day in 2007, after Fr. Tetlow had an operation on his foot, and he was was resting immobilized on the new rectory entranceway during a parish picnic. I told a wide-eyed Phyllis something like this: "This is a good time. We got him as a captive audience. Let's go talk to him about organizing The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in January 2008." We did, and I submitted to him my written proposal dated October 25, 2007. He said yes, and even volunteered a keynote speaker, his own surgeon, Dr. Steven C. Bower, who impressed him greatly as a deep-rooted Christian. So that's how it began! Phyllis and I formed a committee, and did a lot of brainstorming. That was how the Christian Unity ministry at Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church at Flagler Beach, Florida, was born.
The words of the late Cardinal Mercier really struck me as to how we should begin:
In order to unite with one another, we must love one another;
in order to love one another, we must know one another;
in order to know one another, we must go and meet one another.
This is what Pope Francis refers to as encounter and dialogue.
As a lifelong Catholic, I have never been to any non-Catholic church. But I decided to attend as many non-Catholic services in Flagler County as possible. I visited fifteen churches. Some churches, I visited two or three times, and I spoke to the various pastors, face-to-face, many times, and followed up by email messages, but many times there was no response of any kind. It was most discouraging.
For the Week of Prayer of 2008 and 2009 evenings of Ecumenical Prayer and Praise, it was just the two choirs of Santa Maria del Mar under the direction of Mary Ann Ahearn, and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church's choir under the direction of Kermit Allison, who responded. Many times, I wanted to quit. I did not want to be a voice in the wilderness, and I felt like an unwilling prophet. I went to my pastor, Fr. Al Esposito, and he and his parish advisers encouraged me to go on. Cindy Ser, the parish manager, even gave a new mission: "You are now the ambassador of Santa Maria del Mar to the Christian communities of Flagler county." That's a challenge!
So I continued to visit churches. For 2010, we decided to move the event to June 5, 2010, and called it "Flagler Churches Together in Prayer and Song". Then, in January 2010, during the The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Reverend Gillard Glover of the First (AME) Church of Palm Coast called me, and wanted to come over to Santa Maria one evening with his four singers. With very little lead time, we were treated to a wonderful session of songs and an inspiring sermon. His church was so welcoming to me each time I visited the First Church of Palm Coast. He even referred to me as "Bro". It's an honor!
There were six choirs participating in the 2010 Flagler Churches Together in Prayer and Song on June 5, 2010 at Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church. We had about 500 to 550 in attendance. The response from the audience was great.
For the 2011 Flagler Churches Together in Prayer and Song which was held at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church on January 22, 2011, from 6 to 8:30 PM, the church which can seat 1,600 was about half full, so the attendance was estimated at around 800. (Note: The reason why events had to be held at these two Catholic Churches was because they have the largest seating capacity of all churches in Flagler County, 1,150 seats at Santa Maria del Mar, and 1,500 seats at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. We look forward to holding future events in other Christian churches.)
From the responses received, I believe that we were then at take-off point. For the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in 2012 and 2013, the challenge was how to package songs within the time frame of two and a half hours.
The Holy Spirit works in surprising, unpredictable ways to help me in my ministry. In 2009, an errant email by me somehow landed in the mailbox of Karyn Jacobs, a person I did not know, who became my main helper in organizing the Flagler Churches Together in Prayer and Song events in 2010 and 2011.
Then in 2012, after reading Dr. Steve Harmon's book Ecumenism Means You, Too, I asked his permission to reprint in my various websites a synopsis of chapter 4 about "10 Things You Can Do for the Unity of the Church". I have never met Dr. Harmon who is a leading ecumenical Baptist professor of theology at Gardner-Webb University. Not only he gave me permission, but emailed me this: "I've made a post on my blog calling attention to that use of the material and to the encouraging work that you, your parish, and the Flagler Churches Together group are doing: http://ecclesialtheology.blogspot.com/2012/08/10-things-you-can-do-for-unity-of.html .
