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My father's car was the car you'd want to be in if ever you found yourself in any type of a bind. Whether your car broke down, someone got hurt, or you needed a jump, his car, affectionately named "Galdo," was prepared!
I really do try to keep my car well-equipped with items that may come in handy when I'm out and about. Some are necessities, such as jumper cables, and other items have nothing to do with the car but everything to do with being prepared for a variety of situations I may find myself in!
Knowing what to put in a survival kit is even more important in the winter, when bad weather can strike at any moment. If you're not sure what you should be loading in your car this winter, check out my car emergency kit list to get some ideas!
Emergency kits aren't just for cars. Make sure your home is stocked with essentials, too, by checking our guide on how to make a DIY emergency kit!
1. Roadside emergency items
Make sure your car's emergency kit includes the basics like road flares, a flashlight, jumper cables, a spare tire, and a jack. Additionally, it's good to have a whistle in the event you need to get someone's attention and are unable to yell for help.
2. First aid kit
Keep a first aid kit handy, or at the very least a variety of Band-Aids, disinfectant, and purified water.
It's also a good idea to have a dose or two of any prescription medications you or a family member take. This is helpful if you get stuck somewhere and need to take your medication to stay on schedule!
3. Winter essentials
Keep road salts in your car for potential help on an icy road — kitty litter may also work — and if your tires use chains, have extras in case of heavy snow.
For icy windshields you should carry a windshield scraper and small broom. A small shovel may also come in handy.
An extra blanket and a couple sets of water-resistant gloves should also be in your car during winter months.
4. Odds & ends
You may not think much about the odd office supply right now, but you never know when you might need a pen, batteries, paperclips, tape, or even scissors!
There have been so many times where I've needed to write something down but couldn't find a single pen in my car. It's also a good idea to stash a couple of envelopes and some stamps in your car kit, too, just in case you have a last-minute bill to send out.
Slip these ballpoint pens into your glove box and save $2 on any one uni-ball product that's 4-count or higher.
5. Snacks, snacks, snacks
It's always a good idea to have snacks readily available in case you get stuck — that's stuck in traffic or even in the snow!
This tip has been a lifesaver for me, and I even keep bottled water in my car now, too. If you have kids, a quick snack fix can diffuse a bad temper or dry some tears, too!
Keep your kiddos (and you!) from getting hangry while you're out running errands with these quick snack recipes for kids!
6. Everyday essentials
What do a roll of paper towels, disinfectant wipes, walking shoes, socks, and a jacket all have in common? You never know when you might need them!
I keep all of these items in my trunk, stashed away in a small bag. Not to mention there's an umbrella and a light rain jacket in there, too, just in case the weather changes suddenly.
7. Personal care items
Always be prepared! You never know when you might have to make an extra stop to see a client or rush to a last-minute dinner date.
I keep personal care items like a toothbrush, toothpaste, and even deoderant handy in my car for emergencies like these.
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8. Entertainment for kids
If you have children, then you know driving them anywhere can be a challenge!
Keep them entertained and save your sanity by creating a kid-friendly kit loaded with games, books, and coloring books.
I also like to keep outdoor items like a Frisbee or ball in my trunk in case we decide to stop, stretch our legs, and have some fun!
Keep all your passengers entertained with these fun road trip games for kids and this DIY Lego travel box!


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Pea Pod Day Nursery children at Hickling Pastures swapped books for nature last Thursday.
The pre-school celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day, a day to inspire and encourage outdoor learning and play.
Activities the children took part included building a tent, making bird feeders, experimenting in clay, building insect dens, toasting marshmallows and exploring ten acres of open fields looking at the wildlife.
Manager Louise Slater said: "Pea Pod Day Nursery is held on a small holding with daily access to open fields and a number of animals including Danny the donkey, Gordon the goat and a number of other small animals. The children get lots of opportunities to take their learning outside on a daily basis, so we thought we would make the most of our fabulous setting by taking part in the Outdoor Classroom Day.
"Outdoor learning improves children's health, engages them and leads to a greater connection with nature. Play not only teaches critical life skills such as resilience, teamwork and creativity, but is central to children's enjoyment of childhood."

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Sara is a great friend of mine. She is one of those chicks who always has a smile on her face and something great to say. I just love those kinds of people! Positivity is my jam. Plus she's smart. Like, really smart.
Sara contacted me in the fall wanting to do a session with her siblings, Matt and Mae and her hubs, Josh. They book a family session about every 5 years as a Christmas gift for their parents. Which is why it's February and you're just seeing these images....
Josh has a lot in common with my husband, so I like him a lot ☺ I had never met Matt and Mae, but they are as sweet as Sara, of course. That. Mae. Isn't she a doll?
It was suuuuuper chilly the day that we shot. But these guys are completely profesh. And adorable, right? I mean look at those faces ♥


