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Everything You Need for a New Orleans Vacation
New Orleans just can't be beat for great entertainment, music, and food year round. Perhaps there is no other American city with such an abundance of choices, and not everything costs money to be part of the fun. We have listed popular fee paid attractions that our guests seem to enjoy the most; followed by a list of "free" things to do in New Orleans and a list of favorite restaurants. Your Innkeepers can help you plan a visit to the Big Easy; they have tickets to most of the venues that charge a fee and can advise you about all the experiences on the lists. There are so many things to do, and they're all here just waiting for you.
Popular Attractions:
- World War II Museum
- Riding Tour of the City and the Rebirth of Areas Post Katrina
- Swamp/Bayou Nature tour
- Visit to Oak Alley and Laura Plantations along River Road
- Ghost, Cemetery and Cocktail History Walking tours
- New Orleans Museum of Art
- Riverboat Ride on the Mississippi
- Audubon Institute Aquarium and Imax theatre
- Audubon Zoo & Insectarium
- Ride the Historic Streetcar line end to end

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Recent posts on the CFM Blog on pop-up museums & exhibits have provoked a lot of interest, so I invited Katie Spencer, executive director of the Museum of Durham History, to contribute yet another perspective. Her museum, still under development, is using pop-up events as a form of rapidproto-typing—a low cost, low risk way of trying out concepts, forging relationships with partner organizations, and building community engagement before the museum even opens.
The Museum of Durham History is a young museum in Durham, North Carolina. Because we are new, much of what we do is an experiment. We've seen local history museums in our state and region struggle and sometimes fold, so we feel obligated to look at new, experimental models for museums to ensure our success. We have the advantage of building a new museum in a time when many museums are re-evaluating their institutional histories and trying to think of new ways forward.
One thing we have been experimenting with is pop-up museums. We were inspired by Michelle DelCarlo's pop-up museum concept, seeing it as a low-tech way to create engagement and conversation, both of which are critical to our museum's long-term success. Conversations such as those spawned by a recent CFM post on museum pop-ups suggest that other museums are interested in experimenting with this model as well.
Our emerging history museum is very much in a start-up phase and has only recently leased a small building to use as our first museum space, called the History Hub. We were initially attracted to pop-up museums as a way to kick-start conversations about the past in our community. Pop-ups provided a way to bring people, objects, and stories to the History Hub, even before we install exhibits, by creating a museum experience complete with objects, community voices, and visitor engagement in what is currently an empty building. In Durham there is no central historical collection, and so the pop-up museum model also creates opportunities for us to discover and document objects that are valuable to our community's understanding of the past.
A Durham druggist shares stories about growing up in town
and working at the family drug store at the
Tools of the Trade Pop-up Museum.
Our first pop-up took place at the History Hub as part of a weekend-long outdoor festival in downtown Durham. We selected the theme and format through conversations with staff, volunteers, and community members. I really like Michelle's focus on universal themes and emotions (e.g. "hope"), but I discovered that people had a hard time relating these concepts to their understanding of history. They responded better to more tangible topics, so in the end we focused our first pop-up on an object-based theme: "tools of the trade." We encouraged people to interpret "tools" to be anything used to get a job done, from cooking to factory work to art to public safety. Twelve people brought personal or family objects to share, over 200 people came through our doors to see the pop-up in progress, and a photographer and an audio documentarian captured the stories that were shared.
This first pop-up museum was on the whole a wonderful experience, but getting people to participate took more work than we expected. Because we were worried that no one would show up, we made many calls inviting people to bring pieces of their collection or their family history. In the end only one of the people who brought objects did so without a personal invitation from museum staff.
|A visitor reads about desegregation of Durham schools at a Pop-up
Museum created by students from Duke University and N
orth Carolina Central University
As we develop more pop-up museum events, we find they work best for us when conducted in partnership with other community groups. In a few months we will collaborate with Durham's North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the oldest and largest African American life insurance company in the country. In celebration of the company's 115th anniversary, the museum and the company will invite current employees, past employees, and descendants of past employees of NC Mutual to bring in photos, stories, and objects from their time with the company. Later in the year we will conduct a pop-up museum on Durham's Jewish history in conjunction with a program at the Durham County Library. We've also conducted a pop-up museum featuring mini-exhibits made by students at nearby Duke University and North Carolina Central University. All these partners link the museum to members of the community with interesting perspectives on history and help ensure broader participation. We conducted two pop-up museums in 2012 and have four planned for 2013. I suspect that the challenge will continue to be driving participation: we need to convince people that their perspective on Durham's past is interesting and significant enough to be in a museum, even if only for one day.
Recent efforts on the part of museums to build community participation is a wonderful step in the right direction, but it may be easier for those of us who spend a lot of time thinking about museum models—past, present, and future—to embrace that goal, than it is for people who see museums as less central to their everyday lives and who may think of museums as a place one visits to be told about the past (or about science, art, etc.). Pop-up museums have proved to be a simple way for the Museum of Durham History to communicate our vision of the importance of community participation and each event measure of how successfully we have shared that vision.
Our pop-up museums, each with its unique theme and community partner, have functioned as experiments in community involvement. Because these pop-ups are so simple, so economical, and so flexible, we can afford to experiment in this way, and what we learn from these experiments helps us plan for our museum-in-progress.
