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You want a really hard puzzle? You want a puzzle to really stump the person who can do them all? This is it... a list of all our most challenging puzzles here.
Mr Puzzle sells some of the hardest puzzles in the world. Some of those the really hard puzzles are made here in our own workshop and are not available anywhere else in the world.
We consider a hard puzzle to be a puzzle that will take some hours to do and memorise. We don't consider a puzzle mastered until you can show someone that you can do it without them getting bored half way through the performance. We do not consider the use of the solution as 'doing' the puzzle. These very difficult puzzles may be a challenge but being difficult to us doesn't have to mean just more pieces...
Fallingwater Burr complex interlocking burrThe 6 clear interlocked pieces of this burr add another element of dif...$31.82
Hip Flask brass sequential discovery puzzleNew Puzzle COMING SOON Information updated 22nd January 2020...$363.64
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Titan heavy brass take apart puzzleStock Update 22nd January 2020 with information from Felix Ure. More T...$231.82
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Tricky Dick very hard wood and rope puzzleThis is the hardest rope puzzle around. The object is to remove the ri...$11.36
Danlock - the amazing puzzle lock by Dan FeldmanThis puzzle padlock is considered a classic among puzzle collectors. T...$290.91
Set of 3 wooden multiple move interlocking puzzles - all differentDiscounted set of 3 different complex wooden pack in wooden box puzzle...$27.27
Indent interlocking packing puzzle in a boxA very high level 3D interlocking packing puzzle. Taking them out will...$12.73
Answer Box aka X Box multi step puzzle boxThe Answer Box (aka the X Box - X for eXtreme puzzling!) is a very af...$35.00
Rollercoaster interlocking and dexterity and packing puzzle in one!Rollercoaster interlocking and dexterity and packing puzzle in one! Yo...$27.27
It's always difficult to give advice about what's a hard puzzled and what's not. Everyone, every puzzler, is different! Some puzzlers really like Rubik's cube type twisty puzzles, they might even be into speedcubing! and yet they can't separate two pieces of a Hanayama puzzle that we might have given a rating of 5/10. They just don't have any interest in doing it, or in that type of puzzle.
But we've been brave and tried to put some sort of relative rating on most puzzles. Our difficulty rating system is explained here.
Brian says by way of explanation "I remember many years ago the first time I did a basic 6 piece burr from a disassembled state and it took me a little under a couple of hours to solve, understand and be able to do at will. This has become my benchmark and I call it 7/10. Fluking it and not being able to repeat does not count. I grade puzzles up and down from that." Maybe not the most scientific way of arranging puzzles by difficult but we've not found any other system that is more accurate yet.
We've brought together puzzles from our Difficulty Ratings of 8 to 10 (out of 10). The page is intended as a general guide only and puzzles are not listed in order of difficulty, they are mostly grouped together by type and maker, but you can filter by difficulty rating.
If the puzzler always seems to be able to solve any puzzle at will within minutes then you may want to give them puzzles that are very difficult. Yes. You want to give the person a challenge. But remember you don't want to discourage them right away by buying a puzzle they'll never have a chance of doing. So if you're buying your first puzzle, or a first puzzle for someone else, perhaps this is not the page to start.
And don't discard the easiest puzzles either. You can get just as much of that "Ah-Ha!" feeling from doing them too!
Here at Mr Puzzle we've made many of the hardest puzzles ourselves. Brian is well known for his amazing Limited Edition puzzles, particularly his sequential discovery puzzles and the current offering of the SMS Box is no exception. He thinks it's definitely the hardest puzzle he's ever made and so do many of the puzzlers who bought it.
But also represented on the Very Difficult Puzzles category are puzzle makers from other puzzle categories. There are very high level burrs by Bill Cutler, Junichi Yananose and Frans de Vreugd.
Traditional puzzles get a mention on the very difficult puzzle page too. What could be harder than working out all the moves to remove the looped handle from the rings? We've been playing with it since the second century and not many of us have mastered it yet.
And a puzzle definitely does not have to be cost a lot to be difficult. Mr Puzzle's own Tricky Dick is a good example of a puzzle for under $20 that is diabolically hard for the price. There's even a $12.50 wooden honeycomb puzzle on there that's crazy difficult!
Don't forget though. Even if you can never do the puzzle it doesn't mean it's faulty. Just that you can't do it. And most of our puzzles come with solutions so that if all else fails you can take a peak and get a hint, or go all out and solve it with the solution. There are a few notable exceptions where some puzzle makers like Wil Strijbos are philosophically opposed to providing a solution with his puzzles. And he certainly does make brilliant if challenging puzzles. But, of course, that's his prerogative. Where no solution is provided with a puzzle we will always tell you that on the webpage.


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note to audited financial statements.
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Administrative Rule 38 - JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATTORNEY STANDARDS
Effective Date: 12/16/2009
Section 1. Policy and Purpose.
It is the policy of the North Dakota Judicial System to provide a mechanism that satisfies the constitutional obligation of the Supreme Court to adopt rules governing lawyer discipline and that encourages an active and substantial involvement of the unified bar in reviewing issues concerning the professional stature and obligations of the legal profession in North Dakota. The Joint Committee on Attorney Standards established by this rule replaces the previously existing Attorney Standards Committees of the Supreme Court and the State Bar Association. The purpose of the Joint Committee is to provide a single vehicle for the coordinated, complementary, and continuing study and review of the range of issues concerning attorney standards and supervision.
Section 2. Membership.
A. The membership of the Joint Attorney Standards Committee is composed of seven members, including two lay members, appointed by the Chief Justice after consultation with the Supreme Court and seven members, including two lay members, appointed by the Board of Governors of the State Bar Association of North Dakota. Of the members initially appointed and as determined by lot at the first meeting, four members will be appointed for one year, five members will be appointed for two years, and five members will be appointed for three years. Thereafter, each appointment is for a three-year term. Each member is eligible for reappointment but may not serve more than three consecutive terms. Each member serves until the member's successor is appointed.
B. Each member is entitled to reimbursement by the member's appointing authority for actual expenses incurred in the performance of committee duties.
C. The President of the State Bar Association shall appoint the committee chair, whose term as chair may not exceed two years.
Section 3. Duties of the Committee.
A. The Committee shall study and review all rules and proposals concerning attorney supervision including:
1. Admission to the Bar;
2. Attorney Discipline;
3. Code of Professional Responsibility;
4. Student Practice; and
5. Other matters of attorney supervision referred to it by the Supreme Court or the Board of Governors of the State Bar Association.
B. The Committee shall make any reports as requested by the Supreme Court or the Board of Governors and shall submit any recommendations to the Board of Governors for review and comment before submission of final recommendations to the Supreme Court.
Section 4. Staffing.
Staff services for the Committee will be provided through staff of the Office of State Court Administrator and by the executive director of the State Bar Association, or the executive director's designee.
SOURCE: AR 38 adopted on an emergency basis September 7, 1994; permanently adopted November 16, 1994; amended and adopted December 16, 2009.