One reader of Steve Harmon's blog was Gerald Stover, an ecumenical Mennonite from Bethlehem, PA, who in turn introduced me to Bridgefolk.net, to the work of Focolare, to Rev. Dr. Russell Meyer, Executive Director of the Florida Council of Churches and a member of the board of the North American Association of Ecumenists, and most recently to Rev. Dr. John H. Armstrong who is president of "ACT3 Network [which] empowers leaders and churches to engage in missional partnerships within the whole body of Christ."
In order to do grassroots ecumenism, we must first be grounded in one's own faith, then learn about other Christian traditions and practices, then meet each other by visiting another person's church, and invite the other person to visit our own church. And go with a receptive attitude which means appreciating in other Christians what they do better than us in what we also do but not as well. Personally I have visited many churches where I was received in brotherly love, spoke to pastors and congregants, and invited them to send choirs, musicians and singers to our ecumenical prayer and praise service during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
For example, how many Catholics have a well-worn Bible that they have read and annotated and know crucial passages by heart, citing chapter and verse as many evangelicals do. Take for example a bedrock Scriptural passage to Catholics. How many Catholics can identify its source as Matthew 16:18? "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it." The only way Christians can talk to one another starts with knowing what Scripture says about unity.
Then get up your courage to go to a church which seems to be foreign territory to you. Pray for courage and to have an open heart. Go for example to an African-American church and see/hear/feel the singing, as the worshippers sing as they mean it, as they believe it, as they live it, body, soul, emotion, gesture, even tears.
Receptive ecumenism means what zeal, devotion, attitude we can learn from other Christians to bring to our worship, and what other Christians, if they come to church with us, can learn about the Catholic church by seeing us in worship.
Grassroots ecumenism to me means that I don't feel being an outsider or spectator in my neighbor's church even though I do not belong to it, and that my guest will feel at ease at my church even though s/he does not quite understand everything that is going on. Respectful curiosity is a start, then come questions and explanations, and it is hoped that everyone seeks to "speak the truth in love" when they speak about their own church and the other churches as well.
This is the dialogue we should have, not to convert others to our way, but so that we are convinced that other Christians are seeking Christ and walking toward Christ too as we do. All spiritual ecumenism starts with inner conversion of oneself, to see and love Christ in other Christians, and to acknowledge our deficient knowledge of other Christian denominations, and even worse our prejudices based upon incomplete understanding of the origins and causes of different Christian traditions. To me, Christian Unity means that in the end, we meet each other and love each other in Christ in spite of differences mostly in tradition and practice, as we already share our fundamental beliefs as expressed in the creeds we all recite. Therefore until theologians can resolve our differences so that we can all physically share the same Body of Christ in communion, this is our limited communion, that is union together in Christ in aspirations and in working together to mend the broken Body of Christ.
And these days, grassroots ecumenism is an imperative, as many married couples and couples engaged to be married belong to different Christian traditions, and they must unlearn things about each other's supposed beliefs and practices, and learn to respect and appreciate the other's correct beliefs and practices, and raise their children accordingly. These days, practical ecumenism starts with an ecumenical family.
If we believe that Jesus loves us, then we must love one another, because as the Apostle John wrote: "Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen." (1 John 4:20) If you are Christian, and if you hear someone says bad things about another Christian church, ask yourself "What would Jesus do in this situation?"
In Flagler County, Florida, concrete grassroots ecumenism means church congregations working with one another in projects dealing with poverty, hunger, and homelessness.
The cold-weather shelter, based in the First United Methodist Church of Bunnell (FUMCB), takes in homeless persons when the temperature dips below 40 degrees, has teams of volunteers from other churches as well, including many teams from Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church in Flagler Beach. FUMCB is a small congregation with a big heart, a brave pastor, the Rev. Beth Gardner and a most dedicated parishioner, Carla Traister, who is the shelter's director of operations. They have endured many verbal attacks from neighborhood people for running the shelter.
Another example of grassroots ecumenism is Family Promise of Flagler, an operation involving a dozen of rotating host churches and many more supporting congregations committed to providing the tools families need to end the cycle of homelessness and remain self-sufficient. (Unfortunately, Flagler Family Promise has ceased operations in 2014 due to lack of financial resources and not enough host churches.)