Katie notes that she is very interested in finding other community history museums that are experimenting with new ideas. If you can help her find such projects, please share information and links in the comment section, below.Skip over related stories to continue reading article


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Launching at retail in time for the 2013 prom season, the debut collection pulls from different aspects of the 1937 Disney animated classic film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and captures its essence through rich treatments and a variety of silhouettes and fabrics. With seven design themes and 75 style options, Disney Forever Enchanted offers a stunning array of possibilities and choices for Prom goers.
"Launching our new Disney Forever Enchanted collection with a Snow White-inspired line seemed only fitting, since she was Disney's first princess," said Ashdon CEO, Nick Yeh. "The dresses are fun to wear yet elegant, and offer young women a way to realize their own fairytale inspired dreams."
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The other night David and I settled down to a dinner of panzanella salad. I was inspired by smitten kitchen's summer's last hurrah panzanella. The home made vinaigrette she designed was delicious and so simple. It will clearly become a dressing staple in our house.
For the vinaigrette 1 teaspoon finely minced garlic 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard 3 tablespoons champagne vinegar 1/3 cup good olive oil 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
The salad itself is super easy. I followed smitten kitchen mostly. But, really this salad could consist of anything in your crisper. We added yellow and orange peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, basil, onion and grilled a chicken breast. We skipped the capers (David is not a fan of these), and we topped it off with some delicious smooth goat cheese. This would be a great salad to bring to a cook-out. Filling from the homemade bread croutons and satisfying, it was a delicious recipe that smitten kitchen posted and that can be easily adapted.


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How I met my girlfriend: Adriana Chechik & Abigail Mac
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If you move into a new neighborhood, you may expect to run into the neighbors... so it is better to get acquainted way ahead. But... more here comes the twist. What if the area is full of lively teens, horny housewives and shamless bitches? Yes, you are right: it would only mean that you'll have great fun! Time to explore your new neighborhood and make an impression.
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Semester after semester these girls proved that no rules are strict enough to keep them away from mischief and naughtiness... one can only guess what... more will happen when they really let loose and give in to their youth desires at the Sorority Summer Camp. Well, you don't have to guess because you'll experience it first hand. Sexy rivalry over you is only part of the menu. There are bets, dare games, nude discipline, shameless seduction and raw, young erotica everywhere to deal with. You have to be a man above all to keep these girls in line. Visit the Sorority Summer camp and spend time with beauties like Apolonia Lapiedra, Tina Kay, Maria Rya, Liv Revamped, Alecia Fox, Vinna Reed, Jessica Lincoln, Zazie Skymm and Rebecca Black.
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Corporate Screwaround
You are new at the company and swept off your feet by your gorgeous boss. But in your appreciation of her beauty you fail to... more understand your task. She doesn't care about excuses so now you have to find a way to get the information about the project. Who will help you? The ass-kisser of the company? The boss' sexy Russian secretary? Or even the wealthy client, Ms. Lawson? Whatever is the case, you need to solve the task for a handsome bonus… from the lady boss herself.
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Corrupt Cop Chronicles
You have accepted the local crime boss', Alyssia's offer to become her asset. Now she is watching you from behind the scenes: you have to... more follow her orders, and also convince her underboss, Luna about your loyalty to the crime organization. But first things first: start your double game with the FBI's hottest agents, Kay and Leal to confirm your position at the police, too. Are you a man with balls?
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How I met my girlfriend Abella Danger
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A day of Intrigue with Sybil & Friends
Playing the judge between your beautiful girlfriend Sybil, and her hated, still very sexy cousin Alyssia won't be an easy ride. They both want the... more house they inherited from their aunt for themselves and you should help them to get into an agreement. But as you dig deeper into their intrigues, you realize that not everything is as it seems. What if this you were wrong about Alyssia and Sybil is the culprit? Only you can find out the truth!
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A day with Lena Paul is like a fantastic first date - she's never boring, always fun and can't stop being horny if she's around... more you. After waking up next to her, run your hands over her big natural tits and her perfect ass. Have her taste your big cock and then slide it inside her super tight pussy after skinny dipping in the pool... Let's make a sexy bet, when she begs for more, seduce Jillian Janson for a super hot threesome, to REALLY make your day with Lena unforgettable.
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A day with Elsa Jean & step-sister, Piper Perri
The waiting is officially over! Now you get the chance to spend a special & mind-blowing day with Elsa Jean, your gorgeous, young & petite... more girlfriend. Wake up to her angelic smile, the touch of her peachy skin and perky titties. Let her tease & please you from the morning, through this whole amazing day til the evening. Play games with this funny, cheerful and kind dreamgirl, meet her friends, have fun with her slutty step-sister, Piper Perri and fuck her hard like you have never fucked a girlfriend before.
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A day with Stella Flex and friends
What a lovely day it can be with your exotic, foreign girlfriend, Stella. Waking up next to her, having fun in the morning, goofing around... more and make love in the garden before lunch, and then being a host for two of her gorgeous friends… it is a delight. A dream you live in. Make this day as perfect as possible so you can remember it fondly day after day… until the next special occasion with Stella Flex.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Awkward Goodbyes and Uncomfortable Questions
Having said that, there's something about this business with the Jays trading their manager to a divisional rival that seems...let's say "transformative". Like it's a big frigging deal. Like it's a moment that we'll reflect upon years from now as a moment that either changed the direction of the franchise, or made clear that there was something flawed in the way the Blue Jays were proceeding with the Eternal Building Plan.