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Derek Young has kindly ported the first Java implementation of our ray tracer language comparison to two alternative languages that both also target the JVM.
Interestingly, the Scala translation is not only shorter than the equivalent Java but also slightly faster. The same correlation is seen on .NET, where F# is often slightly faster than C# because it can perform valuable high-level optimizations not exposed by lower-level languages like C#, e.g. optimizing pattern matches.
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Justin Bieber + Austin Mahone Make Music Together [PHOTO]
Beliebers and Mahomies are about to go nuclear.
Justin Bieber Instagrammed a photo of himself and his heir apparent Austin Mahone, who turns 18 this Friday (April 4), in the studio. Were the two formerly swoopy bang-sporting teen pop sensations making beautiful music together?
It sure looks like it.
The duo posed with two other dudes in the studio and The Biebs captioned the snap "New music #YMCMB." Mahone, who has yet to have a real mainstream breakthrough track but has still cultivated a diehard legion of fanatics, is signed to the Cash Money label and therein lies the #YMCMB association.
So yeah, Biebs pretty much confirmed that some music was made and some work was done.
There's no telling if the song will end up on a future Bieber or Mahone release, or if they are featuring on someone else's track or if they were just messing around, since, well, boys will be boys. But do we really need to concern ourselves with such nominal details at this point? No, we don't! We just want to hear the fruits of this labor eventually.
Beliebers and Mahomies, get a look at the pic of the well-coiffed twosome below. Try not to let your heads explode or let deafening screams tumble from your mouths once you take it all in. We get that it's almost too much to handle, but why not just enjoy it?


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Ghani hints at downsizing in MoE after bad show
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani has said some major steps, including downsizing, are needed in the Ministry of Education to improve management, quality of work and education.
Currently, the MoE employs 60 percent of the country's entire civil servants but remains hard hit by corruption and resultant low quality of education in the country.
"We need to take some major steps to improve the MoE," the president was quoted as saying in a statement from the Presidential Place.
"And the target is to improve the quality of education. For this purpose, there is need to work on different models to improve the quality of education," said Ghani.
He added the current structure of MoE was not affordable to go with and there was need for more specification of duties and responsibilities, asking for the help of Central Statistic Organization (CSO) and the Telecommunication and Technology Ministry's help to identify the exact number of teachers and available resources.
Councils created under the Citizens Covenant Program could also help the MoE in its reforms process, the president said.
Showing disappointment over the MoE performance, the president said: "Despite a massive number of employees, the MoE is still unable to proper administer its affairs and needs downsizing to ensure proper management," he said.
He said the MoE should work on education system from grade first to 12th and technical, vocational institutes and teacher training centres should be administered by a separate authority.
Mohammad Ibrahim Shinwari, deputy head of general education, explained programs and strategies of the education ministry to the president and briefed him about immanent reforms at the ministry.
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Here is an updated shot of our Female Bumblebee ball Python. She is being bred this year and I just love her! Hope she goes for us this year! Should be an amazing clutch!
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Fiat Chrysler has reported U.S. sales of 213,187 units in March, an eight percent increase compared with sales in March 2015 (197,261 units), and the group's best March sales in a decade.
Zoolander is the face of new Fiat 500X
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If you are having trouble paying your federal student loans, you may be eligible for programs that will get you lower student loan payments. Under the Income-Based Repayment program (IBR) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE) programs your payments can be as little as $0 per month if you are unemployed.
But not all borrowers are eager to lower their payments. Take our reader "Liz," for example. She writes:
I have significant student debt (started paying 2006, close to $94,000 still outstanding) and I chose the 30-year repayment plan, initially because of the size of the debt and it made payments affordable.
I am currently unemployed and put the loans in unemployment deferment rather than IBR…I thought that if I used IBR and paid nothing that when I went back to the 30-year plan my payments would be a lot higher. The reason why this matters is that I have cancer that will eventually kill me well before my 30 years is up and my priority is to save money for when I have to live on Social Security disability (the cancer has a 12-18 year life span typically). I was under the impression that my monthly payments would remain the same, just extending the loan, if I used the deferment — presuming I made a payment to pay off the capitalized interest since about $36,000 or so of this loan is unsubsidized loans.
Of course getting reliable information out of the servicers can be iffy at best (call more than once and the odds are you will get a different answer).
What is my best choice if my goal is to have the lowest monthly payments so that I can save more money now? I will need that money when I am sicker with this cancer as Social Security disability pays out, in my case, less than $1,000/mo which is not enough to live (I do know I can then apply to have the loans written off due to total disability).
Getting Lower Student Loan Payments
By avoiding IBR, Liz may be missing out, according to student loan lawyer Joshua Cohen. He says:
"Income-based repayment is always the way to go here. IBR will always be lower than the 30-year extended payment, especially with a high balance and low income. If the borrower is sick and can't work, income is $0, the payment under IBR is $0.
For this particular borrower, her income would have to be over $103,000 a year to no longer qualify for IBR. The 30-year extended payment plan on this balance is approximately $650. The amount of income required for an IBR payment higher than the extended plan is still close to $70,000.
The point is the borrower can't avoid the payment now and she will not likely ever be able to afford to, not with cancer. And deferments don't last forever. The maximum amount of time you can take an unemployment deferment is three years. With IBR, if the borrower remains unemployed for longer than that, her payments can still remain at $0.
She can get on IBR and if she lives another 25 years, any remaining balance will be forgiven. If, however, the cancer gets to the point that she can't work, she'll qualify for the permanent and total disability discharge."
Another fear that keeps some borrowers from obtaining lower student loan payments is that doing so will affect their credit scores. However, deferment, forbearance and IBR do not in and of themselves hurt borrower's credit scores.
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Experience an astounding level of realism with this collectible So Truly Real® newborn baby girl doll! Echoing the heavenly beauty of a real live newborn, this breathtaking collectible lifelike baby doll is a marvel, from her exquisite face to her delicate wisps of hair, her supple fingers, and even her tiny, wrinkled feet. Still slightly flushed from the miracle of birth, she snuggles happily in your arms and waits for you to give her a name. Then all you have to do is - cherish her!
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- Arrives dressed in a footed sleeper with a matching cap sprinkled with touches of floral embroidery
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Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Watertown, MA – February 12, 2013 – Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering.
Barclays and BMO Capital Markets are acting as joint book-running managers. Stifel, JMP Securities and Needham & Company are acting as co-managers for the offering. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from: Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, by calling (888) 603-5847, or by emailing [email protected]
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Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company utilizing its breakthrough synthetic chemistry technology platform to discover and develop next-generation tetracycline antibiotics that address unmet needs such as the treatment of serious drug-resistant and gram-negative infections. The company has developed an emerging pipeline of potent novel antibiotics that provide a portfolio of intravenous and oral drug candidates with the potential to treat a wide range of infections, including broad-spectrum and selective-spectrum infections. To learn more about Tetraphase, please visit www.tphase.com.
