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Remembering the High Street (Paperback)
A Nostalgic Look at Famous Names
P&S History
By Gordon Thorburn
Imprint: Remember When
Published: 3rd October 2011
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On every high street there used to be butcher, baker, grocer, greengrocer, draper, Boots, ironmonger, pub, W H Smith, cafe, bank, Freeman Hardy & Willis, jeweller, Marks and Spencer, furniture shop, hotel, secondhand bookseller, off-licence, haberdasher, Woolworth's, confectioner, cobbler, tobacconist, electrical showroom, Burton's, gas showroom, ladies' fashions, Home and Colonial, and more, and maybe a department store or two. You know what we mostly have now. A parade of pound shops, charity shops, building society branches, ladies' hairdressers, kebab take-aways and shops boarded up.
So what has gone wrong - if it is wrong? The author answers this and many other important questions, such as who exactly was H Samuel, who was the Fifty Shilling Tailor and what the Dolly Sisters did to Mr Selfridge. So, if you wondered where the yellow went, when you brushed your teeth with Pepsodent, wonder no more. It's all in here.
I really enjoyed reading this book and looking at the images that have been selected to tell and illustrate the story by the author, who with the words, images and photos, takes the reader on a trip to remember the High Street!
I am a massive fan of books of this nature, I enjoy look at the photos of the past and also reading about the social history and what the various towns and cities would have been like previously.
I loved that this was a look back at some of the famous names that we have had, and lost from the High Street. It is only when you start to read the book that you realise how many well-known and well established brands have disappeared over the years. It also charts the development of some of the brands that started off small that have now become large chains such as Tesco and M&S.
I do really enjoy books of this nature and I thought that this one was really good, it is 4 stars from me for this one, highly recommended and definitely an interesting read!!
Read the full review here
Donnas Book Blog
Initially the author plots the development of department stores and specialised chain stores then illustrates this by examining the East Yorkshire Town and port of Goole. The greater part, and the most interesting section, of the book is devoted to the history of the business behind high street famous names.
An interesting read.
Essex Family Historian
In this recessionary era, much is made of each economic up- and down-turn, particularly in the retail sector. This book provides a concise history of retail, from the earliest market trader to out-of-town shopping malls. Clear examples are given of changes to High Streets across the UK.
Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
A new book Remembering the High Street takes a nostalgic look at famous names where the British have shopped.
Ashford Herald
A must read – Remembering the High Street is a nostalgic look at how we used to shop. It takes us back to such British icons as Mac Fisheries, Freeman Hardy and Willis, Bile Bean and the more welcome Barker and Dobson sweets.
Yours Magazine
On every high street there used to be butcher, baker, grocer, greengrocer, draper, Boots, ironmonger, pub, W H Smith, cafe, bank, Freeman Hardy & Willis, jeweller, Marks and Spencer, furniture shop, hotel, secondhand bookseller, off-licence, haberdasher, Woolworth's, confectioner, cobbler, tobacconist, electrical showroom, Burton's, gas showroom, ladies' fashions, Home and Colonial, and more, and maybe a department store or two.
You know what we mostly have now. A parade of pound shops, charity shops, building society branches, ladies' hairdressers, kebab take-aways and shops boarded up.
So what has gone wrong - if it is wrong? The author answers this and many other important questions, such as who exactly was H Samuel, who was the Fifty Shilling Tailor and what the Dolly Sisters did to Mr Selfridge.
So, if you wondered where the yellow went, when you brushed your teeth with Pepsodent, wonder no more. It's all in here.
Antiques Diary
About Gordon Thorburn
Gordon Thorburn is the author of the best-selling 'Men and Sheds'.
For Remember When he has authored "Pocket Guide to Pubs and their Histories", 'The Classic Allotment' and 'The Classic Herb Garden'.
Other books have included 'Cassius, the true story of a courageous police dog', and 'No Need To Die'; about American volunteers in RAF Bomber Command in WW2.
Gordon lives in North Walsham, Norfolk.
More titles by Gordon Thorburn
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Enjoy our photos from Dublin. You can also access our photos on the top right "places we've visited" menu.
Dublin Album
Month 6 brought a lot of changes! We traveled half way around the world to visit home for the holidays. It was wonderful to spend the time with family and friends. Though, we weren't sure we were ready for all the snow.
Countries visited: 2 (Turkey, Ireland, and the USA)
Beds Slept In: 6
UNESCO Heritage Sights Visited: 0 Total on RTW: 34
We traveled by 6 planes this month!
We traveled by 0 trains this month!
We traveled by 0 long distance buses.
~ We really enjoyed spending time with our families during the holidays. We had assumed we would be figuring out how to get festive on our own somewhere in Asia, but after a change in plans, we had the opportunity to spend some time at home. Lucky us!
