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2nd Azerbaijan International Gifts and Promotional Products Fair
12 - 14 September 2019 • Boulevard Hotel Baku
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Named after the eponymous seafront walking promenade, Boulevard Hotel offers 818 comfortable rooms and it is the largest conference hotel in Azerbaijan. It provides perfect accessibility to all major business and cultural sites of the city as well as the finest facilities that are designed to suit a wide variety of occasions and functions.
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Qafqaz Point Hotel
Address: 118, K. Kazimzade str, court 560,
Yasamal district, Baku
Сaucas Point Boutigue Hotel is the newest one of Gilan Tourism, classified as a five-star hotel in Baku. Hotel offers services corresponding to international hotel standards with its special architectural plan, well trained staff, modern decoration and technical opportunities.
Hotel contains 74 well decorated rooms which 44 single, 26 superior, 3 junior suites and 1 deluxe suite. Conference hall, Spa Center, Nakhchivan open Buffet Restaurant and Panorama a La Carte Restaurant are designated to supply with all the necessary amenities. Furthermore, additional services of Сaucas Point Hotel is that Airport transfer, Doctor, Excursion, Baby sitting service, Ticketing, 24 hours room service and free of charge wireless internet connection.
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Other hotels
Atropat Hotel *****
Atropat Hotel is the most centrally located hotel in Baku. It is situated in the sea shore area, in Old City, which is the heart of ancient Baku and surrounded with places of interests such as Maiden Tower and Shirvanshakh Palace.
The hotel offers luxury accommodation with its 26 standard boutique style guest rooms, 2 Junior and 2 Suit rooms with individually controlled AC, mini bar, satellite TV, safe box, electric door lock, free wireless internet connection and provides its guests with elegant dining, tempting menus and personal service in its restaurant offering a warm atmosphere with fine selection of international cuisine.
As an additional services and facilities we provide you with a conference hall, 24 hours Room Service, laundry, hotel taxi with driver, 24 hours travel booking service, airport transfer service, tour guide, cosmetic service indoor and outdoor, fitness club, bar, massage treatments, restaurants & shopping recommendations.
The Crown Hotel Baku
Best Comfort… Best Value… Best Place for You…
The luxurious 5 star The Crown Hotel Baku offers 125 comfortable rooms in different categories with a panoramic view over the city and the bay of Baku.
Providing a range of high quality worthy of attention, ideal for business meetings, activities, and for leisure the hotel appeals to all the requirements of business and tourist trips.
The Crown Hotel Baku Located in the elite part of the city, 10 minutes away from major attractions of Baku city.
Grand Hotel Europe *****
This 5 star hotel location, facilities and amenties make it the choice for the business and leisure traveller alike. All 75 de-luxe rooms and suites offer the ultimate in comfort and convenience. 24 hour room service is available. Our well-appointed multifunctional meeting rooms: Baku Ballroom, Kura room, Araz room and Grand Europe Exhibition and Meeting Centre are ideal for small or large conferences, seminars, exhibitions and grand celebrations as well. The guests can relax in the elegant atmosphere of the "Caviar Restaurant" where fine dining meets great taste. To unwind the "Caspian Bar" offers a wide selection of drinks. To help you relax after a busy day, our hotel offers you the "Olympus" fitness centre, which is equipped with highest quality state of the art cardio and strength machines TechnoGym and has Steam and Sauna. For more fun and entertainment, visit our high-energy "Capones'" disco-night club and lounge which is open until early morning.
New Baku Hotel ****
New Baku Hotel is situated near the Embassies of Russian Federation, The Republic of Turkey and United States of America in the center of Baku. It takes 25 minutes to arrive to the hotel from Heydar Aliyev International Airport.
Business and holiday travellers will meet a high level of service and friendly staff which will make them feel at home. There are 48 comfortable rooms in our 7 floor New Baku Hotel. All rooms have air conditioner, a hair dryer, satellite TV, bathroom, Wi-Fi internet access, mini bar and digital safe box.
Ramada Hotel & Suites Baku
Hotel "Ramada Hotel & Suites Baku", located in the city center, only 15 min. drive from the exhibition center «Baku Expo» and 20 minutes from the International Airport named after Heydar Aliyev, and offers you a reliable, friendly service and modern technology for the most affordable price.
Hotel is 5 minutes from the subway "Genclik" metro station "Narimanov" Metro and "May 28" and fully complies with international standards - the original architectural plan, qualified staff, modern design and technical capabilities.
Hotel contains of 77 well-appointed rooms, including 20 Standard Rooms, 18 Superior, 25 Junior Suite, Suite 9, just 4 duplex rooms and 1 room for persons with limited liability.
Conference room, wellness center, restaurant "Shamdan" A la carte were created to provide our guests with everything necessary.
All rooms at the hotel are equipped with the following equipment:
24 hours a swimming pool, sauna, fitness room, as well as our restaurant, which will surprise you with exclusive dishes of European and national cuisine.
Our "Green Conference Hall", a conference room is fully equipped with the latest technology.
Moreover, "Ramada Hotel & Suites Baku" offers services such as a shuttle to and from airport, medical assistance, tours, tickets, room service 24 hours a day and free wireless internet.
Riviera Mehmanxanası ****
The "Riviera Hotel" is located near the harbor of the Caspian Sea in the centre of Baku. Hotel allows for speedy connections to the main shopping areas and major commercial offices. The hotel offers fantastic view of the city and the Caspian Sea.
The hotel offers 20 guestrooms. Beautiful sea view restaurant. Conference hall is available.Smoking rooms are available upon request.
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Sapphire Inn Hotel ****
Modern style Sapphire Inn Hotel is a combination of contemporary facilities and high-class service. We have everything for the comfort and pleasant pastime of our guests.
Sapphire Inn Hotel is located in the very center of the city, which will allow you to see the sights of the city, visit trade and business centeres
Sapphire Inn Hotel is made of 56 spacious rooms with 26 business, 19 deluxe and 9 family deluxe rooms with an impeccable service and a beautiful view of the city.
Each room is equipped with double bed, bathroom, with shower cabin, writing table, chairs, upholstered furniture, LCD TV-set, conditioning system, Internet, wire and wireless internet access, telephone, strongbox and mini-bar.


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Fall is in the air! And you know what that means – it's pumpkin spice time! Some time over the last ten years, pumpkin spice has become synonymous with the change of season (thanks Starbucks!). But as good as a piping hot pumpkin spice latte sounds on a cool fall day, the crazy amount of calories and sugar leaves much to be desired.
If you, like the majority of the population, simply cannot resist the spicy sweet combo of pumpkin spice goodies, don't fret! There are lots of healthy alternative recipes out there for you. Going homemade is the best way to cut fat and calories out of these sweet treats – read on to see remixed versions of your favorites that you can feel good about!


