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iContact is our pick for the best email marketing software application because of its comprehensive features and plans. When you're choosing an email marketing service, it's critical to find one that has easy-to-use features that make creating successful email marketing campaigns easy. That means you'll want a platform that has an email editor, a tool that lets you create segmented contact lists and ensures your emails get to the right inboxes.
iContactThe Best Email Marketing Services and Survey Software of 2019
The Verdict
iContact is our choice for best email marketing software overall. It offers comprehensive features and plans for small businesses, which make creating successful email marketing campaigns easy.
To see all of our recommendations for email marketing services, visit our best picks page.
The best email marketing services also have a free trial or free plan to ensure businesses can learn and master the platform, plus they have easy-to-use email creation tools, contact-management tools, access to email analytics, segmentation tools, A/B split testing and spam filters. iContact offers all of these benefits and more to small and medium-size businesses.
Why iContact?
iContact is our choice for the best email marketing service. Its comprehensive features make it easy to create successful and professional-looking email marketing campaigns. It has a range of plans available and a free trial so business owners can experiment with email marketing and then choose the right plan.
iContact has great customer service. When we reached out to live chat, we talked with a sales representative who answered our questions quickly and professionally and wasn't pushy. After we created a free trial, a representative contacted us and offered to answer any questions.
What sets iContact apart from other email marketing services is its intuitive platform. iContact's email creator is perfect for marketers at all skill levels because it allows you to create emails using your own HTML code or using one of its 12 design templates. If you use a template, you can design a custom email by using the drag-and-drop editor. It's easy to include your own pictures, logos and color scheme.
iContact's other valuable tools include its preview function that lets you see how your emails will look on all browsers, a spam checker that checks your emails for potential spam problems, and its A/B split testing tools.
Competitive Pricing and Terms
iContact has multiple plans that are built for businesses of all sizes. Like most email marketing services, iContact offers packages based on the number of subscribers you have in your contacts list. However, it has two different plans: Essential and Professional.
All plans include a drag-and-drop email editor, welcome series automation, list segmentation, responsive email layouts, performance reporting, A/B split testing, subscriber list management, a pre-built design template library, spam checks, Google Analytics, and sign-up form creation.
The Professional plan comes with all of the Essential plan features plus features like triggered messages, landing pages, engagement tracking, behavioral tracking, social monitoring, funnel reports and custom objects.
- For businesses with 500 subscribers, the Essential plan starts at $14 per month; the Professional plan costs $99 per month. If you have 1,000 contacts, the Essential package is $32 per month, and the Professional plan is $99 per month.
- iContact can accommodate large businesses with massive contact lists. For businesses with more than 5 million subscribers, the Essential plan starts at $300 per month. However, you'll need to speak with iContact's sales department for a quote on the Professional package prices.
- Plans with 15,000 subscribers and less automatically include unlimited email sends. If you have more than 15,000 subscribers, you can choose between an unlimited sending capability or a discounted plan with a limit of 10 times your subscriber count a month.
- If you're a qualifying nonprofit, you receive a 20 percent discount on all plans. If you prepay for an entire year upfront, you receive a 15 percent discount.
- iContact offers plans for businesses that use Salesforce. Subscriptions start at $99 per month for up to 10,000 email sends a month. This plan includes seamless Salesforce integration, no daily sending limits, unlimited users and boasts a 97 percent delivery rate.
You also have the choice to add a service package to any plan. The Bronze plan, which costs $200 per month, includes one strategy call and one custom strategic service project per quarter. This Silver package costs $250 per month, and it includes one strategy call and one strategic service project, but these services are per month, not per quarter. The Gold Plan includes one strategy call each month, and two custom strategic services projects, also per month. This plan runs $300 per month. The Platinum Package is an extra $640 per month and includes one monthly strategy call, one quarterly account analytics call, and a custom strategic services project.
While iContact doesn't have a free plan, it is free to set up a 30-day account and create email marketing campaigns with up to 100 contacts. If you want to send more than 400 emails, you'll need to upgrade to a paid plan.
iContact Features
iContact has several features and tools that make creating successful and professional looking email campaigns easy.
A/B testing: Before sending an email to customers or contacts, you want to first test it to ensure optimal appeal to your target audience. With iContact's A/B split testing feature, you can easily test different email subject lines, incentives, layouts or color schemes to ensure your emails are opened and that customers act on your information. iContact will test a small percentage of your contact list to determine what content works best. You can choose which portion of your audience is tested.
Automation: iContact's automation lets you send a series of messages to recipients based on different conditions, such as where the customer is at in the sales pipeline. iContact has a welcome series consisting of several different emails that are designed to make a positive impression on customers and build brand loyalty. iContact's automation features are especially convenient because you can create these campaigns for different types of customers and not worry about it further. You have control over when your campaign emails are sent. The platform is easy to navigate, and you can create entire campaigns in minutes. If you're new to automated marketing and not sure where to start, iContact offers a package where they help you strategize your campaign.
Email designer: iContact has multiple tools that make designing emails easy, even if you've never worked in a graphic design program. With iContact's drag-and-drop email editor, you can build professional and interactive emails in minutes. You can choose from themes, saved templates, create an HTML message or make a plain text email. For those with coding expertise, the HTML builder lets you code your own custom emails. iContact's responsive templates are designed for all devices, including both desktop and mobile. While you're editing your email, you can easily go back and forth between desktop and mobile view to ensure your email looks great on any device. iContact has helpful tools to ensure your message looks professional and that your customers will receive it. Before sending your email, you can use iContact's SpamCheck to test your message before sending out a single email. iContact's email creator also has spell check and can send test emails.
List building: List building and audience segmentation is a crucial part of email marketing campaigns. This tool allows you to send relevant and personalized emails to subscribers at the right time. You can create lists based on conditions, such as demographics, geography, social activity and website behavior. You also can create custom fields to include information like birthdays, sign-up anniversary date or other characteristics.
Subscriber management: iContact's subscriber management tools make it easy to manage your subscribers. You can easily create and embed sign-up forms on your website, identify and engage with important contacts, and ensure you're keeping a current, accurate subscriber list.
Tracking email marketing analytics: After you send your emails, iContact offers detailed information, including the open rate, bounce rate, the number of people who clicked on links in the email, how many people unsubscribed from your list, what device contacts used to view the email and social engagement. This information is compiled into helpful, easy-to-understand graphics.
Ease of use
Everything about iContact is incredibly easy to locate and use. Most of the platform's tools have drag-and-drop features that make editing and adding pictures or contacts a breeze. Its email creator provides step-by-step directions along with easy tools for spam check and inbox preview.