Because really, this whole thing is a mess. This is not the way that it is supposed to play out. And I'll spare you my interpretation over who jumped and whether if they were on the cusp of being pushed, because really, who knows? There's a lot of whispers, and from a distance, whispers really just sound like noise. I won't be so bold as to interpret them quite yet.
Brought on board following one of the most exhaustive managerial searches in the history of mankind, John Farrell was supposed to be the leader who marshalled the new-look Blue Jays into their new era of contention. But after maddeningly inscrutable two seasons at helm, Farrell was unable to reasonably earn an extension to his contract. He was also not able to make himself appear indispensable. At least not to the Jays.
I held out a lot of hope for John Farrell, from the time he was hired through until the somewhat surprising news of his departure this weekend. I thought he talked a good game, and at the risk of painting myself as a bit of a rube, I tend to think that people who talk a good game usually have the mental dexterity to actually manage the game just as well.
Certainly, there were holes in his management of the team. I didn't always care for his lineups, though I thought that by the end of last season, he had become better with that aspect of the game. I also didn't care for the 13-man pitching staff and the lame use of a thin bench, though it is an open questions as to whether if that was his call or the general manager's.
On the positive, I appreciated that his management of the bullpen seemed to progress when he had an adequate supply of arms from which to choose. I also thought that the Jays' use of extreme shifts - taking greater advantage of Brett Lawrie's tremendous athleticism - was a very nice development this year, and one which might have been underappreciated by some of the armchair nitpickers.
I agree somewhat with notion - the new conventional wisdom, as it were - from the progressive-minded types that states that managers have a modest impact on the performance of their team. But I can't help but wonder: Would the Tampa Bay Rays have traded their manager for a 32 year-old, sub-.700 OPS utility player? For that matter, would the Rays trade their skipper for a 27 year-old with an .800 OPS? Should they?
Maybe that seems like an unfair example, but it certainly makes it hard for me to wrap my head around the notion that a player with value is worth blowing up your entire coaching staff. It's no sure thing that Brian Butterfield and Luis Rivera and Torey Lovullo follow Farrell out of town, but it seems as though that might be the de facto outcome of this transaction, which in turn means a new manager, new coaches, and a lack of continuity in the message the players are hearing from management.
This leadership transition means new processes, and new faces creating new expectations. It's going to mean a new set of coaches feeling out the limits and pressure points on the players who make up the roster. And if any coaches remain - because Dwayne Murphy and Bruce Walton will probably keep their jobs through nuclear winters and the zombie apocalypse - it will mean that they will deal with new directives and expectations as well.
So maybe a salient question leading out of this whole mess - even if it is unanswerable at this point - is whether a new message from a new regime is better at this point than preserving the existing regime to maintain continuity. A new message might not be a bad thing, considering some of the non-injury-related backsliding by some of the younger players this season.
In the end, what Farrell's departure might help to underline is the inherent fragility of the painstaking process of building the Toronto Blue Jays into a perpetual contender. Certainly, many Jays fans still hold Anthopoulos in a positive light, and believe that his approach to building the team has been prudent and wise. But I'd also hazard a guess to say that it's a shrinking number who continue to hold this view.
It probably doesn't matter if he was plucked from the Jays through something that feels like coordinated campaign through back channels that falls just short of "tampering", or if the team simply couldn't rationalize an extension beyond next year and let him go to avoid a lame duck year. That's all academic. We can stick out our pinkies and fill the air with chatter on these points at cocktail parties all winter long.
But ultimately, this feels to a fan - this one, anyway - like another low point in a year that has had far too many of them. It feels like a bit of an insult, even if it's not entirely clear why, and who's responsible. It feels like another step backwards.
The other side of this debacle is that the Jays will fill out the coaching staff in the coming weeks, and that will provide another opportunity for some blind optimism. We'll meet a new skipper, and project some hopes and dreams on him. We'll visualize that manager having champagne poured over his head, and celebrating some sort of meaningful victory. Just as we did with John Farrell, two short years ago.
And when it comes to taking responsibility for hiring a manager that is ultimately viewed to be disposable within two seasons: That's on AA. Farrell was his call, and it will be incumbent on him to
help take this crisis and turn it into an opportunity.
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I was never a fan of the Farrell choice, although I don't know who all was in the running. Maybe everyone else was worse. Dumping him in two years, as you say, is on AA.
But is this precise situation most appropriately viewed as a trade in the sense we tend to think of them? A normal trade happens when a GM thinks he can switch his pieces for some other guy's pieces and come out ahead, a process which often includes players a given GM no longer wants. That's how players get dumped. A GM who doesn't want his manager anymore just fires him.
I'm not going to hail this move as an AA super-genius play, though I like his work in general. But what did Steinbrenner ever get for all his removals of Billy Martin from the helm? The fact the Jays received any return strikes me as a bonus, not something to prompt the question of did they get enough.
- October 22, 2012 at 3:47 PM
- Nav said...
Well said. It feels like another step backwards, because that's precisely what it is. I agree with AA when he says a "perfect storm" created this scenario, but it's still embarrassing for the Blue Jays.
I won't be all that excited when a new manager is announced. It hardly seems to matter. You know what would have been great? Settling this matter as soon as the season ended, and hiring Francona before the Indians got to him.
So long, President Farrell, and I'll see you at the next cocktail party, Tao.
- October 22, 2012 at 4:20 PM
- The Ack said...
How come I never get invited to any of these damn cocktail parties?
Oh yeah, FJF (you figure it out).