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Based on available funding, the Housing Rehabilitation Program helps non-profit organizations rehabilitate single-family or duplex rental properties located in a designated target area. The tenant must be low-income and must reside at the property at the time the application is processed. For low-income tenants, the City will fund 100% of the eligible repairs up to $24,500. See HUD-Income-Limits
- Preliminary Tenant Application and Guidelines (pdf)
- Non-Profit Application (pdf)
- Map NSRA current designated target area-HRP (pdf)
- F.A.Q's
Criteria for Eligibility:
- Property must be owned by the non-profit organization and located in a designated target area
- The non-profit organization must have approval from their Board authorizing the grant application
- Taxes (if applicable), insurance, and mortgage must be current
- The property must be suitable for rehabilitation
- Must meet all other criteria for eligibility as outlined in the Housing Rehabilitation Program policies and procedures
Eligible Repairs/Improvements:
- Install ramps, grab bars, and wheel chair accessible shower
- Widen doorways
- Electrical repairs
- Heating and plumbing repairs
- Structural repairs, especially roofs, porches, windows, and doors
- Repairs needed to meet City Code
- Replacement of essential built-in appliances
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- Installation of fireplaces
- Window treatments
- Additions that alter or increase the square footage of the residence
- Repairs otherwise covered by homeowner's insurance
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We hired a car for 3 days in the middle of our holiday and drove up to Rhodes Town. This is the most amazing ancient city to visit. It is the largest inhabited medieval city in Europe and is a UNESCO World heritage site. The main shopping streets are pretty touristy but if you wander around the back streets it is like stepping back in time. We never take a map as it is pretty difficult to get lost and eventually we emerge at one of the gates to the city.
The houses have buttresses between them and like Lindos only motor bikes and feet can wander around the side streets.
Lots of the doors had different knockers and I love this hand one..the finger even had a ring on it.
There was also welcome shade from the heat.
The quiet side streets were so different from the main thoroughfares which were bustling with tourists.
Rhodes has always been an important harbour since ancient time. The Colossus of Rhodes is thought to have stood across the entrance to it. There is no evidence of it now but we were amazed to see that the Queen Elizabeth had just docked and decided to walk down to have a peep at her.
One was even resting on the postcard stand at the entrance to the valley.
We walked the length of the valley up to the Monastery of Kalopetra which is another landmark to visit as again there are views of the whole valley.
It was also the perfect place to sit and drink some cool water.
It is so beautiful inside too.
So after a welcome rest it was time to head back down through the valley and then "home" to our apartment.
And that night we toasted our wonderful day with another meal under the stars watching the sun set.
I just have a feeling that we may well be heading straight back there next September ;0)
So my card challenge today is inspired by the dawn to dusk sunshine on Rhodes. I used really bright sunny colours and lots of different punches. She is for sale here in my Etsy shop
I have used a Saturated Canary stamp called "Thank You". I hand coloured her with my Promarkers and highlighted with my Prismacolor pencils. The backing papers are from the Prima Jack and Jill collection. Both sentiments are from Lili of the Valley. You can see I had lots of fun with some new punches. I don't own a die cutter...it's a thought I have to ask for one from Father Christmas ;0) You will see I rarely have circular images as I can't cut them. I have to buy all my die cuts on line.
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;
Card Crafter's Circle Vintage #42
Whimsy stamp challenge Anything Goes 2nd entry
Sassy Cheryl Photo inspiration #134
Bearly Mine add a sentiment #54
Simon Says Stamp anything goes
The Papershelter anything goes #83
The Squirrel and the Fox Celebrations #27
Another week has passed by and it seems like the torrential rain that hit the country is easing, thank goodness. We have escaped lightly here in the south east but the north has suffered severely. Many poor souls have lost their homes, the weather can be so cruel sometime. On a brighter note though the weekend ahead is looking sunny. This is great news for me as I am holding a little birthday party for my Dad who was 80 years young on Wednesday. I do love a party. I must dash then, food to sort out and time to get the house ready for the family. Enjoy your weekend too everyone and I hope you get a peep of the sun too.
Back soon,
Bye for now,
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My favourite vacations are those where I see sites and experience new cultures - so I picked a Parisian-theme for my card. I've been to Paris a few times and hope to spend some extended time there when we retire. I started by cutting my mat with a silly stitched die and then used blue, white and red paint to watercolour the background, adding some white splatters once things had dried. The word art is a Silhouette cut file (with black gems for the dotted i's) and I finished things off with a little bunny drinking her latte.
Please head over to Little Red Wagon to see what the rest of the Girlfriends have created and then link up your own vacation-themed project!
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Wedding is very special and so stressful that even if you have done all the preparations then also there are rooms for doubts of many things. Also perfectly arranged things also need supervision that makes it more inconvenient for the bride to just focus on herself and her makeup. There are many other tension and stress factor a bride has to deal with even in her wedding. To supervise caterers well and organizing them. Surety of the future husband till the vows is promised and maintaining the relationship with in-laws is always so much for the bride to take pre wedding stress. Also not specking to any friend and husband and just focusing on wedding ceremony makes her more stressful as the time proceeds.
Wedding is fun
So it is very important for the brides to be to avoid stress and do some simple stress reducers that will make her happy and her wedding ceremony worthwhile. Moreover it is a known fact that planning ahead can make you more confident about things and avoid those last minute stress busters that ruin all the fun and make weddings perfect. Also as a bride always be relaxed and stay in your comfort zone by yoga and meditation and the best therapy is to be in your friend circle to avoid those nervous breakdowns and stress strikes. Also as a bride do not overload yourself with all the wedding stress and arrangements and take every single responsibility on your head. Best way to get things perfectly done is to divide and appoint it between family, relatives, and friends or hire a wedding planner that will take care of everything.
Don't stress
Some silly temporary stresses in brides are common but if not resolved and solved they result in family calamities and complicated issues. So it is very important to guide the bride well and make sure she knows it is okay to feel little stressed and tensioned but wedding are no big deals to have nervous breakdown for. They are just a legal and formal extension of your relationship with your partner you have dealing so well with. Also make the bride understand that wedding is supposed to be her happy and magical moment and maybe planning for it is hard but by managing your relationships, anxiety, excitement and stress you can just make it perfectly fine.
Keep that silly down
Also it is not a time to worry about silly things like the wedding dress that is not fitting you well which was perfect a day before as your anxiety and overwhelming stress has caused that psychological trauma. Also don't worry about the makeup or ugly bridesmaid dress and her makeup. Everything will be fine as planned just stopping worrying as worrying does only harm and no profit. Moreover don't worry about the time delay and calculating that it is so less time for so big event. Your panic is just going to make it more difficult. So just breathe, avoid stress and believe that your perfect plan is going to work and everything will be perfect.


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After Slimmer's World, we decided to stroll around Megamall to hunt good deals like 50% off sales and newly open stores. One of the latest residence of SM Megamall is none other NYX Cosmetics who opened last November 15! They're makeup products are quite costly compared to online shop but that's because they're in a physical store. Other than that its a makeup wonderland!
We looked and tried and tested their makeup and my sister ended up taking home a pink lip liner and I these...
NYX Eyebrow Shaper (Php570.00)
NYX Jumbo and Regular Duo Sharpener (Php300.00)
Also, I would love to share my love for my favorite everyday palette for Smokey eyes. NYX The Runway Collection in Champagne and Caviar
On wishlist is their matte finish spray and the Nars Orgasm dupe of a blush. Do you know what it is? :P


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A banker's perspective on economic development
Address given before the State of the State Conference held in Bismarck, N.D., in January 1995.
Published April 1, 1995 | April 1995 issue
The following address was given before the State of the State Conference held in Bismarck, N.D., in January. Reprinted with permission of the author.
This is the second in a series of guest columns that address the problems and solutions facing Ninth District rural communities. We welcome contributions to this series.
Others columns in the series:
Community development: an entrepreneurial approach
I have been a banker in Hazen for 26 years, one-half of my life. I have had the privilege to be president of our bank for the past 15 years.
I distinctly remember walking out of a coffee shop in Hazen in the winter of 1971 and there wasn't one car on Main Street at 2:30 in the afternoon. I commented to the grocer who was with me that perhaps we should be frightened ... but we weren't ... life was good.
Hazen had a population in 1971 of 1,230 people and small scale coal development. My work day started at 8:30 a.m. and I was most often home by 5 p.m. Production agriculture was stable, as was our energy economy. Our bank had $10 million in assets.
Most of you know that we experienced tremendous impact in the late '70s and early '80s followed by a bust in both energy and agriculture in the late '80s.
Today, Hazen is a city of 3,000 people. We live in a county that has the highest per capita income of any county in North Dakota. Our bank has $45 million in assets. My work day now begins at 7 a.m. It is the exception when I don't work at the bank every evening after dinner. We have never worked harder in Hazen, in Mercer and Oliver counties than we have done in the past five years to keep our city and our counties viable.
I have a real strong motivation. If the city of Hazen, Mercer County and Oliver County succeed, our bank will be a benefactor of that success.
One-third of my work now involves economic development initiatives. I serve as chairman of a two-county economic development group called Mercer-Oliver Economic Development. I am past chairman and a member of the board of Hazen Community Development. I serve on the Board of Directors of the Lewis & Clark Regional Council's CAPITAL Fund and the Community Development Loan Fund. I serve on the Community Bankers Council of the American Bankers Association, a group which consists of two bankers from every state in the country. We get together three times a year to discuss how we can keep community banks viable as we approach a new millennium.
I share these bits of trivia about my life not to solicit your sympathy, but simply to make this point: It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. Never in my career has it been more challenging to lead a bank. Never has it been more fun to be involved in determining the future of our bank and our city.
There are three things that motivate me and the leadership team in our city:
We recognize that the world by the year 2000 will be radically different from what it was in 1990.
We recognize that the status quo will not sustain us. Our energy economy is as stable as it has been in a decade. We have a cadre of leaders of the major businesses in our city that make me darn proud. Yet, we all recognize that we must aggressively work to retain, expand and attract jobs that provide a living wage.
We have completed an assessment of our city and of all of North Dakota. We understand that North Dakota will only have 50 viable cities remaining by the end of the decade. We will be one of them.
Enough of my Hazen Chamber of Commerce talk. I was also asked to speak about the role of the community banker in supporting economic development. That role has many facets:
The bank must be in a leadership role. If you as the CEO do not have the ability or interest to be actively involved, then assign those responsibilities to a senior staffer. Empower that individual by making time available from the normal work day and give that individual authority to represent the bank.
Active involvement with economic development doesn't mean you have to engage in risky, imprudent lending. But, it does mean that you should give strong financial support to economic development organizations and to projects. Our bank pays annual dues to both Hazen Community Development and to Mercer-Oliver Economic Development. Additionally, each time a project in our service area is in need of financial backing, we expect to be involved in providing some of that support. Active involvement also means that the banker must be aware of all state and federal programs that are available to banks and to communities.
I was also asked to address the types of cooperation by lenders that can increase the level of economic development.
Not in any particular order:
SBA Loan Programs. Our small bank is on the list of top 10 banks in North Dakota that use the SBA loan programs. It is also my observation that the SBA has moved aggressively forward to be of assistance to our industry. Our area would be at a devastating disadvantage if we did not have SBA as a willing partner in our efforts.
Bank of North Dakota. Our bank has $2 million in farm and business loans in participation with the Bank of North Dakota. ... Without BND's programs, our area would suffer.
Minot Magic Fund. Our city has used their marketing match dollars to promote our city. Our two most important new projects, a telemarketing company and a target manufacturer, received substantial dollars from the Magic Fund. We look to Minot as a partner in our economic development efforts ... oftentimes as an equity partner.
North Dakota Future Fund.
Lewis & Clark Regional Council. We look to the three funding pools of the Lewis & Clark Regional Council as a major source of funding for our economic development projects. We use them often. Equally important, we use two of their economic development specialists for technical support for our projects.
Ag Products Utilization Committee.
Small Business Development Center. ... [the] assistance to us in developing business plans is absolutely critical.
Bismarck State College's Small Business Management Department. ... If you visit with our commercial lending staff, they will tell you that they immediately know when one of our business customers has been a [Small Business Management Department] student ... they understand their balance sheet, they know something about inventory control and they have dating of their accounts receivable.
When I read The Bismarck Tribune and of the proposals being circulated in the State Capitol to gut North Dakota's economic development game plan, I break into a cold sweat. North Dakota is just beginning to reap the rewards of a cooperative effort. To deviate from that game plan now is economic development deprivation for rural North Dakota.
Hazen is a home rule city. We have a strong economic development group in Hazen and in the two counties. But we can't do it alone. We simply do not have the financial and people resources to get the job done without the types of cooperation I've just discussed with you.
North Dakota needs all of the entities if we're going to have a state that has strength in both its urban and rural sectors.