Christmas in Dallas
Christmas in Cedar Park
Christmas in Denver
~ During our layover in Dublin on our way home for the holidays, we got a chance to go on a Literary Pub Crawl. It was a great evening filled with laughs, history, and great beer.
Good beer
Literary Pub Crawl
~ We left Turkey very early in the month on our way home. We had a short two hour layover in London on our way to Dublin. It was enough time to grab a quick bite to eat… and a great beer! We were so excited to drink a beer with some flavor!
Items Missing, Broken, Discarded, or Added and Packing Update:
We were excited to have the opportunity to really re-evaluate the contents of our packs. While we weren't unhappy with what we had, we hope to adjust some of the clothes, replace things that are worn or stained, and unload some weight. We plan to write a whole blog post about this, so stay tuned!
Della has read Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Eric has read Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Oiy… bad month for reading…
Make sure to catch up on all our monthly recaps: Monthly Recap 1, Monthly Recap 2, Monthly Recap 3,Monthly Recap 4, Monthly Recap 5
Budget: Ireland
This is one of our Budget series of posts to give you an idea of how much we spent traveling around the world. Here we will look at Ireland. Check our posts to see what kind of activities we did and where we stayed!
In Ireland we used the euro. We converted to US dollars using the current conversion rates at the time of our visit. It was approximately 1 euro to 1.24 dollars – down since our visits to other euro countries!
Total Spent (3 days): $596.65
Accommodation: $185
We stayed in a private room in someone's townhouse through Airbnb. This was the cheapest option but still quite pricey!
Activities: $165.29
We did more activities in our few days here than we normally would have since we felt like there was a lot we wanted to see! This included the Hop-On Hop-Off bus, the Guinness Storehouse, Kilmainhaim Gaol, Book of Kells and our two walking tours.
Alcohol: $57.10
Since we were back in an area with lots of interesting tasting beers, we took advantage and bought many pints of beer. This total came from pints of beer bought in various pubs, plus one hot brandy. Beer, while easy to find, was quite expensive; expect to pay at least 5 euros for a pint!
We knew that food would be expensive, so we tried to only eat out once a day. We bought some sandwich supplies and fruit for inexpensive breakfasts and lunches.
We bought a couple of Christmas gifts to bring home
This cost only includes our fares on the local Dublin buses, which was the easiest way for us to get from our accommodations to the Dublin city center. In general, we were unimpressed with the Dublin bus system, because the fares seemed high and you had to pay with exact change in coins (no pre-purchase available).
This divides out to $198.88/day which is DOUBLE our $100/day budget!! However, we knew going into our visit that we would go over, since we wanted to do a lot of things in a short amount of time. (This, by the way, illustrates why we didn't plan to spend a lot of time in western Europe during our trip.)
This is what was so darn expensive!
Small Comforts: You throw the toilet paper where?
There are a few small comforts that we run into now and then that really make us feel better while traveling…
So, this may a bit more information than you all want to know… However, this was huge. When we hit Dublin, we were back to the land where we could throw our toilet paper in the toilet… and flush it! We hadn't been able to do that since Montenegro! Yes, it really does seem like a first world kind of problem, but still! There is something excellent about not having to toss the toilet paper in the trash after use and constantly sitting next to full bins while doing your business!
Here is a picture of a super cute baby seal, because we are definitely not going to show you a picture of dirty toilet paper!
As we mentioned in a previous post, we decided to come home to the USA for the holidays. We searched for airline tickets and saw that we were likely going to have a layover in Dublin! We had never visited Ireland before, so we made it a couple day layover and spent 3 nights in delightful Dublin!
We struggled to find an affordable accommodations in Dublin. The hostels were mostly booked, which surprised us after experiencing so much walking dead tourism in Turkey. We eventually settled on a private room in someone's apartment in through Airbnb (after experiencing our very first rejection on that site… what?!). We had a nice room with great working heat, which was important for December in Dublin. Our host was friendly enough, but it was a bit weird having to share a bathroom with a complete stranger. We definitely prefer having an entire apartment to ourselves.
The common living area
Our nice and warm bedroom
We managed to pack an amazing amount of stuff (and expense) into our two days.
Hop-On Hop-Off Bus – There are many buses of this sort in Dublin, at least 3 different companies that we saw. We ended up choosing the one that was cheapest and had the most informative website. We were quite happy with the Green Bus! The tickets we purchased were good for two days and they had two different routes. We ended up using them both days and did both routes! We haven't done a lot of these buses, though we did use them in Johannesburg and Cape Town, because we typically prefer to walk or use public transit. Dublin is a walk-able town, but given that we were there in the winter and it was very cold, this bus was the perfect option. We used it to reach the Guinness Storehouse and Kilmainham Gaol as well as to view Temple Bar, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Phoenix Park. Our second day, we used it to view some of the newer areas of Dublin, called the Docklands, though we didn't get off at any of the stops. The live commentary provided on this second tour was quite funny as well!