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Hiii all,
I'm new in using Regular Expression in Java.
For example, I have String s like this:
String s = "Why John Smith and Alan Smith and Nick Gates are the same?"
How can I get sub-strings as "John Smith", "Alan Smith", "Nick Gates" - (names of people - with first upper character) from s by using regex?
I try to use regex in Java, but It totally doesn't work.
This is my code:
String EXAMPLE_TEST = "Why John Smith and Alan Smith and Nick Gates are the same?"; System.out.println(EXAMPLE_TEST.matches("([A-Z]&&[a-z])")); String[] splitString = (EXAMPLE_TEST.split("([A-Z]&&[a-z])")); System.out.println(splitString.length); for (String string : splitString) { System.out.println(string); }
Please help me to have exact "regex" in this case.
Thanks all in advance!


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Heartbleed-Weary Tech Firms Show OpenSSL a Little Love
May 30, 2014 2:29 PM PT
Remember Heartbleed? Several weeks ago, the exposure of this security bug chilled the Internet, highlighting once again that even the seemingly unbreakable can be hacked. In the case of the Heartbleed vulnerability, encrypted data was at risk of theft.
Sites potentially vulnerable to Heartbleed urged users to change their passwords. They ranged from Canada's Revenue Agency to Amazon Web Services to Yahoo to Reddit.
Although angst waned following the launch of a massive initiative to patch the vulnerabilities that could permit malware attacks, Heartbleed has emerged from its bunker.
Hello Cupid
Luis Grangeia, security services manager at SysValue, this week identified a new attack vector that opens wireless routers and Android devices to infiltration. In this case, the attack is carried out via WiFi, targeting both the client and the server.
The vector, called "Cupid," is a new twist on Heartbleed. Previously it was believed Heartbleed could be exploited only over TCP connections or after the TCP handshake, Grangeia noted. Cupid essentially killed those "sacred cows."
Another lesson learned from Cupid, Grangeia said, is that "openSSL sucks."
OpenSSL Sucks
The tech industry may be inclined to agree, albeit in less blunt language, but there's an effort under way to improve OpenSSL.
The Core Infrastructure Initiative, a group of tech companies gathered together by The Linux Foundation in response to Heartbleed, this week announced funding for several open source projects to shore up security.
The group has prioritized Network Time Protocol, OpenSSH and OpenSSL for the first round of funding, with OpenSSL slated to receive funds for two full-time core developers.
Companies participating in the initiative include Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Rackspace, Salesforce.com and VMware.
Too Little, Too Late?
How much this initiative will help matters remains to be seen.
"There's little doubt that additional support for OpenSSL will improve the situation, but it's hard to know whether it's too little, too late," Tim Erlin, director of IT security and risk strategy at Tripwire, told LinuxInsider.
"Additional support only improves the code going forward -- it doesn't magically patch deployed instances of the cryptography library," he continued. "This means consumer safety still depends on continued mitigation and patching efforts."
In fact, the risk from Heartbleed is still high despite the efforts of the security industry over the last month, said Lamar Bailey, director of security research at Tripwire.
"It often takes organizations a long time up apply patches because of testing and change control limitations," he told LinuxInsider. "Unfortunately for consumers, these long patch cycles mean that successful Heartbleed attacks will keep taking place for months, and perhaps even for years."
The next big Heartbleed-style attack is nearly impossible to predict, said Andrew Avanessian, VP of global professional services at Avecto.
For that reason, "IT must take a proactive stance to security in order to reduce an organization's exposure to the next attack," he told LinuxInsider.
"Defense-in-depth security strategies should include both reactive and proactive measures, including regular patching and removing elevating privileges from all users," Avanessian suggested.
"This would ensure that if an attacker managed to gain access to a user's credentials via a Heartbleed-style bug, they would be limited in the damage they could cause," he explained.
"After all diligent remediation steps have been taken, Heartbleed remains a waiting game," observed Paul Martini, CEO of Iboss Network Security.
"Having users change their passwords was a good idea, as was changing certificates," he told LinuxInsider. "However, as we have discovered, there are no foolproof methods."


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People often identify as cruisers, or non-cruisers: those who love to island hop and those who decidedly do not. But with an expanding variety of journeys as well as destinations, even the skeptical are likely to find something here that will pique their interest. Adventure-oriented travelers can sail up Alaska's Inner Passage in search of glaciers and bears. Science buffs can hop aboard vessels headed for the Galapagos or Antarctica, often with a few experts in tow. Culture mavens can cruise up and down Europe's great rivers (the Danube and Rhine, in particular), with frequent stops for art, architecture, and food. And of course devotees of the classic Caribbean cruise can find an ever wider variety of options. From the traditional family friendly lines to the smaller, more specialized cruises, Travel + Leisure can help you navigate these busy waters.
Luxury cruises aren't hard to find, but the most expensive packages, these days, are all-inclusive. Though every cruise includes something along with the basic fare, this new brand of all-inclusive luxury often incorporates business-class flights to and from the port-of-origin, five-star hotel rooms before embarking and after disembarking, premium wine and spirits, on-board entertainment and classes, and off-board activities. For the truly luxe, some cruises offer butler service in their most high-end suites.
As with almost any travel decision, the best cruise is always the cruise that is best for you. Would you prefer to sail up Norway's fjords or to ply the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean? Is your family interested in a themed cruise frequented by Disney characters, or do you and your partner want an intimate, romantic river trip? Would you rather pack a tux or a sturdy pair of hiking books? For cruisers, the options may seem endless. End where you started, or somewhere entirely new? Pay now, or along the way? Grab dinner at the buffet, or tuck in for a multi-course, white-tablecloth feast? With the latest news and reviews from T+L, find what fits you best.


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When Ricky Shetty, a frequent traveler and blogger, gets on an airplane, he usually brings a small container of hand sanitizer with him, as well as baby wipes to clean
When Ricky Shetty, a frequent traveler and blogger, gets on an airplane, he usually brings a small container of hand sanitizer with him, as well as baby wipes to clean tray tables. He also avoids touching anything in the lavatory, even using a paper towel to open the door if necessary.
Shetty is one of many travelers who treat �airplanes as if they were cesspools for germs and douse themselves and their seating area in antibacterial goop before settling in for a flight. Doctors and infectious diseases experts say �such �precautions can reduce exposure to harmful microbes, but it's important to remember that the world itself is awash in germs, so there's no way to eliminate exposure entirely.
Travelers �have a legitimate reason to be careful, says Leslie Greenberg, a medical blogger, family physician, and associate professor of family and community medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. 'There are many types of travel-associated infections, and some can be life-threatening,' she says.
To minimize risk, Greenberg recommends �cleaning your hands before eating, after using the lavatory �and before touching your face. She also suggests reviewing your vaccinations to make sure they are up to date, especially if you are traveling abroad. Travelers should consider getting vaccinated against the flu, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumonia, she says.