If you aren't sure how to do something within iContact's dashboard, don't worry. Its Help button takes you to a page with popular videos and video tutorials. Just watch the correlating video to answer your questions.
If that doesn't answer your question, iContact has an entire portal designed for answering questions, including lessons for adding subscribers, managing contacts, creating and sending messages, reporting, billing, automation, deliverability, integrations, and social media. If all fails, you can reach their support department through live chat, phone or email.
iContact has excellent customer service. When we contacted live chat representatives, we were quickly connected with a courteous, knowledgeable rep who quickly answered our questions.
While iContact has a free trial, it doesn't offer a free version. Other email marketing services we evaluated offer a free version. Another downside of iContact is that while it has strong automation journeys or workflows, they are only available in the iContactPro platform, which is considerably more expensive.
Finally, an additional concern is that when we sent our test email to a Gmail account, it appeared in the Promotions tab. And while the email was sent to the correct inbox, it could be missed if the user doesn't check the Promotions tab. However, we sent the email from a personal email address – not a business email – which is less credible than an email sent with a company or business domain.
iContactThe Best Email Marketing Services and Survey Software of 2019
The Verdict
iContact is our choice for best email marketing software overall. It offers comprehensive features and plans for small businesses, which make creating successful email marketing campaigns easy.


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Summer at Thanksgiving Point means there is no chance for the summertime blues! This year we have more summer camp classes and variety than ever before. Let your child explore space, try their hand at paleontology, program a Lego robot, explore insects, learn the science behind the food we eat, go on a dinosaur discovery, and so much more!
During our summer camps there really is something for every child in your household. Preschoolers can come and join in the fun with classes on everything from dinosaurs to music while elementary-aged kids can participate in day or weeklong camps. There are even classes geared toward middle school and high school kids to surely stimulate and engage their minds during the summer. Thanksgiving Point Members also get exclusive Summer Day Camp registration during our Members-only pre-sale!
Remember, class sizes are limited and popular classes fill up quickly, so don't delay. If the class you're looking for is sold out, please call (801) 768-4971. See you this summer!
Summer Day Camp scholarships for the summer of 2019 have been filled.
You will receive a confirmation email a week before your camp is scheduled to begin specifying which of the locations to drop-off/pick-up your child
View a map of drop-off and pick up locations HERE.
Preschool campers are dropped off and picked up directly at their designated venue as specified in confirmation emails.
For any questions please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 801-768-4971
Transfers are permitted up to 1 business day or 24 hours in advance with a $10.00 fee based on availability and any cost difference between camps.
Substitutions – a neighbor, cousin, sibling, etc. - are accepted up to first day of camp.
If a camp is cancelled by Thanksgiving Point Institute due to low enrollment, all fees will be refunded.
Camp curriculum and lesson plans are geared toward the grade your child will be entering into in the Fall of 2019. If you have an older and a younger child you would like to be in the same camp we do allow older children to attend camps one grade lower.
Registration closes one week prior to the beginning of camp.
If the class you want is sold out, please call (801) 768-4971 to be added to a waitlist.
Camp sessions vary in price depending on grade, length of day, and days per week. Please check individual camp listings for price information.
Our camps promote independent learning and socialization opportunities for your child. If you feel your child is unable to remain in camp without you, it may be best to wait a year before you send them to camp.
Depending on which camp you choose your child could be making and programming a Lego EV3 robot, painting with watercolors in the gardens, catching polliwogs and toads to make observations, collecting insects and plants to research, using software to design and 3D print jewelry, or feeding goats and sheep to learn about adaptations.
All of our campers come home with parent letters with additional resources – websites, books, experiments, and activities – to continue the fun all summer long!
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7th Annual Carolina Summer Music Festival kicks off in Winston-Salem
The 7th Annual Carolina Summer Music Festival is underway in Winston-Salem.
It offers great music for people of all ages including a Jungle Book event for kids. Tickets start at $6.
For a complete list of show times and other information check out this website: carolinachambersymphony.org/events/category/summer/


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Leo Weiner: Ballade for Viola and Orchestra op.28 –
Csongor and Tünde – Ballet (1959)
CD Notes by István Kassai for NAXOS 8.573491
Leo Weiner was born on April 16th, 1885 in Budapest. His parents did not give him a musical education. He began his musical studies on his own initiative and learned to compose by analysing the works of the great composers. At the age of 16 he applied for admission to the Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he was a pupil of János Koessler (1853-1926), a representative of the Brahms tradition, and who was the teacher of Bartók, Kodály, Dohnányi, Emerich Kálmán and Victor Jacobi among others. Weiner himself taught there from 1907 until his death. In his chamber music faculty he taught generations of musicians for half a century. Almost all the world famous Hungarian musicians of this period were his pupils. Apart from living tradition, his pedagogic activity has been perpetuated by his writings (text books of music theory, musical analyses).
Weiner's career as a composer began like a comet. In his fifth year of study he won all the possible awards given at the Liszt Academy. He was awarded the Franz Joseph prize for his compositions in 1908, and this covered his study tour around Europe, to Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Paris.
Already his earliest works were characterized by his knowledge of classical culture, an imaginative use of colour and bravura in instrumentation, combined with lyrical emotion. Weiner managed to synthesize in an original way the tradition of Schumann and Mendelssohn together with the language of European and Hungarian music of the period. He composed true Hungarian music, without using folk melodies. He immediately made a stir with his new, captivating sound. The works of the composer in his twenties were welcomed on the prestigious concert podiums of the world and were published by famous European publishing houses.
The pressure of the new modern, diverse musical developments that were so distant from Weiner's personality, threw him into such a creative crisis that he even relinquished his position as a professor of composition at the Liszt Academy. The inspiration of folk music showed him a way out of the crisis. He made use of folk music in a somewhat different way from Kodály and Bartók. As the writer of a monograph on the composer, Melinda Berlász, writes, "For Weiner, folk music represented a solely musical consideration. It was a precious musical material, rich in individual characteristics, which, as he confessed, he could stylize 'with refined artistic self-restraint' in his works and make 'classical'." These works by him were greeted with international success as well. The inferno of World War Two caused him another creative crisis that lasted for seven years. After the war he polished and orchestrated his earlier pieces, composed works for pedagogical purposes, and wrote some summing up works. He was awarded the highest Hungarian state award, the Kossuth Prize twice in this period. He died on September 13th, 1960.