We rode the Green Bus
O'Connell St
Guinness Storehouse – Our first stop on our Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour was the Guinness Storehouse. We were expecting that this would be a bit like a brewery tour, but it turned out to be more of a museum. It described how to make beer but also spent a good amount of time on the history of Guinness. The Storehouse is 7 stories tall and in the shape of a Guinness glass – making it the tallest Guinness glass in the world. We enjoyed the museum displays, the explanation of how to correctly taste a Guinness, the class on how to poor our own perfect pint of Guinness, and finally sipping our Guinness at the Gravity Bar on the 7th floor with a 360 degree view of Dublin! The cost was quite high (18€ per person, OR 16.50€ if you book ahead online), but we did enjoy ourselves.
The Guiness Storehouse
The lease that Arthur Guinness signed – for 999 years
We made our own Guinness ad
We learned the perfect way to drink Guinness with this taster
Eric demonstrates the correct way to sip Guinness
Learning to pour our own perfect pint
Savoring our pints in the Gravity Bar on the 7th floor
View of Dublin
Kilmainham Gaol – Our second stop on the bus tour was the historic jail, Kilmainham Gaol. It opened as a prison in 1796 and didn't close until 1924. Throughout its history, it held many criminals who had committed crimes ranging from small misdemeanors up to murders. However, it is most well-known for holding Irish revolutionaries who were fighting for independence from British rule. The most famous were those who planned and participated in the Easter Rising of 1916. General public opinion was actually against the Rising after it happened because of how much damage it did to Dublin, but when the leaders of the Rising were executed by the British at Kilmainham, many people began to support the Rising and helped push the country toward their larger violent rebellion, and eventual independence.
When you visit the jail, you will be required to take an organized tour through the site. The tours are filled on a first come first served basis, so we ended up having to wait about an hour and half to get on a tour. If you have the option to stop by in the morning, pick your tour, and then return later, that would be most convenient. However, if you end up having to wait, they do have a pretty interesting museum of the history of the jail that you can wander around in.
Irish flag outside the jail
Some of the cells
A hallway of the prison
The spot where the revolutionaries of the 1916 Rising were executed
National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology – This was our third stop on our bus tour, though we ended up having to walk from the beginning of the bus tour on O'Connell St. The bus would have taken us there as it went round again, but we were going to have to wait for about 15 min. By this point we had only about an hour left before the museum closed, so instead of waiting, we took off walking! Most of the sites in Dublin are quite close to each other and we made it fairly quickly. The museum was large (and free!) and we truly wish that we had more time to explore it. The treasures that it is famous for are the Ardagh Chalice and the Tara Brooch. We managed to see the Tara Brooch, but our real interests were in finding the "bog bodies." A friend that we had met in Greece had told us that the Dublin museum had a really interesting exhibit which showed several bodies that are thousands of years old that have been amazingly preserved in Ireland's bogs. It was fascinating to read what the archaeologists were able to deduce about the death of each of this people. Things like skin, hair, and clothing were still preserved.
Tara Brooch
A Viking skeleton with sword
The preserved arm of a bog body
Literary Pub Crawl – This was a new adventure for us! Dublin has a very rich literary history- writers such as WB Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, and and James Joyce made Dublin their home. Neither of us knew much about any of these authors, nor had read anything by them. But, Della thought that maybe this would be the perfect way to learn more about them, especially as we were in Dublin… and it couldn't hurt that beer was involved. We really enjoyed the pub crawl! We went to 4 different pubs throughout the evening. At each one, we enjoyed our guides. They made sure to tell us stories either about the history of Dublin or about one of the many authors that contributed to that history. They also sprinkled in several small performances, either scenes from different plays or books, or from letters from the authors. One of Della's favorites was a performance of a letter that was written by Oscar Wilde about his visit to Leadville, CO. We also enjoyed the beer and were excited that we won the trivia contest at the end of the evening!
Our guide performing
The Old Library and the Book of Kells – The hisotirc Trinity College is located in Dublin. One of the interesting things to see on campus is their old library. The Long Room is a beautiful wooden room; the walls lined with two stories of old books. It definitely made us feel as if we were exploring Hogwarts or something! The library also houses the Book of Kells which is an ancient manuscript of 4 Gospels. It is impressive because it is intricately decorated and has been around since about 800 AD. We thought the Book of Kells was a bit overrated, but we really enjoyed the Long Room!