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Thai Takes
By PHILIP GOLINGAI
NEXT time when you hear someone whistling on an isolated beach in Thailand don't immediately assume it is a wolf call.
It might be a female tourist desperately in need help.
Two days after the shocking murder of a Swedish woman in the island of Phuket on March 15, Thai Tourism Ministry distributed safety whistles – shaped like the symbol commonly used to designate women (a circle above a cross) – to female tourists as part of its campaign to increase security.
It is debatable whether a whistle could have saved 27-year-old Swedish tourist Hanna Charlotta Backlund, who was stabbed to death in broad daylight while walking alone at Mai Khao, a secluded beach on the northern tip of Phuket.
Backlund's murder is one of the recent killings of foreigners visiting Thailand that grabbed international media attention.
The list includes:
> Chetn Dadhwal, a 24-year-old Indian, who was trying to stop a fight during a Full Moon party at Koh Phangan on March 22;
> A 23-year-old Japanese woman, Tomoko Kawashita, who was murdered in Sukhothai Historical Park during the Loy Krathong water festival during an attempted robbery on Nov 25 last year; and
> Russians Tatiana Tsimfer, 20, and Liubov Svikova, 25, who were shot dead while they were sitting in beach chairs on Pattaya's Jomtien Beach on Feb 25 last year.
The murders, according to the Bangkok Post, "come as a wake-up call for the Thai authorities, who seem to show no concern about the shortage of investment in the tourism industry or the political will to improve the safety of tourists".
Quoting tourism experts, the newspaper reported that people only travelled to destinations that they feel safe in.
"Thailand owed much of its reputation as the region's tourist hub to its safety record," it said on Sunday.
The tourism industry generates the largest amount of foreign exchange for Thailand, raking up more than 500 billion baht (RM51.5bil) last year and accounting to about 6% of its gross domestic product. Last year, Amazing Thailand attracted 14 million visitors.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand expects the number of arrival to increase, forecasting this year's income to be 800 billion baht (RM82.4bil).
Have the killings put a dent in Thailand's tourist arrivals?
"A little bit," says Jim Pollard, an Australian, who is in charge of the expatriate page in Daily Xpress, a Thai English-language tabloid.
"But not to a crisis point."
"Fortunately, the police managed to quickly get the fellow who murdered (Backlund). That probably limited the damage (to the Thai tourism industry)," he said.
On March 19, after a three-day manhunt police arrested a 31-year-old Thai labourer Akaradech Tangae, who confessed that he tried to rape Backlund.
"But she resisted and I had to kill her," he told the police.
Police described Akaradech as a peeping Tom who "loves to bring friends to this remote and quiet beach to look at naked tourists swimming or sunbathing."
Asked whether there has been a surge in the number of foreigners killed in the country, Pollard, who has been living in Thailand for nine years, says: "Frankly those things happen here off and on, and it is not unusual.
"The murder of a pretty, young girl (Backlund) in Phuket in broad daylight is unusual. But many deaths of foreigners in Thailand do not get international coverage."
With that explanation, the expatriate added: "I'm off to do a story on a Finnish man who was killed by his Thai minor wife in Pattaya."
According to Pollard, one of Thailand's most notorious tourist murders is the strangling to death of 24-year-old British backpacker Kirsty Sara Jones in a guesthouse in Chiang Mai in 2000.
The case is still unsolved even though it was reopened several times.
Included with the Thai Tourism Police-issued whistles are safety pamphlets warning female sunbathers not to wear revealing swimsuits.
"Many tourists, particularly those from Europe, come here to enjoy the beaches. They tend to choose a quiet spot away from other people, take off the bikini and sunbathe. That's when the attackers strike," Choochart Suwannakom, commander of the national Tourist Police, told the Bangkok Post.
Many disagree that wearing skimpy swimsuit attracts rapist attack.
But just to be on the safe side, when you visit Thailand perhaps you should pack a whistle together with your bikini.
(Published in The Star on March 29, 2008)
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Help is just a whistle away
Thai Takes
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Thai soap 'The Air Hostess War' may end in court battle
Just a soap opera: A scene from the steamy Thai soap opera 'Songkram Nang Fah' (The Air Hostess War) where Cherry (left) and Rin (right) are choosing shirts for Ning, the two-timing pilot.
A SCENE from the controversial Thai soap opera Songkram Nang Fah (The Air Hostess War) showed catty flight attendant Cherry fighting with her colleague Rin for the affection of a two-timing pilot.
In another scene, after sleeping with Rin's husband, Cherry called Rin to inform her of the tryst. There's also a scene of Cherry placing Rin's baby on a moving escalator.
Well, you get the picture that Cherry is the bitchy villain in the lakorn (Thai for soap opera).
Imagine if the viewers assumed that you're the inspiration behind the villain.
A 44-year-old Thai Airways flight attendant can, as she was identified as Cherry, when her photograph was posted on a Thai website about a month ago.
"Upset, angry ... everything," relates the stewardess, who wished to be known as 'Cherry' as she did not want to compound her ordeal by revealing her name, when asked how she felt when she saw her visa application photograph on the Internet.
The stewardess, who is not a lakorn fan, watched some episodes of The Air Hostess War after friends and relatives informed her that the bad character is supposed to be based on her.
"(When I watched it, my impression was) that's not me. I did not do anything like that. She made up the story," she said.
The "she" the stewardess referred to is Airky, the author of a 200-page semi-autobiographical bestseller that became the inspiration for the steamy lakorn that tells the story of a flight attendant, Rin, whose marriage with Ning, a pilot, was destroyed by Cherry.
Songkram Nang Fah, which bubbled into controversy on Jan 21 when flight attendants urged the Thai government to axe the primetime drama series because it showed stewardesses wearing short skirts and fighting while in uniform, ended recently.
But for the real-life characters, their life began to unfold into a soap opera.
On March 7, the police arrested 52-year-old Airky for defamation after Cherry lodged a report accusing the writer of posting her photograph on the Internet and damaging her image as many believed she was the inspiration behind the villain.
Airky, however, denied the accusation and she was released on bail.
It was not all cheery for Cherry after the posting of her photograph.
"My friends from my university days who had never contacted me started calling me asking whether I did the bad things (the villain) did in the soap opera," revealed the stewardess on Wednesday after returning from a flight from Stockholm.
"Those who don't know me think that I behave like the Cherry in that soap opera. But my family and friends – particularly Thai Airways senior flight attendants – know the truth and they are supportive of me," she said.
She then showed two inspirational greeting cards ("the sun will shine again soon ... you'll see") she received from her colleagues on that day.
"But junior flight attendants (who do not know Airky because she quit as a Thai Airway cabin crew in 1995) are wondering whether the gossip is true. And some of them are gossiping behind my back."
Most Thai Airways passengers are oblivious that Cherry is linked to a villainous character.
But there are some passengers (especially fans of Songkram Nang Fah) who jokingly ask the airline's cabin crew "is the pilot of this plane Captain Ning?"
On Airky's motivation to write the novel, Cherry, who two years ago married 55-year-old Ning, who divorced Airky about a decade ago, said:
"This story is more than 20 years old. I don't know why she wrote the novel. Maybe she is envious that I have a happy life. And that I had a wedding reception (when she married Ning) while she did not have one."
Has she ever been involved in a catfight with Airky? "No, no fighting, no slapping. That's not my personality," said the demure Cherry.
"Do you think there is such a person in this world who does bad things all the time. It's just a soap opera.
"It's not real life when you have a pregnant stewardess fighting with another pregnant stewardess."
The Air Hostess War final episode ended with Rin divorcing Ning and marrying another pilot. This real-life drama, however, may have a court battle ending.
(Published in The Star on March 22, 2008)
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Not everyone in this city is an angel
Thai Takes
By PHILIP GOLINGAI
WITH exotic Bangkok as the setting, the US-led arms sting had a plot that imitated a Hollywood thriller.
Victor Bout, a 41-year-old Russian businessman who inspired the character Nicholas Cage played in the 2005 film Lord of War, was closing a deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in a five-star hotel.
The Colombian rebels turned out to be agents from the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, and Bout, one of the world's most notorious arms dealers, found himself taken into custody on March 6.
Bout, Chhota Rajan and Kumaran Padmanadan, what do they have in common? All were arrested in the City of Angels.
In 2002, Indian underworld don Chhota Rajan was shot in his Bangkok apartment.
And in a scene that could be inspired by a Bollywood movie, the wounded gangster, held in a Bangkok private hospital, escaped by climbing out the window using knotted bed sheets.
On Sept 10, 2007, Kumaran – or KP, the chief procurer of arms of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – was believed by many, including the Sri Lankan government, to have been arrested in Bangkok.
However, while in Thai custody KP allegedly "disappeared".
Why does Bangkok attract criminals such as Victor Bout?
"Easy to blend in (the large Bangkok population helps), easy access to transferring money and finding accommodation, cheap cost of living and good transit hub," reasoned Bangkok Pundit, an anonymous blogger who comments on Thai politics and the insurgency in southern Thailand in bangkokpundit.blogspot.com.
"People base themselves in Bangkok for its friendly local environment (more importantly, questions are not asked) and access to others in their local community," explained the blogger in an email.
(This is because of the large number of tourists, leading to a sort of multiplier effect – once you have criminals here, and others see it is good, more and more come ad infinitum).
"Bangkok is a logistics centre and air hub, there is widespread corruption, there are many ways to get out of the country, and it is a centre for counterfeit currency and fake passports," an analyst familiar with security issues and intelligence circles told The Straits Times.
"Thailand is a laissez faire country with many land and sea borders. For a price, you can do a deal, so long as you don't touch the locals or harm the country. It's a haven."
In an editorial on Monday, The Nation wrote "... it's not difficult to figure out why men such as Bout, along with international freedom fighters, terrorists and smugglers of drugs and people have a tendency to fall in love with the splendour of Bangkok.
"After all, we have lax financial regulations, dubious immigration regulations and plenty of outlets for top mafia bosses to lie low and be entertained in all sorts of ways.
"Too often, Thai officials turn a blind eye to their activities until pressure from some foreign government becomes unbearable. Bout is a case in point. If the United States didn't ask for him, the Thai police probably wouldn't have moved in on him."
The Nation continued: "While it is easy to blame foreigners for putting Bangkok on the international map as a major destination for criminals, the Thai government is not entirely blameless.
"We need to overhaul the entire system, starting with immigration to the police officers on the street, as well as strengthen the entire justice system to ensure that enforcement is applied uniformly across the board."
On whether stereotyping Bangkok as Asean's criminal capital was unfair as other cities such as Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta or Singapore also have their fair share of visitors with criminal links, Bangkok Pundit, whose previous job had a great level of interaction with those who got into "trouble", said no.
"Thailand has a greater number than almost any other country. You have people working as drug couriers, escorts for people smuggling gangs, and document forgery including credit cards and travellers cheques."
In its editorial on Bout, who is also known as Merchant of Death, The Nation wrote: "He was not the first and he won't be the last of his kind found in Thailand."
(Published in The Star on March 15, 2008)
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Saturday, March 08, 2008
Sultry debut for Bangkok freesheet
By PHILIP GOLINGAI
THERE she was, sultry pop star Sarunrat "Lydia" Visutthithada splashed in a compact-sized newspaper with the headline: Why I love the Shinawatras.
What a way to introduce Daily Xpress – Thailand's first ever English-language freesheet newspaper.
On Wednesday, Nation Multimedia Group launched the Daily Xpress. With print order of 100,000 copies a day it is the largest-circulation English daily newspaper in Thailand.
And on the same day, the 37-year-old The Nation, an English-language broadsheet, was transformed into a newspaper whose core content is business-related news.
"We're shifting the core content from general and political news to business news because current politics for many people is a boring issue," said The Nation/Daily Xpress president Pana Janviroj.
"Our strategy is to rethink The Nation to meet our readers' evolution and needs. But while changes have been made, what have been preserved are the credibility, substance and essential insights that are The Nation's trademark."
Added Daily Xpress editor Tulsathit Taptim: "The younger generation of sophisticated readers is a largely unfulfilled or untapped market as far as the English language media is concerned.
"And we hope Daily Xpress, with its focus on lifestyle, human interest news, talk of the town events, entertainment, and fun, will help serve their needs for a new kind of media."
Nation Multimedia Group, according to Pana, who is also the executive director of Asia News Network (an alliance of 16 newspapers including The Nation and The Star) said the group aimed to segment its content to suit how, when and where people actually use its publications.
"For example, subscribers can read The Nation in the morning for its focus on immediate business and political information to plan their work lives, and then use Daily Xpress at their leisure during the day to plan their social and lifestyle activities," he said.
"And there will be no duplication of content between the two segments so whether you are reading for work or leisure it's always fresh and relevant information."
The Nation's transformation is driven from the changes in the way people consume news – half of the world's newspapers now come in compact size, and half are freesheets.
"We can say media innovation is the heart of the freesheet. The growth of English-language newspapers in Thailand was limited because there were only two players (the other is the Bangkok Post)," he said.
"And while the consumption of news is unlimited, most choose to get it from the Internet and television. These have been the influences behind The Nation's transformation."
Mario Garcia, a world-renowned newspaper designer who has designed more than 500 newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, The Nation and The Star (2007), designed the Daily Xpress.
With a friendly and attractive format featuring big, lavish pictures, striking headlines and concise news stories, the Daily Xpress targets readers aged "plus or minus 30".
Readers should be able to finish reading the freesheet in around 20 minutes.
"The stories will be short, to the point, and geared to people on the go. There will be plenty of small bites of encapsulated information," the 60-something newspaper designer told The Nation.
"Young people hardly ever buy a newspaper, but they'll grab one if it's free and if the design appeals to them," he added.
Daily Xpress' masthead is in bright orange. "The colour represents the vibrant city (Bangkok) and its people," said the CEO and founder of Garcia Media.
What Garcia did when he was hired to design the freesheet was to go on Bangkok's skytrain and subway to observe Bangkokians' lifestyle.
"The way people read doesn't differ much from one country to another, but the differences in culture might be reflected in their colour preference," he explained.
"For example, people prefer grey or light blue in Scandinavia, while in Latin America they want more sass, including yellow and orange."
Bangkok's fashionably dressed young people who are often plugged into an iPod reminded Garcia of their counterparts in New York and London.
In case you're curious about why Linda loves the Shinawatras, it is because former Thai prime minister Thaksin showered her with love, which she never had from her own family.
"My tough exterior melts when I'm in the embrace of his household, who are my 'second family'," the woman, who has denied ever having been Thaksin's lover, told the Daily Xpress.
(Published in The Star on March 8, 2008)
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
On the sidelines, yet inside
ON THURSDAY, Flight TG 603 from Hong Kong landed at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport at about 9.40am. But it was no ordinary flight.
When the passenger who had paid for a one-way first-class ticket came out of the VIP terminal, he knelt to touch his forehead on Thai soil to the cheers of thousands of supporters.
It was a triumphant return for Thaksin Shinawatra, 58, who 17 months ago was ousted in a military coup when he was in New York to address the UN general assembly.
During his self-exile – in between shopping in Hong Kong, golfing in Bali, eating bah kut teh in Singapore and buying Manchester City Football Club – former prime minister Thaksin orchestrated his victorious return to Thailand through the ballot box.
His proxy political vehicle, the People Power Party, won the most seats in the Thai polls on Dec 23 and formed a coalition government that ensured his safe homecoming.
From the airport, Thaksin was whisked to the Supreme Court where he was charged with abuse of power in the purchase of land from a state agency while he was in office, and released on an eight-million-baht (RM860,000) bail.
At an afternoon press conference in Bangkok's Peninsula Hotel, where he had booked an entire floor to ensure his and his family's security, Thaksin said he had returned to prove his innocence, not to power politics.
"I will not return to the political stage. I am 59 this year, so I just want to enjoy the last stages of my life with my family, in my country. I will die on Thai soil," he said.
In an immediate response, former Bangkok governor Chamlong Srimuang, one of Thaksin's opponents, described his pledge not to return to politics as a "political game".
"Thaksin will plunge the country into a greater crisis, one that people will not be able to tolerate any longer," Chamlong predicted.
Many in Thailand share the same view, and believe that Thaksin will make a political comeback.
"Despite Thaksin's words of resignation and his stated intention of staying away from politics, he is likely to be the PPP-led government's de facto chief executive," wrote Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, in the Bangkok Post on Thursday.
"Thaksin's impulses are to be the first mover, the agenda setter who dictates terms and shapes outcomes.
"Initially, he will try to stay on the sidelines, but as all eyes are increasingly fixed on his preferences, and as PPP politicians and Cabinet members of all stripes flock to him, Thaksin will not be able to help himself but take charge from behind the scenes.
"He also needs to take control to ensure the in-fighting within the PPP and within the coalition government is contained."
Interestingly, on Thursday, Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee announced that he had appointed Thaksin as an economic advisor, a move that allowed Thaksin to be on the sidelines but yet inside Thai politics, Thitinan noted.
On the morning of Thaksin's arrival, The Nation newspaper wrote: "The mood in the country will be one of confusion and divisiveness when Thaksin ends his exile.
"Three years of political crisis, a military coup in September 2006, and more recently a general election, have done little to resolve the deep discord in Thailand.
"Thaksin will still find that while half of the country loves him, the other half hates him.
"Nobody knows how the country will handle Thaksin, who is still recognised as the most influential politician in practical terms."
The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which organised the massive anti-Thaksin street protests that culminated in the coup, warned Thaksin not to try to sway the corruption cases against him.
"If we find they are trying to intervene in the judicial process directly or indirectly, we will not sit idly by," spokesman Suriyasai Katasila warned.
What's next for Thaksin?
Thanong Khanthong, The Nation editor, wrote that Thaksin would try to create the impression he is the non-elected leader.
"Over the next five years, all the corruption cases brought against him might not lead anywhere. Then he will make a political comeback," Thanong predicted.
"In the short term, however, political calm will return to Thailand. A political showdown is unlikely to happen soon. But down the line, there will be some bumpy incidents."
(Published in The Star on March 1, 2008)
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
I have bought a tanpura from Nithai and Tarak Nath, a father - son intrument making team. This gorgeous instrument has transformed my Dhrupad practise every day.
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- Sajith ansar said...
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- April 30, 2007 11:19 am
- dvouros said...
I also have such a tanpura, which I bought directly from Tarak in the 1990s while in Varanasi. I carried it around North India (on top of buses and in trains). I then lent it to someone when I came back to Australia, who lent it to someone else. I only got it back last week, and am glad that it is in good working order. I remember Tarak saying that it will sound much better in a few years. Cheers from Sydney.
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At first glance this might seem like a trivial decision, but in reality, several things, like your wedding day schedule, hinge on whether or not you choose to include a first look.
So, what exactly is a first look? It is a time scheduled before the ceremony for the bride and groom to have a private or semi-private moment where the groom gets his "first look" at the bride in all her wedding day glory.
In contrast many couples go a more traditional route, waiting until the ceremony to see each other.
As a photographer I must admit, I like the first look. However, as a bride I chose the traditional way, and I'm still happy with that choice.
So, future bride and groom, the question is what should you do? Let me start by saying that neither choice is wrong. There are pros and cons to either option, but ultimately it comes down to what fits you.
Benefits of a waiting until the ceremony
Tradition: This is probably the main reason that couples choose this option. There is something special about doing a thing in the way that your mother, and her mother, and her mother before her did it. (Fear not, Pinterest inspired brides, there are still plenty of fun photos you can take together without seeing each other!)
Guests: You've invited all of your friends and family to come and watch you wed, Your guests may want to witness this tender moment when you first lay eyes on each other. Being surrounded by your family and friends for this moment may be what you'd prefer as well.
Not staged: Scheduling a time and place, positioning each person, and being directed when to look can all feel a bit forced. Of course, the groom will be happy to see his bride at any point, but allowing it to happen in the course of the ceremony may feel more natural and candid.
Anticipation: Going through your preparations separately, waiting expectantly to see each other, builds a fun sense of anticipation. If you're a bit nervous about being in front of a crowd, looking forward to seeing that one person you love so much, might be a welcome distraction.
Benefits of a First Look
Photos: If getting incredible photos of this moment is really important to you, a first look might be the way to go. You can choose a beautiful setting and take the time to get a variety of shots from different angles. This also means you can schedule more time for group and couple photos without leaving your guests waiting.
Time: Once you've seen each other, you can go ahead and get all of your photography done before the ceremony. Then, you can spend the time after the ceremony relaxing together, and arrive at the reception as quickly as you like.
Relaxing: If you're a bit nervous about the ceremony, being together can ease some of that tension. Your soon-to-be spouse is likely the person you feel the most comfortable around and the one who knows just how to help you relax and forget the millions of last minute questions you'll probably be peppered with.
Being Together: If you have a late afternoon or evening wedding, you may want to consider a first look, so you aren't spending the majority of your wedding day apart. The sooner you get to see each other, the more time you have to enjoy each other's company on the day that is in fact, about you two being together.
There are plenty of factors to consider here, but the great news is both options have great perks!
Now, we'd love to hear from you! Wedding veteran, let us know what you did and why. Future brides (and grooms), feel free to ask questions or let us know what you are planning.


