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Posted on 12/17/2001 7:01:18 AM PST by white trash redneck
When "Ibn Warraq," the pseudonymous Muslim apostate, visited the United States after September 11, one of his first stops was the White House. There, he enjoyed an hour-and-a-half lunch with President Bush's chief economic speechwriter, David Frum. Though Warraq confirms the meeting and has told supporters about it, Frum refuses to discuss it "in any way," perhaps because it suggests that some in the administration just don't buy the president's claim that Islam is a "peaceful" religion. Warraq has made a name for himself (and lost the one he was born with) by becoming Islam's most outspoken critic.
His controversial 1995 book Why I Am Not a Muslim makes Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses look like bush-league blasphemy. A dense treatise modeled after Bertrand Russell's famous 1927 essay "Why I Am Not a Christian," the work presents a strident historical, moral, and philosophical indictment of Islam and advocates not just a firm separation of mosque and state but outright atheism.
It's also enjoying a vibrant second life. Since the World Trade Center massacre, Why I Am Not a Muslim has shot onto Amazon.com's top-25 list of titles on Islam. Traditionally, U.S. liberals have shown far more interest in creating secular societies, but much of the interest in Warraq comes from the political right--from the ideological allies of Franklin Graham, the Christian evangelist who recently dubbed Islam a "very evil and wicked religion"; and from conservative, pro-Israeli Jews like Frum and Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, who wrote a piece in The Weekly Standard in 1996 calling Warraq's book a "quite brilliant...indictment of one of the world's great religions."
WorldNetDaily.com--a Web site that runs columns from Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan and articles with titles such as "Jesus Says Pack Heat...The Bible and self-defense"--now sells Why I Am Not a Muslim through its catalog. The irony of fundamentalist Christians purchasing this atheistic tome is not lost on Warraq, who comments, "The Christian right will find my book extremely embarrassing." Indeed, he makes a similar point in the book:
An Algerian friend, a well-educated Muslim...came across Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian" while looking through my books. He pounced on it with evident glee. As I learned later, he apparently considered Russell's classic to be a great blow to Christianity; at no time was my friend aware that Russell's arguments applied, mutatis mutandis, to Islam.
In person, Ibn Warraq seems an unlikely candidate to become Islam's Tom Paine. His previous occupations include teaching primary school, working as a tour guide, and running a restaurant; he freely confesses, "I really do not wish to spend my life being a professional Islam basher." I first met Warraq two years ago in Amherst, New York, while working for Free Inquiry and Skeptical Inquirer magazines. (Although my boss at the time, Paul Kurtz, separately runs Prometheus Books, Warraq's publisher, I have never worked for Prometheus.) When I next saw him, again in Amherst, last November, he was convening a meeting of anti-Muslim dissidents from Iran, Bangladesh, and other Islamic countries. Many of the attendees came across as starkly angry ("My target is to get rid of Islam," huffed the Iranian-born activist Parvin Darabi) and more than a little paranoid (the group held a long discussion on how to prevent Muslims from secretly infiltrating their ranks). Warraq seemed by far the most moderate, courtly, and conciliatory person present.
Admittedly, some dispute this description. Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says that he has only skimmed Warraq's Why I Am Not a Muslim, but observes: "The fact that his book is being promoted by hate-mongers is interesting." And it's true that Warraq occasionally takes a taunting tone. But at more than 400 pages of mostly airless prose, Why I Am Not a Muslim is predominantly argument. As for ad hominems, Warraq remarks at the book's outset that, following the Rushdie affair, the Muslim world needs to learn to live with such unfettered speech and asserts his "right to criticize everything and anything in Islam--even to blaspheme, to make errors, to satirize, and mock."
Those in most Western countries have the right to criticize their predominant religion (Christianity) in a way that those in Muslim countries don't; this stems in part from the tradition of religious dissent that ushered in the Protestant Reformation and continues to inform Christian scholarly revision. Andrew Rippin, a Koran specialist who is dean of the faculty of humanities at the University of Victoria in Canada, says that "what some people call the Reformation in Islam, the counterpart to the Christian Reformation--that hasn't occurred yet." Warraq and his ilk hope that such a Reformation will draw fuel from the work of Islamic revisionists (inspired by the British expert John Wansbrough), who today find themselves in the delicate position of asserting that the Koran--which Muslims claim to be the infallible word of God--is actually a mishmash of oral traditions that evolved over several centuries.
Not all revisionists see themselves as Warraq's allies. One scholar has called his book "religious polemic masquerading as scholarship" and worried that it would "raise suspicions among some Muslims that all revisionist scholarship is motivated by intolerance."
Yet Warraq's basic critique, which finds something fundamentally (though perhaps not uniquely) intolerant about doctrinal Islam--rendering it inimical to women's rights, freedom of thought and expression, and other modern liberties--does not differ so starkly from the views expressed by Bernard Lewis, the Princeton Islam guru, in his now-canonical 1990 Atlantic Monthly essay "The Roots of Muslim Rage." Traditional Muslims believe that their duty is to bring all unbelievers to Islam, explains Lewis: "Islam was never prepared, either in theory or in practice, to accord full equality to those who held other beliefs and practiced other forms of worship."
So why has Warraq been embraced by the political right in this country rather than the civil-rights-conscious left?
Warraq contends that because of the work of Edward Said and other theorists, the American left has "been scared of being called colonialists and imperialists" and so has adopted a guilt-ridden shyness about Islam. Yet liberals in other Western countries have been more open to his views: Warraq has recently contributed a commentary to the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian; in October, Australia's Radio National devoted an entire Religion Report program to interviewing him. As one Islamic historian put it, "At least until September 11, the place where it was the most difficult to criticize Islam was in America."
But if the American left is confused or afraid, Christian conservatives are sowing a whirlwind by circulating Warraq's atheist tract. WorldNetDaily.com's editor and CEO, Joseph Farah, admits that when it comes to those Christians who buy Why I Am Not a Muslim through his site, "I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are shocked." The secularization and reformation of Islam, after all, will hardly yield many Christian converts.
Religion thrives in the United States largely because of church-state separation; Islam in particular has benefited through this openness. Ibn Warraq's critique, says Rippin, leaves open the door for a "modernist Muslim thought, the same as within Christianity." Grappling with a book like Why I Am Not a Muslim may not only make Islam more tolerant--it could make it stronger.
The left is rudderless so they will be looking for many an avenue to establish some kind of relevancy; it wise for those on the right to follow these intellectual trial balloons.