- October 22, 2012 at 4:44 PM
i recently moved to Pittsburgh. The apathy around the Bucs is amazing, especially coming from Toronto. People simply don't care about the team. They go to the beautiful ballpark with the affordable seats and reasonably priced beer, but when the team craters after being in the race, people just laugh and move on. That's what 17 years of sub-.500 ball will do.
This is the first season in my life I have begun to feel apathy towards the Jays. This season brought a whole new level of failure after a spring of optimism: the Darvish non-bid, the Lawrie meltdown, the Yunel situation, the Vizquel situation, the Farrell situation. It just feels like this is an organization that can't get it's shit together.
And with a new manager, the reset button is going to be pressed. We'll have to give give him a year to get a feel for the team. Then, who knows, maybe the Orioles will have another year where they defy Pythag while the Jays get some "bad luck". Maybe the injury bug will strike. Maybe some prospects won't develop.
It just feels like this could go on ... forever.
- October 22, 2012 at 9:47 PM
The most troubling bit of news coming out of this was AA's comments on McCown's show that he did not actually do the Farrell leaving deal.
It's hard to be a ninja when when you're being undermined by Beeston and who knows who else from Rogers.
- October 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM
I'm not sure blowing up the coaching staff is a bad thing. The call for a new Hitting Coach, and expunging the pull everything mentality is near universal. Romero's struggles and publicly total lack of any idea on how to fix them doesn't exactly instill confidence in Walton or Walker. Sac bunts, green lights on the base paths, helmet tossing, offensive messages on eye black...
I don't know how relevant any of that is, but wholesale change won't necessarily be bad, will it?
- October 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM
I guess the only issue I don't have with the whole ordeal is Farrel talking and joking about he can only go as far as his roster. It sounds like he's saying that he didn't have a good enough roster here and its hard to argue with that notion, especially last years starting rotation.
- October 23, 2012 at 1:52 PM
- tincanman2010 said...
I would like to see Spanish speaking coaches at the corners. I don't know why this isn't standard practice in a game where some Latino players don't understand English well.
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Gosh, it feels like the last time I blogged was ages ago. Dear readers, I apologize. I recently moved into a new apartment, and have been spending the last few weeks working on absolutely nothing but my manuscript to meet my fast-approaching deadline. So please bear with me...there are plenty of new recipes coming soon!
I would like to take a few moments, however, to share this adorable food poster, found recently while searching for decorating ideas. This illustration of Hong Kong local eats would look great on the kitchen walls of a Cantonese food fan. Egg tarts! Pineapple buns! Egg waffles! Cart noodles with beef and cuttlefish balls! I never thought a cartoon could make me so hungry, or become so nostalgic.
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A total of HK$75.69 billion (US$9.77 billion) traded Tuesday versus HK$49.27 billion in Thursday's shortened session. Markets in Hong Kong were closed Friday and Monday to mark the Lunar New Year holiday.
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Robert Kennedy's Superstar Girlfriend 'Devastated' Over Mary Kennedy Suicide
An insider tells HollywoodLife.com actress Cheryl Hines feels terribly for the Kennedy family after they loss Mary yesterday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long moved on romantically from his estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, and his new girlfriend, Cheryl Hines, is trying her hardest to comfort the family after Mary's suicide.
"Cheryl is devastated," a source close to the actress tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. "She met Robert long after he filed for divorce from Mary. She was not friends with Mary, they didn't know each other."
Adds the source, "She met Robert in Deer Valley at one of his charity events and she has always admired his chartible causes for the environment. She has nothing but empathy for the family right now."
Robert filed for divorce from Mary in May 2010 and only three days later she got a DUI. Since that time, she's been on a downward spiral, her friends said.
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HOUSTON - An article on a website is creating a lot of buzz, claiming that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to attack several United States cities, including Austin, Texas.
The website NKNews.org has posted several versions of two photographs it claims were posted on the Korea Worker's Party paper, the Rodong. The website zoomed into a map in the background of the photographs. The website claims the title of the map is "U.S. Mainland Strike Plan" and that arrows on the map indicate that San Diego, Washington D.C. and the Austin area are primary targets.
Many people have wondered -- why Austin? The hashtag "whyAustin" went viral.
"Hey Kim Jong Un, Austin has the Sixth Street, not the Sixth Fleet," one person wrote.
Another person suggested Austin might be on his list because "Austin is home to U.S. strategic BBQ reserves."
"They may not have an understanding that Austin is not a military or industrial sector in the United States," attorney and former CIA officer David Adler said. "I don't know what the basis would be for striking a launch against Austin."
"They're just sounding off and they have no ability to do that," said Dr. Richard Stoll, a political science professor at Rice University.
Stoll said North Korea does not have the fire power to reach Austin some 6,800 miles away.
"It's probably some quirky thing like there's one person in the upper reaches of their government who even knows where Austin, Texas is or maybe they have been there," said Stoll. "There is obviously no strategic reason to target Austin for anything other than relating to the military, and if you were to really crude about it trying to kill a lot of Americans, of course you'd target Houston and not Austin."
"Why Austin?" asked one man at Canyon Creek Restaurant and Bar near the roundabout on Washington Avenue.
"I just think he's maybe just angry he didn't get invited to South by Southwest," said another man.
Canyon Creek is an Austin oasis in the middle of Houston. As one woman there said, "Keep Austin weird! There's nothing bad you can really say about Austin."
KPRC Local 2, the Associated Press and CNN have not been able to confirm the legitimacy of the photos posted on NKNews.org.
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Hello everyone.