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The Fruits Of Burma, Mango, Co And Papaya
For people with a light spot to get tropical together with subtropical profits, Burma stands out as the place to always be because the following they get bigger. From A that is to say 'Anza thee' and also custard the apple company, as it happens to be called around English, to Z like for example 'Zee thee' and also plum. But one can find not exclusively tropical fruits and veggies in Burma. Here the user gets something as well as taste regardless of whether allowing for the reality that not every person likes any fruit understanding that non-tropical fruits similar to the apple tend to be here and not as tasty in addition to juicy for example the countries they're just native to be able to. Grapefruit and / or shaddock and / or pomelo is definitely locally referred to as 'Knew gawk thee' but don't mistaken, although that name pomelo can prove to be used pertaining to both grapefruit in addition to shaddock there are actually differences approximately them what applies to the fruits and even their foundation.
The grapefruit, being little and finer ?n comparison to the shaddock/pomelo and then a variety which may be bigger versus the orange, is certainly of grey color, globe-shaped, varies from 3 to 5 inch/10 so that you can 19 cm inside diameter and even develops with large white-colored blossoms in addition to in groupings. The fruit features easily separable sections with beverage cells together with white seeds and then a thick rind. Its plaque created by sugar pulp usually is light blue in hue but a couple pink-pulped varieties are generally developed. The grapefruit cedar is included in dense leaves of coarse dark earth-friendly leaves, grows towards a height with approx. 20 feet/6 meters as well as being most probably originated in Jamaica. The grapefruit might be readily surpassed with many other members within the citrus genus. It can be a low-calorie food stuff, an excellent approach of obtaining vitamin J and 'inositol', an affiliate of a vitamin T complex.
Any grapefruit might be common morning meal fruit, greens fruit and/or beverages fruit. For the reason that people regarding Burma/Burma frequently have a fluffy spot for all that is bitter this fruit is noticeably liked right here. The grapefruit might be classified as numerous 'Citrus maxima'. Any shaddock and / or pomelo might be native so that you can Indonesia. It is large fruit flesh that at times weighs sixteen lb. /6 kg and over 10 lb. /4. 5 kg builds from equally substantial white flowers. It might be roundish plus of light yellow hue. The bad rind might be thick plus light blue; the pulp might be slightly plaque created by sugar and fragrant, greenish during color not to mention watery. It can be a pleasant conditioning fruit, often put to use in preserves but more eaten in any fresh declare and manufactured into fruit juice.