Warraq's point is that Islam has gotten a pass on criticism in the West for various reasons (buy the book for details) and a pass in Islamic countries because, well, the critic will be executed.
As a Christian I look at Warraq's book as a resource about Islam from a Muslim who had taken a closer look at the faith and sees that it does indeed have some problems and there need to be answers. I also place Warraq in the same camp as the disaffected Christian writing a book on the abuses of denomination "X".
The Bible has already gone through numerous cycles of textual criticism over the past couple hundred years and has weathered the critiques pretty well. The Qur'an has yet to go through that process, and that is Warraq's point.
For those who don't want to purchase the book but would still like more information about Christianity and Islam, take a look at Answering Islam.
It's also significant that any hope for reform of Islam will almost certainly come from the West, because it's only in Western countries that Muslims have even a chance of safely leaving Islam.
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By Caroline Fiennes and Ehren Reed
Some charities are better than others, so we should find the good ones. On that we can all agree. We should support the charities that will be most effective in addressing the world's pressing problems. And understanding that effectiveness requires measurement. But a reliance on quantitative analysis, which is helpful in understanding some charities, could prevent us from finding ones that are doing important, system-changing work.
The charities which are easiest to measure are those whose work is proximate to the beneficiary. They distribute mosquito nets to families in sub-Saharan Africa or deliver wheelchairs to disabled children. Their theory of change – the link between their work and the intended benefit – is simple. The intervention is well understood, the outcome is predictable, and most of the variables are clear. From a funder's perspective, the risk is low.
These interventions are like machines, and advertise themselves as such. Three dollars in = one bed net out. Five pounds in = one case of diarrhoea avoided. Cause and effect are clear. They operate within a system in which the relevant factors are known.
Working within complex systems
But a lot of important work done by charities is quite different. It involves trying to change legislation to outlaw discrimination; it's research to uncover the human genome; it's changing societal attitudes on same sex couples. These efforts aim to change the system. Here, success depends on factors which are unseen, often unknowable, and mainly beyond the charity's control. The causal chains are long and uncertain.
Working on hard problems within highly complex systems, a charity's results can take ages to materialize. Even then, the results may not be predictable, attributable, or even measurable.
Yet this is probably the most consequential work that a donor can enable. In 2006, the Institute for Philanthropy surveyed a thousand experts on UK philanthropy's greatest achievements. The resulting list is dominated by system-changing work: campaigns which ended the slave trade, created the welfare state, and ensured universal education. This type of work generates effects that are much broader and more profound than delivering services to a limited group of recipients.
There's frequently a trade-off. The more certainty a donor wants about results, the smaller they will be. If she'll accept more uncertainty, by operating further away from beneficiaries and engaging more with the system around them, the ultimate effect may be greater. In other words, if donors limit their risk, they may simultaneously limit their return.
Furthermore, philanthropy is uniquely able to fund these kinds of system-changing efforts, since governments and companies are inherently more risk averse and less likely to support them.
Moneyball philanthropy?
It has become trendy to liken effective philanthropy to Moneyball, the strategy pioneered by the Oakland Athletics baseball team, which involved choosing players based on statistical analysis instead of experts' intuition.
But the analogy doesn't hold. In baseball, the playing field is bounded, the rules are clear, the results are immediately evident, and the variables are visible and knowable. The Moneyball approach worked because the system was reasonably simple. Certainly the same approach can help to analyse charities whose work is based on simple models of cause and effect. The charities recommended by analysts like GiveWell, for example, can all show what they achieve for £10, though none of them has much effect beyond their immediate beneficiaries.
But the Moneyball approach is hopeless for assessing charities trying to change the system. Take the work of Global Witness in exposing the economic networks behind conflict, corruption and environmental destruction around the world. The ultimate value of their work, in terms of lives saved and natural resources protected, is literally incalculable.
Unintended danger
The Moneyball approach – like much of the current debate in philanthropic sectors on how to define and measure impact – is dangerous because it leads donors to seek out only the most easily provable results. It pushes them towards interventions within the current system and beguiles them into thinking that the best charities must be able to produce simple cost-benefit figures.
As we've seen, this approach would have precluded some of philanthropy's greatest successes. Many of us owe our liberty, our freedom of speech, and our education to such philanthropy. We'd be crazy to sacrifice these kinds of achievements in pursuit of an immediate "return on investment."
Giving slowly
Two factors complicate effective philanthropy. The first is that it involves making decisions under considerable uncertainty. Because donors have finite resources, they must decide between competing activities. Yet as we've seen, many determining factors are in principle unknowable when working within complex systems: basic medical research may be stellar or may find nothing; a campaign to ban handguns will rely on political will which may or may not materialise.
The second complicating factor is that human brains love shortcuts, and are much better at making decisions which don't require much thought. Indeed, as Daniel Kahneman explains in Thinking, Fast and Slow, we often fail to notice that many decisions require proper thought and instead make them on the fly, leading to predictable errors. Charities whose work is based on simple theories of change don't require much thought. Those whose work is more complex require that we take proper time to make good decisions.
In the end, this shouldn't be surprising. Philanthropy is about making the world a better place. And making the world a better place is going to be a lot more difficult than winning a baseball game. Let's not let an idea like Moneyball distract us from the challenge.
About the authors
Caroline Fiennes is Director of Giving Evidence, a consultancy and campaign that promotes giving based on sound evidence. She is author of It Ain't What You Give, It's The Way That You Give It.
Ehren Reed is the Research and Evaluation Officer at the Skoll Foundation. He assesses the impact and effectiveness of the Foundation's efforts in order to support ongoing learning and evidence-based decision making. Twitter: @EhrenReed


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From the dais looking out into the audience of about 1,200 at the NIAF 38th Anniversary Gala in the Washington Hilton Hotel's International Ballroom, masters of ceremonies Maria Bartiromo and Joe Piscopo told guests how "incredibly delighted" they were to be at the event where so many people were celebrating the heritage, legacy and rich culture of Italian Americans.
Bartiromo, the Emmy Award-winning journalist and CNBC Anchor, told a brief story of her family starting with her grandfather coming to America in 1919, then added, "So that is my history and why I'm so proud to be with you because the Italian American identity and culture and tradition is the fabric of who I am."
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The pre-dinner awards ceremony presenting NIAF's 2013 Honorees started with a series of videos about the lives and achievements of each honoree on the ballroom's gigantic screens. As Piscopo said, each of the honorees "remind of us what can be done with hard work and perseverance"—the work ethic handed down by parents and grandparents.