Annie Ray, a family medicine physician and medical blogger, says the most effective way to protect yourself from germs is to avoid direct exposure. 'That's from the things you touch and the germs from the people next to you,' she says. She recommends wiping down your seatbelt, tray table, and armrests with disinfecting wipes as soon as you sit down.
'Most contagious germs have about a 6-foot radius of spread,' Ray says. She recommends that travelers worried about germs wear a travel scarf to cover �their �nose and mouth �if the person next to �them is sneezing and coughing. She also says it's helpful to keep the air vent open above you to help circulate the air away from you.Be realistic
To some travelers, though, that advice is counterintuitive. 'I always close the air vent above my seat. The thought of recirculated aircraft air blowing on my face is not pleasant,' says Mike Belobradic, a luxury travel blogger.
Belobradic says he �reduces his exposure to germs �by trying to book the first flight out in the morning. 'The cleanest that any aircraft is likely to be, other than its maiden voyage, is when it's been resting overnight at an airport and the cleaning crew has had time to do a proper cleaning,' he says. According to the World Health Organization's Guide to Hygiene and Sanitation in Aviation, the guidance for overnight aircraft cleaning is more extensive than what typically takes place between daytime flights.
To some extent, travelers have no choice but to accept �the risk of coming into contact with germs. When Amesh Adalja, an infectious diseases doctor and spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, travels on an airplane, he doesn't take any special precautions. 'We live on a planet dominated by germs. It's unavoidable,' he says. Even so, he recommends some everyday measures to �reduce the risk of infection, and notes that because planes �carry people from all over the world, the germs aboard them may be something your immune system has never encountered.
Like Greenberg, Adalja says the easiest way to protect yourself is to wash your hands frequently, especially after touching a surface that many people have touched. In general, though, he says people tend to �be overly concerned with cleanliness. 'If something is visibly soiled, it doesn't hurt to clean it, but there is very little benefit,' he says. And while wearing a mask might protect you against airborne germs, Adalja says it only works if you wear it the entire time, which might be impossible if you want to eat, drink, or even talk.The kids will be OK
Even travelers with small children �can take it easy with �the hand sanitizer, Adalja says. 'Babies are very resilient. If a binky fell in the toilet, don't put it back in their mouth, but for the most part, there is no such thing as the 'five-second rule,'' he says, referring to �folk belief that an item that falls to the floor will be less dirty or contaminated if you pick it up quickly.
The same bacteria �on the floor of the plane are already in the air, he says, so there's no reason to worry too much when babies put toys back in their mouths after they've hit the floor. In fact, he says, babies raised in more sterile environments are more likely to suffer from allergies and autoimmune diseases later on.
As for Adalja's own travel habits, he takes action to avoid germs only if someone vomits or coughs near him. 'If I get visibly soiled, I might wash my hands,' he says. Otherwise, he just accepts that, like the planet we live on, airplanes are filled with unavoidable germs.
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THE world of sport provides plenty of examples of champions in one discipline who switched to another sport. In motor sport, the change from two wheels to four might look straightforward, but history proves it is not.
Casey Stoner is the latest Australian Grand Prix motorcycle champion (following in the tyre marks of Wayne Gardner) to make the jump.
Stoner will begin his new career in Adelaide when he climbs into his Red Bull Racing V8 Supercar on Thursday for his first practice laps in the Dunlop Series, the second tier championship for up-and-coming V8 racers.
The 27-year-old stunned the bike world when he announced last year that he would quit the MotoGP championship. He was, it was said, disillusioned with the constant travel, fed up with the goldfish bowl world he was forced to live in and tired of the demands on his time.
On Wednesday, as he unveiled his new ride in a press call in Adelaide, Stoner seemed relaxed, happy and genuinely excited at this new chapter in his life, admitting he felt a bit nervous and had no idea of how things might develop when he gets out on the tricky, wall-lined Adelaide street circuit for the first time.
Stoner had planned to take more time out, but when an offer came from the Triple Eight Racing Team he felt it was too good to say no, especially as he knew he wanted to come back to the sport at some time.
The skills he learnt and the experience he had on two wheels will not, he suggests, be all that applicable to his new career. Riding a GP motorbike is a sensory experience requiring bravery, balance and skill. Car racing requires the same elements, but in a different way.
''On a bike you could feel someone coming up the inside of you. We are pushing such a rate of air and if your air is disturbed behind you, you can tell because you almost get sucked back. You can feel them, even if they are not in your vision, because you can feel your leg out being pushed by the air. In a car I am surrounded.''
In fact, he says, there is little that is directly transferable.
''I suppose my understanding of grip, that's about it. With these cars there's only a certain amount of grip you can get, with the bike you can change position slightly and do more to get more grip. Much of it is your brake control, your turn through a corner. Those are the things I am going to be behind everyone else.''
Not many choose to go out at the top as Stoner did. But he is delighted with his move.
It is no secret that he had frosty relationships with the media and it often seemed as though he was ill at ease with the Euro-centric world in which he lived.
''I am a private person, I like just having friends and not having people stare at me … a lot of people don't understand that and I cop a lot of flak for it, but it's a decision I made.''
With maturity he has changed, at least a little. But he stresses that first and foremost he is a competitor. Everything else is secondary – including wealth and celebrity.
''I am a race-car driver now. I am blatantly not in it for the money, and people need to understand that. I am not in it for the fame and fortune and what comes with it. I was never that interested in it.''
He knows that the V8 challenge is different, but he is not, at least initially, expecting cars to give him the same high as bikes once did.
''Most people who grew up doing both would normally choose bikes anyway. They give you more of a thrill. They are more dangerous, more scary, for the weight they are more powerful. They are a machine, a beast. I think when you are growing up and you can do both well, people tend to choose the bike route because of that feeling it gives them.
''I will still be riding my bikes, I will go out on track days. I have got a 1000cc from Honda now and I will get out on as many track days as I can just to have fun.
"I might even enjoy it more … rather than be under pressure.''
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Opinion: Tea Party Dissects GOP Autopsy
Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips on what he thinks of the RNC's autopsy. Photos: Getty Images
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Samsung Champ C3300 is not an ordinary full touchscreen feature phone, because it actually comes with a rather small 2.4-inch resistive display. Designed with younger users in mind, the Samsung Champ will come in several color solutions, including deep black, espresso brown, sweet pink and chic white. On the features side, in addition to the 2.4" touch-sensitive screen with resolution of 240x320 pixels, the Samsung Champ also sports a 1.3-megapixel camera, 3.5mm jack, Bluetooth 2.1, microSD memory expansion and the TouchWiz Lite user interface with multiple home screen pages.


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At this point, in theory, we are ready to start everything up. All of the services we will need running are:
Additionally, we need to make sure that ip forwarding is enabled in the kernel.