And there is the well-known Flagler Habitat for Humanity which "is an ecumenical Christian housing ministry whose mission is to eliminate substandard housing from Flagler County, and to make simple, decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action."
At the worship level, we have now in Flagler County an established tradition of church choirs and musicians coming together to sing and praise our Lord Jesus Christ during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Over the years, these churches and/or pastors have participated in Flagler Churches Together in Prayer and Song: Church on the Rock, Palm Coast/Bunnell; First (AME) Church of Palm Coast; First Baptist Church of Palm Coast; First United Methodist Church of Bunnell; Mount Calvary Baptist Church of Palm Coast; Palm Coast United Methodist Church; St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church; St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church; St. Thomas Episcopal Church; Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church of Flagler Beach; Seventh Day Adventist Church of Palm Coast.
The two theme songs that we always sing are
- And they'll know we are Christians / By our love, By our love / Yes, they'll know we are Christians / By our love
- We shall overcome, We shall overcome, / We shall walk hand in hand / We shall live in peace. (It is a freedom march anthem that we have adopted to mean that we must obey the Lord Jesus' commandment "Love one another as I have loved you" (John 13:34) so that together we can overcome our religious, cultural, racial, ethnic, economic prejudices, preconceptions and misperceptions about each other.)
We sang and prayed for all our Christian brothers and sisters, using this litany for unity:
Leader: Lord, you are the source of love, peace and reconciliation! All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: For Christian Churches and Communities, that they may be faithful witnesses to the Gospel. All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: For church leaders everywhere that they may work together and promote unity among Christians. All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: Across all our mutual ignorance, prejudice and hostility. All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: Across all our differences of thought, outlook, and religious allegiance. All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: O God, for your greater glory. All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: That we may lift our voices as one. All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: For our Christian brothers and sisters who are suffering persecution and death throughout the world, because they profess the name of Jesus. All: Gather together your separated people.
Leader: Together we pray
All: God Our Father: We come here before you heeding the prayer of Jesus / that his followers be one. We come here to sing and pray together in Jesus' name. We ask you to bless us with deepening faith,/ enduring hope,/ and selfless love. Give us hearts ready to find you and love you/ in all our brothers and sisters who profess to be followers of Jesus. And the courage and generosity to work together / for your kingdom and your glory. Together, we pray in Jesus' Name. / Amen.
After we have sung dozens of songs, we then form large circles around the pews and joining hands we say together the Lord's prayer before we leave.
Love donations at these events have gone to Flagler Habitat for Humanity, the Cold-weather shelter, the Custodian of Holy Sites in the Holy Land, twice to Flagler Family Promise, and to the suffering Christians in the Middle East.
My heart is full of thanks to God for the breaking down of perceived barriers among Christian brothers and sisters in Flagler County. And I thank the pastors and the music ministers who have responded to my call. It's not my work, but it is God's work and command that we carry out Jesus' testamentary prayer that we be one, as He and the Father are One.
We now look forward to Saturday, January 21, 2017, when the Eighth Flagler Churches Together in Prayer and Song will take place at Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church in Flagler Beach with the participation of EIGHT churches from 1:00 to 2:45 p.m. There will be a reception afterwards in the church lobby from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. As usual, attendance is free, but a freewill collection will be made again for suffering Christians in the Middle East.
And with the cooperation of evangelical churches we are looking to the possibility of bringing to Flagler County a Christian rock concert some time in the future.
At the clergy level, Pastor Pam Northrup (who has left Palm Coast in mid-2014 for Raleigh, NC, to be near her parents) of St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church in Palm Coast has hosted ecumenical gatherings at her church including a lecture on ecumenism by ELCA Florida-Bahamas bishop emeritus Lavern Franzen during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in 2011,
and a joint discussion with Fr. Alberto Esposito of Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church on "The Hope for Eternal Life" in 2013.