Weiner did not belong among the reformers of the history of music. He remained faithful to the language of his youth, defying the storms of "-isms", as well as to his Hungarian identity, despite the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
Weiner's Ballad Op. 8 was composed in 1908 for clarinet and piano. He attached a viola part as well to the score of the first edition, which differed only slightly from the clarinet part due to the different characteristics of the instruments. The impressionistic colours of the piece seemed to demand orchestration and Weiner made two versions. In the '30s he did an orchestration in which the woodwind were omitted apart from two bassoons, in order to bring into relief the solo clarinet part. This version is musically identical with the version with piano accompaniment. It was not published but it has been recorded on LP and CD. The second version was composed in 1949 with the new opus number 28 and uses all the woodwind. This version is six bars longer than the previous one. The score was finished in 1949 and published five years later, but has so far not been recorded. We have recorded this more colourful orchestration using the viola part of the first edition.Weiner's Op. 10 "Csongor and Tünde" accompanied him throughout his life, and he regarded it as his main work. It is based on the dramatic poem written by Mihály Vörösmarty (1800-1855) in 1830. It is a love story about a prince and a fairy who struggle for happiness against the attacks of evil, and is widely known in world literature. Vörösmarty created a philosophical story out of the simple fairy tale, and his enchantingly beautiful Hungarian language has raised it to the level of an exceptional masterpiece one of the most important works of Hungarian literature. The play was not considered performable until the director of the Hungarian National Theatre, Ede Paulay (1836-1894) staged it with great success. The first incidental music for it was composed by Gyula Erkel (1841-1909), the son of Ferenc Erkel, for the premiere on December 1st, 1879. In 1913 the directorate of the National Theatre commissioned new incidental music from Leo Weiner, and the composer finished the score on November 1st the same year. However, its performance needs and the size of the orchestra required were beyond the means of the National Theatre. The premiere was postponed. The composer was keen to present his work, so first the Scherzo called "Prince Csongor and the Goblins" was performed in public on February 8th 1914 with the title "Intermezzo". This piece is often performed still today. One year later the first Suite (consisting of four movements) taken from the work was performed. Eventually the date of the premiere was set for November 1916, but again it was cancelled due to the death on the 21st of the Emperor Franz Joseph, King of Hungary. A few days later however, on 6th of December, 1916, the performance was given. It was greeted with enormous success both by the public and the critics.
Vörösmarty's play is multi-layered and full of meaning, but the ballet version concentrates on the love interest, so the story resembles more the folk-inspired sixteenth century fairy tale by Albert Gergei that served as the basis for Vörösmarty's poem.
No. 1 Csongor, a young prince searching for happiness on his long wanderings, is walking along tired when he sees the foliage of a golden apple tree. He is surprised to see Mirigy, a witch, tied to the tree. She implores him to release her. The good-hearted young man unties her, but the wicked witch curses him. No. 2 The apples start to shine and Tünde, a fairy, appears in the sparkling light. They fall in love at first sight. After their love duet they lie down under the tree and fall asleep. A fairy choir sings. No. 3 Tünde's fairy companions arrive with Ilma, Tünde's maid. Their playful dance is interrupted by the arrival of the witch. The fairies run away, but Ilma hides nearby, sensing evil but feeling afraid of the witch. Mirígy sneaks towards the lovers and steals the fairy veil that carries Tünde's magic power. She starts a triumphant dance and Tünde is startled out of her sleep. No. 4 Tünde must leave forever because she has lost her veil and Csongor may not see her any more. She says farewell and departs on her long journey with Ilma. No. 5 Csongor follows them in despair, seeking the newly found happiness he has so quickly lost, no matter how long it takes. No. 6 In the second scene: the crossroads, three goblins chase a fox who is a phantom, and is really Mirigy's daughter, Ledér. She dances with the goblins teasing them. She then playfully multiplies them and herself. They run away scared, chased by the phantoms. No. 7 Balga, a peasant boy arrives He also is seeking his love, as he has lost his wife, Ilma just as Csongor has lost Tünde. Csongor arrives and adopts Balga to be servant. No. 8 The goblins enter again, fighting over their inheritance, a magic cloak that makes its owner invisible and takes him wherever he tells it to go. The goblins ask Csongor to dispense judgement. He tricks them into letting him have the cloak and flies off to find Tünde. No. 9 Scene three: We see the witch Mirígy in her den, where she aims to acquire prince Csongor for her daughter. She covers her daughter with the stolen veil, which immediately makes her beautiful. Csongor arrives, having been attracted by Mirigy's magic, which is more powerful than the goblins' magic cloak. Csongor begins an amorous dance with the phantom that he thinks is Tünde. Balga arrives with Ilma and they also take Ledér to be Tünde until the real Tünde arrives. Csongor tears the veil off Ledér and is astonished to see who he has danced with. Then Mirígy intervenes and grabs the veil and Csongor as well, due to the magic power of the veil. No. 10 The fourth scene is the kingdom of the Night. The despairing Tünde is being consoled by the fairies of the night, but they cannot alleviate her pain. No. 11 We are again at Mirígy's den. Ledér keeps tempting Csongor in different ways, but the young man resists. Mirígy takes the initiative again, a real witch-Sabbath takes place, but it is useless. True love is stronger than any evil art. In the end Csongor manages to grab the veil and the witches have to escape. No. 12 The witch's homestead sinks down and our hero finds himself near the golden apple tree of the first scene. He adoringly gazes at his lower's veil remembering Tünde, then falls asleep exhausted. No. 13 The guardian fairies arrive and bring a new veil for Tünde, but she chooses earthly happiness and Csongor instead of being a fairy. Balga arrives with Ilma, whom he has finally found and they walk happily towards their hut. No. 14 Tünde wakes Csongor up and the choir of fairies sing about eternal love: "Come sweetheart, come with me and enjoy the night, the only thing now awake is love."
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The Long Way Home (Part II)
Yubanaswa Chakraborty: Lake Baikal is the favourite of quizmasters and geography teachers. Because it is the deepest lake in the world and they love asking you that. However, it also contains the maximum volume of fresh water among all the lakes in the world.
(Part I)
Moscow to Lake Baikal on The Trans-Siberian
'There was once a man who dwelt in the forest by the Blue Mountains. He worked very hard but there was always more work to be done and he had no time to go home for his holidays. Finally, when winter came, he felt so terribly lonely that he wrote to his wife asking her to come and visit him with the boys. He had two boys: Chuck and Gek. They lived with their mother in a great big city far, far away—there was not a finer city in the whole wide world. Day and night red stars sparkled atop the towers of this city. And its name, of course, was Moscow.' – Chuk and Gek by Arkady Gaidar, 1939
Chuk and Gek was the first full-length novel I ever read. I was probably seven at that time. It was a work of translation in Bengali. Thirty years later I was standing under that very Red star.
Seventy-seven years have passed since the book was written. Moscow is still among the finest cities in the world. Two world wars have gone by. The regime of the 'red' has gone away. But the star stayed back, and still shines every night. I was about to find out how much has changed in this part of the world.