The Long Room
The Book of Kells – we couldn't take pictures of the real one. This was a replica in the Long Room
Free Walking Tour – We were quite excited to be back in the lands of Free Walking Tours! It is always nicer to do the walking tours on your first day in a new place because they give such nice overviews of history as well as a lay of the land. We did this on our second day, due to scheduling issues, so we had seen a few of the sites and heard a bit of the history already, but we still enjoyed the tour immensely. We had a very good, animated tour guide, who made the tour quite fun. We started near the Dublin Castle where we heard about how the most exciting recent visitor was the Queen of England who hadn't visited the country since Independence. There was a lot of fear about how the visit would go, but apparently it went really well! We then traveled to Christ Church Cathedral which is one of Dublin's most iconic structures. It was built about 1000 AD by the Viking King who made a pilgrimage to Rome and then decided to convert to Christianity. Our guide told us a very sad story that right around the cathedral was a Viking city. The ruins were found in the early 1900s after the local government had purchased the land and planned to build government buildings in the area. The ruins they uncovered were apparently some of the best preserved Viking ruins in the world. Archaeologists fought to have the ruins preserved, but after a long court battle, the contractors and local government won and the ruins were destroyed and built over. Ultimately, only one building was constructed and now the local government has stated that it regrets that the ruins were destroyed. What a sad story! We then moved into the Temple Bar area where we heard about the history of arts in Dublin. They are very proud of being the home of U2 (which we now feel like we have a connection to based on the stories we heard about them in Sarajevo). Finally we headed to Trinity College and St. Stephen's Green where we heard more about the Potato Famine and some of the current politics. Our guide also invited the group to join him for a meal in one of the pubs after the tour. We, and a few others, took him up on the offer and we enjoyed chatting with him about his life and some other information about Dublin. We found the tradition of the 12 Pubs of Christmas pretty interesting!
The back of Dublin Castle
The government building built over the top of the Viking ruins
The arts center where U2 got its start
St. Stephan's Green
Where We Ate
Our first night in Dublin we were pretty tired from the long plane rides, so we took the easy way out and just got Chinese takeout from a place within a quick walk from our apartment.
On our second day, we had our first meal at a "real" Irish pub. We arrived early for the Literary Pub Crawl, so we just ate at the pub that the tour was starting from, called The Duke. Eric had an Irish stew with lamb, potatoes and carrots, and Della had bangers and mash (sausage and mashed potatoes).
As we mentioned before, after the Free Walking Tour we went with our guide to get a late lunch at a pub. We were pleasantly surprised that the pub we were led to was one of the same ones we had been to on the Literary Pub Crawl the previous night. The tour had special prices for some of the items, so we took advantage. This time Della got an Irish stew, and Eric got a "collar of bacon" which was basically slices of ham cut from a carving table.
The outside of O'Neill's, taken on the Literary Pub Crawl
We really enjoyed Dublin and wish we could have spent more time there. We also wish we could have explored more of Ireland. However, we experienced a lot of sticker shock about how expensive it was!
How We Returned Home From Istanbul For $352.60
Once we decided to shake up our itinerary and head home for the holidays, we had to figure out how to actually get there. Luckily we hadn't yet booked any onward flights from Europe, so we switched our focus from finding tickets from Turkey to Asia to finding tickets from Turkey to the U.S.
We had more miles in the American Airlines AAdvantage program, so we were focusing on awards using the Oneworld Alliance. There was nothing direct back to the US, so we started searching what our layover options in Europe would be. The easiest options routed us through London, but these seemed to have higher fees.
We then saw that one place were you could get a direct flight to the US with not too bad fees was from Dublin, Ireland. We were intrigued about the possibility of seeing a little bit of Ireland, so we arranged our flights to have a three-day layover in Dublin.
This meant that we actually booked two different award flights. The first flight used British Airways Avios to get us from Istanbul to Dublin (with a layover in London). These flights cost us a total of $110 in fees.
Enjoying a flavorful beer in the London airport… exciting after a few months of uninspiring brews!
Flying British Airways into Dublin
The second flight was then to get from Dublin to Dallas, with a layover in Philadelphia. We used AAdvantage miles to book this, but it was actually a combination of a US Airways flight from Ireland and then and American Airlines flight from Philadephia. These flights cost us a total of $242.60 in fees.
Enjoying a Yuengling beer and a cheesesteak in the Philly airport. Brought back good memories of the years we lived in Delaware!
In the end, the fees to fly directly from Istanbul back to Dallas would have been less, but we thought it was worth it to have a chance to spend a few days in a new country!