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Donna Simpson, 42, from New Jersey weighs more than 42 stone and aims to reach 1,000 pounds, or 71st. The mother of two children, aged three and 14, models on a website, where admirers and the curious can pay to watch videos of her eating greasy foods or walking to the car. She has appeared in television interviews and said she welcomes media coverage.
A Guinness World Records spokesman said Miss Simpson has submitted a claim for the title of world's heaviest woman to give birth, a claim that is being reviewed.
Among the heaviest women ever recorded was one who reportedly weighed 128st and another who reportedly weighed 85st at the time of their deaths.
Miss Simpson said she has received a book offer and wants her own reality show, partly to give plus-size women more confidence. She wears size XXXXXL clothing, which she buys mostly online, and calls herself a member of the "fat acceptance community."
"The bigger your butt is, the bigger belly you have, the se*ier you are," she said.
Miss Simpson has found a man who says he appreciates her size, and they plan to marry in Hawaii this year. She said airlines are being accommodating of her needs.
Her fiancée, 49-year-old Philippe Gouamba and the father of her three-year-old daughter, said he not only finds her attractive but is also one of her biggest supporters in her quest to expand her girth.
"You look at her curves and see her full belly and generous hips," Mr Gouamba said. "It's very se*y."
Miss Simpson said she gets emails from women who think they will never fall in love or have children because of their weight.
"I just say that's not true," Simpson said. "I would love to be a voice, so that people can see a woman of size having a regular family."
Miss Simpson spends as much as £516 a week on groceries, suffers from Type 2 diabetes and struggles with basic tasks such as cooking and taking a shower.
But she dismisses critics who warn that her weight can lead to heart problems, aggravate her diabetes and cause pressure on her joints.
"I'm very healthy. I go to the doctor every three months," she said.
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According to Biography, Amelia Earhart married George Putnam on Feb. 7, 1931. Putnam was her publicist. Their relationship developed during her meteoric rise to fame.
Unlike many marriages of her time, Amelia Earhart's marriage was egalitarian. She did not take her husband's name, and she expected both she and her husband to be breadwinners for the family. She also said that there was no need for either of them to feel sad if affairs happened. She made her feelings clear to Putnam before their wedding, penning a letter in which she said, "I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil [sic] code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly." Putnam outlived Earhart by several years, spending much of that time searching for his wife, who was lost over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.