Winds of change have definitely swept across Moscow. Though, under the surface, the Metro is frozen in a time capsule. Hammer and sickle decorate the extremely ornate stations. Murals depicting the great October revolution decorate the entrances. On the ground, though, you see Volkswagen and Fords swarming the roads. There were many old trams and trolleybuses too. As we stepped out of the railway terminus, a gigantic statue of Stalin stood to face a huge billboard of KFC. Demolitions of old building blocks were carried out at many places, and new skyscrapers coming up on other sites. As we followed the Moskva (yes, down to Gorky Park), we could see the business district with chrome and glass towers dominating the skyline.
Communism has gone away, paving way for a fiercely capitalistic Russia. But what remained is the ideological gap with the 'West'. It is a time when there are many sanctions imposed on Russia. There are huge tensions, not only between the governments but also among ordinary people. We met a British traveller who divulged that getting a Russian visa is a huge task for British people now. An American backpacker said she was denied a place to stay on a Railway property because American citizens are officially not allowed to stay on government premises.
In three days we explored the sights of Moscow. The Kremlin, the Red Square, the memorials from the Soviet Era, the Sputnik memorial. We walked along the Moskva. We spent hours in the underground, exploring the magnificent stations. We met some interesting people, including a Diamond miner from the far eastern Siberia (Yakutz region) who offered to sell some black market diamonds. We met a stunning air hostess who instantly made friends just because we were sharing a table in a café. Once we were crossing a road underpass and upon seeing two Indians coming his way, a fiddler started playing Raj Kapoor's "Mera Joota Hai Japani" on his instrument. But ours was a whirlwind trip, the time had come to move on from the great City.
We shopped for the next leg of the journey, four days on a train. We stocked up enough cup noodles, bread, cheese, canned food. And tea. Vodka and Gherkins. And then, just before midnight, we reached the Yaroslavskaya station.
At 12:31 A.M. the longest running train of the world, RZD #100 – the service between Moscow and Vladivostok left the platform 3. At the edge of the platform lies the 'Zeroth' milepost, marked the Centenary 1901-2001 of the Trans-Siberian railway.
On the first night, the train was rather empty, our only co-passenger was a businessman travelling to Baku. Our berths in the 3rd class Passazhirsky (open plan sleepers) seemed comfortable enough to be our home for the next four days. Soon after the train sped up, leaving Moscow behind, we slept off on our berths.
Next morning we woke up in a tiny station called Sharwa. We were surrounded by pine forests and wooden cottages. As we travelled the whole day, we passed countless similar villages, small stations. Small rivers, overflowing into the pine forests. The snow from the winter had partly melted, leaving a huge marshy land – the great Siberian slush. We feasted on mashed potato and sandwiches we made. Russian trains have an abundant supply of hot water, to make tea and to cook pot noodles.
The train stopped on a few large stations where we could get down and stretch our legs. Adding to the delight we found some stray huskies. We bought some sausage to feed them, and made friends with a few from each station.
We made friends with a few fellow passengers and the conductors of our coach – the two sweet ladies. In the evening a big group of school students boarded the train, they were on an excursion. We ended up playing some games and singing some songs together. It was late in the night when we finally slept. The moon was shining high up, above the pine trees.
By the morning, we had crossed over to Asia. We stopped at the first Asian city- Yekaterinburg – also the fourth largest city in Russia. Even though the name may not be too familiar with many, this is a major hub for business, transport and industries. The school children got off here. And we managed to convince the loco pilot to let us get into the engine!
After the children left, we got a new friend – and the only person we met on the journey who spoke fluent English. Sergei, in his late twenties, is someone living the life I could only dream of. He has worked in the Russian special forces – Za Spetsnaz- and we got the privilege to see the bat-on-moon tattoo on his arm. After leaving the special forces he studied geology and now works for Gazprom, drilling in the Arctic circle. It is a tough job – "Up in the north, we don't get any good food. For thirty days we work for twelve hours a day. Every day. There is no internet and no mobile signal. But we get one month's leave to go home". We realised that he spends half of his month-long holidays travelling on these trains as it takes him eight days each way!
By the night, we reached Omsk – another large town. In the meantime, we learnt a lot about the life in Siberia. Firstly, most jobs here are for men – Logging, farming, oil drilling, coal and diamond mining and heavy engineering. Although there is a big presence of women in most other jobs – like the police and railways, shops and offices, there is still a big gap in employment. On top of that, most men work at very far off places, usually days or weeks away from home. The man with the bat tattoo – was a very soft-spoken gentleman, who kept calling home, asking his mother to cook all the favourite food he has. He was also looking forward to meeting the girl he has been messaging over the internet. Usually, most young women are left with very few choices of jobs, and men. They keep waiting for them to come home! Often there are eye wetting scenes of goodbye kisses on the Trans Siberian. It all seemed like the novel from the childhood!
At Omsk, a few slip coaches were added to the train. A lot of people left, a lot more got on. It was busy as ever. We were in the middle of a parallel world! Geographically we were exactly north from New Delhi, we were at the same time zone as India.
Next morning, when I woke up, it was still very early morning. We had stopped on a station named Barabinsk. I hopped out to take a stroll and stretch my legs. I had made friends with some Russian soldiers the evening before. One of them nodded and smiled at me as we passed each other. Suddenly an old man emerged from nowhere, and with a frown on his face he asked me – "Hindi?" (Indian?).
"Da!" (yes) I answered.
A smile spread on his face, and he almost giggled as he said "Aaah, Hindi! Mazboot Mazboot!"
Then he walked away, wobbling. He was not sleepy. He was high on vodka! Yes, it is perfectly normal for men (and women) to be drunk on Vodka at 7 a.m. on this train. All along the day, whenever we met, he slapped my shoulder and exclaimed "Mazboot! Mazboot!" Later on, we found that he was an Army General and had spent some time in India working with our Army. I gathered that Mazboot was the only Hindi word he remembered from his tenure in India.
It was our third day on the train. Through the day, we travelled across the legendary pine forest of Taiga region. It was always a dream to sledge across the forest in the snow, drawn by dogs. That dream still needs to wait. But simply stepping out on the Taiga station gave me enough goosebumps. After crossing the forest of Taiga, we bode goodbye to our Spetznaz friend Sergei. We got to meet his father, who was eager to meet his new Indian friends. Everyone is well connected over 4-G network now. Gone are the days of Chuk and Gek when telegraphic messages crossed the snow-covered Siberia over weeks, to reach Moscow.