The first two of this year's honorees was President and CEO of Bracco S.p.A. Diana Bracco, who received the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Philanthropy. "This NIAF award reflects my personal love and deep admiration for this country," said Bracco in her acceptance speech, announcing a $100,000 scholarship for research for Italian Americans or Italians residing in the United States. She also warmly invited all to the EXPO Milano 2015.
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Proceeds from NIAF's Anniversary Weekend events will benefit NIAF's educational programs. Mark your calendars for October 18-19, 2014, when we celebrate NIAF's 39th Anniversary Weekend in Washington, D.C.
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HaRav Shalom Arush's Garden of Peace, the book about shalom bayit (peace in the home, or marital bliss).
The Garden of Peace, Rabbi Shalom Arush's marital guide for men. The benefits that a husband will attain both on a spiritual and a material level defy description, once a husband gets to the root of his marital problems and makes his wife first place in his life. The nagging and complaints will disappear, as well as the petty requests and the demands on his time. The husband will feel the benefit of Divine assistance and will succeed in whatever he does. Translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody.


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The battle to control your car's smart functions has begun – and Google has teamed up with some big car companies in an attempt to make Android the go-to platform for in-car apps.
Today, the company announced that it has formed the Open Automotive Alliance with General Motors, Honda, Audi, Hyundai and Nvidia. The group will work together to promote a common, purpose-built, Android-based platform for in-car entertainment, and says the first cars equipped with it will be on sale by the end of 2014.
The OAA's press release is light on specifics about the platform itself, but says it wants to make in-car technology "safer and more intuitive for everyone", and that the modified version of Android "will allow automakers to more easily bring cutting-edge technology to their drivers, and create new opportunities for developers to deliver powerful experiences for drivers and passengers".
The OAA also says that it's keen to recruit more car manufacturers and technology companies to its cause.
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Here's a way to understand the otherwise seemingly arcane debate about whether to raise revenues by limiting deductions or raising tax rates.
An upper-income Texan probably does not have very many deductions. The deduction for state and local taxes does not much interest Texans. There's no state income tax. The total state and local tax burden ranks 45th in the nation, according to the Tax Foundation.
Nor is the mortgage interest deduction a matter of life or death. Housing prices are comparatively cheap, even in the most expensive neighborhoods. (The median home price in River Oaks, Houston, is $931,000, according to this Realtor website.)
What Texas does have, however, is a lot of very high incomes who care a great deal about tax rates.
A New Yorker or Californian earning the same high income as that Texan, on the other hand, does pay a lot of state & local taxes, and likely carries a more substantial mortgage.
Deductions vs. rates is a Red State rich vs. Blue State rich battle.
It is also, as I outlined during the campaign, a battle between "ordinary rich" and super-rich: deductions matter a lot more to people earning $400,000 than to people earning $4 million or $40 million.


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In Compostela Valley, in the southern Philippines, a river streaked many shades of brown cuts through farmland and jungle brush to release its muck into the sea. The slurry swells around the coastline, muddying the emerald waters. The source of the blight is an eroded mountainside peppered with blue tarps and tiny shacks, a gold mine nestled among green hills. About 600 families reside on its steep slope, eking out a living by half-grams of gold.
They are, technically, squatters. An American company, St. Augustine Gold & Copper, holds the rights to this mountain and those surrounding it. In their place, the company wants to build massive pits to get at the estimated 962 million tons of precious metals beneath. They also promise to clean the river, plant trees and create jobs. It is a massive undertaking that will dramatically alter the landscape and displace the thousands of workers who have been mining in the area, and fueling the local economy, since the 1980s.
The Philippine government, for its part, is rooting for the American firm, grounded in the belief that large-scale mining can be a golden engine of economic growth. Corporate mining permits have multiplied under President Benigno Aquino III, and new mining rules filed by his administration this week will place new restrictions on where and what small-scale miners can mine. But many Filipinos, especially those from mining communities, are wary of his plans. They want an overhaul of current mining laws. They also want a bigger piece of the profit.
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What's happening in the Philippines is echoing across a region where fast-growing economies are weighing the costs and benefits of extractive industries. Indonesia this year imposed a whopping 20% tax on mineral exports and, in an effort to foster domestic downstream industries, now limits shipments of raw materials. Mining companies are, naturally, critical of the turn, saying it discourages foreign investment. What good are high taxes, after all, if there are no investors to pay them? There's a flip side to that: What good are investors if there is nothing to mine?
The Philippines, of course, has plenty to mine. Loaded with mineral wealth (worth about $840 billion), it boasts some of the largest untapped gold and copper deposits in the region. Unfortunately, it has not always been the friendliest place to do this kind of business. In Mindanao, which holds more than a third of the country's gold and houses all its insurgencies, mining operations are susceptible to attacks and extortion from rebel groups. Noncomplying companies have lost millions of dollars' worth of equipment to vandalism and arson. The government has long offered generous incentives — extremely low taxes, state-funded security, low accountability — to entice foreign investment.
With adequate taxation, big mining could indeed fuel the economic growth the country needs. But environmentalists, local leaders and even the influential Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines have taken a stand against large-scale mineral extraction. Besides obvious environmental concerns, they fear that big mining will displace indigenous tribes and squelch the small-scale industry that has historically contributed the bulk of mining tax revenues. On top of that, they argue, bureaucratic inefficiencies — and likely graft and corruption — prevents what little mining revenue is collected from making its way back to communities. As a result, at least 20 governors have banned some form of large-scale mining in their provinces.
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The tension unfolding around St. Augustine's Compostela Valley project underscores what's at stake nationally. Just 1½ years old, the project has received endorsements from every level of government, a requirement under the 1995 mining law. It stands to be the largest single mining operation in the country's history (if a mining ban halting the nearby Tampakan Gold-Copper Project holds up). Its executives say it's setting a new standard of socially responsible mining: hiring from the local population, planning postmine rehabilitation and promoting reforestation. It also spends about $20,000 per month on community-development efforts, according to Clyde Gillespie, the company's environmental and permitting director, who also pointed out that no law requires them to do so. "What we're doing now in the community is totally voluntary," he says. "We think it's the right thing to do."
But local leaders from affected barangays, or villages, remain skeptical. "I have 100% doubts," says Captain Ferdinand Dultra, a leader of Barangay Magnaga, which endorsed the project after the company reportedly donated 500,000 pesos to the construction of a barangay hall. (Officials say the donation did not affect their decision.) While several leaders said that they appreciate the company's investment in the community, they also point out that mining reform might secure similar community benefits while guaranteeing corporate accountability. "It is very risky for us to support large-scale mining," says Elvie Baliar, a local leader from Barangay Tambangon who also endorsed the company's exploration bid. "Six hundred households will be affected. They are in the area since 1987."