Just a quick little message to let you know that this once loved blog went off air for a while, I had a break from blogging and returned with a new perspective and wanted a new look.
I have Dimples and Little Miss T, over at Play Based Parenting.
You can now find our hands on, fun play adventures, kids activities, plus much more at Play Based Parenting.
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Interactive Colouring-in characters with Crayola Color Alive
Product review- Crayola Color Alive.
Crayola is changing a child's way of colouring in with color Alive and its virtual colouring effects. The colouring-in books look like a classic book, lots of cool pictures with details characters to customize, plenty for a child to have fun with. However there is something really special about these books.
Here are some pics of how we had fun using the Color Alive range, and what I really think of it...
Capturing the imagination, creativity and focus of children (and adults).
Color Alive combines colouring with a 4D interactive experience. The colourer-inner, aka creative child can customize their picture using any combination of the colours and then bring their picture to life in a 4D app. The anticipation for bringing a character or creature to life is really engaging. I found that Dimples coloured in so much more detail and he was focused for much longer than he usually would be. All because he really wanted to create his own pet.
Watching the Colouring in that they just completed transform with a spinning magical portal, they'll see their design and creation transform into a 4D figure above their page. They have their own theme music and virtual tricks. They move and make sounds and have fun little individual characteristics. Dimples eyes widened as he seen the "portal" and all the magical effects before his pet dragon appeared.
Children can bring Characters to Life, bringing them off of their drawing and then can interact with the characters, take 'selfies' with them, tickle them, play or poke them. They can also be saved as your own pets or characters for use anywhere, any time, with or without the colouring in page. Here Miss T laughed at her Medusa sitting on her head, and put it on a forest play mat. "Snake lady looks real there" she giggled...
Dimples was so excited to show his pop his creation, and they had lots of fun taking selfies of the dragon sitting in the palm of his hand, on his shoulder and on his head. You could get really clever with this and do some trick photography. Hey!! That gives me an idea... Stay tuned to my Instagram.
Special effects.
Children will love the "elements" that the characters and creatures represent. The new books by Crayola contain a set of special crayons can even create virtual Colouring Effects; Special Effects Crayon add animated effects such as comic symbols, fire, ice sparkles and pixie dust. Can you see the REAL fire on Dimples Dragon picture below? Pretty amazing really. Then he used his dragon pet in a balancing act and poked it for a while as it sit above his page.
If you want to check out how amazing it really is, social media #CrayolaAU
I would definitely recommend them, and I would say any child would love one of these magical books as a gift! They are fantastic and really have to be experienced to be appreciated.
I would definitely recommend them, and I would say any child would love one of these magical books as a gift! They are fantastic and really have to be experienced to be appreciated.
Happy Adventures :)
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Spring Craft Yarn Dancing sticks & dreamcatchers
We had lots of fun collecting and painting sticks for these spring time dancing sticks made with spotlights colourful flinders yarn.
Using this silky smooth 100% cotton 8 ply yarn from Spotlight in kids craft was great for developing fine motor skills, making patterns, discussing colours and the craft ideas are endless.
With our bright spotlight yarn we made Pom-Pom dancing sticks, a twirling wand and a zig-zag dancing stick.
The kids loved dancing around with them, twirling and waving them in the wind. after a cold miserable winter, the sun is finally shining and the air smells like Spring, these were a little celebration to inspire the kids to get outside and enjoy the outdoors again. Making them was a process that involved a bit of patience, focus and fine motor skills. Dimples did great weaving the yellow zig-zag yarn through his forked stick. Because this yarn is thick and smooth, it is great quality which made it easy for the kids to handle.
This yarn is available in the most bright and beautiful colours from spotlight stores. you can find them on Facebook.
Spotlight is a family owned and operated Australian business that has become as household name. Spotlight is a brand loved and used by many for all things crafting, fabrics and home wares. They also have an awesome party section.
With our bright yarn we had the opportunity to #getcreative and craft some spring time dream catchers and dancing sticks to have fun with.
What you need:
Flinders 8ply yarn from spotlight
Rainbow painted sticks
Metal ring
Glue and scissors.
Dancing sticks:
First have your children find some cool sticks and paint them in beautiful bright spring colours.
Talk about the colours, name them and point out other colours in nature. We sat by the lake on a grassy hill to paint our sticks. If your not a fan of painting with little ones, here are some tis to make it easy.
Once dry, weave yarn around the sticks. Depending on the shape of your stick, they could thread it around, tie strings off one end like a wand or put two sticks in a cross and weave it around all four ends to make a pattern.
Pom-pom spring time sticks.
These are awesome, they look about like mini Lorax tuffaluffa trees or big bright flowers.
First make a pom-Pom. its easy enough to do on your hand.
Next glue it to the top of your rainbow stick. Done. Isn't it cute? This was both Dimples & Cherubs favourite.
Dream catcher:
Crochet a circle pattern, like a doily, as your centre piece feature (I cant knit or crocket so had Mum do some cute little ones we could use).
Shape wire into circle and cover it around and around with spotlights 100% cotton 8 ply yarn. It was really easy to manage, it circled in evenly, covered all the wire smoothly and was not fluffy at all.
Then with a little help, get your child to thread through the doily and back to the sides in the pattern of a star. It's a little bit tricky and requires a lot of concentration but dimples had a good go of it and practiced tying knots at the bottom of it.
Add hanging strings and feathers from the bottom.
Add hanging strings and feathers from the bottom.