It was turning out to be another routine day on the train. But just like an action movie, we ended up witnessing a fight. One of our upper berth neighbours was always in a vodka saturated state, and he went around annoying pretty much everyone (including us). And he started an argument with a bunch of teenagers who had boarded the train on the third day. He had taken a fight with the wrong people, we learnt they were the regional kickboxing group travelling with their coach. Once their coach turned up at the scene, a few professional punches landed on this man's jaw, and we saw his teeth flying away. We were the witness and we gave our official statement to the police, using our mobile phone translators. They decided that the respectable coach did the right thing, teaching the drunkard a lesson. We soon became very good friends and took some pictures together while the defeated man lay on top.
In the evening we threw a going away party for the train staff! After all, we had become good friends, and a great journey always calls for a good celebration. We were joined by some more who were already there in the dining car. And our Mazboot friend from the morning dropped in and took some pictures of ours (I am guessing he has his own travel blog!). He checked the pictures and nodded, and after saying "Mazboot Mazboot" he walked back to his cabin. The manager of the restaurant car was from Uzbekistan. She sang a few lines of 'Indian song' for us – Goron ki na kaalo ki … Duniya to dilwaaalo ki…
Next evening we reached Irkutsk. This was halfway point for the historic train #100, which left us and continued towards the far eastern port of Vladivostok, just a channel away from Japan.
After four days on a train, without a shower, we were a bit hasty to reach our hostel. As two friendly looking Russian guys approached us and offered the metered taxi, we did not have anything to suspect. However the 1.2-mile journey seemed way longer, the guys did not speak Russian, but in the end, we reached our hostel on Lenin street. And that is when their spurious Chinese meter showed us 5000 Rubles, and they refused to open the boot if we do not pay up.
"Give dollars, dollars" – one of them shouted. They did not seem armed though. By that time I asked Beena (in Hindi) to walk into the reception or look for a police car, while I blocked the car from driving away. I managed to give away most of the money to Beena as she walked off, and I managed to bargain it down to 1500 Rubles.
It was still a robbery!
Bargaining with Russian robbers – checked.
Our accommodation was basic but comfortable, we were only to sleep for the night and then set off for Lake Baikal in the morning. After days we were sleeping in a bed that was not rocking along with the train.
Irkutsk seemed to be frozen in the USSR era. Every street was named either after Lenin or Marx or Stalin. There was a large statue of Lenin in the central square. It also boasts of great wooden architecture. Streets are filled with Soviet-era rickety trams. We took one of those to get to the bus station. We saw more Japanese and Korean cars than European ones. Funnily, most cars were right hand driven here, as they are imported as second-hand cars from Japan and not intended for Russian roads. No one seemed to care. The market surrounding the bus station seemed very Asian in nature. Flowers and spices were being sold along with Chinese jackets and hats.
However, Irkutsk is distinctively European in looks. Even being 5300 km from Moscow, the place was European in almost every aspect. Although the western aspects were fewer than Moscow. We saw more Ladas than Volkswagen for example. We saw more Soviet trams and Trolleybuses in the City of Irkutsk than we saw in Moscow.
The history of the city goes back to the seventeenth century. Back in those days, it was a centre for fur trading. By the mid-eighteenth century, it was a bustling city. A major stop between the Russian and Chinese empires, it was strategically located to be a trading hub. Gold, diamonds, fur and timber came from Russia. Silk and tea came from China. A vibrant economy existed here. And it still does.
Our minivan soon left the city limits, and we followed the beautiful road amidst the pine forests to Listvyanka, our endpoint for this leg of the trip. In an hour we were relaxing (read: Freezing ourselves silly) by the Lake Baikal. The lake was still semi-frozen on the other side (which is on the next leg of the journey). On the eastern side, we could see snow-capped mountains, which we would travel to in a few days time.
Lake Baikal is the favourite of quizmasters and geography teachers. Because it is the deepest lake in the world and they love asking you that. However, it also contains the maximum volume of fresh water among all the lakes in the world. It actually holds 20 per cent of the world's liquid fresh water. This lake formed 25 million years ago, making it world's oldest freshwater lake. These are the facts rarely asked in quizzes. We were deep inside North East Asia, and we were further east than Bangkok. Did your geography teacher ever tell you that Lake Baikal is located to the east of India and not to the west? Perhaps not?
Listvyanka was a sleepy village, we had a marvellous rustic wooden cottage right by the lake, where we lazed for a day. We decided to have a celebratory meal – so ended up in an upmarket restaurant and ordered pancakes and caviar! The lake looked deep blue, the other side looked enticing, and our feet were already itching to move on! We spent some time in the local markets and the Baikal museum.
Officially the border of Europe and Asia is 17 km before (west) the city of Yekaterinburg – which is only 1800 km from Moscow. Realistically speaking, Asia starts only after crossing the Lake Baikal. Technically we were standing on the edge of European culture, the deepest lake in the world separating us from the spiritual side of the world. We spent a day by the lake in the village of Listvyanka, on the western shore of the lake. The place was closer to Russia I had imagined from the books from my childhood. Pine trees in snows, wooden huts with smoke billowing from the chimneys. Huskies barking at strangers (us).
The snow on the shores of the deepest lake of the world glistened that night.
We were to set off again the next day.
We had come a little over 8300 km in twelve days.
We were halfway home.
Words and photos: Yubanaswa Chakraborty
About the author: Yubanaswa Chakraborty is a software developer based in London. Born in Siliguri, India, he has a degree in engineering and has been a techie for almost two decades now. A passionate traveller and biker, whenever time and money permits, he travels to faraway places to experience new cultures and make new friends.
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Brum to celebrate being Home of Metal this summer!Thu 7 February 2019
We're thrilled that Home of Metal is taking over Brum this summer - with artist Ben Venom bringing his fantastic exhibition, All This Mayhem, to MAC as part of the festival.
Home of Metal will once again shine a light on the global phenomenon of Heavy Metal with a series of blockbuster exhibitions devoted to the music that was born in and around Birmingham. Music that turned up the volume, down-tuned the guitars, and introduced a whole new meaning to the word 'heavy'. The season of events and exhibitions will join the dots between music, social history, visual art and fan cultures to produce a new perspective on metal. One that is celebratory, eschews notions of high/low culture, and joins audiences and performers together.
From May to September 2019, Home of Metal will present a series of exhibitions in partnership with organisations in and around Birmingham to include Black Sabbath – 50 Years, at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Ben Venom will present the lead summer exhibition All This Mayhem here at MAC, Monster Chetwynd: Hell Mouth 3 at Eastside Projects, Alan Kane: 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal at The New Art Gallery Walsall and Przemek Branas at Centrala, demonstrating Heavy Metal's reach into all corners of culture through explorations of fantasy, chaos, performance and fandom.