Under the 1995 law, small miners with a historical claim to an area can petition for Minahang Bayan, or "People's Mining," permits. The miners from this area began applying for such permits in the 1980s, without success. Then, in 1992, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) granted a permit to Nationwide Development Corp., a Philippine logging company that is now partnered with St. Augustine. From that point on, every miner on the mountain has been "illegal."
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Alexander Josol is one of those miners. He used to be a farmer, but now operates his own tunnel, for which he pays royalties to the local indigenous council. The work is more dangerous than farming (a mining-related landslide in January killed 40 people), but the pay is decent. With his experience, he's the sort of miner that St. Augustine might hire. But Josol says he doesn't have the mechanical skill to work in an open-pit and would also earn less as an employee than as an independent miner, as the latter pays by the gold gram rather than by the hour. He is working with about two dozen small-scale-mining leaders to oppose St. Augustine's project and secure the right to remain on the mountain. They want the government to back off of large-scale projects and instead invest in the small-scale industry, helping artisanal miners work more safely and efficiently.
Others just want better regulation of big mines. Under the 1995 mining law, foreign companies typically pay no income tax, no export tax and just 2% excise tax — which is in large part why mining takes up less than 2% of the country's GDP. That taxes are determined by self-reported production figures presents another obvious problem: underreporting of production. From 2000 to 2008, reported mineral production was between 17% and 45% lower than actual mineral exports, according to a 2010 study commissioned by Action for Economic Reforms. The lack of oversight behind such a discrepancy is a major criticism of the existing mining law. Father Edwin Gariguez, who won the 2012 Goldman Prize, a prestigious international environmental award, for his work on mining, argues that Aquino gives too much weight to the regulatory power of government agencies. He says most agencies don't have the capacity or the will to enforce the law.
The IMF, which once called for the cheap privatization of the country's natural resources, now recommends that the Philippines revise its mining tax scheme. Executives at St. Augustine acknowledge that the Philippines' liberal mining laws and low taxation are part of what attracted the company to the region, but Gillespie argues that stricter regulation and "reasonably" higher taxes wouldn't necessarily turn them off. The payoff is too huge. "If you can get in here and get established, you'll be in pretty good shape in the long term," says St. Augustine chief operating officer Tom Henderson, of the country's mineral potential.
The President, who has long promised to reform the industry, this week filed the implementing rules for his new executive order on mining. They do not include provisions on revenue sharing, protected habitats or ecotourism zones. Other stakeholders have taken matters into their own hands, introducing three alternative mining bills at the Philippine Congress (House bills 4379, 6342 and 4315), each more radical than the next in their attempt to reform the industry. These alternatives are supported by the Catholic Bishops' Conference, environmental groups and indigenous rights organizations, who feel that any one of these measures would add teeth to the President's plan.
Whether Aquino will respond favorably to the popular call, or uphold the decades-long status quo, remains to be seen. But what happens in the Philippines could set a new standard for extractive industries in other parts of the world.
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Adam was going to be joining me for the ten days as well, so we arranged to meet just up from the start of the dirt road off Sierra Ave at the east end of the range. Arriving during the wee hours of the night, Adam was already there when I pulled in for about 5 hours of sleep. We were up at 6a, soon arranged for a second seat in Adam's Escape, and together drove up the long road to San Sevaine. It was 7a before we reached the radio tower just west of San Sevaine, but found no road or trail to our peak as expected. The weather was overcast (it had rained some the previous day, but forecast to start clearing), the recent precipitation leaving wisps of low cloud and fog over parts of the area.
A closer reading of the HPS directions had us driving back down from the tower a short distance, parking at the saddle and the junction with the old road leading to San Sevaine. It was hardly believable that a trail still existed, let alone an old roadbed, but sure enough a use trail led around an earthen berm and onto the old road. Now heavily overgrown, Adam and I joked about Mars Bonfire's lack of attention to the grooming of this route. The brush was rather wet from rain and dew and it did not take much to get our pants fairly damp. Cold but not quite miserable, we arrived at the site of the old lookout tower after about 40 minutes' effort. The register we found dated back only a year, the previous one dating to 1981 having now disappeared. To no great surprise, Mar's name appeared on all four pages of the register, having visited the summit 8 times now in the past year.
By the time we had returned to the car we were much wetter, Adam far wetter than I, as I was happy to let him lead both directions and therefore take in most of the water from the brush. He may have caught on to my ruse, but either out of politeness or ignorance he didn't complain that I was using him for a sponge. From his pants pocket Adam pulled a wadded clump of unreadable wet paper, all that remained of his map. Good thing that San Sevaine required little navigation skills.
Again following the HPS guide, we drove west to the saddle southeast of Buck Point and prepared for another short hike, this one not even 15 minutes in length. Following a use trail along the ridge, we hiked through some thin patches of snow enroute to the 6,400-foot summit. Snow had fallen earlier in the week but the recent rains were already doing there best to wash what remained away. The views are modest at best, with Cucamonga/Etiwanda rising high to the west and the LA Basin off to the south. The register was set amongst a small cairn near a solar installation. It dated to 2003, placed by Mars, to no great surprise. We dutifully signed the register and headed back.
It was nearly 11a by the time we had driven back down the Forest Service road, picked up my van and reached the pavement below. We drove north on Interstate 15 to the Cleghorn Rd exit, just south of Cajon Junction. Cleghorn Rd is a good dirt road that most vehicles can negotiate, designated FS Route 2N47. We left the van here and drove up again in Adam's Escape, the standard pattern that would be repeated for much of the trip. There was to be very little actual hiking during the day, even easier than the two peaks we'd already visited, a fact that caused no little embarassment. Such is the danger of chasing the HPS peaks.
Like the previous dirt road, this one was long and winding but with much better views as one climbs higher on the west side of the San Bernardino Mtns, overlooking Mt. Baldy and the other high summits of the San Gabriels to the west. We were passed by a pair of motorcyclists who we'd see again at the end of the day, and only one other party that we'd see along these lonely stretches of road. Once the route gains enough altitude it turns east to follow the long, undulating ridgeline in that direction towards Silverwood Lake. There are few trees and the views are open both north and south, and quite impressive.