On January 22, 2014, the Rev. Dr. Russell Meyer, Executive Director of the Florida Council of Churches, came from Tampa to discuss the recently released joint Lutheran-Catholic document "From Conflict to Communion" as we prepare to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's start of the Reformation. The event is co-sponsored by St. Mark Lutheran and Santa Maria del Mar CC. Pastor Pam Northrup (ELCA), Fr. Al Esposito were the discussants.
The cooperation between Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church in Flagler Beach and St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church continues under the new pastor, Rev. Vince Iocona. In fact, the two sister churches had an ecumenical bus ride in January 2016 from the respective churches in Flagler Beach and Palm Coast to St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Jacksonville for the 3rd Ecumenical Evening Prayer presided over by Bishop Schaefer. Furthermore Bishop Schaefer himself came to Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church and gave a homily at every Mass one weekend in 2016.
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There are number of flight attendant interview tips I'd like to share with you here because I know that the hardest part about the job is actually getting it so anything that you can learn to help you will be beneficial.
We've seen the flight attendant interview process and you now know what the process is.
We've also seen from the flight attendant job description what an airline is looking for when they recruit flight attendants. While an active safety focus is right up there for most airlines, you as their flight attendant are the face of their airline and will need to show a propensity, capability and personal qualities that will embrace and propel their corporate image.
While everybody brings different qualities and as importantly personalities to the table, the airline interviewers will be not be trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Established airlines spend a lot of money and time building their culture through the staff they employ and will want all employees to fit and marry with their brand.
So as a little extra, I guess the first of your flight attendant interview tips is to know about the airline you are applying to. Be aware of its corporate goals and identify its brand in the market place and the culture of its people before you front for an interview.
To put these flight attendant interview tips into context you might liken the difference here to perhaps a comparison between Easyjet and Singapore Airlines.
Do you think I would present the same flight attendant interview tips to you for these two airlines if you were fortunate enough to secure an interview with both of them? Add into this mix Delta Airlines of Skywest.
I hope your answer was no because you now understand what I have just said. Flight attendant interview tips have tailor made aspects, according to the company your applying for.
While flight attendants are individuals, many can easily be spotted in a crowd by others in the airline system without their uniform because they possess a certain something, a quality and it combines a number of characteristics and values like poise, grooming, pleasant disposition, an appearance of friendliness, an ability to communicate easily, and other great people skills.
These are all things that you want to be able to display at your interview because those that are chosen for the job will certainly have these qualities and more.
With these flight attendant interview tips, I do go through the top fourteen considered most important qualities of a flight attendant and fully explain the matrix upon which they are measure in Video Manual 1 of the AIRLINES Be a Flight Attendant today program.
However, much of this is who you are and the experiences you have in life so many of them they can be learned.
One of the best flight attendant interview tips here is to know what you good at and to honestly identify where you need to learn a new skill and do something about it. You might need to learn new or better communication skills or have more confidence in front of people, or you might have grown up in the country like me and have poor taste in grooming, again like me.
In my defense I think I always tried with what I had but looking back on my first interview photos I have to admit my grooming was ordinary to say the least.
I think I was pretty lucky to get my first flight attendant job to be totally honest!
If I was to be a little less harsh on myself I could say that my grooming was not what it should have been so I really had to blitz ´em with my other qualities!
Another of the flight attendant interview tips I'd like to share with you is this...
Be who you are. In other words be genuine. The airlines want to see you, not someone you're not. Obviously you may be a tad nervous on interview day because this is a job that you've wanted since forever and that's normal. But rest assured a good interviewer will 'see through you' if your faking it.
Remember these flight attendant interview tips, flight attendant interviewers get pretty good at what they do and they can afford to be very discriminatory because they interview lots of applicants and have so many to choose from.
Rest assured though that your selection process from an interviewer prospective must adhere to a matrix to enable consistent professionalism and fairness in the process and yet allow for the unique differences that separates you from other applicants in a non-discriminative way.
However personalities can sometimes clash and having been on an interview panel sometimes you just know that the guillotine will be very sharp for some people. I might add that it can also operate the other way. Sometimes you can see an applicant walk into the room and just know that they will be in the final pick. They have that something, that x factor of which we have already discussed above in these flight attendant interview tips.