We still have plenty of yarn left and will be making some more dream catchers to give as gifts. smaller kid friendly ones. with the rest of the bright colours, the kids was some more pom-pom sticks.
Visit Spotlight and check out their online catalogue to see what type of yarn and craft activities you can #getcreative with.
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Frozen Theme Party ideas
Little Miss Cherub is TWO - Can you believe it? and she is a little Frozen obsessed. You know the song all the frozen fans sing? she can sing all three words of it "let it go" over and over and over and over... So for her party we held a Frozen Theme party with a blue & purple theme, I pulled out our blue Christmas lights and it made it all so magical.
I used some glittery silk and chiffon material to create a frozen skirt that lined the kitchen area ( you can see it in the picture above), and as I have said before when we have had kids Parties for Dimples, I always forget to take photos of these small touches. Its often the small touches that pull it all together. The fortnight before, I made a Frozen theme Backdrop for some photo fun. Miss Cherub helped paint Olaf, and Dimples helped cut out some paper snow flakes. It sat nicely among the Christmas lights and all the kids (of all ages) had a go at being Elsa or Olaf.
For party Activities we had a couple of awesome Sensory tubs thanks to Sensory Playground Australia - They gave us some of these cool water bead cubes, they're firmer and more fun then water beads. The children tried stacking them and building Queen Elsa a castle before they crushed them and mixed them into a field of snow. One tub had large frozen glitter boulders (made in a balloon with glitter, food colour and water) as well as the cool water bead cubes and some frozen figurines.
I did some face painting for the kids, the boys wanted Olaf and snowflakes on their cheeks and the girls got a tiara above their brows. There were also frozen theme tattoos and a take home goody bag for the guests that consisted of stickers, a balloon, magic sand, bubbles, a frozen badge, tattoos, a bracelet and a small lolly bag.
The other Sensory tub had massive 'Amaze balls' also given to use by sensoryplaygroundaustralia - They were by far the most intriguing thing the children have seen. You can see the size difference between the usual water beads and the amazeballs.
If you want to get your hands on some of these beauties check out Sensory Playgrounds Ebay Site. They have so many cool sensory resources that you can purchase for less then a cup of coffee.
Highly recommended.
There were balloons strung up every where, a starry background and lots of purple and blue things.
We had a bubble machine going, a ball pit full of balloons and balls, some silk materials hung up along the clothes line and lots of pink/purple food including; fairy bread, pink biscuits, strawberries dipped in white chocolate, watermelon and red grapes, pretzels dipped in purple or blue icing, strawberry & cream lollies, Blue jelly, baby spring rolls and party pies.
The cake was a castle of course. I made 3 layers each a different shade of purple, and cut stairs from them then covered it in blue roll out icing. I used a play dough roller with a brick pattern on it and decorated it with baby marshmallows to represent the snow balls. The tower was made from rice crispies and based on this Princess Cake tutorial by Paging fun Mums.
I think half the fun for the girls was dressing up in frozen outfits and chasing bubbles around, dancing among the streams and silk curtains and listening to their favourite song... You guessed it! Let it go.
There was also play equipment outside, a nice fluffy rug to sit on and various frozen books and colouring.
And the day after the Party, Miss Cherub was still having fun with those sensory trays. Who would have thought they were nice to use as a toe massager.
Happy Adventures
Scented Instant Snow castles from play gel
Play Gel? What is play gel I hear you mutter as you read the title... You'll never guess.
A form of instant snow, if you have bought instant snow you will agree that it is not cheap, I got some years ago when I made The Melted Snow Man sensory Tray for Dimples. I think I paid $6-7 for one little tube that was used a few times. This play gel costed about $1 and is 3 times the amount.
I came across this one day browsing pinterest, Science Kiddo shared a pretty interesting post on how to do it. I was reluctant to begin with, knowing what it was made of, if I told Adventures at home Dad I let the kids play with **** today, I am sure he would have looked at me sidewards and questioned my sanity.
Have you guessed yet?
Here is how we made Castles from scented play gel....
*get a jug of water *add colouring *add essential oil or scented essence (we used peppermint essence) *Get an unused New Disposable Nappy *Open it and lay it flat with the absorbent side up and pour on your mixture *add more water as needed *cut along the side of the Diaper and empty the contents *add more scent, colour, glitter or water if needed. *Play
After a lot of exploration with their hands and fingers, Dimples and Miss Cherub used animals and buried them, poured more water on and explored with it for a long while. It just kept soaking up water, I was amazed. From one disposable Nappy they had a tray each full of play gel, it smelt so nice and refreshing and looked pretty cool to dig in to. After a while they turned to 'building'
Using sand moulds, buckets and plastic cones they build 'snow castles'. This was quite a challenge, it took a lot of patience and skills because the scented play snow was not like sand, it didn't pack in tight and stay firm so the larger the castle the harder it was. Dimples mastered it with a slow steady technique and noticed that the cones and taller castles wobbled like jelly. It was definitely a fun and new experience, Dimples and I discussed the scientific side of the play gel and how it soaks water, what it is made from, what will happen after we let it dry. Miss Cherub and I labelled how it felt, the shapes we made and the colour/smell of it.
If you are curious like I was, the stuff inside the diapers is similar to what is used in water crystals, water-beads and so forth. It is a form of polymer, and although it is manmade it is non-toxic and can not be absorbed through the skin see here. However it is better to ere on the side of safety so for that reason it is not recommended to be consumed, due to the fact that it absorbs 50 times its weight in water (like water-beads) - Read this here if you are concerned although it is labelled as non toxic and safe it is likely to cause irritation if consumed so as always, keep an eye on the kids as they play, don't leave them alone if you feel they will eat it and don't give it to babies or toddlers who mouth anything.