45 minutes from the highway along this road brought us to the east side of Cleghorn Mtn, the first stop on this leg of our journey. There was no need to bring water or packs as the "hike" took all of three minutes to scramble up through easy brush to the summit. There is a spur dirt road access on the west side of the peak but we had missed that on our drive, to little detriment. The summit was clear, affording fine views north to the Mojave Desert as far as the snow-capped Sierra and west to Mt. Baldy. Views south were primarily of the higher ridgeline on that side of the range, Cajon Mtn on one end and other peaks further east. The register was a haphazard collection of paper dating back a decade to which we added our names somewhere.
More driving. We had to drive all the way to Silverwood Lake and SR138, then south, then west on another dirt road (2N49) towards Cajon Mtn. Ironically, our route would take us within half a mile of Cleghorn Mtn and our previous route, but alas there was no magic connector to save us the 1.5hrs of driving. It was 1:30p by the time we'd made our way to the road junction east of Cajon Mtn. The spur road was gated, requiring us to hike the half hour west along the road towards the communications/lookout tower located at the terminus. The highpoint of Cajon Mtn is located just east of this facility, so following the HPS recommendation, we we hiked to the saddle between the two points, then left the road to climb the last few minutes along a use trail to the summit. We found another Mars' register, this one dating to 1998, signed it, took a sampling of pictures, then started back. Rather than return to the saddle I talked Adam into a direct descent down the north side to the road, the only real excitement we had all day. The slope was steep and covered in 8-foot high brush and the remnants of a much taller and older chaparral that had burned some years earlier. By slightly different routes we used gravity to our advantage to crash our way downwards to the road in three or four minutes, laughing each time the other would cry out while tripping over a branch or getting jabbed by buckthorn.
Back in the car, we did more driving to the equally lame peaks of Sugarpine Mtn, Bailey, and Monument Peak. Sugarpine took all of three minutes to summit, Bailey four minutes, and Monument not even one. Sugarpine was broad and flat, not much for aesthetics or views. East of Sugarpine is Bailey, the latest HPS peak and the highest point in the whole area (not sure why it never qualified before). Bailey was the only one of the three that had a register, this one comprising the Sierra Club waiver used by the party that had left it. We also paid a visit to nearby Bailey BM to the southeast for no other reason than to get a picture of the benchmark. Monument Peak was the last peak on the ridgeline, and the easiest. There was no register, but it had a benchmark and a monument (big surprise there, eh?) for the Mohave Indian Trail that once went over the range here. An added bonus was a steering wheel nailed to a tree where we parked. The views from monument were probably the best of the peaks we climbed, but the lateness of the day had haze and low clouds over much of the LA Basin.
By now it was 3:45p and we figured we might have time for Jobs Peak, a long ago delisted HPS summit that is mostly developed. Going against the advice of the signs that told us the road was closed, we drove down Sawpit Canyon to the development that is Cedarpines Park. With only a topo map in hand, we managed to negotiate the myriad of roads and find our way to the top of Jobs Peak Road (all summits should have such conveniently named roads, no?). A large water tower crowns the summit, surrounded by a hefty amount of barbed-wire. With the aid of a nearby utility building, this minor obstacle was easily overcome and we celebrated our last peak of the day atop the summit rocks just east of the tower.
Eight peaks in less than eight miles - hardly enough to stretch the legs and more of an embarassment, as previously mentioned. We would have to do better in the coming days. On our way south we stopped in Riverside for dinner at a Dennys along Interstate 215. Upon paying our bill I noted a little sign by the cashier advertising a 20% discount for AARP members. I had just signed up for AARP but forgotten to bring my temporary membership card - and today was actually my birthday, having just turned 50. I have to get better at taking advantage of the few bright spots in being old.
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Beth Wellington is a Roanoke, Virginia based poet and journalist. She is a contributing editor to the New River Free Press, a book reviewer for the Roanoke Times and a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) and the Appalachian Studies Association. From 1980 to 1997, she was the founding Executive Director of New River Community Sentencing, Inc. in Christiansburg, Virginia and its predecessor, New River Community Action's Community Sentencing Program. She contributes to both SourceWatch.org and Wikipedia.org. Beth's blog on culture and politics is The Writing Corner.
May 17-19, 2006, the Nuclear Energy Institute holds its annual conference, The Nuclear Energy Assembly in San Francisco. It's theme? Buzz2Build: Turning Promise into Power. The promotional information on the website says, "The outlook for nuclear energy in the United States has never been brighter. Nine consortia or companies are preparing licenses for as many as 20 reactors. The number of reactors with renewed licenses continues to rise, and existing nuclear plants are sustaining record levels of safety and performance."
At one time, in its background paper, "Nuclear Energy: No Solution to Climate Change," Greenpeace was predicting the demise of nuclear energy. "The nuclear industry is in near-terminal decline world-wide, following its failure to establish itself as a clean, cheap, safe or reliable energy source. The on-going crisis in nuclear waste management, in safety and in economic costs have severely undermined the industry's credibility." The paper is undated, but the sources cited date back to the late 1990s.What has happened in less than ten year's time? The nuclear energy industry convinced the federal government to establish Nuclear Power 2010 (NP 2010), unveiled in 2002 as a private industry-government "cost-shared effort to identify sites for new nuclear power plants, develop and bring to market advanced nuclear plant technologies, evaluate the business case for building new nuclear power plants, and demonstrate untested regulatory processes leading to an industry decision in the next few years to seek Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval to build and operate at least one new advanced nuclear power plant in the United States" In February 2004, the Department of energy teamed up with the electric power industry to issue its Strategic Plan for Light Water Reactor Research and Development.
How did I come to learn about all this? A couple of weeks ago I was in Charlottesville, Virginia and read John Borgmeyer's article "The greening of nuclear power" in the May 2-9 C'ville, a weekly culture tabloid.
In his article, Borgmeyer mentioned the April 24 formation of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. Then I read the April 25 New York Times article, "Ex-Environmentalists Tout Nuclear Power," in which Matthew L. Wald had written that while the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition depicted itself as a grass-roots advocacy group, a spokesman for "the Nuclear Energy Institute, the trade association of reactor operators, acknowledged that it was providing all of the financing, but would not say what the budget was."
The coalition is to be headed by former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), director Christine Todd Whitman and Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore. Not only are these two ex-environmental leaders. Some have argued that they are ex-environmentalists trading their credentials for money to improve the images of known polluters.