To turn on IP forwarding use the sysctl facility:
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
To have it turned on at bootup append the following text to
NetBSD's default rc settings are all kept in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf. To make upgrades safer,
override settings in
/etc/rc.conf instead of
Basically, we can yank the contents of
/etc/defaults/rc.conf and drop them right into
# cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf >>/etc/rc.conf # vi /etc/rc.conf
Note the double ">" here to avoid overwriting the contents of /etc/rc.conf as shipped! Here is what /etc/rc.conf would look like after editing:
# # see rc.conf(5) for more information. # # Use program=YES to enable program, NO to disable it. program_flags are # passed to the program on the command line. # # Load the defaults in from /etc/defaults/rc.conf (if it's readable). # These can be overridden below. # if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then . /etc/defaults/rc.conf fi # If this is not set to YES, the system will drop into single-user mode. # rc_configured=YES # Add local overrides below # ipfilter=YES ipnat=YES ipmon=YES ipmon_flags="-sn" sshd=YES
On i386 (PC) systems you will also see the wscons framework enabled:
Next we have to activate the services, we can do this one of two ways:
reboot the system
start using the rc scripts by hand
I prefer doing the latter first just to make sure everything is setup right, then I do a reboot to make sure all of the services will start up properly during the bootup sequence.
To start any service it is quite simple:
# /etc/rc.d/[service_name] start
Additionally, a service may be stopped:
# /etc/rc.d/[service_name] stop
or restarted:
# /etc/rc.d/[service_name] restart
So for this firewall, here is the order we need to start the services:
# /etc/rc.d/sshd start # /etc/rc.d/ipfilter start # /etc/rc.d/ipnat start # /etc/rc.d/ipmon start
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Editor's note: Elizabeth B. Wydra is chief counsel for the Constitutional Accountability Center, a public-interest law firm, think tank and action center. She regularly participates in Supreme Court litigation. Follow her on Twitter @ElizabethWydra. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN) -- Don't be fooled. No matter what the conservative majority of the Supreme Court tried to say in its blockbuster decision, the implications of the ruling in Hobby Lobby extend far beyond contraception coverage.
In a sharply divided 5-4 ruling, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled that for-profit corporations can claim a religious exemption to the Affordable Care Act's provision that company group health plans fully cover the full range of FDA-approved contraception. In the related cases of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell, the court took great pains to paint its ruling as limited, noting that "our holding is very specific."
But the ruling is far from narrow. Not only did the court's conservative majority give unprecedented rights to corporations, it did so at the expense of the rights of living, breathing people.
The Hobby Lobby majority's ruling that for-profit corporations can assert claims of religious liberty under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is striking.
The act provides that the government "shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion," and while laws often use the word "person" to refer to both individual human beings and corporate entities, the Dictionary Act -- yes, that's a real thing -- requires words to be read in context. In the context of the "exercise of religion," never in more than 200 years of protections for religious liberty in this country have for-profit corporations been understood to share in rights of religious free exercise.
Throughout our nation's history, corporations have been treated differently than individuals when it comes to fundamental, personal rights of conscience and human dignity.
The guarantee of free exercise of religion has always been viewed as a purely personal liberty, guaranteeing the right of individuals to worship and exercise religion consistent with the dictates of their conscience. It has never been considered a right possessed by secular, for-profit corporations -- until the court's ruling in Hobby Lobby.
The Hobby Lobby majority tries to play off the novelty of its holding by claiming that "protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby" simply "protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies." But the court needn't imbue corporations with religious liberty rights to protect the rights of the individual business owners. Those people already have religious liberty rights.
No one would dispute that the Green and Hahn families who own Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood have their own personal free exercise rights, but those rights are not implicated by the contraception coverage requirement because federal law does not require the individuals who own a company to personally provide health care coverage or to satisfy any other legal obligation of the corporation. The law places requirements only on the corporate entities.
As the court has held in the Fifth Amendment context, when individuals act in their official capacity as corporate agents, they "cannot be said to be exercising their personal rights and duties nor to be entitled to their purely personal privileges."
Instead, "they assume the rights, duties, and privileges of the artificial entity." And until the Hobby Lobby ruling, the "rights" of artificial corporate entities did not include the right to impose the religious beliefs of corporate owners on legions of employees who may have very different religious beliefs.
Because the fact is that corporations are not, with apologies to Mitt Romney, people.
When the Roberts court unleashed corporate cash for campaign spending in Citizens United, it was not merely allowing one more voice in the democratic square -- it gave corporations an unparalleled megaphone. In a similar fashion, conferring free exercise rights on corporations risks upsetting the balance of religious liberty set by the Founders, which protects individuals' freedom to practice religion while prohibiting the establishment of religion.
This ability to impose religious beliefs -- or at least limitations on conduct based on religious beliefs -- on tens of thousands of employees nationwide makes the extension of religious liberty rights to corporations, as opposed to individuals, particularly troubling. As Thomas Jefferson famously said with respect to the protection of Americans' free exercise of religion, "it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
But when your "neighbor" is your corporate employer, its religious claims can take out of your pocket benefits to which you are legally entitled. Your bosses might not be able to get away with breaking your leg under the guise of religious free exercise, but after Hobby Lobby, they might make you pay for it. And a corporation can do so on a much more substantial scale than any individual could in our diverse society, with our rich mosaic of religious faiths.
Writing the principal dissent in Hobby Lobby, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg powerfully explains that the "court's determination that RFRA extends to for-profit corporations is bound to have untoward effects," noting that the ruling could open the door to religious objections to insurance coverage of blood transfusions, antidepressants and vaccinations.
And while the majority goes out of its way to say that laws preventing racial discrimination in the workplace are backed by a sufficiently strong public interest as to overcome religious objection, it makes no such assurance when it comes to laws protecting gay and lesbian employees against discrimination.
The Hobby Lobby majority may claim otherwise, but its ruling is far from narrow -- and its breadth starts with the sweeping and novel recognition that for-profit corporations share in the right to free exercise of religion.
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Scott Steward and Christopher Child Share Top Prizes from NGS and CSG
Boston, MA – May 22, 2012 – The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) announced today that one of its latest Newbury Street Press titles, The Descendants of Judge John Lowell of Newburyport, Massachusetts, by Scott C. Steward and Christopher C. Child, has won top honors from both the National Genealogical Society and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists. The awards were handed out at recent ceremonies hosted by each organization.
The National Genealogical Society (NGS) awarded Christopher C. Child the 2012 "Award for Excellence: Genealogy and Family History Book" on May 11, during the NGS annual conference held this year in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Connecticut Society of Genealogists (CSG) honored both authors with the 2012 "Literary Award, Grand Prize for Genealogy" at its annual luncheon on May 19 in Berlin, Connecticut.
NEHGS Director of Publications and book co-author Scott C. Steward said, "We had hoped to make the Lowell book a model, both as a genealogy and as an example of book production at Newbury Street Press, so having our work recognized by NGS and CSG is doubly rewarding."