After playing, you can store it in a container in a dry and watch what happens as it dries out but remember that disposable nappies are not good for our environment so don't go pouring it in the yard, near a drain or down the toilet remember to dispose of it adequately as you would with other non-degradable waste. If you store it in a air tight container you can get a few play sessions out of it, just add some more water next time and away you go.
Happy Adventures
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Applause broke out at Elmont Memorial High School on Sunday as the two finalists for the development of Belmont Park announced plans to create thousands of temporary and permanent jobs as part of ambitious plans to develop the racing center further.
It was the first time that the New York Islanders or the New York City Football Club soccer team detailed concrete proposals, and their job-creation plans appeared to allay some of the concerns of many in the audience that the needs of the Elmont community would not be taken seriously.
The event, which was billed as a "listening session," was sponsored by five local elected officials. Each side was given 15 minutes to outline its proposal for the 43-acre footprint, after which written questions were taken from the audience of about 150.
The plans
Speaking for the Islanders, Richard Browne, of Sterling Project Development, said the team would recruit "5,500 temporary construction workers and 2,000 permanent, full-time, year-round employees" at Belmont. While he was unable to guarantee that construction jobs would be filled by workers from surrounding communities, Browne did praise the "quality local workforce."
NYCFC expects to hire 4,400 temporary workers and "1,600 direct and indirect hires" for positions in retail and the stadium itself, according to Senior Vice President Avi Kollencher, of Related Companies, which is partnering on the project with NYCFC.
The club's proposal for the site includes a 26,000-seat, open-air arena north of Hempstead Turnpike. South of the road, the team proposes to build a 435,000-square-foot retail village, a 5.2-acre public park and a two-acre soccer facility, which would be available for youth training programs.
The Islanders version includes an 18,000-seat, all-weather stadium, a 10,000-square-foot "innovation center," 400,000 square feet of retail space and a 200- to 250-bed hotel. The stadium would be built north of Hempstead, while the area south of the turnpike would be dedicated primarily to the 7,000 additional parking spots the facility would require.
Both the Islanders and NYCFC representatives insisted that their proposals would require reopening the Long Island Rail Road's Belmont Park Station on a permanent basis, ideally with a Park and Ride connection. The station is not located in Nassau County, however, according to Jeffrey Greenfield, chairman of the county's Planning Commission. That, he said, would add one more hurdle to any possible negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, of which the LIRR is part.
Access roads and parkways, including Hempstead Turnpike and the Cross Island and Southern State parkways, would need beefing up as well, both sides agreed. Asked whether construction would entail invoking eminent domain, both the Islanders and NYCFC insisted that it would be unnecessary.
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Despite their willingness to discuss jobs, roads and shops, the core issue itself remained unaddressed: Does Nassau County need a second sports and entertainment stadium?
Islanders owner Jonathon Ledecky has said on a number of occasions that Belmont Park is his team's only option. "There is no Plan B," he told the Herald earlier this year. The team's contract with its current home, the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, will expire at the end of next year's season, and the Islanders have had continuing issues with the complex, including a lack of luxury boxes. Nevertheless, both the team and the National Hockey League that insist a return to the Coliseum, which was the Islanders' home through the 2015 season, is out of the question.
The Coliseum recently underwent a $150 million renovation, partly as a result of the Islanders' dissatisfaction with the venue, and the facility's management insists it is still "ready to do whatever it will take" to entice the four-time Stanley Cup champions back, according to a person close to the discussions. The team has the lowest average attendance in the league — 11,685 spectators per game in 2016-17, according to ESPN. It is difficult to see where the additional 6,300 fans per game envisioned by the new stadium's backers would come from.
A number of audience members interviewed on Sunday said that a new hockey arena would be superfluous. "The Coliseum is the home of the Islanders," said lifelong Elmont resident and passionate Islanders fan Lori Halop, expressing a sentiment shared by legislators in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. Still others showed vocal support for bringing the Islanders to Belmont, with both their words and their homemade signs.
Unlike the Islanders, NYCFC, which currently plays at Yankee Stadium, has explored a number of options in addition to the Elmont complex. "We've been looking for a soccer stadium for four years now," said Jon Stemp, the club's infrastructure officer.
Scheduling problems and issues with the conversion of a baseball field to a soccer pitch have meant that the site was always less than ideal, according to team sources. Possible venues are said to include a property at the Harlem River Yards in the Motts Haven section of the Bronx currently owned by Empire State Development Corp., and two sites in the Willets Point section of Queens. The Yankees own 20 percent of the NYCF, and the remaining stake is held by Manchester City F.C., the renowned English Premier League soccer club, which is owned in turn by City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group.
Conspicuously missing from the presentation and the follow-up discussion was any talk of cost. Estimates for the development have run as high as $2 billion for the stadium and ancillary facilities, according to one person close to the discussions. The Mets' Citi Field came in at roughly $800 million, while the new Yankee Stadium complex, inaugurated 10 years ago, cost more than $2 billion.
State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) said he sees "no need for any public money" in funding a Belmont project. Nevertheless, both Citi Field and Yankee Stadium required substantial public financing in the form of stadium bonds. Citi Field needed more than $600 million in public-backed bonds, while Yankee Stadium required $1.2 billion. Repayment of the stadium bonds is the responsibility of the teams themselves, but in the event of a default, they are guaranteed by the full faith and credit of New York City — that is, by taxpayers.