After Whitman left the EPA on May 21, 2003, she founded a public relations firm, Whitman Strategy Group. On December 16, 2004, the Washington Post reported, "Whitman actually found herself last month lobbying her former Cabinet colleague Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton on behalf of Citgo Petroleum Corp., which wants federal protection to preserve Petty's Island, N.J., which it owns." But, according to Sourcewatch.org, "the firm's first ongoing client was FMC Corporation, 'a chemical company negotiating with the EPA over the cleanup of arsenic-contaminated soil at a factory near Buffalo, N.Y.' In a May 2005 interview, Whitman said she had not worked directly with FMC, but would likely advise them on 'how to improve their image' and gain 'access to the people they need to speak to.' FMC '"is responsible for 136 Superfund sites across the country … and has been subject to 47 EPA enforcement actions.'"
But Whitman had always been a market forces kind of "environmentalist." Perhaps that is why his former colleagues are more dismayed with Patrick Moore. After leaving Greenpeace in 1986, Moore founded the public relations firm, Greenspirit Strategies, Ltd. According to its website, Moore has spoken out in favor of pesticides, salmon farming, poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) and genetic engineering. Oh, and of course, nuclear energy. Usually he does, trotting out his role in Greenpeace without mentioning his current status as a paid spokesman for the industries involved. For some of the details, look at his website and at Eco-Traitor, Drake Bennett's March 2004 article in Wired. Also take a look at Sourcewatch.org's article.
Even those who support nuclear power argue that Moore has done the industry no favor by overstating the case. On April 16, in his work for the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, I'd assume, Moore wrote a piece published by the Washington Post, "Going Nuclear: A Green Makes the Case."
In an op-ed, "Wasted Energy," published in the April 18, 2006 New Republic Online, Michael A. Levi responded that Moore had undercut his arguments "with a series of false assertions and slippery arguments. These credibility-damaging tendencies hurt the real case for nuclear power." A fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, his bio there state that Levi's "interests center on the intersection of science, technology, and foreign policy; he is an expert on arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear and radiological weapons, and science and technology in the Islamic world." "Before joining the Council, Dr. Levi was a nonresident science fellow (2004-2006) and a science and technology fellow (2003-2004) in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. Prior to that, he was director (2002-2003) and deputy director (2001) of the Federation of American Scientists' flagship Strategic Security Project."
In other words, Levi knows a whole lot more about nuclear energy than I do, and he's not necessarily against it. I think that makes a look at his critique especially instructive, with regard to the claims made by the Clean and Safe Coalition and the Nuclear Energy Institute. For instance, Moore claims that nuclear power is inexpensive. Levi responds, "While literally true, that's a specious claim. The marginal cost of producing an additional kilowatt-hour of nuclear power using existing plants is indeed less than two pennies. But that ignores the capital costs involved in building nuclear power plants, which exceed the costs of building coal-fired facilities. Including those expenses, an MIT report (which made an honest argument for nuclear power) prices nuclear at 6.7 cents per kilowatt-hour, in contrast with only 4.2 cents for coal, nearly 40 percent lower. To be logically consistent, Moore would also have to believe that buying a house is always cheaper than renting (because property taxes and maintenance cost less than rent) and that owning a car is always cheaper than riding a bus (because gas costs less than bus fare). "Regarding Moore's implications that nuclear waste becomes safe, Levi writes, "even that reduced radioactivity still makes waste disposal difficult and costly."
Greenpeace goes further. In the previously mentioned background paper, the group says that in "even the most perfunctory examination of the issue shows that nuclear power has no role whatever in tackling global climate change. In fact quite the opposite is true; any resources expended on attempting to advance nuclear power as a viable solution would inevitably detract from genuine measures to reduce the threat of global warming."So, is nuclear energy clean and safe? As recently as May 9, the Nuclear Energy Institute agreed to voluntarily monitor radiation leaks into groundwater after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had formed a task force to study the issue at the urging of David Lochbaum, director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists and leaders of 32 other environmental groups.
On January 25, they filed a petition accepted by the NRC, to require nuclear reactor operators to provide information on their programs to detect the potential release of water contaminated with radioactive materials. On March 16, the State of Illinois sued Briarwood nuclear plant for repeated leaks that polluted water. "Faulty maintenance led to this situation and to this lawsuit," said Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
The usage of "clean and safe" in the naming of the coalition mirrors language used in 1989 by the International Solar Energy Society, as well as that in Bush's 2006 State of the Union message in announcing the Advanced Energy Initiative, "a 22-percent increase in clean-energy research — at the Department of Energy, to push for breakthroughs in two vital areas. To change how we power our homes and offices, we will invest more in zero-emission coal-fired plants, revolutionary solar and wind technologies, and clean, safe nuclear energy."Actually, according to an preliminary analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nuclear research portion of that initiative would reflect a 40% increase. The Department of Energy's section in the 2007 budget includes $54 million in 2007 for the previously mentioned Nuclear Power 2010 (NP 2010).
Ironically, the launch of the Clean and Safe Energy coalition came as an international conference, Chernobyl + 20 convened April 22-25 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The April 26, 1986 Chernobyl disaster reminded people of the dangers of nuclear power, as had the Three Mile Island melt down about 100 miles west of Philadelphia on March 28, 1979. And there have been lesser known problems which led to the aforementioned petition. In his C'ville article, Borgmeyer writes, "The public relations blitz comes as the Bush Administration plans to jump-start America's nuclear industry.
In August 2005, Bush signed an energy bill that kicks the nuclear power industry a reported $12 million to add to the 103 nuclear plants currently operating in the United States. Around the same time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission changed its rules to streamline the approval process for new nuclear plants."
"Richmond-based Dominion Energy, Inc. is the first company to take advantage of these recent federal incentives. As Dominion seeks approval for two new nuclear reactors on Lake Anna in Louisa County-just 30 miles east of Charlottesville-the company is trying to recast nukes as the healthy choice for an eco-conscious America."
Ironically, and I use that term to place the administration in its best light, the federal government's official information site reports that while the Bush administration has supported nuclear expansion, as of "October 31, 2005, however, no U.S. nuclear company has yet applied for a new construction permit."
To the contrary, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, in its February 27, 2004 fact sheet, "New Nuclear Power Plants in Virginia? Dominioin Power Plans Expansion at North Anna," reports that Dominion filed an early site permit to construct two or more new nuclear reactors on its site on September 25, 2003.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing review confirms the September 25, 2003 by Dominion Nuclear North Anna, LLC' and adds, "Subsequently, Dominion decided to change the cooling system for postulated Unit 3 and increase the power level for both postulated Units 3 and 4. Revision 6 of the application was submitted on April 13, 2006 to address the change to the cooling system and the increase in power level."