Home of Metal is conceived and produced by Capsule. www.homeofmetal.com
We will be posting details of Ben Venom's exhibition and related activities on our website soon - watch this space, metalheads!


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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia will raise drug issue at the 60th anniversary commemoration of Asian African Conference (AAC) held in Jakarta and Bandung, April 19-24, 2015.
Chief of the presidential staff Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, who is in charge of the anniversary commemoration of the conference said Indonesia will take the initiative to discuss drug issue at the meeting.
"In Indonesia drug abuse is the biggest enemy," Luhut said when after the opening of an exhibition on Asian African cooperation as one of the highlights of the anniversary commemoration.
He said drug threat has become a big concern and alarming , adding data from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said drug kills 33 Indonesian every day.
"Drug issue is a concern of all people of any countries, religions and ethnic groups. All countries should cooperate to eliminate the drug crime," he said.
He said the AAC delegations will also discuss humanitarian issue in Middle East and ISIS issue would be high in the agenda.
Indonesia, which is rich in culture will share its experience in developing tolerance.
"We will share our experience, how we, despite difference in cultures , could show great tolerance, not killing each other" he said.
Earlier, the foreign ministry said the delegations would address three main issues -- Bandung message, new partnership of Asia Africa, and support for independence of Palestine that a more concrete products are expected to come out of the meeting.
The result of the discussions on the three issue would be brought to a ministerial meeting and then to an Asian African Leaders Summit.


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If you take a stroll down memory lane, what were your business IT needs like 20 years ago?
Certainly the days of CRT monitors, Windows 2000 and only half of the computer users having access to the internet, are far behind us.
EMPR understands this evolution of IT technology, after starting operations in 1998 as a spare parts company and growing into a solutions-based advice centre for SMEs in 2018.
We celebrate 20 years of servicing the IT needs of SMB in 2018, a journey that has seen EMPR grow from a two-man spare parts operation to a solutions-based multinational firm that provides guidance on all forms of IT evolution to small and medium enterprises.
The history of EMPR
The company started life with a team of just two, trading as Parallel Solutions & Distribution.
In the early days, Parallel was a services company working closely with key local players and multinational brands by building customised solutions for services and repair of computer and server parts.
As the IT industry evolved, Parallel became focused on sourcing current and hard-to-find parts and products for large companies like Digital, Compaq, Fujitsu, NCR, Siemens, and Getronics.
Continuously expanding, the company grew to launch one of the first online marketplaces where businesses could source replacement parts. Expansion went across the ditch to New Zealand to service the South Pacific market.
One of the earliest partnerships EMPR forged was with Hewlett-Packard (HP), one of the world's largest IT companies. Then, when HP split into two companies — HPI and HPE — EMPR was awarded a parts agreement with both organisations after being HP's top performing parts distributor in the entire ASIA region for 10 consecutive years.
Over the coming years, Parallel forged partnerships with Toshiba (as their sole distributor for ANZ), a parts agreement with ASUS Australia, Lexmark (as a distributor) and Lenovo (under a parts agreement). To set its eyes on a new approach, the company renamed to EMPR Group.
The success of EMPR has seen many years of triple and double-digit growth. This includes the continued expansion of sales and distribution facilities in Brisbane and Melbourne, allowing for better service for customers and business partners.
The difference between EMPR and competitors
EMPR Chief Commercial Officer Bryce McIntosh started in a sales position with the company in 2000 and has worked his way up through senior positions since. He says that EMPR's customised tools, systems, process, people, sales channels, development teams, inventory investments and ecommerce solutions have allowed them to become experts in the parts industry and improve their operations year on year.
"Our speed and ability to build and execute customised solutions for both our customers and partners is another major strength along with our 4 strategically placed locations within the South Pacific," he says.
Moving into solutions for SMEs
EMPR Head of Enterprise Walter Olson says one of the common queries they have from customers purchasing parts over the years is for assistance on new digital products.
With cloud-based computing offering new ways to store, share and network data, many SMEs still feel they were not getting enough information on how these new services can benefit them.
"There has been a lot of hype in the Australian business community about moving to the cloud, but a lot of customers don't understand the pitfalls," Olson says.
"Since 90-95 percent of people are behind notebooks, PCs or something to do with technology we were encouraged to provide the right solutions to customers."
Olson says traditional IT retail outfits previously lacked the knowledge to assist SMEs, while many other solutions-orientated services were geared towards the major corporations and organisations. He says EMPR wanted to fill the hole in the market by providing solid advice to SMEs with head counts under 250 staff.
"These small to medium companies don't have the time to make decisions on development and do all of the research — they can't be a master of all trades," he says.
The future for EMPR
Olson says EMPR will continue to refine their offerings in the Australian and New Zealand markets to be able to provide solutions-based assistance for new technologies as they are released and embraced.
"The IT industry is an ever-changing landscape," he says. "The number of new technologies coming up, startups are constantly occurring, it's an exciting time.
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The Walled City
By Ryan Graudin
Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 242 pages. Young adult fiction.
Every type of vice lives unchecked in the Hak Nam Walled City, a walled-off district outside a wealthy city. Inside, three teens have unique missions. Jin Ling, disguised as a boy, must try to find her sister. Dai is looking for information that will bring down the notorious Brotherhood of the Red Dragon - and save his life. Mei Yee is looking for a way to get out of the grips of the Brotherhood and return to her family. Will the three be able to work together to make it out of the notorious city alive?
This is a semi-historical novel. The setting is based on the stories of the Kowloon Walled City, which was located just outside of Hong Kong until it was razed in 1987 and turned into a park. Graudin has taken an interesting premise and made a riveting novel that is packed with action until the very end. Some of the images were a little disturbing, but, remember, we're talking about a city of vice - most of the inhabitants were not living in happy circumstances. There was nothing that was overly graphic or inappropriate for a teen audience.


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Students will come face-to-face with the Vietnam War when they meet veterans and visit The Vietnam Veterans Memorial during this virtual event . The story of the war will be revealed through compelling stories grounded in the personal experiences of Alabama veterans and others who were touched by the Vietnam War. Our student reporters will conduct interviews, experience a virtual draft, visit the Memorial with a veteran and consider the lasting effects of the war.
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Boosie Badazz ft. Slim Thug – Wanna B Heard (Video)
Watch the new official music video from Boosie Badazz called Wanna B Heard featuring Houston OG Slim Thug. Be sure to pick up Boosie's project Out My Feelings In My Past on iTunes.
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From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Hue Girardin, 4 January 1805
Washington Jan. 4. 1805.
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Girardin the Prospectus of his work to which he becomes willingly a subscriber. his plan will enable him to embrace objects and circumstances certainly very interesting to the American reader, and the Prospectus itself evidences that the work will be well executed. he presents to mr Girardin his salutations & respects.