Now as far as flight attendant interview tips go this should not even be included!
Alas I will state it here however because what I think is common sense apparently is not to everybody so let me spell this out very clearly. There is no excuse for poor presentation at any flight attendant interview. Period! Suffice to say here that impeccably professional should cover it.
Your grooming must be impeccable and your presentation must professional.
It might be the trend to wear your suit pants half way down your bum at your sister's wedding but it's not impeccable grooming at a flight attendant interview.
And it might be cool to wear you sunnies on your head at the races but at an interview it's not professional.
If you can't spot the difference here or want to know more I state very clearly what presentation is and the grooming standards required for an interview in Video Manual 1 of the AIRLINES Be a Flight Attendant today program for both men and women.
My next point in these flight attendant interview tips is you need to know how to answer interview questions and some of them need rehearsal
Make it easy for your interviewer. When they ask you a question, you answer it. Seems simple yeh? Well from my experience apparently not.
While some monosyllabic or di-syllabic answers are acceptable in a flight attendant interview, they are not the norm for most questions. Appropriate answers to yes no questions might be: - 'Where are you from?' Ceduna SA. Or; 'What year did you leave school?' 1994.
However, most of the questions you will answer in an interview require more detail. And I'm talking about those questions that start with the phrase, Tell me about... or Describe ... or "Can you recall a time when..." questions that will require a full succinct answer.
Now I will present you in these flight attendant interview tips with two formulas that you can follow to make this easy for you. One is the SAO (Situation, Action, Outcome) formula and the other is the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) formula. Both formulas will provide the same result when interpreted as they should be and I favour the SAO formula because it's easy to use and remember and satisfies the result.
Behavioral type questions are favored and are used by the majority of airlines and for that matter just about every HR department that I know of because they are based on the premise that past behavior predicts future behavior.
I might add that I have strong issues with this because it suggests people can't change, however, let's build a bridge on this for now and accept that you will be faced with predominately behavioral type questions.
This being the case you'll want to practice the formula for answering these type of questions. Notice I didn't say in my flight attendant interview tips: remember and commit to memory answers to a long list of Interview questions like so many other flight attendant sites suggest you do. Can you imagine, what if you get asked a question that you have not memorized? Plus do you think you would appear calm, relaxed, and genuine when reciting an interview question. I think not!
So what do you do?
Here's my flight attendant interview tips on this one
Certainly prepare and have a bank of personal experiences to draw from and develop a few anecdotes about different work events in your life. Then, when asked a behavior work or personal related question you'll have one or two in mind. Then simply answer following the SAO formula and you'll cover the answer to their behavioral type question satisfactorily.
With a bit of preparation you'll avoid some of the most common errors like fishing for your answer, taking too long to get to the point or not having a point to get to, filling your answer with irrelevant detail or not concluding your answer.
An ounce of preparation will pay great dividends so imagine some behavioral type questions that are centered around the Flight attendant description that relates to you personally and try answering the question following the SAO formula.
It will build on your own confidence, avoid the pre-interview nerves and will free up your head-space to be 'you' in the interview. You will remove yourself from having to worry about superfluous 'stuff' and be able to look the interviewer in the eye and give a natural and complete answer as if they were a family friend.
Such questions might be:
Tell me a time when you had a run-in with a co-worker and what did you do about it?
At some stage in your past you would have had a difficult customer or situation. What happened and how do you deal with it.
Tell me about a time that you have done something in your workplace to improve a situation that was extra to your responsibilities.
We all have areas in our work life that we want to improve on. What have you identified and what have you done about it?
Once you've practiced writing answers for a few of these, the SAO or STAR formula will start to be second nature to you. And that's so much better than rehearsing answers because there will always be a question you haven't covered.
Rest easy because SAO will save your day.
Here is one such example of a question being asked with an appropriate SAO answer.
Many jobs have interruptions and changes to daily operations. Can you tell us of a time when this has happened to you recently and how did you feel? How did you deal with this situation and what was the outcome?