The twentieth anniversary of Chernobyl clearly has returned attention to the disaster. The BBC has posted a haunting remembrance, Chernobyl: 20 Years On. The UK's Observer Magazine published an article of the same name by Adam Higginbotham on March 26, recounting eye witness accounts. The National Geographic posted "Photo Gallery: Chernobyl 20 Years After the Disaster. The International Atomic Energy Agency has posted a feature, "In Focus: Chernobyl." On April 26, Democracy Now aired "Chernobyl 20 Years Later: New Report Finds Death Toll From Nuclear Disaster Close to 100,000."
The nuclear power industry has to come up with some strategy to convince the public of the need for new reactors. In an interview with Borgmeyer, David Lochbaum, director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, posits that the coalition is "a reflection of the fact that global warming and climate change is a top message of most environmental groups. This is an attempt to co-opt that message."


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While world + dog holds its breath for Apple to pop out the tablets, Toshiba has let out a gasp with its announcement of the JournE touch. This 7in, 16:9 aspect, LED touchscreen, wireless multimedia tablet features an ARM-based processor and runs Windows CE 6.0 Pro. Toshiba JournE tablet Toshiba's JournE touchscreen tablet …
I suppose for those that don't care about such things, CE will probably do. (How vulnerable is it to exploits?) Of more interest, however, is the price and the USB input. If they can manage to get this out the door for £199 or less in the UK, I suspect there will be Linux distros flying around for it pretty quickly (who said penguins can't fly?!)
Okay peeps, we're just a small fry company to tosh, but we're got a 7" Linux tablet in development which should be available from December/January.
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We're considering a webcam, sound and BT but these were not part of the initial brief.
Our unit is not designed for the consumer market and is more industrial/rugged. We recon costs will be higher than tosh, but the additional casing ruggedness and our low production quantity pushes pricing up.
SO not a unit for nothing but something that might suit your preferred OS.
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Each one of your customers probably has a favorite style of pizza, and it's probably the kind they grew up with.
Ordering a pizza is the perfect antidote to a long day out in the world and not a lot of ideas for making a family dinner. Since I've moved back to my hometown, Lorain, Ohio, I've reveled in being able to order the exact pizza that I remember from my childhood.
It's a place right near the center of the city on Oberlin Avenue called Yala's, and the "pizza well done" is a masterpiece. It's like cuddling up in a cheesy, perfectly greasy security blanket. I think the sauce has a hint of rosemary in it and the crust is crispy and chewy at the same time. When it's cooked well done, the cheese is almost caramelized (can you caramelize cheese?) Ordering well done is akin to the "secret menu" at In-N-Out...my best friend's dad invented it, legend has it.
I'm sure I'd have a different taste of home if I was from Chicago. I like the deep dish pizza there, even though I pretty much need to lay down for the rest of the day after eating it (NOT ideal for the restaurant show!).
And when I go to New York, one of my first stops (maybe after going to that Belgian french fry place or for a falafel on 2nd Ave.), is always a foldable "New York slice," preferably late at night while shopping the boutiques on St. Mark's Place.
This slideshow, "Do You Know These Regional Pizza Styles" on Serious Eats http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/01/a-list-of-regional-pizza-styles.html?ref=search is something I go back to for reference and just out of curiosity for the different regional styles of pizza. Did you know that in Philly, they have something called "Tomato Pie?" I didn't. It's baked in a sheet pan and looks like kids might like it... Check it out and impress your customers with a taste of home, wherever that may be.


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Kids! Now casting for a new Singing competition show!
Update! La Voz Kids season 3 is casting Now. Are you a talented bilingual (English and Spanish) singing sensation? Check out the new casting for the 2014 / 2015 season of the kids talent show.
Telemundo is bringing a brand new singing competition to television. NBC Universal's sister channel, Telemundo is casting a brand new singer competition based on their hit show "The Voice". But there's a twist, the new show will be for kids only and is called La Voz Kids, previosly called "La Voz: Ninos".
Auditions for kid and teen singers are going on now. Are you the next sensation in Latin music? Here is your chance to tryout and show your voice and talent to the masses.
The new show is only looking for kids that are 7 to 14 years of age and since this will be a Spanish language show, you must also be bilingual. The songs will be sung in both English and Spanish and the network says that for the audition, kids can choose either a Spanish or English song. The song that you sing at the audition will be a cappela, meaning no music or instruments will be allowed. Casting directors only want to hear the kids voice and nothing else. Kids will be allowed to sing a song of their choosing in any genre such as Latin pop, English pop, or anything else. The only restriction is that the song that you pick must be another artists and not an original song of your own.
La Voz Kids is now holding online registration and email submissions for a chance at an audition. Once the submissions are in, casting directors will begin doing in person auditions nationwide to find the next young latin music superstar.
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At the moment auditions for La Voz Kids is by appointment only and cattle calls have not yet been announced.
Here is the networks announcement of the new show:
La Vov Kids is searching nationwide, Puerto Rico included for the most talented kids who will be able to wow the audience and the coaches when they sing their hearts out.
The new Telemundo singing show is offering up some great prizes for the child who dazzles the world with their voice. The top prize includes a contract with Universal Music Group as well as a scholarship for school.
The Telemundo tryouts for La Voz Kids will begin in January 2013. If you think you have the raw singing ability to compete, you can apply to be on the show.
The show is taking online submissions as well tryouts through email. Open casting calls may be announced at a later date but for the moment auditions will be done by appointment and to get an appointment you need to go through the online submission process or send a singing sample through email.
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For the nostalgic, Konami has bundled Silent Hill 2 and 3 into an HD package called Silent Hill Collection. These two titles are getting the high-definition upgrade, so a whole new audience can enjoy these horror classics. No release date has been announced.
Exclusively for the new NGP handheld from Sony, Konami is developing Silent Hill: Book of Memories. They did not reveal any details about this handheld horror. A disclaimer over the game's logo states "This game has not been concept approved by Sony Computer Entertainment of America."
The biggest focus of Konami's Silent Hill presentation shows off Silent Hill: Downpour. This new entry into the series follows Murphy Pendleton, a prisoner who escapes a wrecked bus and finds himself stranded in Silent Hill. A new trailer shows off the eerie additions to this new title, including the creepy mailman who helps direct Murphy through the town and the mystery.
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Silent Hill: Downpour is scheduled for release this winter.