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As summer approaches, many people are already planning their upcoming break. Its the time when you pack your bags, zip up your kids and go on a long break! But, a little planning ahead will ensure you get to vacation at the most happening destinations this summer. We tell you the top 5 places you need to tick off this summer.
UK: If you are a hippie at heart or just love a good time with music and other arts, head to to the United Kingdom this June. With both the Glastonbury and Isle of Wright festivals scheduled in June, UK is the place to party. Of particular note is the fun filled Glastonbury festival. With contemporary music, theatre, comedy, circus, cabaret and other performing arts on show here, it is few days of sheer hedonistic fun.
Thailand: For an exotic holiday that gives you a break from the rat race, head to beautiful, peaceful Thailand. From pristine beaches, crowded cities, sacred temples and a permeating spirituality, Thailand is perfect for this summer holiday. The country has varied landscape, from hills to field and lovely beaches. Then there is the food - spicy, sour and simply delicious.
Mediterranean: There is no better place than the stunning Mediterranean coast this summer. Book a holiday this June, just before holiday season starts in Europe and crowds take up every available space! Enjoy the blinding blue of the Mediterranean, explore its long impressive heritage and enjoy one of the most amazing and healthy cuisine on earth.
Monaco: For a dose of glam and the heady adrenaline of motor racing, head to Monaco this May. This small country hosts the F1 Grand Prix on 24th of May. Billed as one of the special sporting events, the Grand Prix showcases all that is great about Monaco - showmanship, glitz and attitude.
Cruise: If you want to do something different, why not book a cruise this summer? Choose from the world's best cruises and explore exotic destinations. These cruises offer world-class entertainment, luxurious cabins, personalised services and world cuisine to choose from. You can even hire an entire hatch for leisurely island hopping.


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New LifeCycle Challenge
21/06/2012Cyclists in the Southern Trust have turned out in force for the New LifeCycle Challenge 2012.
Organised by the NI Transplant Forum, the six day cycling challenge is travelling throughout Northern Ireland promoting organ donation and fundraising for transplant charities.
The Southern Health and Social Care Trust stage took place on Wednesday 20 June. Participants included the novice to the more experienced, both individually and on tandems. They included Trust staff, organ recipients and their families.
The first group of cyclists left Daisy Hill Hospital in the morning making their way to Craigavon Area Hospital for lunchtime. Some ended the challenge there but a few of the more seasoned participants joined a second group at Craigavon and headed back to Daisy Hill.
Southern Trust Chair, Roberta Brownlee who registered as an organ donor this year was there to wave cyclists off at both hospitals. Roberta said: "After hearing so many inspiring stories of how people are given a second chance after receiving an organ, I was privileged to sign the donor register. It was heart-warming to see so many Trust staff and families who have been touched by organ donation taking part in this challenge and I was delighted to lend my support on the day."
Congratulating those who took part, Dr Gillian Rankin, Director of Acute Services for the Southern Trust said: "Around 300 people in Northern Ireland are currently on the list for a transplant and nationally, three people die every day whilst waiting for a suitable organ. Organ donation saves and enhances lives, so we in the Trust are keen to encourage people to sign up to the donor register. On behalf of the Trust I would like to thank all of those who rose to this cycling challenge to promote the important message of organ donation."
Local Ulster Unionist MLA Jo-Anne Dobson participated in the Lifecycle. Her son Mark has undergone a kidney transplant and she has had a long association with the Northern Ireland Kidney Patients Association, one of the charities involved in the Transplant Forum. Jo-Anne said: "The Lifecycle is a wonderful way of promoting the issue of organ donation, encouraging more people to sign the organ donor register and keeping fit at the same time! My son Mark is one of the fortunate ones and as the mother of a transplant patient his story is one which I never tire of telling. When you have an up-close and personal encounter with how transplants can really save lives you can't help but support initiatives such as this which do so much to increase the number of people signing the Organ Donor Register. I would like to commend the organisers including William Johnston and the management and staff of the Southern Trust for the support of this event and for encouraging people to give the gift of life."
Joining the New Lifecycle at Daisy Hill Hospital local Ulster Unionist MLA and Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy said: "The Lifecycle is a wonderful way of increasing the number of people who sign the Organ Donor Register and of spreading the important message that pledging to donate an organ really can 'Give the Gift of Life.'
"I commend the excellent work of the charities of the Transplant Forum who have gone to great lengths in planning the Lifecycle - their dedication and enthusiasm is there for all to see. In the New Lifecycle, they have developed a superb way of promoting the cause of organ donation whilst keeping fit at the same time."
To join the NHS Organ Donor Register and give the gift of life, log on to www.organdonation.nhs.uk or call 1300123 123.


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Yes, you read that right, Silent Radio does have a radio show, and yes, we do get the irony of it.
We've been broadcasting our weekly show for almost 4 years (yikes) and like all good musical outfits, we're due an image change.
So, bear with us, whilst we tinker with our format.
Watch this space!
In the meantime, enjoy our weekly mixtapes of Manchester gigs and discover your new favourite.
You can listen to all the previous shows / mixtapes again below, or via the App.
The Silent Radio Show 18/07/2015 with Lois Macdonald from PINS
We were joined in the studio this week by Lois Macdonald from PINS to talk about both recent and upcoming tour dates and the new PINS album 'Wild Nights'. We also took the opportunity to conduct Lois's quarterly review, it being exactly 3 months since she last joined us on air.
In addition to all that we still found the time to cram in loads of great music from the bands heading to Manchester on tour and making the Silent Radio headlines this week.
Our radio show goes out live every Saturday 3-5 on Fab Radio International.


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I'm strictly there until 12.30 only because we are flying back to Edinburgh the same afternoon. If you are within striking distance of Cirencester I'd love to see you - I'll be signing books but I'm also happy to chat and answer questions!
Saturday, April 14, 2012
I'm delighted to say that I shall be doing a book signing next Saturday 21st April 2012, from 11am until 12.30pm at Octavia's Bookshop, 24 Black Jack Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2AA. Tel. 01285 650677
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Impact Canada Ministries, Inc is the new name of the Saskatoon tract distribution ministry known for 74 years as Western Tract Mission, Inc. Impact Canada is celebrating its name change at the annual Music/Dessert Night to be held at the Rock of Ages Church, on April 4. To help them, they have arranged a concert by the Blue Collar Harmony Boys, a quartet from the MacGregor area in Manitoba, and partly from Saskatoon.