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Bernard Bowron, Leo Marx, & Arnold Rose, "Literature and Covert Culture, American
Quarterly, 9, no. 4, 1957.
Literature and Covert Culture BY COVERT CULTURE we refer to traits of culture rarely acknowledged by those who possess them. In any society men tend to ignore or repress certain commonly learned attitudes and behavior patterns, much as an individual may ignore or repress certain personal experiences or motives. In the case of covert culture, the repressed traits are more or less common to members of a society, and they probably are transmitted in the same informal ways that the basic elements of the overt culture are transmitted. The covert traits are not more "true" or "real" than the overt traits; they are equally representative of people's attitudes and behaviors. The distinction lies in the degree of acknowledgment (to self and to others) and the degree of repression. If one were to suggest to a representative member of a society that his behavior, or that of his community, exhibits a particular characteristic of covert culture, he might be expected to scoff at the idea, and even reject it heatedly. Public responses to the Kinsey Report are a case in point. Similarly, Americans might deny the evidence of their disguised hostility toward machine technology which we present in this essay. How then is covert culture recognized? We may assume we are in the presence of covert culture when we note a recurrent pattern of inconsistent or seemingly illogical behavior.l When most people in a given society or sub-society adhere to inconsistencies in their actions, when they resist with emotion any attempts to reconcile their actions with their expressed beliefs, and when they persist in this behavior over an extended period of time, then presumably we are dealing with covert culture. For obvious reasons, however, it is difficult to study covert culture. And in a heterogeneous society like our own, where variations in behavior are relatively common, it is unlikely that much of our culture long remains covert. On the other hand, the little that does may be of the greatest importance in certain emotionally charged areas of behavior, such as racial or sexual relations or religion At this point it might be well to indicate what covert culture is not. In the first place, it is not a whole, complete culture that exists beneath the surface of the overt culture and "really" directs people's attitudes and behavior. It consists, rather, of parts of culture that happen to be seriously inconsistent with other parts of culture and so get driven underground. Second, behavior in conformity with covert culture is not the same as alienation from culture (or "anomie," to use Durkheim's term). Covert elements of culture are just as much part of culture as overt elements. While behavior in conformity with an element of covert culture is inconsistent with respect to an element of overt culture, such inconsistency might also result from conformity with two incompatible elements of overt culture, although this disharmony would not be so extreme. Logical incompatibility between two elements of culture is likely to manifest itself frequently in a society based on heterogeneous traditions or in a society that is changing rapidly.
Third, covert culture is not a sub-culture. We are all familiar with the different roles that one plays in the various groups to which he belongs: contrast the behavior of the adolescent in his family and in his peer group. But, while members of each group are shocked or scornfully amused by behavior in the other group, they recognize each other's existence and in a sense regard the discrepancies as natural and even desirable. The adolescent himself is aware of the disparity in his roles, whether or not it creates a conflict for him. Even the sub-culture of a minority group (such as, for example, the Mennonites or Jews) is in no way to be equated with covert culture. This is a different culture from the dominant one, practiced by a small section of the society, and while it may be deliberately hidden from the majority, its deviations from the dominant culture are quite well known and apparent to those living in both the minority group and the larger society. Sociologists call those living in two societies "marginal men"; they are understood to be fairly rare in any society. Covert culture traits, on the contrary, are exhibited by the large majority of persons in a society if not by all of them. But it may be asked how covert culture is learned, if it is unacknowledged and secret. The question, however, implies that the transmission of covert culture is deliberate and rational. Actually, only a small part of the education of the young in the overt culture of a society is deliberate. While the child learns through language or other symbols such as gestures, most of the process is very subtle. As Hickman and Kuhn point out: Few, if any, fathers or mothers take their children aside and say, in effect, "I will now tell you what I know," "I will now tell you what you ought to know and believe," or "I will now tell you about our society and our culture." Any conversations of this general nature could have relatively little over-all influence on the child's attitudes. "Attitudes are caught, not taught."2 This is true for both overt and covert culture. The difference lies not in manner of learning, but in the degree of the adult's awareness of the cues he is emitting, or in the degree of his willingness to acknowledge the cues when they are called to his attention. One characteristic of this learning process is that the child picks up the cues of the covert culture, but at first does not know that they are "secret." He proudly displays the just learned trait openly in behavior or speech, and then the parent is shocked. This negative reaction coming once or several times now teaches the child that he must "forget" and "deny" this part of what he has recently learned from the parent. It should be pointed out, however, that the difference between covert and overt culture is a relative matter; some aspects of covert culture are talked over by intimate friends, as it were "over the back fence." Adults "teach" other adults some aspects of covert culture just as they teach children other aspects. Those who are probably in the best position to study a society's covert traits are observers who come to it with the perspective of an alien culture. Hence anthropologists and perceptive foreign travelers have until now provided much of the evidence of covert culture. The anthropologists have most frequently analyzed the concept itself.3 This would suggest that the concept is most useful when direct impressions of a living culture are available. The study of covert culture does not at first thought seem possible through the analysis of written documents; hence the concept seems irrelevant to the study of past societies about which we have few other sources of evidences It is our purpose here to suggest a means of uncovering elements of covert culture through the analysis of written, and particularly literary, evidences. Now, to be sure, there is nothing new about the idea of studying literature as a source of information about culture. Historians have been doing it for a long time. When allowances are made for shifts in style and taste, the manifest content of literature may be assumed to reflect important characteristics of culture. But what about covert culture? Since we assume, to begin with, that most members of a society do not care to be reminded that they exhibit traits of covert culture, it follows that the writer who seeks a sizeable audience will not knowingly portray them. On the other hand, popular literature may be studied for what it betrays as well as what it depicts. In other words, it may be approached as a projection of covert culture. Such an approach to the arts is well established in several areas. Psychologists have for some time been using graphic and lingual expression to get at the unconscious associations of individuals. Of these projective tests, the Rorschach, TAT and Word Association test are perhaps the best known. Similarly, literature widely accepted by the public, or a significant segment of the public, may provide an avenue to the unstated ideas of a society. Of course the Freudians and Jungians have studied literature, but not precisely in the way we are suggesting. They have sought recurring popular themes in the`classics as projections of what they consider to bc universal instincts or complexes. They are concerned with the traits common to virtually all men. What we are concerned with, on the other hand, is a technique for dealing with certain distinctive characteristics of a particular culture located in time and place. The projective component of written documents is chiefly to be found in imagery and metaphor, using metaphor in the broadest sense to include all the more common figurative modes of expression. When a writer uses such analogizing devices, in which the analogy is either explicit or implicit, he is in effect revealing a pattern of association which can only be partly conscious. That is to say, no matter how many reasons he may acknowledge for selecting a particular figure' of speech, the fact remains that he selects it
from a virtually infinite range of possibilities. Therefore no degree of deliberate calculation can fully explain his choice. For example, why does an author choose a machine to express menace; why not a storm or an earthquake? We are of course not concerned here with idiosyncratic quirks of personality. Our interest is limited to images and metaphors which recur frequently in the written expression of a particular society. We do not have in mind the mere clich' or faddish expression, but rather the metaphor repeatedly used in varying language to describe similar phenomena.5 We shall provide an example below.First, however, a word must be said about our apparent tendency to favor more stereotyped modes of expression. It is true that the more unreflective the creative process, the more useful the work may be as a projection of the psyche, so to speak, of the entire society. But this is not to say that we underestimate the value of less hackneyed literary modes. We conceive of written documents as distributed along a spectrum from the most stereotyped or conventional at one end to the most original and perceptive at the other. The great writer is a sensitive observer, and needless to say, he does not merely project his culture. On the contrary, often he consciously reveals covert elements that less perceptive artists ignore; moreover, he sometimes reveals them precisely by turning stereotypes inside-out. Hence this distinction between overt and covert culture should not seem completely unfamiliar to students of literature. Indeed, it is in some respects akin to a recurrent literary motif, the paradoxical relation between "appearance and reality." Not that there is an exact equivalence between the two sets of terms. When a writer indicates the presence of a "reality" hidden beneath "appearances" he usually intends more than we do by covert culture. Nevertheless he often includes an awareness of covert traits. For example, Shakespeare has Lear become aware of covert traits of culture; Cervantes, on the other hand, deliberately makes Don Quixote oblivious of them. In King Lear the discrepancy generates a tragic view of life; in Don Quixote it is the essence of comedy. In both works, however, the reader's illumination comes at least in part from the author's revelation of the disparity between what we have called overt and covert culture. That disparity is, however, but one aspect of the paradox of appearance and reality. For an illustration of the use of written documents to reveal covert patterns, consider American culture during the onset of industrialism before the Civil War. Here, as most historians testify, was a society whole-heartedly committed to the idea of progress. This was an era of unprecedented expansion, social mobility and optimism. In the newspapers, magazines and orations of the time we find countless celebrations of the new technology as emblematic of man's increasing dominion over nature. Take, as an example, a minister's address to the New York Mechanic's Institute in 1841 In expounding his theme ( "Improvement of the Mechanic Arts" ), the Reverend Mr. Williamson employed many commonplaces of the hour. The mechanic arts, he said, . . . change the face of nature itself, and cause the desolate and solitary place to be glad and blossom as the rose the mountains are levelled the crooked is made strait [sic] and the rough places plain the ascending vapor is arrested in its upward course and converted into a power that well nigh enables us to laugh at distance and space the broad Atlantic has become, as it were, a narrow lake.... And still the course is onward, and we even threaten to seize upon the forked lightning, and pluck from the faithful magnet a power, that shall render useless the canvass [sic] of the mariner and achieve a yet mightier triumph over the obstacles that space has interposed to the intercourse of man with his fellow-man . . . much of human happiness depends upon the cultivation of these arts . . . without them, man is but a helpless child, exposed to ten thousand dangers and difficulties, that he cannot control; but with them, he is strong, and can rule in majesty over that mighty empire which God has given him.6 To say that this rhetoric embodies certain dominant values of the culture is not to deny that there also were outspoken critics of technological innovation. There were. But they constituted a relatively small minority. Some spoke for the slavery interest or the emergent labor movement, others for various religious sects or utopian reform groups. By and large, however, Americans at this time enthusiastically endorsed the new machine power, and even more enthusiastically applied it. Many of the respected leaders of society, men like Daniel Webster and Edward Everett, paid homage to technology in language indistinguishable from Mr. Williamson's. On the basis of the written evidence, therefore, one might conclude that American culture, leaving aside a few groups of partially alienated people, exhibited only approval of industrialization. But that is not quite the whole story. To be sure, it describes the dominant overt response to mechanization^, but it fails to account for a certain contrary undertone that any close student of the period recognizes. To be more specific, in examining a large sample of reactions to technological change in this period, we discover some which defy simple classification. Here, for example, is an article by James H. Lanman on "Railroads in the United States," which appeared in Hunt's Merchants' Magazine in 1840.7 In accordance with the spirit of this journal of commerce, the writer presents an affirmative survey of the advance of steam power in America. He regards "productive enterprise" as the distinguishing feature of American culture, and he praises the new machines as "the triumphs of our own age, the laurels of mechanical philosophy, of untrammelled mind, and a liberal commerce!" He finds railroads particularly inspiring; so far as he is concerned "it is clear that all patriotic and right-minded men have concurred in the propriety of their construction." If we confine attention to Mr. Lanman's manifest opinions, we have no reason to distinguish him from such ebullient devotees of progress as the Rev. Mr. Williamson. Nevertheless a more searching examination of this article uncovers a curious anomaly. In spite of the writer's evident effort to enlist support for the new power, he repeatedly invokes images which convey less than full confidence in the benign influence of machines. Steamships and railroads are "iron monsters," "dragons of mightier power, with iron muscles that never tire, breathing smoke and flame through their blackened lungs, feeding upon wood and water, outrunning the race horse...." Elsewhere Mr. Lanman is eager to allay fear of railroad accidents. Therefore he carefully evaluates statistics on deaths and injuries. He finds the results clearly favorable to railroads as compared with travel on "common roads." At the same time, however, he describes a train "leaping forward like some black monster, upon its iron path, by the light of the fire and smoke which it vomits forth." In contrast to the manifest theme of the piece, these images associate machines with the destructive and the repulsive. They communicate an unmistakable sense of anxiety and menace. Without more evidence, of course, we cannot prove that the writer actually was uneasy about the new power. By themselves these images prove nothing. But the fact is that we can produce many other examples of the same kind. Moreover, and this seems to us a most telling point, when we turn to these alienated writers who consciously try to arouse fear of machines, we find them deliberately choosing the same images. Robert Owen, for example, describes the new technology as a power "which neither eats nor drinks, and faints not by over-exertion, brought into direct competition with flesh and blood." "Who is there," he asks, "to check this mighty monster that is now allowed to stalk the earth . . .?"8 It was in this period that a kind of machine created in a writer's imagination entered the language as the prototype of terror and the demoniacal Frankenstein's monster. A final example of the simultaneous attraction and fearfulness of the locomotive, with distinct Oedipal overtones, is provided by this doggerel: Big iron horse with lifted head, Panting beneath the station shed, You are my dearest dream come true; I love my Dad; I worship you!
Your noble heart is filled with fire, For all your toil you never tire, And though you're saddled-up in steel, Somewhere, inside, I know you feel. All night in dreams when you pass by, You breathe out stars that fill the sky, And now, when all my dreams are true, I hardly dare come close to you.9To sum up, we conclude that expressions of the overt culture do not provide an adequate conception of the American response to industrialization. From them we get the familiar picture of a confident, optimistic public and a few small dissident groups. But the concept of covert culture makes possible a somewhat different hypothesis. When we analyze the imagery employed even by those who professed approval of technological change, we discover evidence of widespread if largely unacknowledged doubt, fear and hostility. It is not necessary to our present purpose to account in detail for this phenomenon. Suffice it to suggest that American culture at this time also embraced a set of values and meanings inherently antithetic to the new technological power. This was a time, as everyone knows, when Americans tended to celebrate the "natural" as against the "artificial." At all levels of culture, from the relatively abstruse speculations of Emerson to the popular gift books, from Cooper's novels to the paintings of the Hudson River School, Americans affirmed values and meanings said to reside in nature. Natural process, that is, was conceived as containing the key, barely concealed, to all human problems. Needless to say, this belief was not peculiar to America. But as a consequence of the unique American geography and the actual presence of the wilderness it did seem particularly appropriate. ' It is possible that people betrayed their fear of the machine in casual conversation But this source of information usually is not available to sociologists, much less to historians. If the sociologist asks people directly about their attitudes toward machines he is likely to get "rational" answers about how much labor they save, how they provide products and services previously not available, and so on... ... As Perry Miller has pointed out, what the European romantic dreamed the American actually experienced. 1 Now the progress of technology hardly was reconcilable, at least in the long run, with the sanctity of the natural order. For the use of power machines implied that nature was a neutral if not hostile force that men needed to dominate. This view was in obvious contradiction with the idea that man's felicity depended upon the ordering of life in passive accommodation to spontaneous operations of nature. We are suggesting, though here we can hardly demonstrate, that this unacknowledged conflict of values may have been an important source of the anxiety revealed by the imagery to which we have called attention. l2 This is not to identify approval of technological progress with overt culture, and hostility with covert. What is covert here results from the impulse to adhere (simultaneously) to logically incompatible values. In other words, it is the awareness of the contradiction that is repressed and that gives rise to the covert traits (in this case unacknowledged fear and hostility) revealed in imagery. Thus it is worth noting that Lanman, the writer who praised locomotives even as he called them monsters, also praised the "steam screw" which, he said, "should tear up by the roots the present monarchs of the forest, and open the ample bosom of the soil to the genial beams of the fertilizing sun." Recall that the writer speaks for a culture passionately devoted to nature to Bryant's lyric view that "the groves were God's first temples." Is it surprising that he felt impelled to compare machines to terrible monsters? In any event, the disparity between the feelings latent in his images and the manifest optimism of his theme is highly suggestive. It gives some clue to the correspondence between this writer's strangely mixed feelings and the recurrent, if largely unexpressed, pattern of inconsistency in the culture of nineteenth-century America. This interpretation, finally, is borne out by the work of the more sensitive and perceptive writers of the age. When we turn, for example, to Cooper, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville we find a reiterated expression of precisely those contradictory meanings the typical magazine writers did not acknowledge. What is more, the great writers in many cases employed the same or similar imagery to get at these conflicts. But with an important difference. When Lanman called a machine a monster he was scarcely aware of what he was doing. When Thoreau or Hawthorne did the same thing, he was often deliberately complicating the significance of Americas favorite symbol of progress. He gave the railroad an ambiguous meaning, not out of any inherent passion for ambiguity, but rather because he worked to convey as much of the meaning of experience as possible.13 In other words, he grasped the contradiction that Lanman, like many other Americans, refused to recognize. It is no accident, therefore, that serious men of letters in this period so often employ machines in symbolic opposition to various emblems of nature. They thus confirm the presence of those covert traits of culture which unreflective writers merely betray. Repressed traits and attitudes of former periods need not be a closed book. Dead men answer no poll-takers, but they have left an extensive written record of their underground cultures. This record may be deciphered One indispensable key is the analysis of systems of imagery and metaphor in diverse popular writings and in works of formal literary art. The sociologist need not regard this method of study as an exclusive possession of the literary scholars who originally developed it. Used with care and discrimination, it is equally available to him. Such collaboration between literary and sociological scholarship is, fortunately, a two-way street. At least it should be. For the concept of covert culture, in turn, offers a rewarding approach to literary studies. This point cannot be developed here. But it is surely implicit in what has been said about formal literature's significant confirmation of the existence of culture traits that are only revealed inadvertently in popular modes of expression. Critics concerned with the devious ways in which a society nurtures its men of letters cannot afford to neglect the existence of covert culture and the writer's responses to it. Here is a major source of those tensions that give a work of literary art its structure, its irony, and its stylistic signature. we agree with Henry G Fairbandk's ctrwinhaoi‡re and romantic opponent of science and technology. But, like the writers he criticizes, Mr. Fairbanks tends to misconstrue Hawthorne's aim in mentioning machines at all. Hawthorne was not concerned to convey his opinions about the new center of human Experience. In doing so as we have tried to indicate, he revealed contradictions characteristic of American culture generally. Notes:


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Circles Around Me, Bush's seventh solo album is a mix of classic bluegrass covers and new originals. Quite possibly this is Bush's most cohesive release. Bush has always been a dichotomy. He is influenced by the old but is the original innovator of the new. Hell, he literally coined the term new grass with his original band New Grass Revival, which he founded. The young innovators of today like Chris Thile, Infamous Stringdusters, Old Crow Medicine Show, Chatham County Line, Hackensaw Boys, Crooked Still and more recently the likes of Sarah Jarosz, owe their success to Bush, Bela Fleck, John Cowan and their peers.
On this new release, Bush blends the old and new seamlessly with both covers and original compositions. Produced by Bush, Circles Around Me includes appearances by Del McCoury, Edgar Meyer and Jerry Douglas to name a few. Let's not forget Bush's own band; Scott Vestal, Stephen Mougin, Byron House and Chris Brown, which is one of the best in all of Bluegrass.
The album includes some great songwriting collaborations. The title cut was co-written with Jeff Black. My favorite is "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle," which Bush co-wrote with Guy Clark and Verlon Thompson. This song is a true story of the 1973 murder of Grand Ole Opry star David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife. "Souvenir Bottles" and "Whisper My Name" are re-workings of New Grass Revival songs. These songs build a nice bridge to the traditional tunes on the record. Del McCoury lends his unmistakable tenor on two Bill Monroe covers, "Roll On Buddy, Roll On" and "Midnight on the Stormy Deep." However, the most poignant and powerful of the traditional songs is the excellent rendition of "Diamond Joe."
Whatever you perspective, Circles Around Me gives us an artist that obviously is content where he is now, where he came from and where he is headed. Maybe that is why he just received the AMA lifetime achievment award.
Check out his AMA performance:
Reviews, thoughts and general opinions on an eclectic mix of music. Including but not limted to Americana, Roots Rock, Alt-Country, Alternative, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Blues, Bluegrass and Jazz.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Wrinkle Neck Mules - Let the Lead Fly
With the release of their fourth album the Wrinkle Neck Mules have established themselves as one of the premier roots rock bands. Let the Lead Fly is a bit less electric but rocks just as hard. With the use of banjo, mandolin and pedal steel, the roots move to the forefront on this release. As usual the band tells stories of the people on the margins of society. The poignant vignettes are especially effective at a time when the margins of society are growing However, this is not an album about sorrow and despair. As they say on the title cut, "Don't just stand there raise, your guns and let lead fly." Instrumentally the linchpin that brings the traditional and the electric rock together is "Medicine Bow." This song stands in contrast to "The Waters all Run Dry," which would have been a country standard if it had been recorded in the 40's or 50's.
The band has two members that contribute lead vocals and each gives the band a different feel. Andy Stepanian has a raw, edgy voice. Mason Brent has a smoother voice that gives a folksier feel. To put it in terms of bourbon it is like Old Grand Dad versus Basil Hayden. However, either one can result in a good time. This two singer, two style concept has a direct correlation to the Drive-by Truckers. The formula works pretty well for both the Truckers and the Mules. The comparison to the Truckers is not entirely fair given the depth of the Truckers catalogue. However, after four albums the Wrinkle Neck Mules have firmly established themselves. They seem to be here to stay and getting better. If you haven't listened to them yet it is time for you to Let the Lead Fly.
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Something I thought I would share with you all.
In today's world, we find several young women hesitating to take the "hijab" step. They think millions of times before taking this decision. Many young women say, "I can not wear it before getting married"; "I might lose my job if I wear hijab"; or "I want to wear hijab but it will prevent me from life's pleasures, such as playing my favorite sport or wearing fashionable clothes". In fact, quite a few young women feel that the hijab acts as an obstacle for reaching their aims and aspirations in life, and hinders them from enjoying their life freely.
The Right Choice
No one can deny that there are Muslim men who prefer marrying a non-veiled woman, but this is because they do not understand the Islamic teachings and injunctions. There are also real Muslim men who prefer to marry a woman who is veiled, as they believe that one day she will be the mother of their children and should be a good role model for them. Such men understand Islam well, and believe that everything which Allah the Almighty and His prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered and taught us to do is for our benefit.
So those who believe that they might not get married if they wear hijab should first comprehend that marriage is a part of Fate as well as choice. In addition, they have to be precise in choosing their life partner, and know that the one who does not obey Allah the Almighty will never be a good husband.
The right choice is to marry the man who loves Allah the Almighty and translates this love into action. This kind of husband will constantly try to apply the Islamic teachings and will always treat his wife gently; with him, she will live a life full of faith, love, forgiveness and happiness.
Enjoy Your Life Wearing Hijab
There is a widespread notion that wearing hijab hinders a young woman from carrying out her daily activities. Actually, this is wrong, as every young woman is capable of enjoying her life while wearing hijab. A woman who is veiled can go out with her friends and have fun. She can also play sport and wear fashionable clothes. The only changes will be that choose a suitable place to go out with her friends that does not have anything haram and that she will wear suitable clothes that coincide with the Islamic dress-code.
A young woman who is veiled can play sport in places that are specifically designed for women or she can choose a sport that she can play while wearing modest clothing. Several young women have had this experience; one them is Lama El- Sharkawi who is 25 years old from Egypt. She decided to wear hijab in spite of her obvious success as a bowling champion. El-Sharkawi played bowling for 13 years; she traveled to several countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Dubai and took part in several championships.
"The hijab decision was not easy," says El-Sharkawi, "but the most important thing for me is to please Allah the Almighty and obey His orders." She added that sport is a significant part of her life and that is why she plays aerobics in places designated for women.
"I believe that we as veiled women can enjoy our lives and please Allah the Almighty at the same time", added El-Sharkawi. She said that hijab helped her to change several aspects of her life for the better, such as, her way of thinking, her attitude towards life, and it made her closer to Allah the Almighty. "I started to be more curious to read and know more about the Islamic teachings," added El-Sharkawi.
In terms of her career life, she owns an advertising company and her job as a business development manager requires that she deal with several multinational companies. "The hijab never hinders my career, in fact I'm so proud to wear it," observes El Sharkawi.
In fact, hijab can really prevent you from falling into sin. It also helps to preserve your dignity and chastity. Moreover, it increases your respect in the eyes of all the people around you. However, the important thing is to know that it is not just a matter of covering your hair; we, as veiled women have to present Islam and reflect an honorable image about Islam and Muslims through our actions, beliefs and attitudes.
Wearing hijab is a great responsibility, as people quite often form images about Islam through seeing young women who are veiled. For this reason, I believe it is a responsibility that every young woman who is veiled should live up to.
For those who believe that they will sacrifice if they wear hijab, remember our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), his Companions, wives and daughters who sacrificed a great deal and tolerated harm for the sake of Allah the Almighty and for maintaining the sublimity of Islam. Now let me ask you if you are still hesitating to wear hijab!
By Shiam El-Bassiouni
Friday, 16 November 2007
The Right Step, Hijab - DO NOT HESITATE!!
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Jacket: UO ($30 2010)
Scarf: ModCloth
Dress c/o Line & Dot (coming soon!)
Cardigan: J.Crew (last year)
Tights: AA super opaque ($25)
Belt c/o Lulu's
Earrings c/o Noble Town Vintage (2011)
Boots: Jeffrey Campbell "Rumi"
Where I wore it: To the office, and to the grocery store after work.
A guarantee for a good day is when good mail arrives, Monday was already going pretty well- I woke up on time, had a productive morning at work, things had generally started out on a better note- and then I received a package kindly sent to me by Line & Dot, with this silk dress inside, and a good week was set in stone.
This is one of those dresses that I knew exactly how I wanted to wear it as soon as I saw it in person- I actually expected it to be a brighter red with black leopard print, but I couldn't be happier that it's a bit mire subdued with Sharpie-like scribbles- and for once the outfit in my head worked out. So often, I'll imagine what I believe to be a perfect outfit, and then as soon as I'm wearing it, it's all wrong. Anyway, it's nothing too crazy: tights, a goes-with-everything jacket, and goes-with-everything boots too. If there was one item I've bought in the past year that have paid for themselves, it's these black booties. I know, they're in every other post, but yeah, they're that comfortable.