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Far from being a project for the future, many of these technological developments are already in action. They can be seen at work on container ships or in warehouses where small mounted units deliver real-time information. In the future, road freight will rely more on connected objects at every stage of the transport process. The collection of environmental data from a network of units embedded in road signs, posts, and other structures will give immediate forecasts and updates on traffic situations allowing for rerouting and avoidance of delays. At the same time, the condition and maintenance needs of road freight vehicles can be continuously monitored. When better controlled the supply chain becomes more efficient overall from the point of manufacture to final delivery. And, from the customer's point of view, smart objects in their warehouses can run continuous stock checks and raise alerts when essential products are running low and need reordering.
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My family has used a Sony Cyber-Shot camera for several years. A few months ago, we replaced it with a newer model Cyber-Shot. To our dismay, however, the videos the camera records are not in the old familiar ".mov" format, but rather are in some strange ".mts" format that does not open when we double it.
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Included in Tyler Lee's basket this year are:
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Tyler Lee's Christmas Eve Basket 2014 ♥
Included in Tyler Lee's basket this year are:
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I haven't actually heard of putting a Christmas basket before. It looks very cute though. My son just gets his presents Christmas eve and the morning of Christmas day to keep both traditions.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I have never looked properly at Lush so I'm off to have a nosy now and get some things for my little boy! :) xxReplyDelete
Aww, such a gorgeous basket you've put together. The PJs are the cutest ever and everything in that basket just looks soooo good. Anyone who'll receive that will truly be happy.ReplyDelete
Omg cutest basket ever!!! Absolutely love it :) too cute!ReplyDelete
We do a gift exchange Christmas Eve., but never in a basket form before. And we have other family traditions as well since we are a large family. I'm sure your son is going to be ecstatic when he gets that basket full of goodies! :DReplyDelete
I love this idea. I haven't heard of it before. I think this could start a tradition in our houseReplyDelete
Christmas is really getting near.. I love the cuite little snow man and pj's :DReplyDelete
That is a really cute idea. My kids would be so mad at me if it wasn't wrapped, though LOL.ReplyDelete
I've never done that, but I so love the idea! It's such a sweet thing to do!ReplyDelete
I've not done this yet but its a fantastic idea I'll definitely be doing when E is old enough to understand!ReplyDelete
I've never heard of Christmas Eve baskets before but really like the idea! How wonderful that your family incorporates traditions from all of your backgrounds.ReplyDelete
We do this every year too! Ours is usually a box though from the elves! Love the baskets!ReplyDelete
I've never done this but it's a great ideaReplyDelete
Love your basket full of goodies ! Think your son is going to have fun !ReplyDelete
I have not ever heard of this before.. but it does sound like a very good idea.ReplyDelete
I've never thought to do a Christmas eve basket before although we always open one present. Thanks so much for the great idea.ReplyDelete
This is so cute! My favorite way of giving gifts is via gift basket...I think a ton of smaller gifts can be a lot more fun than one large one.ReplyDelete
What a lovely basket, I'm sure he will love itReplyDelete
this basket is too cute! he is going to like it!ReplyDelete
Aww! What a great basket....I'm sure he will be very hapy with it....ReplyDelete
My girls get a basket each year and I love this tradition! :D
That's just about the cutest thing I've ever seen. No. It IS the cutest thing I've ever seen.ReplyDelete
What a nice basket :) Looks great and has nice variety! I know he will love it !ReplyDelete
He's a lucky boy! His basket was filled with great goodies! Good choice in gift ideas, I think he'll enjoy them very much!ReplyDelete
I love making up baskets as gifts for EVERY THING! This basket looks great with all of the stuffies.ReplyDelete
This is so so cute. I never put Christmas baskets for my kids: I usually wrap the gifts. I like the idea of the PJ's in the basket: they never have enoughReplyDelete
What a fun and creative idea I want to do that with my boys. we usually open one present Christmas Eve if I can wait LOLReplyDelete
This is a great looking Christmas basket. I have not made one for my kids before. I love to find great things to put in my baskets.ReplyDelete
This is such a cute idea, and it looks like you covered all of the bases. I bet this would make any kid or family super excited to receive.ReplyDelete
I am so excited for Christmas. The decor and feel is my absolute favorite.ReplyDelete
Oh my!!! How cute is this???? I love this idea!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous20 November 2014 at 06:04
Carmen Perez says: I love traditions and this one sounds like a beautiful one. I had never heard of this basket before, very nice!ReplyDelete
The PJs are awesome and so cute, you can tell I am a PJs person and when working from home I work in PJs. My partner is half polish and we do have that night before christmas tradition going. Beautiful basket Tyler lee's got this yearReplyDelete
It's a unique present! I'll add this to my Christmas wish list.ReplyDelete
Too cute! I haven't tried doing that. You just gave me an idea. ;)ReplyDelete
We don't put any basket under Christmas tree, just gifts. Those are really cute gifts :DReplyDelete
Such an awesome basket, children would be so insanely excited to see all those gifts!ReplyDelete
I love that there are Christmas themed pajamas in there. How very fun! It's def. a nice looking basket.ReplyDelete
I am so not ready for Christmas - that's an awesome and cute basket!ReplyDelete
What a sweet gift idea. My kids would love it. I grew up only opening gifts on Christmas Day but recently we've allowed our children to open one gift on Christmas Eve. This would be a fun thing to do this year.ReplyDelete
This is seriously the cutest. Love the christmas themed everything! Love!ReplyDelete
what a sweet idea. I love it. We usually do something similar but for ST. Nicholas day. Dec 6thReplyDelete
What a great basket of goodies! I would love to get something like this!!ReplyDelete
This Christmas baske is really cute!ReplyDelete
Thank yu for sharing!
What a cute idea! Seriously, this gift basket is absolutely adorable!ReplyDelete
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-earth
|J.R.R. Tolkien:Architect of Middle Earth
|Daniel Grotta-Kurska
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|Hardcover and paperback
J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-earth is a 1976 book by Pennsylvania journalist Daniel Grotta-Kurska. In later editions, it has been titled The Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-earth: The Biography.
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J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most beloved and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. After a traumatic childhood, Tolkien experienced the bloody trenches of World War I, then lived most of his life as an Oxford scholar in a cloistered academic community. In this fascinating illustrated biography, author Daniel Grotta examines how much of Tolkien's personal experience fired his incredible imagination and led to the creation of Middle-earth and its inhabitants. This edition features full-color illustrations by the Brothers Hildebrandt, whose conceptions of Middle-earth and its denizens have brought Tolkien's life's work to vivid life for legions of fans around the world.
External links[edit | edit source]
- The biography of J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-earth at the Internet Archive (available to borrow for free)


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