The four quartet members of the Blue Collar Harmony Boys are Andrew and Steven Doerksen, their cousin, Nathan Doerksen, and a mutual friend, Andrew Dyck. These men are farmers or work at blue collar jobs, getting a good reputation for their acapella songs and country gospel. They recorded their first self-titled album in British Columbia just recently.
The quartet grew up together at MacGregor, attending the same school, and playing hockey together. Their first time singing together was at a fundraiser in 2005. Since then the Blue Collar Harmony Boys have sung at various Gospel Music Jamborees in both Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and are building a following that really likes their music. Two years ago they managed to get on stage at the Canadian Gospel Music Celebration in Red Deer, Alberta. (You may get to know them better through. Facebook).
Impact Canada is all about reaching out to families; this four-some are all family men too. The brothers, Andrew and Steven Doerksen, both work on farms near MacGregor, and have young families. Each, with their wives, have one child, with Andrew and his wife Rylee expecting a second child in August.
The cousin, Nathan Doerksen, is a mechanic at Sherwood Chevrolet in Saskatoon. He and his wife have two daughters, Micaiah and Jorja, and are expecting another child in June.
Andrew Dyck, their friend, works as a Personal Life Skills Coach for the Pine Creek School Division near MacGregor. Andrew and his wife, Jenny, just welcomed baby Madalyn in February.
The Blue Collar Harmony Boys will present two packages of music for a total of 40 minutes, around the ministry's announcement about their name change, and some quick reports on present work projects.
Western Tract Mission did systematic mailings by postal codes for many years, in fact, under the very name, Impact Canada. Distributing the gospel through printed booklets and tracts is not the only activity this ministry has, and since the younger generation has trouble grasping what tracts are, the Board felt that it was time for a new name that could include all that they do, such as the Mailbox Club, Enrichment Bible Courses, Scripture Signs, and their online presence with several websites. The websites include westerntractmission.org with well over 1000 pages of content, and a new one going up, inpact-canada.org, plus there are plans for another for the Enrichment Courses, which are likely to go online with an interactive study format.
All are heartily invited to the Music/Dessert Night, at Rock of Ages Church, 130 Kingsmere Place, Saskatoon, on April 4, at 7 pm. A free-will offering will be received for the Impact Canada mailing, which will go out later this year.


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Friday, December 17, 2010
Friendly Friday!!!
As I said in my last post...Tradition is a word that seems to pop up a lot at this time of the year. We talked about traditional foods and recipes that our family looks forward to each year. But there are other types of traditions as well.
Our family has a big party every year and we invite all of our friends and family to come but to get in you have to bring a toy for the Toy's For Tot's drive.It is something very dear to my heart.
We take our children and grandchildren to see the lights at Temple Square.
And for pie and hot chocolate afterwards at the local Village Inn.
Traditions can be something you just started and plan to continue each year or something that has been passed down for generations. Different cultures have different Holiday traditions.
I know a friend of mine who is German and they hide an ornament that looks like a pickle some place on the tree and the first person to find it wins a prize.
Kissing under the mistletoe is a very old tradition. I was going to research it and find out it's roots but hey it's the week before Christmas and who has that kind of time....LOL
There have been songs and poems written about it. Relationships have started with that first sweet kiss under the mistletoe. Arguments forgotten, and families started all because of this wonderful thing called mistletoe.
OK, I did say you could win something right? So here it is....a beautiful Mistletoe Kissing Crystal.
Hang it up year after year and let the smooching begin. Just share with me some of your family traditions and one....awww....it's Christmas...make it TWO lucky people will win one of their very own!!
Remember...you can't win if you don't play!! You just have to be a follower or become one and leave me a message about your family traditions!!
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That picture of the SL temple is killer! Did you take it? Sounds like a wonderful tradition and I love the service worked in there too!ReplyDelete
We grew up with an aunt that never married and she had Christmas Eve at her house and gave everyone, that was over 30 people a gift which we opened after a big sit down dinner. Everyone wore their new Christmas outfits. Now she is gone, but I have continued on with a formal sit down dinner in your holiday best. We open one or two gifts, usually nighties and calendars we have made with photos of everyone. It is like carrying on her tradition.
I have a pickle on my tree too! With a name like mine, it's not shocking though. Lol.ReplyDelete
I'm a follower, and my favorite christmas tradition is making gingerbread houses with all the family and having a contest who makes the best house.ReplyDelete
We have always loved coming to your Toys for Tots party! You are awesome to do something like that for your friends and for the community! We have several traditions and all of them are simple... a couple of them are...I make my special chocolate peanut clusters (it isn't Christmas without them), and then on Christmas eve, we go out to dinner. When the kids were little, mom was too tired to do dinner on Christmas eve, so we took the kids to their favorite place, McDonald's, for dinner. We have since graduated to a nicer place for dinner, but it is still nice for mom to not have to cook since I am usually trying to put the finishing touches on all the Christmas plans.ReplyDelete
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One of my favorite traditions is the 12 days of Christmas. We select 3 families every year to secretly do a "12 days of Christmas" for. It is so much fun to be sneaky and try to never get caught! My most favorite part of doing this is that I have found when we are secretly serving others, my own family seems to get along better, they are more helpful and kind to each other (and a house full of teenagers.. that is tricky!) The true "Christmas" spirit seems to come out in our house and the excitement builds. I think I'm going to make this a monthly tradition!... the 12 days of winter, the 12 days of Valentines... you get the idea... I wonder if it will still be magical. :)
Thanks for the opportunity to reflect upon traditions... sometimes I think we tend to take them for granted....
Merry Christmas!
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2010 at 6:59 PM
We probably do all the same traditions that most everyone else does although they seem to vary slightly from year to year. My favorite traditions are the ones from growing up. My dad was ruthless on Christmas morning. He'd tack a sheet up at the end of the hallway so no one could get up in the middle of the night to peek. He'd set a time that we could be ready by, like 9:00 a.m. We had to get up and get all ready, including make our beds, before we could holler for him to come get us. He'd blindfold each of us and usher us upstairs where we had to eat a FULL breakfast. THEN we had to line up at the top of the stairs, youngest to oldest, and then (I swear my mom did this on purpose)there was always the "Oh wait - I need to get scissors." "Oh wait - I need to get batteries." "Oh wait - we forgot to get that other present to take down." Then we could finally stampede down the stairs to see what Santa brought. My dad made Christmas last forever. We'd spend a good hour or two just looking at the stuff Santa gave us before we moved on to opening gifts. It was brutal at the time but I sure do look back on it as a fond memory. And actually, to this day, we still do that when we go to my parents house for Christmas. We always go for brunch and then "line up" at the top of the stairs until everyone is ready and then head down to open gifts - which he still makes last all afternoon! It's awesome! Christmas lasts forever that way!ReplyDelete
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