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Fashion blogger Hannah Louise will be documenting her experience as she navigates our fashion education program in partnership with Parsons. Follow along for the next 10 weeks as she learns the ins and outs of the fashion industry — and enroll in the course to earn your own coveted certificate.
I work in fashion, but I have never studied fashion. I'm a firm believer that you don't necessarily need a degree or qualification in order to be successful, but studying anything at an academic level, be that at university, by very disciplined self-study, or an online course, gives you a much deeper understanding of your subject and its context that I think is really invaluable.
With that in mind, I have embarked on the Teen Vogue x Parsons Certificate Program! There's so much more to fashion than I think that many people realize – fashion is everywhere. It can be controversial, political, and even on a purely aesthetic level there is so much more to think about than "that dress looks nice."
Here's what I was especially surprised and interested to learn during this course:
The striped top (one of my wardrobe staples) was originally a sailor's uniform
It became a fashion staple after inspiring French designers.
There's a specific step-by-step guide to how a designer brings a collection to life from a mood board
I learned every step through this course.
The goal of PR is to shape a message in a way that achieves a brand's desired public perception
I learned this important note from DKNY's Twitter PR person through this course, which enabled me to "meet" members of the Teen Vogue team and others working in fashion via digestible "meet the experts" videos. As a blogger, this lesson helps me consider how I want to be perceived by my audience.
Your visual style comes across in everything that you do
This course reinforced for me the importance of paying attention to my visual style from my blog to my Instagram account to outfits I wear out and about.
Course One, entitled "unlocking visual style," stresses the importance of developing a consistent or defined personal style or aesthetic. As a notorious hoarder with a wardrobe full of "oh but I like it" clothes that I never actually wear, that's something I'm definitely still working on. The assignments in this course such as "your story" on creating a personal brand and "your aesthetic" on curating your blog or Instagram to give viewers a real sense of who you are with a single glance, is making me think about trying to refine myself and what I wear.
Unlike traditional university, you can do everything for this course on your own time and from wherever you work best (coffee shop, sofa, bed, anyone?). Plus, on completing the course you receive a certificate from Parsons School of Design, whose alumni include Alexander Wang, Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford to name just a few. Knowledge and a qualification that looks good on your CV – what's not to be excited about?
You can follow Hannah on Instagram and on her blog as she embarks on this course. If you want to go beyond that and experience all the great things she's learning first hand, you can sign up for the course here.
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While we primarily buy our food at Costco to take home, we also often like to get a snack or a quick lunch before we head home. Not too long ago, Costco added a hot turkey and provolone sandwich to their food court menu. Anything with hot melted cheese sounds good to me, so I had to try one!
This is a good sandwich. The choice of bread for this works very well in terms of flavor, texture and construction of the sandwich. I am definitely glad that they chose a bread that makes the process of eating this sandwich relatively neat.
The quality of the ingredients used in the sandwich are certainly up to par and that really helps to make this a success. I like that they added the tomato, that made really helps make it seem like more of meal than just a couple of pieces of bread with some meat and cheese.
Finally, choosing turkey and provolone for the meat and cheese is a good idea. Turkey goes well with provolone but it is considered a healthier meat, so people will feel less guilty about eating it.
I enjoyed the sandwich and I will order it again, but the one negative is that at $3.99 it is not as good a value as the hot dog or the pizza by the slice. However, It is still a good value and a great change of pace.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Costco Food Court Review: Hot Turkey And Provolone Sandwich-Hot, Meaty Cheesy Goodness At A Costco Price
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- Costco CruiserMarch 4, 2013 at 5:06 PM
Excellent review very good advice. Now let me give you my review. This costs the same as the Carne Asada bake but isn't nearly as good or big. It is like a mini version of something I would order at rauls restaurant. Sometimes the work buys me a lunch from Costco and I ordered this once, everyone with the Chicken Bake laughed at me cause it was so small and had cooked tomato in it.ReplyDelete
I'll tell you what though...cruise the store first to snag some freebies and here is a pro tip...fill your wrapper with the onions and relish once done with the sandwich for an afternoon snack. I put this on crackers that we have laying around.
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Puja is the act of showing reverence to a god, a spirit, or another aspect of the divine through invocations, prayers, songs, and rituals. An essential part of puja for the Hindu devotee is making a spiritual connection with the divine. Most often that contact is facilitated through an object: an element of nature, a sculpture, a vessel, a painting, or a print.
Puja means worship,devotion and reverence. Puja is believed to be derived from the word 'pu-chey',or worship. The term puja is now used to include all forms of worship, ranging from the simple daily offerings of flowers, fruit, leaves, rice, sweetmeats and water to the deities in homes or temples, to the sacrifices in temples dedicated to Kali, Durga and other female deities.
Our puja services assist you in connecting with the spiritual force from the comfort of the house or work place. Pujas have been the Hindu form of worship, since time immemorial. It is an undertaking to show veneration to the Gods and Goddess of Hindu culture. It involves praying, calling on the deities, chanting mantras, singing hymns and Bhajans, etc. Performing a Puja keeps us in tune with the cosmic forces and eliminates sadness whereby ushering spiritual elevation. Pujas are of prodigious significance to seek peace and prosperity in all spheres of our lives.
A Puja could be undertaken for family well-being, kids and new-borns, education, seeking financial stability, removing negative forces from an individual's life, getting rid of malefic effects of planets, seek blessings from the Lord, success at work, harmony at home, or to start new relationships on a sanctified note. The reasons are endless. But special care must be taken to perform the Puja accurately as per Vedic traditions. Our Pujas are performed by accomplished Pandit who undertake the entire ritual in accordance with the Hindu scriptures. With our Puja Services, you can get a highly qualified Pandit, who will plan the Puja according to the most auspicious time for the devotees; to gain maximum benefits.