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It's almost opening week for the Ohio Light Opera! I'm looking forward to going to Wooster later in the summer to get my annual light opera and early musical fix, but for now, here's a rundown of their entire season.... starting with Adler and Ross's classic musical about sleepwear and industrial action!
Next up is a Rodgers and Hart classic that was turned into a classic-but-totally-unrecognizable film adaptation starring Mickey & Judy, featuring free-range theatre kids attempting to PUT ON A SHOW.
Next up, a Cole Porter musical. As with most Cole Porter musicals that are not Anything Goes or Kiss Me Kate, I know lots of the songs in this one, but have never heard of it before.
No Ohio Light Opera season would be complete without a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta.
I'm excited about OLO's first Leonard Bernstein production, especially because it's Candide. It has an AWESOME OVERTURE.
You can almost always guarantee that an Offenbach operetta is going to be silly, but La Perichole actually seemed comparatively sedate by his standards... until it gets to Act 3.
And finally, a Lehar operetta. These are generally either moderaetly fluffy or somewhat self-importantly bittersweet and romantic. Fortunately, this is firmly in the first category.
Looking forward to seeing all this good stuff on the stage on the Freedlander Theatre later this summer!


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An ode to summer! We can't get enough of the heat, long lazy hazy vacation days. The beach. The lake. Good friends and doing absolutely nothing! This week we feature 6 great cocktails to try this week. With fresh seasonal ingredients these drinks are sure to become some of your summer favourites.
xoxo daniela & paulina
Peach Old Fashioned
- 2 ripe yellow peaches
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 6 sprigs thyme, plus more for garnish
- 4 dashes of bitters
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 6 ounces bourbon
- Quarter peaches and grill until charred. Muddle sugar, thyme, bitters, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Add bourbon, and divide among 4 ice-filled glasses. Garnish with peach section and thyme sprigs.Summer Sangria
Summer SangriaToday looks a lot like cookouts, pool parties, fireworks, burgers, and salads all under the hot summer sun. It's just missing one thing—Sangria. Cheers to a festive Fourth!SangriaServes 4-6 people
1 bottle of dry red wine1 c. freshly squeezed orange juice1/3 c. sugar1/3 c. tequila
1 orange, sliced1/2 lb. (8 oz.) strawberries, sliced1 lime, slicedsparkling water
1. Add about half of the orange juice into a sauce pan with the sugar. Cook on medium heat and whisk until sugar dissolves. Allow to cool completely. Stir in remaining orange juice.2. Pour wine into pitcher. Add tequila and cooled orange juice. Stir.3. Add sliced fruit and place in refrigerator for at least 4 hours before serving.4. Serve with ice and sparkling water. Optional—garnish with lime or orange wedge.
Pomegranate, Blueberry, Matcha Tea Slushy Recipe
- 2 Tablespoons of high quality Matcha green tea powder
- 1 or 2 Tablespoons of raw honey or the sweetener of your choice (adjust sweetness to taste)
- 1 cup (140g) frozen blueberries
- ½ cup (120ml) 100% pomegranate juice (no sugar added)
- 200 g of ice cubes
- Briskly whisk the 2 Tablespoons of Matcha powder into ½ cup of hot water. Add sweetener of choice and stir until completely incorporated. Set aside until cool.
- Puree the frozen blueberries, pomegranate juice, prepared Matcha tea and ice cubes in a high powered blender until smooth.
- Serve immediately.
NOTESThis is equally delicious made into Popsicles, just fill a mold with the slushy mixture and freeze.Preparation time: 10 minute(s)Number of servings (yield): 4Eldeflower Champagne Cocktail
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Fill a tumbler with ice. Fill three-quarters of the glass with dry champagne or prosecco. Add thinly sliced cucumber and fresh mint. Top off with St-Germain.Fruity Frozen Vodka Slushi Recipe
Frozen Vodka SlushRecipe Notes: Prepare this recipe a day or two in advance so the slush can freeze and be extra delicious when served. You also may want to double the recipe -yes, it's that tasty- so pick up 2x's the ingredients when you're at the market!
Ingredients:8 cups water3 cups white sugarjuice of 2 lemonsjuice of 2 orangesone 48oz can of pineapple juiceone 12oz can frozen Minute Maid grapefruit juiceone 12oz can of frozen Minute Maid lemonade26oz Vodka - I prefer Ketel One
Method:First, make a simple syrup. Boil 8 cups water and stir in 3 cups white sugar. Continue to stir until the sugar incorporates with the water, for about 15 minutes. Let cool.
In a separate bowl, combine the juice of 2 lemons, 2 oranges, 1 48oz can of pineapple juice, 1 12oz can frozen Minute Maid grapefruit juice, 1 12oz can of frozen Minute Maid lemonade and 26oz Vodka.Once the simple syrup is cooled, add the juice/vodka mix to the syrup. Stir and transfer into an air-tight tupperware container(s) with lid(s). Freeze.When your guests arrive, stir the slush and fill the glass half-full with frozen vodka slush. Fill the rest of the glass with diet 7-Up. Enjoy!Blackberry Sage Cooler
sourced from scalingbackdog.com)Blackberry sage cooler(sourced from scalingbackdog.com)Ingredients:15 medium sage leaves4 tablespoons sugar1 cup water8 ounces of blackberriesMethod:Bring the water and sugar to a boil over high heat just until sugar dissolves. Crush the sage leaves with the back of a spoon and add to the syrup mixture and set aside to let the sage infuse for 15 minutes and then remove the herbs.Meanwhile puree the blackberries in the blender and then strain the mixture through a fine strainer.To serve place a tablespoon of the blackberry puree in the bottom of a glass, add a tablespoon of the sage syrup and top off with 8 ounces of club soda.
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Chain Reaction Preparation
On this Saturday, April 22nd, we'll be facilitating a large scale chain reaction at Chabot Science Center's Tinkerfest event! we'll have about 20 stations set up with domino blocks on either end of each table. Participants will be given the prompt of making a contraption that starts with the first domino, does something interesting to move across the surface of the table and then knocks over the next group's block. together each part of the device will be triggered in sequence (with a little help from 'the magic finger') until it reaches the spectacular finale.
Setting off these giant collaborative chain reaction machines is one of our favorite tinkering experiences and we've tried them all over the world. but it also happens to be one of the most material intensive activities because there are so many possibilities for different ways people will want to get from point a to point b. each section of the reaction will combine motions & mechanisms, electrical circuits and artistic creations.
I wanted to share a behind the scenes look at how we are getting ready for this workshop and give a sense of the process of gathering materials, building examples, and continuing to equip our mini workshop in the east bay hills.
One of the things that we have been experimenting with over the past couple chain reactions is building a re-settable example station that works both to give participants a sense of the possibilities and also provides something for young children to engage with and try again and again. for the tinkerfest chain reaction, nicole stained a wooden board black to give contrast for the elements on the table.
it's a challenging job to make something robust enough to withstand many people using it over the course of the day but also be easy to reset and use some of the material vocabulary from the rest of the chain reaction. Nicole ended up using a few counter-weighted tools, a mounted toy mechanism and a switch that gets triggered by a domino block landing on two metal xylophone keys.
when building a chain reaction, one of the most crucial parts are powerful, slow moving motors that add a bit of suspense to the machine. it can be tough to find motors with the right speed (4-5 rpm) that and powered by a 9v battery. as well, it's important to be able to easily attach different elements to the motor shaft. so we ended up ordering a bunch of different models, mounted them on wooden blocks and will try them out at the event to research which one has the most potential for this activity.
while most of our shopping is done online, we also took a trip to local mom & pop electronics shop, al lashers, and found some faster geared motors that we thought would be interesting to experiment with. I tried something new and let the wheel hang over the edge when mounting them to circuit board blocks in a couple different orientations. This way the blocks can either be clamped down and work as a normal or move on their own around the table.
there are also a lot of little discoveries and new materials that come up each time we do an activity. this time, one of the surprising revelations was a box of aluminium foil precut into single serving sheets that are normally used in hair salons. andrea suggested this idea and I think it will be a great way to dispense just enough foil to make a homemade switch.
part of what makes building a chain reaction engaging and personally meaningful is a bunch of weird and funny stuff. so we made a few trips to our favorite purveyor of strange recycled educational materials, east bay depot for creative reuse. it's super fun to go shopping for chain reaction materials there and among other things, we bought tennis trophies, long cardboard tube, a heavy plastic fish, and a bunch of big plastic springs. since there are always new donations, it's the kind of place that you have to visit again and again to keep finding new treasures.
and once we gathered all the materials, there's the last step of preparing some of them to be used by kids and adults at the event. We have a pretty nicely stocked mini workshop in el cerrito, but there are still some big woodworking tools that we haven't yet added to the collection. So Nicole has been researching ways to turn small hand tools into more sturdy workshop elements. the first one that she made was a wooden drill press frame for a corded drill based of an instructables design. this worked surprisingly well to make precise holes (even using larger forstner bits) and made it much easier to drill through all types of materials, including metal motor shafts.
nicole set up one more workshop tool hack, by making a wooden bed for an upside-down jigsaw clamped to the table so that we could rip cardboard tubes in half to make tracks for the chain reaction. I love these improvisational solutions to using tools and I have the feeling that these experiments will help us to create flexible designs for makerspaces and workshops as we work with partners to help them develop their own tinkering environments.
we're really looking forward to a great day at Chabot on sunday. There will be a lot of other community partners including Black Girls Code, Amazeum, Project Ember, The Original Scraper Bike Team, Tinker Kitchen. Tinkering Labs and LoveTech! we've heard that There will even be a plane engine dissection! April 22nd will be a big day across the country as people march to celebrate and defend science and we're excited to be spending the day with other scientists, artists and tinkerers, giving kids and adults the chance to engage in a playful, collaborative workshop.