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Film, TV and cable sector lobbyists met with Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday night to discuss efforts to curb gun violence, but it was unclear what more Washington could do to force the entertainment industry to temper the blood and guts.
The 2 ½-hour meeting included presentations from companies and trade associations about how they already self-regulate or provide parents the tools to protect children from violent or racy content — such as voluntary ratings systems for movies and TV shows.
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"The entertainment community appreciates being included in the dialogue around the Administration's efforts to confront the complex challenge of gun violence in America," the attendees said in a joint statement late Thursday. "This industry has a longstanding commitment to provide parents the tools necessary to make the right viewing decisions for their families. We welcome the opportunity to share that history and look forward to doing our part to seek meaningful solutions."
Signing on to the statement were representatives of the Directors Guild of America, Independent Film & Television Alliance, Motion Picture Association of America, National Association of Broadcasters, National Association of Theatre Owners, and National Cable & Telecommunications Association.
The meeting had a much different feeling than the one earlier in the day with the NRA, a source said on background. Biden, who is heading the White House Task Force on Gun Violence, and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who chairs the Motion Picture Association of America, go way back and were friendly, the source said, adding that Biden assured the industry that there was no effort afoot to trample on First Amendment rights.
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"As an industry we've tried to help, and we'll continue to, and the [participants] tonight talked about taking a look at what new technology is available to prevent kids from consuming adult media," said the source, who was not at the meeting but briefed. "There's a sense, though, that the Internet industry will need to help, too, since that's how so many kids see these things."
Biden has a meeting scheduled for Friday at 2:15 p.m. with representatives from the video-gaming community, including Entertainment Software Association CEO Mike Gallagher, an executive from the retailer GameStop and researchers who study the effects on young kids of video game violence, according to sources.
The entertainment industry — and first-person shooter games in particular — have come under scrutiny by the likes of the National Rifle Association for sharing the blame for the rash of mass shootings that have gripped the nation, such as the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn.
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The federal government's best chance to clamp down on depictions of violence in the entertainment industry comes from the bully pulpit as any attempt to regulate mayhem on both the big and small screen faces a high bar.
"What Vice President Biden can do is talk to the industry and see if he can get some voluntary restrictions; there's nothing wrong with industry self-regulation," said Robert Richards, a Penn State professor and director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. "But turning this into any type of legislation by Congress, you're going down the wrong path."
It's unclear what the Obama Administration wants to do, but on Thursday Biden said it would take an effort from everyone to curb violence.
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Economics Of Abundance Getting Some Well Deserved Attention
from the about-time deptIt's great to see Chris Anderson getting lots of attention for his recent talk on "the economics of abundance," because it's exactly the type of thing that a lot of people have been discussing for a while -- but still hasn't permeated the mainstream. In fact, it's quite similar to the talk I gave at the Cato Institute back in April in discussing why certain people seemed to have so much trouble grasping the economics of the digital age. Basically, it's the problem that occurs when people focus too hard on the idea that economics is the study of resource allocation in the presence of scarcity. That only makes sense when there's scarcity -- and in digital goods, scarcity doesn't exist.
Dave Hornik has a wonderful post about Anderson's talk while Ross Mayfield is also discussing how he's come to realize that the economics of scarcity doesn't apply digitally. Now, if we stuck with the focus on "scarcity," then I should be upset that these two are basically repeating the "idea" I discussed back in April. Those who keep harping on the importance of "property" and love to say that you can "steal" content might even say that this idea was "stolen." That, obviously, is ridiculous. These are basic ideas that we have all realized is fundamental and a truth of economics. And, it's hardly a new idea (which is why my one quibble with Anderson's own post is his decision to call the idea of the economics of abundance a "radical attack"). Mayfield talks about those who helped him realize it, from Jerry Michalski to Howard Rheingold. In the comments to that post, Julian Bond brings up the ideas of Buckminster Fuller and and Alan Cooper. In my case, the inspiration came from many different people, including the teachings of Alan McAdams (my old mentor and professor) and the writings of Brian Arthur (who focused on "increasing marginal returns" rather than diminishing ones) and even back to Thomas Jefferson, who famously said:
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
So, no, it's not a new idea at all -- and yet, many people still don't seem to want to understand it. They don't believe that the free market can function with a lack of scarcity. It's understandable why that could make some uncomfortable -- but, it's a fundamental misunderstanding based on this desire to force scarcity where there is none, just so economics can continue to be the study of scarcity. It's this inability to get rid of that scarcity thinking that's holding back a number of developments these days, and the more people who realize this and the more people talking about this, the better. And it is fitting with the theory of abundance. The more abundant this discussion is, the more likely people will grasp it. And, it's especially exciting that someone like Chris Anderson is pitching it, because of his ability to take complex economic ideas and make them easy to understand, while getting people to listen. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of a widespread discussion about this topic.


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January 23, 2012 marks the beginning of the Year of the Dragon. A Dragon Year comes every twelve years and alternates Dragons based on five elements. 2012 marks the year of the Water Dragon. Other Dragon years are the Wood Dragon, the Metal Dragon, the Earth Dragon, and the Fire Dragon.
The Lunar New Year is celebrated by many Asian cultures including by individuals from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sydney, and Singapore. The Dragon, a "sacred creature," is a symbol of power, courage, dignity, and good fortune in all aspects of life.
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