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Chicken Biriyani
Spicy Kerala Chicken Biriyani.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 90 minutes
Serves: 3 people
- Chicken,cut into medium size pieces - 250 to 300 gms
- Onion,sliced - 1 large( about 1 cup)
- Tomato,chopped - 1 small( 1/2 cup)
- Oil- as required
- Water-as required
- Salt-to taste
- Kashmiri chili powder- 1/2 to 3/4 tsp
- Coriander powder- 1tsp
- Lemon Juice-1/2 tsp
- Water-as required
- Salt- to taste
For Masala paste:
- Green chilies-3 to 4 nos( or more,according to taste)
- Ginger- 1" piece
- Garlic-3 cloves
- Coriander leaves,roughly chopped- 2 tbsp
- Mint leaves,roughly chopped- 1 tbsp
- Cinnamon-1" piece
- Cloves- 3 nos
- Fennel seeds-1/2 tsp
- Whole black pepper -1/2 tsp
- Salt- to taste
For rice:
- Basmati rice- 1.5 cups
- Cardamom pods- 3 nos
- Cinnamon stick,1" piece-2 nos
- Cloves-5 nos
- Bay leaf- 1 no
- Water-3 cup( 1/2 cup more ,if required)
- Ghee-as required
- Salt- to taste
For Layering/garnishing:
- Onion,sliced- 1 small
- Cashew nuts- 12 to 15 nos
- Raisins-1 or 2 tbsp
- Garam masala- 2 to 3 pinch
- Ghee /Oil- as required
- Coriander and mint leaves,chopped-as required
Combine all the ingredients listed under 'For marination' in a bowl.Marinate the chicken with this masala.Keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes. Heat oil/ghee in a pan and fry sliced onion,cashew nuts and raisins ( for garnishing) separately until it turns golden brown. Keep aside. Combine all the ingredients listed under 'For masala paste' in a blender and grind to form a smooth paste.Keep aside. To prepare Chicken Masala,Heat ghee /oil in a pan,add onion and saute until it turns golden brown. Add tomato and saute until it turns mushy. Add the prepared masala paste and saute until raw smell leaves. Add marinated chicken ,mix well and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.Add 1/2 cup water and salt to taste,mix well .Cover and cook until chicken is done.(Check in between,give it a stir and add more water if required) Remove the lid,cook until gravy turns thick. To prepare rice ,heat ghee in a pan,add cardamom,cinnamon,cloves and bay leaf.Saute for few seconds or until fragrant.Add washed and drained rice and saute for 2 to 3 minutes.Add water and salt to taste.Bring this to a boil.Reduce flame to low,cover and cook until it is 90 % done and water is completely absorbed.Allow it to cool completely. For layering,Coat the bottom and sides of the baking dish with ghee.Add a layer of cooked rice. Add a layer of the prepared chicken masala.Next add a layer of rice. Sprinkle fried onion,cashew nuts,raisins,chopped coriander /mint leaves, 1 pinch garam masala and few drops of ghee on top.Add another layer of prepared chicken masala . Finally add a layer of rice.Garnish with remaining fried onion,cashew nuts ,raisins ,coriander and mint leaves.Cover tightly using aluminium foil.Bake for this for about 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 200 Deg C.(For stove top method,layer the biriyani in a heavy bottomed pan and cover it tightly using aluminum foil.Heat a tava/pan and place the biriyani vessel on top of the tava.Reduce flame to low and cook for about 20 minutes.) Serve with onion saladNOTES