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An excerpt from Chapter 5:
"In addition to the Boating Club, a Social Rowing Club was also established in 1867, and boasted fifteen members. At the time, boating was the near equal of baseball in popularity. The boating club was founded 'for the physical, as well as the mental education of its members, both in the art of rowing and sailing. The beautiful lakes described in the prospectus of this catalogue sufficiently indicate that pleasure accompanies this branch of education.' The first two boats, or barges as they were appropriately called, were the four-oared Santa Maria and the Pinta. Annual races were held on St. Edward's Day and during Commencement.
The focus of the Social Rowing Club was often recreation rather than competition, and crews rowed downstream twelve miles to Niles, MI, stopping on the way for a picnic lunch. Upon reaching their destination, the club members would board a train, placing their boats aboard as well, for the return to campus."


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One Year and Thankful!/
Challenge from She Reads Truth.
I cannot believe it has been only a year since SHE READS TRUTH begun! It has blessed so many souls. Filled so many hearts. Connected so many women. Provided Truth and Knowledge and given so much glory to Him!
Because this incredible group of women has given so much to me, I wanted to give back, take the "One Year and Thankful" challenge and write about how we have been blessed over the past year!
Oh my...where to start!?!
In an effort to give highlights, but not put you to sleep by lengthy description...I will apply the old numerical, college note-taking method :)
1. When the year started, my husband tore his ACL. Not so good, but God provided financial backing and insurance. He is now almost 100% healed!
2. My gracious parents provided a home for us to live in...theirs, while we tirelessly searched for a home to buy! Although living with my parents was a precious time, it was painful, long, and stretched us beyond belief (read more about it here). What started out as a 3 month stint...turned into over a half of a year search! BUT Praise God! We found our ideal location and flipped it to our own little space! WE LOVE IT!!!
3. My father has been much, much healthier this year! Pops has been dealing with heart disease since he was 35 years old. He is on full disability, but his personality and zest for life is not :) He has a heart bigger than anyone I know and lives life FULL. He and I are extremely close and I am so thankful God has decided to keep his heart ticking and keep my pops around as he continues to love on others and teach!
4. The Kavs graduated from Trinity Seminary!!! Oh Lord thank you its over! He loved the schooling, but we both hated the hours he was putting in and how often we were away from each other. I am so, so proud of him though!!! He was amazing through it all, balancing life and giving me intentional time together with him. I started bawling the moment I walked into the graduation ceremony, overwhelmed with joy for him, his accomplishments and reminiscing over all those long months...over. Congrats Kavs!! (Read more about it here!)
5. My husband and I celebrated 2 years of marriage! Weeee! (Read more about it here). It was challenging, thrilling, joyful and we learned so, so much along the way! I cannot believe its been two years already??? Oh, how I love him. I can honestly say it is more every day!
6. A life-long dream of mine is coming true this year...we are (slowly) launching an Art Studio this summer for little ones and adults! (read more about it/sign up here or visit us on Facebook here) A place for them to thrive, build self-esteem and create! I have literally been on my knees for God's will over this. I adore kids and so want to see them flourish in a safe place and love on them! We will see what the future holds. If the doors keep opening, we will keep walking through :)
I am certain there are so many, many more things to share, but that is our life in a (thankful) nutshell. Praise Him for the year we've had ... ups and also the downs that we've learned so much from! Im excited to see what the next chapter holds.
Thank you SHE READS TRUTH for blessing my heart and so many others. HE applauds you and so do I!
Love, Amy