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MOVIE REVIEW: THE SOCIAL NETWORK
I finally saw THE SOCIAL NETWORK--and kept saying to myself as I watched, why didn't I think of that??? Is it worth four stars? Maybe 3 1/2. Is it engrossing? Yes... especially the speed and acuteness of the dialogue, and the maniacal focus and narcissism of the protagonist, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg(brilliantly embodied by Jesse Eisenberg)who we are led to believe created FACEBOOK--the ultimate internet connector-- after he was abruptly disconnected by his girlfriend. He seals (steals?)the concept when his vanity is further wounded by the Winklevoss twins, a pair of blindingly blond Harvard crew gods who look down their aquiline noses at the nerdy computer whiz.
"THE FACEBOOK" takes off, then is further tweaked ("Lose the 'THE.'") by "Napster" Sean Parker(Justin Timberlake in a sly, funny take on the nap"star")and the rest is history: gazillions of hits and billions of dollars.
David Fincher directs screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's ingenious script. Ingenious because of its intricate structure which propels a simple story into an intriguing maze of chronology, personalities, and hidden motives. Every scene is "Sorkinized"-- pumped with the screenwriter's own obsessiveness; Sorkin admits to taking 8 to 10 showers a day and talks a blue streak. When we first meet him, Zuckerberg attempts to pummel his date into submission (the lovely Rooney Mara, soon to star in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) with compulsively self-absorbed questions, smart-ass asides, and infuriating "know-it-all-ness," like an idiot savant on speed. This opening scene alone is worth the price of admission.
Whether or not Zuckerberg is the vindictive wunderkind who ruthlessly disposed of his co-creator Edouardo Saverin (as the film cagily implies) I do not know. Sorkin's script is deliberately opaque in this regard and that's a flaw, that and the way Eisenberg's face goes slack whenever his character is called to account. How convenient--or lazy of Sorkin not to commit. I also thought the sight of Harvard coeds casually stripping on tabletops in wood paneled dorm rooms a bit of a stretch.
But THE SOCIAL NETWORK does a good job of stripping this true story down to its bare essentials and entertaining us with a modern fable of no small net worth.
Posted by Joyce Kulhawik at 12:08 PM
DaveH in NH October 11, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Sounds good! I add this to a long list of good reviews I've seen of it -- gotta check it out myself!
Bravo Joyce!
Nice to discover this after the Evening to Remember.
The Harvard Girls was a bit of a stretch, unless you consider their disembarking from the Bus to suggest they were coming from Wellesley!
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MOVIE REVIEW: SECRETARIAT


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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.


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Q: How to stop source blocks when rackSystem if full i saw a previous question about something like my issue but i couldn't make it work as suggested in the answer.
I have 5 sources that generate 5 different agents to be stored via a rackStore block in a rackSystem; a resource from a resource pool pick them up (rackPick block) and give them to an assembler. At some point i seize the same resource to do other tasks but the simulation is interrupted when the rack is full. I tried to make the sources stop when the rack is full in this way:
if( rackSystem.isFree(1, 1, 1) == false)
self.set_rate(0);
I typed this code in each source "on exit" bar but it doesn't work; what am i missing?
The rackSystem is made of 5 different palletRack blocks, each with 1 row/position/level.
Thanks for your advices.

A: You are only checking if the position (0,0,0) is free. Instead, amend your condition to this:
if( rackSystem.hasSpace() == false) self.set_rate(0);

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Happy holidays, but what if the holidays aren't happy?
My heart has been heavy what with the news from Ferguson and New York City. Too many people of color are being killed being by the police, both for minor crimes and for doing nothing at all but trying to live their lives.
They go into a stairwell with their girlfriend and they are killed. They are 12 years old and playing in a playground with a toy gun and they are killed. They are walking down the street or standing on a corner, driving a car, or simply at home with their families. No one is really being held accountable for these deaths.
We are all, in fact, accountable. It has been going on a long time, this violence. It isn't about individual prejudices, this oppression. It isn't about a few racist individuals, although they do play their parts. It is about systemic and structural racism. It will take all of us working together to change the system.
My heart is heavy, but I am also encouraged that the pain and outrage that people of color have lived with so long is being voiced in the streets of every major city. Change does not come easy.
One news clip I saw this week keeps running through my head. Eric Garner's widow cried out the words, "Who is going to play Santa Claus for our grandkids. Who, indeed, will do that? Who will play Santa Claus or maybe even the savior, for this hurting broken world of ours? If ever we needed a Prince of Peace, we need one now.
No, this holiday season is not a happy one in too many ways. But I do hope that we can still enjoy them. I hope we can slow down enough to look at the lights, to rest a bit, like that turkey described in our reading.
The holidays are always complicated.