The book marks the first full treatment of the Lowell family since an 1899 genealogy written by Delmar R. Lowell. This new book traces descendants of Judge John Lowell (1743-1802) to the present day, and includes famous descendants Francis Cabot Lowell, for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts is named; John Lowell, Jr., founder of the Lowell Institute in Boston; James Russell Lowell, the poet and diplomat; astronomer Percival Lowell; Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell; the poets Amy Lowell and Robert Traill Spence Lowell; architect Guy Lowell; and Isabella Stewart Gardner, art patron and museum founder. The book comprises more than one thousand entries for heads of families. Because of several early cousin marriages, many Lowell descendants have two or even three lines of descent from Judge John Lowell.
This marks the first time that NEHGS has won both a national and a regional award for one of its books. NEHGS publishes a number of titles each year, including genealogies, biographies, and instructional and resource books. NEHGS publishes its genealogies under the Newbury Street Press imprint. Learn more at www.AmericanAncestors.org.
About NEHGS
Founded in 1845, New England Historic Genealogical Society is the country's leading resource for family history research. We help family historians expand their knowledge, skill, and understanding of their family and its place in history. The NEHGS research center, located at 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, houses millions of books, journals, manuscripts, photographs, microfilms, documents, records, and other original artifacts that date back more than four centuries. NEHGS staff includes some of the leading expert genealogists in the country, specializing in early American, Irish, English, Italian, Scottish, Atlantic and French Canadian, African American, Native American, and Jewish genealogy. Our award-winning website, www.AmericanAncestors.org, provides access to more than 135 million searchable names in 3,000 collections.


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Sunday, November 25, 2012
The Way We'll Christmas {and some deals}
Wait, I never wear glitter eyeliner. Though come to think of it, maybe I should.
Sidenote: My brother-in-law very recently guessed my age at 40. Not that there's anything wrong with 40, except that I'm not.
Sidenote 2: We visited our new church for the first time, a church packed to the gills with, uh, dear persons of the golden age. A particular white-haired lady creaked up to me and grabbed me about my shoulders, hugging me as though she'd known me forever, then exclaiming, "You look just like my sister-in-law!" (WHAT????) She paused. "Except she's not as...(wait for it)...tall." Homegirl was at least 72. Maybe her brother has a taste for younger women?
Sidenote 3: Just last week, Ruby gleefully announced, "Mommy, you're almost like a Grandma! Well, you're not one...you just look like one!"
All of that to say, pass the glitter eyeliner.
But this isn't at all why we're here. The Christmas season is rightfully upon us and yes, the Fall banner still hangs sleepy in the window, but give me a few days. I'll hop aboard.
Two years ago we started the tradition of not opening gifts on Christmas day. I love it. It feels right to hold that day aside to feel the full beating of the day's truest heart.
This year, we've decided to do something else: We're loving others as much as we love ourselves. So whatever we spend for us, we'll spend equally for someone in need. "Us" includes family members, friends, teachers. It's anyone who is ordinarily on the list.
We are not big spenders at Christmas, but I do love giving gifts. This year it'll simply be more important than ever to keep an eye on the budget and find some killer deals. I've got my spreadsheet ready and I'm excited to see how it goes. Who knows, it could all be a bust. But I love the idea and I'll be sure to keep you posted.
Tomorrow, there are some pretty amazing bargains happening.
I bring you...the swoonery:
Dayspring : 30% off entire order (including sale items!) using the code 30SUPER all day Monday. I'm quite enamored of this Redeemed wallet. How fun would it be to wrap a gift card up in this?
Lisa Leonard jewelry 25% off all orders. (I'm a sucker for all things nautical. FYI.)
Have you grabbed a fashionABLE scarf yet? Free shipping all day on Monday.
That should get us started, right?
I'm working on a list for Cory. I'm always so bad at coming up with a list, but people, you can't even imagine how rogue Cory goes without a stinking list. It's painful. I'm talking beige Snuggies or nothing but Burt's Bees, like twelve different things, including the big Christmas gift-set. (If you still don't believe me, read this.)
So tell me, do you have a certain way of doing Christmas? Is there a particular tradition you love? Do you find it all as complicated as I do? (I'm on a serious mission to uncomplicate this year.)
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42 comments:
I'm all kinds of messed up... thanks to Jesus and this new group of friends I hang with on Monday nights.ReplyDelete
I'm ready to give it all away, and yet holding on, and yet wanting to give, and yet wanting to hold on.... I'm all kinds of messed up.
Perhaps I just need to make that list you talk of. Stick. to. the. list.
Something I'm horrible at.
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2012 at 10:03 PM
lol. My husband's philosophy is if I love one bottle of scented lotion, I will simply adore five bottles. It's like my years supply. I don't buy lotion; I just wait for Christmas.ReplyDelete
We try to pick a family every Christmas to do something for...sometimes it's money, a gift, a meal...whatever they need and we can do at the time. The kids really get into this and I love it.
This cracked me way up.Delete
i don't feel like decorating one bit (probably because i'm tired and had the flu so i'll take that back soon, maybe). of course i want to celebrate Christmas. heck, i want to celebrate it each day. but we make it so extravagant in this day and age (do i sound like my mom when i say that?? yes). i can't help but think of the manger. so simple. plain. bare bones. but real and glorious. that's what i want our Christmas to be.ReplyDelete
My secret, where Christmas shopping is concerned, is simply this: my husband does it all...every bit of it...including for his own presents. Sometimes I throw out an idea, but then I let him find the deal. He's a shopping genius.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, I'm laughing SO HARD at what this would look like in my house! But seriously...for you and possibly others? Revolutionary! :)Delete
We started a tradition to give no gifts at 'christmas' but to ring the new year in with some gifts for the children (we have 5). I am also having a baby on the 31st. I have next to no capacity to even think of the obligatory gifts that will be expected for my husbands family. It is hard. My heart gets caught between change and the old me. I never know what bits of me to release abd which to hold on to whilst the whole time remembering that, that is not my job in the first place.ReplyDeleteReplies
I like this! We have the cousins exchange names and that's all we do for extended family. Cory and I usually exchange something because it's our only gift and it's kinda fun to have a reason. :) I'm with you though, that tug/pull is always there. Every year, we work through a little more of it. Congrats on the babe!!Delete
well. i love you. and probably will ramble a bit.ReplyDelete
first. people think i am my baby sister's mama.
she's 24. i am 31.
also, we do a similar thing, giving needy what we give ourselves/family. blessings abound! sometimes things get crazy, like the amazing cardigans you save up for and haven't even gotten in your house with, you hear that gentle whisper to march them to the girl you know who would about die for them. and needs them way more than you. and you don't even hug them before you pass them on. that's jesus. not me AT all.
as a little girl, we didn't have a thing. one Christmas we awoke to a living room full of treats, presents, clothes and new bibles. an anonymous family blessed our socks off. now that i am older, i get how much that meant to my parents. not just the gifts, but their kids witnessing nameless folks give so lavishly, when they would never hear a thank you from us. taught me so much about jesus and how to DO giving!!Replies
Hannah! That same thing happened to us when we were kids! We were so, so poor. My husband grew up the same and remembers his church delivering gifts to his house. So thankful for those experiences now. They made our hearts more generous.Delete
Me, three. I'll never forget the brown and orange striped towels that came as part of the Christmas booty. :)Delete
i've simplified gift giving for our kiddos over the years to:ReplyDelete
1) something they want
2) something they need
3) something to wear
4) something to read
stocking gifts are from Santa.
hubby and i often go shopping together to pick something out we'd both enjoy together or just enjoy the luxury of picking something out we would not normally spend money OR we invest in an experience like a live show of some sort.