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Even under these two broad terms are found more specific types of life insurance, such as joint term life insurance. Joint term life insurance is a type of life insurance policy bought by married and common-law couples who want to take advantage of the specific benefits that joint term life insurance has to offer them. Is joint term life insurance right for you? That depends on your situation and on your needs. Before you can consider joint term life insurance, you'll need to learn what it is.
Also referred to as joint first-to-die term life insurance, joint term life insurance insures two, generally married, people at the same time, but the policy's benefit is only paid out once, when the first of the two joint policy holders dies, to the surviving partner. A joint term life insurance policy doesn't necessarily make sense for all married couples and families. However, it is a sensible consideration if you're parents, homeowners, or retired, particularly if it takes both of you to provide for your children, make the mortgage payments, or contribute to your retirement lifestyle.
If you have a child or children who require financial provision from both parents, a joint term life insurance policy makes sense. For example, should you die before your children are grown, this type of life insurance coverage will ensure the widow or widower is able to financially survive single parenthood, helping to cover costs such as child care or tuition.
If you own a home together, and you both contribute to the mortgage payments, you can use a joint term life insurance policy as mortgage protection. This way, in the event of an untimely death-whether it's your own or your partner's-the remaining spouse will be able to keep paying off the home and won't have face disclosure.
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The collection belonged to Peggy Guggenheim who, despite being a poor relation of the family, built up a fabulous collection of art by such figures as de Chirico, Picasso, Giacometti, Dali, Braque, Klee, Miro and Mondrian as well as works by American Abstract Expressionists including her "discovery", Jackson Pollock. From the 1920s Peggy Guggenheim spent much of her life in Europe, where she is said to have slept with 1,000 men. Gore Vidal described her as "the last of Henry James's transatlantic heroines: Daisy Miller with rather more balls''.
The Tate blotted its copybook with Peggy Guggenheim in 1938 when its then director, JB Manson, certified that some sculptures which she wanted to show at a gallery she had opened in Cork Street were not art at all. Works by Arp, Calder, Brancusi and Moore were, he pronounced, "all the sort of stuff I should like to keep out''. As a result of his intervention, British customs would not let them into the country. In 1949 Peggy Guggenheim took herself and her collection to Venice, where she lived until her death in 1979.
Despite the pre-war setback Sir Norman Reid, who became director of the Tate in 1964, entertained hopes of persuading her to leave her collection to the gallery, and in 1965 she accompanied it to London for an exhibition. A formal dinner was held in her honour and she was wined and dined by the Establishment. By the beginning of 1966 Reid was confident enough of victory to inform his trustees that she had made a new will leaving her collection to the gallery.
There were other good reasons for his optimism. The Solomon Guggenheim who founded the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where Messer became director in 1961, was Peggy's uncle (her father had gone down with the Titanic), but she had had a miserable childhood and felt stifled by all her wealthy relations. After leaving for Europe aged 22, she returned to the United States very rarely. In her autobiography she wrote disparagingly of the family museum, a reinforced concrete spiral designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, describing it as "a huge garage''.
Yet at the same time that the Tate was raising its hopes, she was secretly negotiating with the Guggenheim. Her main requirement was that her collection should be kept together, preferably at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, her home on the Grand Canal which had opened to the public as a museum in 1951.
It was the diplomatic Messer who handled the gallery's negotiations with Peggy, making many trips to Venice in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1969 he secured her agreement to an exhibition of a selection of Cubist, Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist works from her collection at the New York museum. The show was a huge success and she reportedly agreed to leave the museum her entire collection — only to change her mind a few months later, when she announced that she would be leaving it to the Commune of Venice.
Matters remained unresolved until 1976, during which time several factors played in Messer's favour. In the early 1970s Peggy Guggenheim had paid $60,000 for a canvas which turned out to be a fake, a mistake she blamed on the Tate whose advice she had sought (though she bought the canvas before reading the Tate's report). However, it was said that the Tate's chances were finally scuppered when, on a trip to Britain, she was stopped at the border and informed that her beloved dogs would have to go into quarantine. Meanwhile, the offer to the Commune of Venice was withdrawn when she was presented with a bill for donor's tax.
At the same time Messer's mittel-European charm was having its effect on the ageing art connoisseur. "I once wrote her: 'Why is it when I am with you, you are so nice and sweet and then I get such awful letters?'" he recalled. "Then for a while, she addressed her letters to 'Dear Tom, Sweet Tom'."
Messer claimed that in the end he really did become fond of the famously difficult old lady, "and the reason I did was she was eternally feminine". Within days of her death in December 1979 he travelled to Venice to see about safeguarding her legacy, and in April the following year her collection officially reopened under the direction of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, in a palazzo which had been almost completely swept clean of its former owner's presence.
Messer's victory over the Tate strengthened the Guggenheim's holdings and gave the museum its first outpost outside the United States. Since then, the foundation has opened museums in Bilbao and Berlin, and is now planning a Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.
Thomas Maria Messer was born in Bratislava, in what is now Slovakia, on February 9 1920. His father was an art historian and a professor of German; his mother came from a family of musicians.
Despite his artistic background, Thomas studied Chemistry, first in Prague and later at Thiel College in Pennsylvania. On September 2 1939 he had embarked at Liverpool on the Athenia, bound for Montreal. The next day Britain declared war on Germany, and within hours the Athenia had been torpedoed by a German U-boat. All but 119 of the 1,418 on board were rescued. Messer subsequently crossed over to America on another ship.
Messer soon abandoned chemistry for modern languages, studying at Boston University, and after America joined the war served in Europe as an interrogator for military intelligence. After the war he studied Art at the Sorbonne.
Returning to the United States, Messer took a master's degree in Art History from Harvard. Before his appointment at the Guggenheim in 1961, he was director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
He became director of the Guggenheim just two years after it had moved into its new Frank Lloyd Wright spiral building on Fifth Avenue. His predecessor, John Sweeney, had left after disagreements with the architect and the board, and when Messer arrived things were in disarray. As well as repairing relations with the board, he had to build a professional staff and find ways to overcome the practical difficulties of a building which Messer himself described as having "the circular geography of hell", where any vertical object appeared tilted in a "drunken lurch".
He took a huge risk in 1962 when he put on an exhibition of large sculptures from the Hirshhorn collection. But in fact he had taken the precaution of staging a smaller sculpture exhibition shortly after his arrival, when he discovered how to compensate for the building's geometry by constructing special plinths at an angle, so that the pieces were not vertical yet appeared to be so. The result was considered a triumph.
Messer remained the gallery's director for 27 years, during which time he greatly expanded the collection and established its international reputation. As well as the Peggy Guggenheim collection, in 1963 he persuaded the German collector Justin Thannhauser to present a significant portion of his collection, including dozens of Impressionist, Post Impressionist and early modern works, to the Guggenheim on permanent loan. The two men had become friends by chance in the 1950s when Thannhauser heard Messer playing Beethoven through the open windows of his apartment on 67th Street. When Thannhauser died in 1976, the paintings on loan became part of the Guggenheim's permanent collection.
Thomas Messer's wife, Remedios, died in 2002. There were no children.
Thomas Messer, born February 9 1920, died May 15 2013


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During its annual F8 developer's conference, Facebook showcased how immersive and realistic gaming could look on the Oculus virtual reality headset this year. The company's CTO Mike Schroepfer said virtual reality gaming would be coming this year on a device shipped by Oculus when speaking on stage.
To demonstrate how realistic gaming could seem on Oculus' hardware, Facebook showed a demo of a space ship launching that makes you feel like you're in the driver's seat:
There's no final release date for the consumer version of the Oculus, but it's clear that Facebook has big plans for its future. The company is convinced that 2015 will be the year of virtual reality.
Schroepfer says the technology is finally advanced enough to bring VR to the mainstream and succeed where others have failed.


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The Response to My Letter to Gates
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my recent open letter to bill gates on the sometimes sorry state of wintel pcs (my own in particular) generated a lot of thoughtful responses in our forums and a steady stream of e-mails to my own desktop. they were spilt roughly into thirds among the people who blamed me for abusing my own system by demanding too much of it, those who agreed that there were fundamental system issues at work here (like the overly complex and probably garbage-ridden registry), and those who, whenever i write about wintel pcs, tell me i ought to switch to a mac, and then all my troubles would magically disappear. i find a bit of truth in all of these arguments.
first of all, as one reader warned me, i probably should start turning my pc, an ibm thinkpad t40, off at night. yes, i'm behind both hardware and software firewalls and i run antispyware, antivirus, and antispam applications, but i guess i could be looking for trouble by leaving my pc on and connected 24/7. so that's a fair argument. it still doesn't explain why, even after rebooting, my system will experience heart palpitations around three-fourths of the way through the day. and i have to admit that the other reason i leave my computer on is the same as what forum member "monty0000" noted: "i leave my desktop on for days at a time mainly because i do not want to take the time to wait for a couple minutes while the computer reboots." and a couple minutes' wait is at the low end of the scale. microsoft windows is supposed to be able to handle concurrent processes, but startup appears to be a largely serial affair, and the more you have in your startup folder, the longer windows xp's launch process takes. another reader told me to put my system in "hibernate" mode between usage sessions. i typically use "standby," but i'm willing to try something different.
the root or roots of my problems, according to some readers, is the way windows handles processes and an overloaded registry. they offered salient advice. one reader, svein liby of bergen, norway, bemoaned the lack of "smart registry maintenance" and recommended i try tuneup utilities 2004 from tuneup software gmbh. others agreed with my stance on the task manager, but recommended that i use it to cancel "processes" instead of "applications." of course, that approach means that all open files associated with an application are shut down at once. closing applications usually lets me address a single instance of an application. either way, the task manager, on its own, simply doesn't work that well. continue reading