This season is an emotionally loaded one. There are so many expectations! It is hard to resist the intense advertising, the message that if you don't go into debt, you are not in the Christmas spirit. There is also, and this is the most damaging I think, the intense social and psychological pressure to be happy, no matter what is going on in your life, no matter how you are actually feeling.
So let me say, right now, and if you remember nothing else from this service, your feelings are OK, whatever they are. Your feelings are OK. If you aren't happy, let your tears flow. If you are down and a bit grumpy, give yourself a break. If you are outraged over injustice, go ahead and rant about it. You don't have to be jolly old St Nick for the entire month or the tranquil Mother Mary either. Trust me, I may share a name with Mother Theresa, but I rarely live up to it. I suspect that sainted lady had her off moments as well.
Even if most of the year we can manage to be content to be merely human, Christmas really puts the pressure on. Parents can work very hard trying to create magical moments for their children, and then be really disappointed when a young child collapses in tears from simple exhaustion. Disappointments large and small abound. The present that isn't quite right, the sweater that doesn't fit. The words that should be spoken and aren't. The ones said out loud that shouldn't have been. Christmas happens in the real world, not in the magical kingdom, not in fantasyland. Sometimes the whipping cream has gone rancid. We need to rein in our expectations a bit. Ice cream works just fine on pie, and if it has gone a little icy in the freezer, just scrape it off a little and dig down to the good stuff.
While Christmas lights and carols can cheer you up, they can also bring you down, especially if you are down already. Christmas is the stuff of memories, if it is a holiday we have celebrated. We remember a lot more about the December 25th's that we have lived through than we do most other dates in the year. Our memories of those other Christmases are very close at hand in this season. Maybe they are of happier times; times spent with loved ones who have since died.
If you are ill, maybe you remember the Christmases when you were healthy, maybe you remember when you were young, when your children were young. Happier times, much happier times, they might seem to you now. Try and remember, though, that even those golden glowing memories were probably not picture perfect when they were happening. Enjoy them in memory, but try not to let them turn the present totally to gray.
Some of you may also be planning on going somewhere this Christmas that you wish you didn't have to go. Maybe your extended family does more than simply irritate you; perhaps they are truly toxic to your soul, to your sense of self worth and dignity. Maybe your parents – or your children – just seem to love to criticize and nag you. Maybe they go out of the way to antagonize your partner, to question your life choices, your politics, and your religion. Maybe they just are a pain to be around. Try and remember that family is just that, family.
They aren't your friends necessarily although they can be, and the biological accident of blood relationship doesn't have to define your self worth. If it is really bad, it is very OK to decide to spend your holidays with friends or even alone.
Or maybe in your heart of hearts your wish for Christmas is to be with that crazy family of yours and have it be a simple nice time for once. A bit of laughter together shared that could heal so many of the wounds. Wishing won't make it so, but having that dream, and making the attempt year after year is also OK.
Are you getting my message, yet? Your feelings are OK. And for those of you who don't face any such challenges with your family members – I know there are at least a couple of you out there – Hey, your feelings are OK too. Count your blessings as you are very lucky.
When you are grieving, in the midst of a divorce, or out of work, the holiday cheer around you can become depressing. "Happy Holidays" is a wish; it isn't an order, a command, a requirement. If you don't have a lot to be happy about, it doesn't mean there is something wrong with you. You are just having a hard time, and we all have hard times, especially it seems around holidays.
We all have many memories of different holiday times, some are good and some are not. If you have ever lived with domestic violence or substance abuse, you know that holidays can be truly horrible when those things are involved. Those unpleasant memories can resurface even in happier times. Shed a tear for them, and if they are in the past, be grateful that the present is better.
It helps, I think, to follow some of the advice of our earlier reading. Enjoy the lights. Enjoy looking at them and enjoy thinking about them and about what they mean.
Light a candle, light a chalice, and make some promises to yourself to keep the flame of hope burning. Like the light in our chalice, the world needs symbols of hope.
Take time to rest, to just relax. It really isn't necessary to spend every spare moment shopping and stressing out.
Many of us have more things than we need anyway. Spend what money you have in true acts of generosity. Just remember to save that half hour for yourself each and every day.
The last piece of advice from the reading was to make a list of "Things you want for Christmas that aren't things." What might be on that list for you?
What do you hope for what do you wish for in the deepest part of your soul?
It could be a wish you have for yourself. Maybe you want work that means something to you, that makes a difference. Maybe you just want a job that pays enough to live on. Maybe there is a relationship that needs healing, someone you used to love that seems like a stranger now. Perhaps you are yearning for a lover, or even for a friend.
Maybe you want to just have a pleasant gathering of family and friends.
It could be a wish for someone else and it could be a wish for the world.