Forecast rough weather for a flight particularly around about the time of hot beverage service.
Advised passengers that the cabin service would be adjusted slightly in that hot drinks would not be served due to possible risk of spillage that the rough weather may cause saving anybody from and hot coffee burns. However cool drinks would still be served.
Appreciative passengers because they felt they were appropriately informed and more than happy with the cold beverage service as judged by the many comments made to me on disembarkation.
Selection Rating =>
You'll find more on SAO and how to answer any interview question perfectly in the AIRLINES Be a Flight Attendant today program - particularly Video Manual 3.
You'll also find many other flight attendant interview tips and hints but here's my seventh tip for you.
Always remember that you will be observed at all times! From the moment you walk into the hotel, interview room or where ever the interviews are being held even when you are not being interviewed. Yes, eyes are watching and funnily enough you may never know who is or was watching you.
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In the mid-1940s, one shining star among the constellation of contemporary crooners burned a hole through teenage girls' ears and right into their young hearts. Frank Sinatra's smooth vocal cords could set off riots in those days, and when he played at New York's Paramount Theater in October 1944, hundreds of police officers had to quell the 30,000 ravenous teen fans waiting to hear "The Voice" [source: The Paley Center]. The girls going gaga over Frankie were collectively called "bobby-soxers" in reference to the white, folded-over ankle socks they wore. Although stereotyped in contemporary media as vapid fangirls, bobby-soxers set the tone for American teenage culture, complete with celebrity-worship, trend conformity and detachment from adults.
The September 1944 launch of Seventeen magazine served as official recognition that teenage girls had became their own consumer group -- and a valuable one at that. World War II industrial production had reinvigorated the U.S. economy, shaking loose the cobwebs of the Great Depression and putting more money in everyone's pockets. Teenagers benefited from the boom as well, receiving allowances that they spent at the movies, in soda shops and going to concerts to see their favorite bandleaders and singers of the day. Recognizing the spending and trend-setting power that this newly recognized group wielded, Seventeen magazine and its advertisers set out to simultaneously understand this fledgling demographic and mold its tastes.
Shirley Temple served as a great example when she starred as the consummate bobby-soxer in the 1947 hit "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer." Outfitted in bobby socks, saddle shoes and poodle skirts and spitting out slang of the time, such as "jeepers," Temple epitomized the headstrong adolescence of mid-century teenagers. Swooning for leading man Cary Grant as passionately and fervently as a 15-year-old girl at the Paramount Theater might have reacted to Sinatra, Temple's role offers a slightly satirized view of the upper middle class world of the bobby-soxer, who had money in her pocket to spend where she pleased and new advertising and mass media chaperones to oversee her developing consumer choices. For as much as the history of bobby-soxers is about the lives of teen girls in World War II-era America, it's also a story of how popular culture and advertising permeated that peer group for the first time.
Frank Sinatra and Bobby-soxers
The 1940s music that floated through the airwaves and into the minds of teenage bobby-soxers was that of big bands, such as the Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras. It was also the era of the heartthrob male crooners, who often transitioned from the stage to the screen, where fans could see their crushes in action. Bing Crosby, Mickey Rooney and Van Johnson were a few of these leading "croon cats," but they paled in comparison to the king of the crooners, "The Voice" himself: Frank Sinatra [source: Fitzpatrick]. Sinatra started out with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, then left to pursue a solo career. By 1943, Sinatra had become the apple of seemingly every bobby-soxer's eye, singing to a swooning crowd of 10,000 at the Hollywood Bowl [source: Kidder and Oppenheim]. Not surprisingly, in 1944 -- the year of his riot-inducing Paramount Theater performances -- the official Bobby Soxers of America organization voted Frankie their "Man of the Year" [source: Woloch].