Well, we adopt a person secretly. We pray about who it should be. We don't pull a name from a tree. Then we pray about what should be in the box. We fill it up full and then drop it off. We wear black and creep up. We ring the doorbell and run like the wind. The note inside tells them that Jesus lives them, that he's the reason. It doesn't breathe a word about who we are. My kids love it and we are surprised every year by the details that God so clearly directs.ReplyDelete
i don't think it's possible you look like a grandmother you gorgeous thing. but i too would like some glitter eyeliner. everyone keeps telling me how tired i look. it's like, "thanks a lot. that makes me feel super duper." :)ReplyDelete
We have lots of little ones in my immediate family, so we do one gift for each kid from the aunts/uncles, and one gift apiece from their grandparents. My sisters and I are going to do a Favorite Things present exchange with each other-we decided on a dollar limit and will buy our favorite thing to share with each other. Can't wait!ReplyDelete
Over the past couple of years I have come to the conclusion that I'd rather not exchange gifts but to use all that money on folks who need it! BUT, I am alone in this. So I struggle to balance blessing the blessed even more and being a total "party pooper". We aren't extravagant, but nonetheless it is too much!ReplyDelete
We do lots for others, but I'd love to do even more!
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2012 at 10:48 PM
I for one am refusing to rush out to get our tree and put it up when the calendar still says November. I find it weird when so many people rush to decorate a month in advance and then rush to take it down on Christmas Day because they are sick of it. Here's a crazy idea for them, don't decorate 6 weeks in advance. Personal Pet Peeve. But I digress...Modern day struggle, how to make it special and nice for your kids while simplifying it too. Sometimes the only time I really feel the spirit,is the hour at church on Christmas morning. That, and looking at the tree lit and having a cup of tea while John Denver is singing "O Holy Night"!!ReplyDelete
We are continually working toward a more Christ centered Christmas each year. It is hard to break the traditions you grew up with. When we told my Mother-in-law that we would not be "doing Santa" with our kids she replied, "Give me a break!" But I am so glad we chose not to do the Santa thing. Things we have done that I love: keep gifts very simple, but still give gifts out of love. Make most of our decorations or find them dirt cheap at thrift stores. Do a Christmas devotional as a family (we have used Ann Voskamp's for the last 2 years). Bake together, go see Christmas lights together, sing LOTS of Christmas songs together, go to our small town Winterfest together, watch Christmas movies together. I wish I could change the extended family, Christmas induced stress. My least favorite question- what do your kids want for Christmas?? Why is that question sooooo stressful?? This year, I am WAY simplifying my need to Martha Stewart bake. I have finally realized it is extremely silly for all of us to be exchanging plates of baked goods. The notable exception to this is the pretzle, chocolate, salted carmel stuff that I blame you for! The new thing we are doing this year that I am super excited about: we are making a random acts of kindness advent calendar jar and will chose a different random act of kindness to complete every day till Christmas. And that is my short answer of how we do Christmas. You are welcome!ReplyDelete
Every Christmas Eve we watch "The Nativity". Going to bed with the birth of Christ fresh on my mind is a great way to set my mind right for Christmas Day.ReplyDelete
We do exchange a few gifts on Christmas after we read the Christmas story and count our money jar. That's the jar of change we have saved all year just so we can search through the World Vision catalog and but something for someone who needs it(They are hoping for a cow this year). I love listening to my children discuss and figure out what they can "buy". They love it to and always try to "sneak" and count the jar during the year. Children are so generous, we(I) am always humbled by watching their giving. We also celebrate Christmas all the way up to January 6th which is Epiphany, so not only do we count down with Advent we also celebrate the 12 days of Christmas. I love celebrating. :) Epiphany is when my children get the big gift they really wanted and we talk about the gifts the magi brought and eat King cake.ReplyDelete
SO excited about Christmas this year!ReplyDelete
we are doing minimal gifts for our kiddos...they're all on board.
and after praying about who to be able to help, the Lord led us to sponsor a family in Ohio! so excited!
He also allowed us to 'adopt' Jorge and Raphael, two sweet little Mexican orphans. glory be to Him...it's ALL Him! i am so excited about sharing the Gospel with everyone i can! it's gonna be great. :)
my hubby grew up poor, too, and he always talks about the year that someone dropped off gifts for their family of 12. he will NEVER forget the baseball blanket that he got.
oh, and girl!!! you DO NOT...i repeat, DO NOT look anywhere NEAR 40!
I am coming out of lurking to tell you to wear the glitter eyeliner! I am 41 and I wear gold glitter eyeliner all the time. It makes me happy and my 8 and 10 year old daughters love it.ReplyDelete
Also I must admit we do it up big, really big, for presents for Christmas. But we also give a lot to others. We send money every year at this time to the orphanages our girls lived in for the first year of their lives. We love to bless the nannies that were a blessing to our family. Without them we would not have the amazing children we have now.
I am enjoying reading everyone's great traditions and ideas! My family and I open gifts Christmas Eve and I always make a gift for all my Girl's as that is all I have (no boys) so it's a lil easy.ReplyDelete
I enjoy receiving and giving handmade gifts whatever it may be, comes from the heart.
We too find and host a family for Christmas, someone God leads us to during the year.Makes our hearts feel full.
~Blessings Kim
We usually try to go low-key on the gifts and this year we're sticking to a "handmade only" rule. Lots of them will be handmade by us, some by others (I can do a lot, but jewelry making is not my forte...). I love the thought of showing our family members and friends that we care, not by spending money, but giving our time and effort.ReplyDelete
I love your swoony stuff. : ) As for traditions and how we "do" stuff, well, I wrote a post last week about trying to get the holidays "right" and how I've sort of given up on that. It's still complicated-ish but I feel free. And when I'm living out of freedom, things seem simpler...even if they aren't. Geez, that probably makes no sense.ReplyDeleteReplies
Love this, you, etc... Off to check out your post. You make perfect sense here. Freedom!!!Delete
Oh my goodness, I'll just be honest here. There is a big-time war raging within me... All of this minimalist/non-frenzied business makes so much sense and really resonates with me...until I start shopping. This transition is difficult! My friend said she does 3 gifts for each of her kids b/c they're not getting more than Jesus did. And I'm like YES! And then I just can't go through with it. And my kids are really sweet about getting gifts, not bratty in the least, so it makes me want to go crazy for them. We don't go in debt, I pretty much stick to the budget, but I definitely catch the fever more than I probably should...ReplyDelete
I didn't know Dayspring was so awesome. I seriously only knew their cards were awesome! Their whole website is swoony but that Jesus treeskirt is the best treeskirt ever!!!