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Use the navigation at left, or click on the links below to learn more about each of our target industries:
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- One of the most business-friendly tax climates in the U.S.
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- State incentives such as property tax abatements and workforce training programs
From UPS Freight to Barney Trucking, transportation companies have found their niche in northeastern Nevada. Take advantage of easy access to I-80, US-93 and State Highway 225.
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Opportunity for new retail and service industries exists in all the communities we serve, and in most cases… "supply does not meet demand" for the residents in this growing region.


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Vest: Thrifted
Jeans: Urban Outfitters
Shoes: Gifted
Hat: Ross
Sorry my blog post have been really scattered and not consistent, but I'm trying to take pictures of my outfits more often now! These were taken yesterday, which was crazy busy. I woke up at 6 am to take photos for my teacher's son's baseball team, then worked on a math project, and lastly, I went roller skating with some friends. Our roller skating night was cut short though when my friend tripped, fell on her head, and got a concussion. Anyways, I'll try to document my outfits more often so pray I stick to that.


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Can You See What I See?
Laurin Lee
Rationale: To become expert readers, children need learn an important skill to comprehend what they are reading. Visualization is one way readers can build comprehension. This is important for students so they can have "a movie" of what's going on throughout their reading. When readers can actively engage themselves in the story, they are able to grasp the meaning of the text. This lesson will help students learn to visualize by creating mental pictures in their mind. Students will listen and read to practice this.
Class Copies of Shel Silverstein's Cloony Clown poem
A Box Can be Many Things by Dana Rau Class Copies
Class Copies
Drawing paper and crayons
Assessment Checklist
1. "Today we are going to do something called visualize. Does anyone know what this means?" Allow for student's answers. "Well, this means to read and see a picture or movie in our mind. I am going to say a sentence and I want you to close your eyes. Once I am done reading, I want you tell me what you see."
I was awoken to the smell of hickory bacon and sweet cinnamon rolls. I knew that there would be fresh squeezed orange juice, and gravy for our biscuits.
"What did you see from this sentence I said?" Discussion. "That's right; you may have seen your mom cooking a big breakfast with delicious bacon, and orange juice. What you just did was visualize."
2. "When we read to ourselves, what do we call this?" Silent reading. "That's right, silent reading. We do this so we can read as much as we want, quietly so we don't bother anyone else." We are going to silent read a poem by Shel Silverstein.
3. Have students silent read the poem "Cloony the Clown." Allow time for students to read the poem. "When I read this poem I saw a clown that was unfunny, but he was sad. I got this from the poem because it said that he was floppy and sloppy, and unfunny and made everyone cry." Show a picture of what you drew previously, have students share what they pictured.
4. Give students a copy of A Box Can be Many Things. "This book is about a little boy who finds a box his mom has thrown out. The boy makes the box many things, let's read to find out all the exciting things he discovers." Have students read the book silently, or back and forth with a partner. Once the students read through the book, have them draw a picture of what they just read. Let students share their drawings.
Have students come to the front of the class and explain their drawings. Assess students with a checklist.
Students accurately depicted the story using pictures.
Students accurately retold the story.
"Can You See It?" Abby Smith. Perspectives. http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/persp/smitharl.html
Shel Silverstein Cloony Clown poem
A Box Can be Many Things
by Dana Rau
illustrated by Paige Billin-Frye
Series: Rookie Reader ? Level B