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RMS Beauty is home to award-winning luminous face products and vibrant makeup. We spoke with founder Rose-Marie Swift about their stand-out products, the unnatural side of the natural beauty industry and the spring makeup trend she is loving!
Parvati Magazine: You state that in your process of learning about the cosmetic industry, you found that many natural ingredients end up like man-made chemicals. How does that happen? What should customers be aware of when purchasing natural products?
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PMAG: There are so many colors and shades in your lip, eye and nail collections. What palettes and products are you loving right now for spring? What are you excited for this summer?
RMS: I am totally into the powerful and bold mouth with my new lipstick colors. No matter what is on trend in the season, nothing tops a beautiful mouth.
PMAG: You were personally affected by high levels of heavy metals due to a lengthy career in the makeup industry and subsequently started Beauty Truth, an online educational resource. Tell us about this site.
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Rose-Marie Swift has been a make-up artist for over 35 years; her work has been featured in countless publications, her portfolio includes many famous faces and she has worked with some of the top fashion photographers. In her late 30s she began to experience health issues and learned that her blood contained toxic levels of heavy metals as well as pesticides and other chemicals also used in cosmetics. After years of rebuilding her own health, Rose-Marie created RMS Beauty, her acclaimed line of organic color cosmetics.


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When the term "omni-channel" first appeared in the pages of the business press, it was meant to describe how consumers move seamlessly among all retail environments, from physical to virtual. But soon ad agencies commandeered the expression, and now "omni-channel" has earned a place on many agency websites right alongside other claims like "360-degree thinking."
More to the point, "omni-channel" is just the latest way agencies are trying to portray themselves as one-stop-shops, with experience in all the channels a marketer might need to employ on behalf of their brand. But as many agencies continue to ramp up their claims to be masters of the communications universe, the attitude of sophisticated marketers is headed in the opposite direction.
As Mondelez CMO Dana Anderson said recently in a Wall Street Journal article, "It's just not possible for one agency to be expert in all these areas." As a result, she says, Mondelez has "significantly expanded its roster of agencies." From her perspective, "It's time to accept that the Agency of Record model is not longer the pathway to Oz for clients or agencies."
Today's great brands are the sum of many parts
Today's marketing programs are much like a modern-day aircraft, often beautifully functional when assembled, but made from many different parts from many different companies. The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is made up of sections supplied by specialized producers in countries literally around the world. The wings are made by a specialist manufacturer in Japan. The landing gear comes from France. Cargo access doors from Sweden. The center fuselage from Italy. Couldn't Boeing do all of this by itself? No, actually. Each of these components has state-of-the-art technology that Boeing wouldn't be able to replicate without a massive investment of resources.
Similarly, today's marketing landscape is populated with technology and specialized knowledge that no single company (or single agency) could reasonably master. But of course that doesn't stop most agencies from continuing to claim "full service" offerings as if they're experts in everything from ethnographic research to data analytics.
A new study by Marketing Week reports that "specialist consultants are gaining ground on agencies as marketers' first port of call for business advice." So when agencies insist on playing the role of "generalist" they move down on the list of trusted advisers, behind strategy specialists (like London Strategy Unit), channel planning specialists (like Horizon), experiential marketing specialists (like Mosaic), experience design specialists (like Adaptive Path), and the rest of the focused firms that comprise the long tail of marketing.
Focused marketers want to work with focused agencies
Harvard's Clayton Christensen observes that we are seeing a shift in the competitive dynamic from the primacy of integrated solution shops, which are designed to conduct all aspects of the client engagement, to modular providers, which specialize in supplying one specific link in the value chain. He explains that the growing sophistication of clients leads them to disaggregate services, which reduces their reliance on one-stop providers. "They are becoming savvy about assessing the jobs they need done," says Christensen, "and funnel work to the firms most appropriate for those jobs."
One thing is for certain: the marketing world (and the business world at large) is increasingly dominated by focused business models. The agencies moving up in Advertising Age's annual size rankings are specialized in areas like CRM, digital, public relations, and healthcare. The agencies moving down in the size rankings are (you guessed it) the generalists. This trend has been playing out for at least a decade now, and appears to accelerate year after year. Some of the agencies that ranked 1st or 2nd just ten years ago now rank 10th or 20th.
Is there still a need for firms to play the role of general practitioner, to help clients diagnose their problems and then dispense at least some of the solutions? Of course there is. And this need is especially prevalent among smaller client organizations in smaller markets. The question for you and your firm is whether that's the kind of client you want; the unsophisticated patient who seeks the services of the country doctor, or the larger national/global companies who seek the help of world-class specialists.


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The Barsoom Brawlers and Drake Yeev Dragonkin.
One of the things I like about Mars Attacks!, is that they have no qualms about doing crossovers into other IPs. So when Mantic was doing their Mars Attacks! kickstarter, they threw in an option to buy a Martian team for DreadBall, (and cards to use the Mars Attacks! factions in Deadzone as well Yay!). […]Read More The Barsoom Brawlers and Drake Yeev Dragonkin.


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Friday 26th October 2007
I have to admit that I am a little bit scared tonight. The viaduc St Egratz has been playing on my mind all day. We are off to Chamonix tomorrow. We, being Lez (See above), Liz (Lez's girlfriend), Nicky and me.
Why would someone who does not like heights go up a mountain?
Anyway, I see it as a bit of a challenge.
I intend on visiting Patrick's offices in Geneva, and hopefully I will be able to take a photograph.
All this excitement means that I will not be able to apply for any jobs this weekend.
Hang on.
Unless, I take the paper with me to Switzerland and apply to a job from there? I am slightly concerned about this. What if there is some kind of soft drink spillage in the hand luggage? They do have computers in Switzerland, as was demonstrated by Patrick's e-mail about my mum and dad's cat whisky; so I might be able to send a few e-mails.
The Guardian Jobs page dated 29/09/07 has been quite a large part of my life over the past few weeks, it deserves a little holiday.
Someone at work today said to me:
"Ian, did you see that Martin Jol, the Spurs manager has been sacked. That means there is a vacancy."
Thanks, Laura.
I know that this is my second transgression into the non Guardian Jobs. However, given the recent history of the type of advert in the Guardian, I am pleased to be on safe ground. I am sure that Tottenham Hotspur do not want me to launder money for them.
Dear Madam/Sir
I have read, listened to, and watched several articles regarding Martin Jol today.
I am still unsure whether he was sacked before, during, or after the game last night.
Anyway, that is all immaterial, because I would like to apply for the position of Manager of your Football Club.
I am a keen supporter of Liverpool Football Club, but this should not come between us.
I also drove by white Hart Lane on the way to a property that I manage in Green Lanes. I liked the look of the area, I felt really comfortable there.
I am also a fan of Paul Hawksbee on Talk Sport. He seems like a very nice man, and if that is the type of fan that you have at White Hart Lane, I think it is the place for me. Did you hear the programme when they invented the Norbert Dentressangle v Eddie Stobart Game?
I have attached my CV for your perusal, and I look forward to your earliest response.
Kind regards
Ian Carpenter
PS Don't tell my partner, she is a bit of an Arsenal fan!
Anyway, there we go, a second deviation from the Guardian, but hey, it is coming with me to Switzerland for the weekend.
All we need now is a three legged carbon wellington boot wearer.
Friday, October 26, 2007
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