Also, you are in zero danger of getting run over by a reindeer, sister. Zeeerrrooo.
I love so many of these traditions I'm reading. I'll be borrowing quite a few of these! Thanks for calming down the frenzy, FPFG and company. :)Replies
This is what I love about life and people: We all process things a little differently. I like that we can talk about what we do without everyone wigging out. I like what Scooper said above about living out of freedom. Because there's nothing wrong with getting gifty.Delete
We each just have to sort of listen and lean, you know? He's telling me something different than he's telling you. Who's to say that He's not telling Cory to buy me a $230 colorblocked cashmere sweater from J Crew? Who's to say.
I love that she just said you're in zero danger of getting run over by a reindeer. True, of course...also seriously funny.Delete
Wow. I'd totally forgotten about your freaky holiday baby wreath! LOL and I do mean Lots of Love!ReplyDelete
Brad and I stopped buying gifts for one another a few years back. We usually go out for a nice dinner and save $$ for our winter vacation in January or February. Plus..his bday is in December, mine is January... our wedding anniversary is in November..it's just too much. How many unique gifts can we keep giving one another in a 2+ month period? It became too stressful, so now we don't, which I like better.
We generally just buy for the nieces and nephews. Let's be honest..most adults usually end up receiving gifts they don't want or need.. "Thank you Dave for this Norelco beard trimmer! I shall give it to Brad!" Brad "Thanks Tracey for this Bath and Body Works Body Balm! Fab!" It just ended up being silly.
We also choose someone to be gifted anonymously. One year it was a co worker of Brad's who was having a rough time. A few of his other co workers were inspired by what we wanted to do, so they chipped in $$ as well. The giftee received a large chunk of love and cash, some giftcards and a nice card letting her know she mattered, that she was loved and people were thinking of her. This year I want to do something nice for the hardworking ladies at my local Dollar Store. Not sure how to keep that anonymous. Ideas??
The greatest part: Not everyone "gets" it. Last year, an in law sent me an email with the subject line "Gifts???" and the email said "Did you send us something???? Because we still have not gotten anything!!" Needless to say, I was enraged. It was also a bad year. Brad was on disability and we weren't doing well financially, so that just felt very rude. Oh, and it WAS rude!
Anyhow..that's how we rock it in the frozen tundra! It's been fun reading everyone's ideas and traditions.
Have a rad Monday, Shiny!
I just finished writing my post for tomorrow about how we Christmas. I love to {take it down a notch} and soak it all in. That doesn't usually happen though, so this year I'm being more intentional...it's the only way to achieve a peaceful December. There are far too many obstacles thrown our way so I have to be on gaurd at all times. :)ReplyDelete
A few things in no particular order..ReplyDelete
1. Urban Decay has great glitter eyeliner and other kinds of eyeliner too. And it's all cruelty free and some items are vegan too. And they have cool names for their colors like "mildew,zero, and 1999". Love their stuff.
2. Get yourself an Amazon wishlist. Super easy to set up and throughout the year as you see things you may like, big or small, you can add them to your list with one click from any website. I have a public list for me and the boyfriend/spousal equivalent/domestic partner/I am tempted to get married just to have a better title for him and also a private list because the boyfriend claims my family always buys the "good stuff" off my list before he can get to it. So, I keep a private list just for him. It's full of Lisa Leonard jewelry options at the moment as well as a few items from 31 bits. I am happy to provide a note on how to set up a wishlist for those that fear the tech.
3. I have a hard and fast rule about no decorating before 01 DEC for Christmas. No one on my street seems to share this rule but I like to give November some respect and not dive into the holiday hall decking until it's officially December. I also hang my favorite wreath on the inside of my door so I can see it everyday because it makes me happy.
4. My 86 yr old Nanna has declared she has enough stuff and this year wants only donations to the local animal shelter, which is sweet. She has also promised to adopt a kitten for anyone who defies her and deliver said kitten to us because she's equal parts sweet and fiesty and just to prove she means it, she sent each of us a newspaper clipping with a kitten up for adoption that she has picked out for us "just in case".
Just found your blog and love it! And glitter eyeliner...I may have to add that to my Santa list this year!ReplyDelete
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We're spending almost nothing on our 3 kids. We've been saving all year for a generosi-tree. Each night the kids are picking something to give too, and we're posting a pic on the special little tree. They're really excited. So are we. Itsmthenfirst Christmas season I've been pumped about in awhile.ReplyDelete
a couple of years ago (after our traditional family gift exchange between aunts, uncles, and cousins just turned into a gift card swap) the extended family decided instead of doing the gift card swap we would each put our money towards a charity of our choice. We all bring a little bag with our charity's name inside to hang on a miniature tree!ReplyDelete
I'm a cheapskate tightwad raised by Depression Era parents. We wash out baggies and reuse them.ReplyDelete
Don't cry for my babies. I'll nab them a pair of jeans somewhere (they say not Goodwill, Mama :)
And probably some "boy spray" in their stocking so they can better catch a girlfriend.
C'mon with the Money Shot...I'm ahead of you.
landon told me about that conversation, and in the retelling i narrowly escaped (bless you, lori) being tossed into the around 40 boat. anything after 34 and we DO NOT ROUND UP, PEOPLE.ReplyDelete
also, your christmas idea is sublime. but mostly i'm here about the not rounding up.
We have seriously uncomplicated this year. We aren't buying any gifts for our ever growing number of nieces and nephews. What a weight off. We've decided to spend that money on experiences instead when we are together. It really works out better because those kids don't need more stuff and don't appreciate what they get anyway. Now I can focus more on just being with my little family and creating memories.ReplyDelete
Andy and I keep Christmas gift giving very simple...ReplyDelete
We don't buy for any siblings or nieces and nephews....we all have too much as it is, so we all decided to stop the madness YEARS ago. It is so WONDERFUL. We did this on both sides of our family. LOVE it.
As for our immediate family...our big tradition is that we buy ornaments for one another. We've been doing this since our very first Christmas together...so he's given me 16 and I've given him 16. We also started this tradition when our kids were born, so they each have as many as their years are. I love that they will have a box full to take with them when they leave home one day.
We keep gifts for the kids simple and easy, too. 3-4 each.
This year we're providing Christmas for a family in need....and we can't wait! We're all going to go shopping for them...my kids literally can't WAIT.
Love this. Love your heart, as always.ReplyDelete
A few years ago we decided the gift opening would only happen when our kids were into it, meaning they were interested and appreciative. We found our children to be tearing into a present and barely seeing what the contents were, eager for the next (whatever it may be). Now we stop after one and return after a hike or after lunch or the next day. Our kids savor the experience and remember each gift as it should be honored. Oh man it's awesome.