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Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
Anne Holbrook MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Dr. Anne Holbrook is Director of the Division of Clinical
Pharmacology & Toxicology and Professor, Department of
Medicine at McMaster University . She is also an
Associate Member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics and Senior Scientist at the Centre for
Evaluation of Medicines.
Faculty: Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Educational Activities
Although the division is one of the smallest in the department, members play a major role in education. This includes year-round supervision of medical students and residents on internal medicine clinical teaching units at St Joseph's Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences Centre as well as rotations through the Medication Assessment Clinic. Faculty are active supervisors in postgraduate education at the Masters and PhD level in medical sciences, pharmacology, health research methodology and pharmaceutical sciences at both McMaster University and the University of Toronto. The division draws Doctor of Pharmacy students from across the country and from the United States for clinical and research rotations as well as undergraduate pharmacology, health sciences and statistics students from McMaster. In addition, the division is in constant demand for supervising workshops, electives, tutorials, academic half days and continuing medical education sessions.
The first cohort of residents from McMaster's internal medicine program has just completed their formal clinical pharmacology training in a combined University of Toronto – McMaster residency program. This program is accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada . Our CIHR-funded New Emerging Team on individualizing therapies for seniors coordinates training for several graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Finally, division faculty are inaugural faculty in a new Canada-wide Health Informatics PhD/Postdoctoral strategic training program.
Research Programs
The Division of Clinical Pharmacology, despite its small numbers, continues to be highly successful in attracting research funding largely because of a very wide collaborative network within medicine, pharmacy, nursing, epidemiology, economics and the social sciences. Currently amongst the members of the division, more than $15 million worth of research grants are held. These come from a variety of sources, including the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Health Infoway Partnerships Program, Ontario Ministry of Health, Health Canada , Ontario Program for Optimal Therapeutics, local hospitals, professional associations and various pharmaceutical companies. Our research topics focus on the benefits, harms, economics and evidence for therapies and include projects examining the impact of electronic medical records and computer-based decision support on quality of medical care in Canada, the impact of changes in drug policies on health and health care utilization, patient preferences regarding therapies, the development, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based guidelines for therapies, medication assessment and intervention in primary care clinics, the advancement of pharmaceutical care, medication adherence support, patients' needs for therapeutic information, electronic registries and automated data collection for outcomes research in priority diseases, mechanisms of drug interactions, and the pulmonary disposition of pharmaceuticals. As well as scholarly papers and presentations, members of the division hold multiple copyrights and patents on research products, software, reports and guidances.
Major Achievements
The division continues to flourish within its home base, the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines, where members are cross-appointed as senior scientists. The Centre is based within St Joseph 's Hospital and is affiliated with the university. Several of the division's members hold major advisory roles with the federal and provincial governments, leadership positions in provincial and national professional societies and are frequently called upon to advise regarding evidence-based therapy assessment and decision-making.
Several faculty are recipients of peer-reviewed career awards, including Dr. Holbrook by a Career Investigator Award from CIHR, Dr. Levine by FSORC Research Scholar Awards, Dr Dolovich by a CIHR-RxD HRF Career Award and Dr Labiris by FSORC Career Award. Four of our post-graduate students hold awards.
Future Directions
Since therapies are an increasingly prevalent and costly sector of health care, clinical pharmacologists with training in medicine, pharmacology and epidemiology, are in high demand but critically short supply. Thus a major immediate goal of the division is the recruitment of new members to allow us to address the significant needs within healthcare for therapeutics and toxicology consultation, within the university for undergraduate and postgraduate clinical pharmacology education, and to expand our involvement in health policy and research where unmet opportunities abound. Overall, the division will proceed with its goal of excellence in the research, teaching and clinical application of pharmacologic principles and evidence-based therapeutics.


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I FINALLY finished the Mid-Town trench jacket from Indygo Junction that I've been slowly working on. See initial post. I'm quite pleased with the results but if I had to do it all over again, here are the lessons I've learned: 1. I love tweed. I think it is so classy but it is extremely thick and difficult to work with sometimes.
2. I opted out of putting buttons on this jacket for reason #1. Next time I'll choose a cute, thin cotton and then use the buttons I purchased.
3. Next time around I'll plan a liner for the jacket. Either that or I'll have invested in a serger. This coat is not very pretty on the inside. A fashion design student at CSU found it really cute so I'll put that in the win column. See how the wind flapped my jacket bottom and because I had no serger, it looks messy? The solution is for me to take the time to build in a liner. Look for that post sometime next year. Ha ha....
Now for the things I love about the Mid-Town Trench:
1. I love the cut and think it is a timeless classic cut. I chose tweed because I do think it is a classic cut and tweed works well with such a cut.
2. The collar is super cute. Takes me back to the Jackie-O days. I love her coats--every one of them.
3. The length is cute. The pattern actually calls for a longer jacket and you can tell by the pattern, their jackets sit at their knees. I'm not super tall so I opted to shorten it a bit.
4. I love the pleats in the back.


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Leo to save Indian tigers
Leonardo DiCaprio plans to come to India. Not for a film, though — the Hollywood superstar hopes to come to the country to champion the cause of tigers.entertainment Updated: Jul 12, 2010 13:04 IST
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Leonardo DiCaprio plans to come to India. Not for a film, though — the Hollywood superstar hopes to come to the country to champion the cause of tigers. DiCaprio says, "Yeah, I do have plans to travel to India to support the cause of tigers."That's not his only association with India. "I have seen Lagaan and loved the film. It was fantastic," says the actor, who will next be seen in Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan. "Also, Dileep Rao, an Indian origin actor, plays Yusuf in Inception; so that too makes for my association with India," he laughs.
In spite of his wide range of roles, DiCaprio remains popular to every Indian fan, for his role as Jack, from the film, Titanic. Ask him if that bothers him and he replies, "No, not at all. As a matter of fact, I am delighted. Titanic released over a decade ago and I appreciate that Jack Dawson is still lingering in the audiences' mind."
Talking about Inception, which releases next week, he says, "When I first heard the storyline, I thought it was a freaky concept. After the narration, I was blown away!"
Like most celebs, DiCaprio believes in the power of Twitter to support a cause. "Twitter is the new buzzing place and is both a convenient and an influential medium. See the number of people out there — that includes the President of the United States too," he says.
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This fabulous 7-storey hotel comprises a total of 120 rooms of which 19 are suites and facilities include a luggage storage room, a cosy bar and an air-conditioned restaurant offering exquisite cuisine to while the day away in. Car parking facilities are to be found outside.
## Location
This charming hotel lies at the heart of the French capital, directly beside the Louvre and close to the Tuileries métro station. The Gare Du Nord train station lies some 5 km away.
## Rooms
The tasteful and comfortable room with period furniture each come with an suite bathroom with a hairdryer, a flat-screen TV with satellite pay-per-view films, minibar, air conditioning, hire safe, radio, alarm clock, High-speed internet connection (Broadband), Wi-Fi access, telephone with answering service and modem connection (direct line upon request).
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I'm not sure if you're aware or not but there is a really big football game on Sunday. Really the only thing that I am looking forward to is Lady Gaga's performance. And the food. Oh the food. I already have my dips and snacks picked out and am hoping that my cats are willing to serve everything to me on Sunday. Which I know won't happen, but a girl can dream. The one thing that I have been dying to make on Sunday are my Grilled Spicy Rum Wings!
I'm teaming up with my friends at Litehouse Foods today to bring you this delicious wing recipe, because let's face it, every good wing needs a good dipping sauce! Are you a fan of blue cheese or ranch dressing? I'm more of a ranch for my wings, but lucky for you they feature both delicious dressings!
Head on over to the Living Litehouse blog to get the recipe for Grilled Spicy Rum Wings and chime in below with your favorite dipping sauce!


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A week ago or so, I saw a really cute pattern somewhere - I think it was on Pinterest - and decided to make it. You can get the pattern here.
I actually made 4 of them, but forgot to take pictures until I only had one left un-packaged up. This one is for my 6 year GD. I made 2 for my 6 and 3 1/2 year old GSs. When my 22 year old GD saw them, she wanted one too, so I did make her one as well.
I'm also sending this little ceramic pumpkin - about 2" in diameter. About 40 years ago, my Mom (or sister?) gave one each to my 3 sons and when I moved, I found them. So, I'm sending them to each of the 3 youngest grandchildren along with their "Monster" pencil cases.


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I wanted all of the images to be 'Captured' in a Polaroid style photograph which I heat embossed with silver powder to go with the background colours.
I had also embossed 'Capture the Magic' in white embossing powder onto a piece of Acetate, as I wanted this to hang over the top of the board, in front of the images so you didn't lose any of the details.
To finish off, I distressed the edges of the background and mounted it onto a piece of card.
A suitably celebratory scene to welcome in the New Year. Full of bright colours, textures and fabulous stamps by Roc Nicholas and Stampotique.
Thanks for coming over, I hope you like my piece this month. I wonder what I'll come up with next month...??
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Kanye West Feat Rihanna – Paranoid
Kanye West featuring Rihanna – Paranoid Music video.
This is the official music video for Kanye West's 'Paranoid'. This video features singer Rihanna in an ingenious piece of casting. Rihanna had a 'slight' altercation with Chris Brown and if you believe some media outlets it was due to her finding a text on his phone. Could this video reflect real life.
This video is like a personal message from Kanye West to Rihanna. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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