Predecessors to the hoards of screaming, fainting Beatles fans that would fill concert halls and stadiums a generation later, bobby-soxers became known for swooning over Frank Sinatra and other male celebrities. Swooning was a public display of infatuation that involved girls groaning and dramatically flailing their arms before placing their hands on their foreheads or cheeks and ultimately falling to the ground, overwhelmed. One former bobby-soxer recalled to the Paley Center for Media how she and her friends used to kick off their saddle shoes, play Sinatra records and "practice swooning" [source: Paley Center]. Fan clubs, celebrity magazines and movies fueled bobby-soxers' obsessive crushes -- not to mention record album and concert ticket sales.
Some fretful adults interpreted bobby-soxers' hysteria over Frank Sinatra as a sign of burgeoning sexuality and were concerned at the lusty sentiments young girls expressed for the bowtie-wearing troubadour. Psychologists warned parents about the hypnotic power of Sinatra's voice that apparently compelled one extreme fan to attend 56 straight performances over an eight-day period [source: The Guardian]. Fortunately, Sinatra's married status kept him enough at arm's length that the teenage swooning wasn't seen as a direct threat to his bobby-soxer fans' innocence [source: Paley Center].
As Sinatra's bobby-soxer fan base aged, his immense popularity waned, but didn't disappear. And just as the bobby-soxers established a long-lasting career for one the best-known stars in American popular culture, the trends they followed and items they bought along the way affirmed the collective power of the teenage consumer market.
Bobby-soxer Fashion
A gang of bobby-soxer pals would certainly be easy to spot at a soda shop or movie theater because of their uniform-like outfits that revolved, of course, around ankle socks, which replaced stockings when nylon became necessary for producing World War II supplies [source: Peterson and Kellogg]. Typically, bobby-soxers would wear their ankle socks with saddle shoes, penny loafers or ballet-style slippers. A Shetland sweater with cuffed blue jeans or a poodle skirt, along with a trendy identification bracelet bearing a girl's name or initials, completed the classic bobby-soxer ensemble [source: source: Woloch].
Fashion conformity was a cornerstone of bobby-soxer culture, because unlike preceding generations, these teen girls were fixated on fitting in. LIFE magazine reported on this facet of the bobby-soxer mindset in the early 1940s, observing that "the microcosm of their gang is everything" [source: Woloch]. That adolescent angst over their appearance makes sense, considering that they were interacting every day in school more than ever before. In 1900, only 11 percent of teenagers in the United States attended high schools, whereas almost 80 percent of them were doing so by 1940 [source: Inness]. In addition to allowances doled out by parents, teen girls funded their wardrobes and extracurricular outings with pocket money earned from babysitting, a grassroots industry that would only pick up after the baby boom began in 1944 [source: Forman-Brunell].
Although most bobby-soxers weren't working full-time, their disposable incomes didn't escape the attention of advertisers and popular media. Leading the pack of teen taste-makers, Seventeen magazine served as the bobby-soxers' how-to manual for clothing, cosmetics and hairstyles [source: Inness]. And in a landmark effort to understand the consumer wants and needs of the average bobby-soxer, Estelle Ellis, who headed marketing research for Seventeen magazine at its inception, surveyed teen girls around the country in 1945 about their spending habits, interests, education and aspirations. That "Life with Teena" survey (named as a wordplay on "teenager") revealed, among other things, that these girls spent a bulk of their baby sitting profits and allowances on movies, candy, soda, lunch and entertainment [source: Smithsonian Institution].
Thanks to the launch of Seventeen magazine and its interest in what appealed bobby-soxers, marketing and popular media directed toward teens only continued to grow. Though bobby-soxer fashion faded away in the 1950s, along with that collective crush on Frank Sinatra, a new teen market had been born.
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Repeat Bookings Percentage
Repeat Bookings percentage is a Customer Engagement metric, which measures the proportion of customers who use your service more than once during a designated time period. A high percentage indicates strong customer loyalty and quality of service, whilst a low percentage may indicate flaws in the level of service which is being provided or an inability to suitably engage Customers with subsequent promotions.
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Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest and most photographed hot springs in Yellowstone. It can be viewed at ground-level from the Midway Geyser Basin Trail or viewed from above from the Grand Prismatic Spring Overlook Trail starting at Fairy Falls Trailhead.
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