Don't we all want love and don't we all want health and happiness? Don't we all want to be valued for who we are? Can we give those gifts to ourselves, and can we give them to each other?
What about wanting world peace, about wanting justice for all? Wishes don't always come true, even Christmas wishes, but spending some time with even the seemingly impossible ones can help us to remember what is truly important, and that is very much in keeping with this season.
And then. And then. Slowly try to take a deep breath and just look around you. Find something that warms your spirit. There are miracles in nature, the way the winter light shines after a cleansing rain. Feel the warmth of a fire or the heater coming on. There are small miracles all around you, if you look, no matter what else is going on. Cool water. Warm tea. The way a hot bath can be so relaxing. Notice how the colored lights shine.
Listen to the music. Listen to the children when they laugh. Know that you are not alone, even if you are feeling lonely at the moment. There are people just waiting to exchange a smile with you or to hold you when you cry, to share a clasp of hands, perhaps a meal. There are communities of love not fear.
Look around at each other. This world, this reality, is all we truly need.
Happy Holidays and Blessed Be.


This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a children's movie! I must emphasize this, as you may have been misled by the PG rating. (The children's book upon which it's based has been fundamentally changed.) This is a wonderful, heartfelt, visual feast, dedicated to cinephiles everywhere! Movie lovers are rapturous over it, while I saw children brought along by well-meaning parents, who were bewildered and bored.
The opening scene is a magnificent, deeply dimensional, 3D shot of a massive clockworks. It segues into traffic headlights encircling the Eiffel Tower and an aerial view of 1930s Paris. From that moment I knew I was in the hands of a master filmmaker! We are behind the scenes (in the walls and attic) of a huge Parisian train station where we see how they maintain the clocks: oiling, winding, repairing and fine-tuning them. It's no wonder the orphan boy charged with these marvels sees the world as a giant clockwork; his entire life centers around oil cans, counterweights, gears, flywheels, and mainsprings.
Asa Butterfield ("The Boy in the Striped Pajamas") is our eponymous hero, striving to unlock the mystery of his father's death. He lives in the walls of the train station, stealing what he needs and living by his wits. He is apprenticed to his drunken uncle, thus he works on the clocks.
Jude Law ("Sherlock Holmes") appears briefly as our hero's all- too-soon-dead father, but he was working on an automaton, which Hugo now sees as something he absolutely must complete.
Ben Kingsley ("Shutter Island") is Georges Méliès, the center- piece of this tribute to early French cinema. A magician turned cinematographer in 1895, this innovative pioneer was very nearly forgotten despite his almost 500 films made prior to WWI. This homage includes a moment when he is belatedly honored for his contributions.
Chloë Grace Moretz ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid") is a girl who joins our young hero on an "adventure!" Her first taste of the cinema is the well-known clip of Harold Lloyd hanging from the face of that clock. This film is checkered with many such classic moments.
Helen McCrory ("The Queen") is Jeanne Méliès, wife of Georges. This actress was so convincing as an older woman, I was im- pressed by her makeup when she appeared younger. Silly me!
Emil Lager ("Cheerful Weather for the Wedding") fooled us all. We thought he was Johnny Depp, doing a surprise cameo as a guitar player in the train station!
Sasha Baron Cohen ("Brüno") is the gendarme determined to catch our boy and send him to an orphanage. Well, catch him he does!
Emily Mortimer ("Our Idiot Brother") is a sweet flower vendor in the station. The gendarme gets tongue-tied around her.
Christopher Lee ("Season of the Witch") is a librarian who directs our youngsters to books on topics they are researching.
We were pleased to see the emphasis placed on the value of books. Courtesy of excellent 3D, we cringe from a horrific train wreck and struggle with the children as they try to push through a crowded train station. We revel in the discovery and restoration of many of Méliès' well-known film clips and marvel at his ingenuity.
This is an excellent film for film buffs...but not for children!


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Regardless of how much or how little money you have, yes, you DO need an estate plan, and Cumberland Title can provide these for you. Estate plans consist of a will, a power of attorney, and an advanced health care directive. Without these documents, the decisions regarding your assets and personal care may be left up to a state court.
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Bill Moyers - Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers in June 5, 1934) is an important news and documentary journalist, as well as a prominent media critic and a famous news figure of the 20th century television. He has received over thirty Emmys and countless other awards for excellence.
Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers in June 5, 1934) is an important news and documentary journalist, as well as a prominent media critic and a famous news figure of the 20th century television. He has received over thirty Emmys and countless other awards for excellence. His later shows, "A Walk Through the 20th Century" and "Century" were named outstanding by the prestige Academy of Arts and Sciences. Moyers was also the author of 10+ books, which mostly focused on reports from the hot spots of the evening. He was born in Oklahoma, in a fabric worker's family, and started his career in 1950, when he was only sixteen years old. Moyers studied journalism at the University of North Texas, and earned numerous other degrees during his remaining career as a journalist. His career started with him being the dean and teacher at numerous universities across the world, however, he gained recognition through affairs of the Johnson administration and is said to be one of the pioneers of modern "negative-ad" campaigns, but the latter is questioned. After his work as the Deputy Director and special assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson, Moyers took a turn and joined the media in 1967. After some three and a half years of work with the Long Island local paper called Newsday, Moyers was hired by the Public Broadcasting System and hosted the famous Bill Moyers' Journal (1971-1981), he also worked in CBS during the time the his show ran on PBS, with persons like Dan Rather and However, Moyers's career in CBS wasn't particularly successful, (albeit it was quite long) as he was criticizing CBS for the declining standards in his last year at the broadcasting company in 1986. Moyers is quite popular among... Star Wars fans, as his 1986 documentary, titled The Power of Myth, featured mythologist Joseph Campbell, who in turn had a visible influence on George Lucas. As of now, Moyers is a regular activist among democrats, criticizing the supposed Republican influence on television, as well as the inevitable "dumbing down" of television; hence innovations like the internet are starting to take their toll on television. Much of his work of the 80s was transcribed to books, for example, he recollected his experiences of the Iranian contra scandal and Watergate in 1988's The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis: With Excerpts from an Essay on Watergate, in the same year, the aforementioned six hour interview with Joseph Campbell was transcribed and printed as The Power of Myth; his literary career had started earlier though, with his 1974 Essay on Watergate. Other notable literary works of Moyers include the following: Healing and the Mind (1993); The Language of Life (1995); and his autobiographical book Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times (2004). Moyers's contemporary journalism activities mainly include giving reports on the media itself. He, like most independent journalists of today, acknowledges that the larger newscasting corporations are putting more and more pressure on the remaining independent agencies. His humanist approach to journalism is inspiring, as the media focuses more and more on "soft news" for the people, and Bill's critical approach to journalism will never be forgotten, despite his withdrawal from the modern media.


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Journalists Still Face Threats in Afghanistan
(MENAFN- Daily Outlook Afghanistan) KABUL - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in its annual global impunity index has put Afghanistan in the fifth row among 12 countries where journalists are singled out for murder and their killers go free.
The CPJ in a report states that despite a reduction in violence against journalists in countries like Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and South Sudan, the cases of murders of journalists have not been investigated.
'CPJ's annual Global Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are singled out for murder and their killers go free, showed little change from a year earlier. Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and South Sudan occupy the worst four spots on the list, in that order, as war and political instability perpetuate the cycle of violence and lawlessness, the report said.
The Attorney General's Office said that it has investigated 19 cases of violence and murder of journalists in Afghanistan over the past two years.
'The Attorney General's Office has arrested tens of suspects in connection to such incidents. Some of them have been sentenced to 30 years jail and even death penalty, said Jamshid Rasouli, a spokesman for the AGO.
'There are murder cases that have not been investigated in the right way. Also the outcome of the investigations have not been shared with us, said Najib Sharifi, the head of Journalists' Safety Committee.
Meanwhile, Finland Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto in an interview with TOLOnews has said that he was concerned about reports of limitations on freedom of speech in Afghanistan.
'During this trip we had excellent meetings with the civil society
Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world.
NAI, an.organization supporting open media in Afghanistan, recently called on the Afghan government to ensure the investigation of murder of journalists.
'Violence against the journalists worsens the situation. We witness that freedom of the press in Afghanistan today is more at risk compared to the past two decades, said Mujib Khalwatgar, the head of NAI.
Officials said the government remains committed to protecting journalists and freedom of speech.
'The government is committed to press freedom and access to information. Protection of journalists is a top priority for the Afghan government, said Latif Mahmoud, the head of the Government Media and Information Center. (Tolo News)
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Quick info: Saint Patrick's Day in the UK occurs annualy on March 17. Although Saint Patrick's Day is only an official bank holiday in Northern Ireland, there are many celebrations in all parts of the UK that carry his name.
Saint Patrick's Day is a cultural and religious holiday in honour of Saint Patrick, the patron Saint of Ireland. Besides its religious significance, this date is now widely known for celebrating Irish cultural heritage. Irish immigrants brought the Saint Patrick celebrations to the UK. Nowadays there are still many local Irish or Celtic committees in the UK that keep the Saint Patrick tradition alive, organizing parades and other activities. On Saint Patrick's Day in the UK everybody becomes (a little) Irish. The typical green color, shamrocks and other Irish symbols can be seen everywhere. For more info see also Saint Patrick in our UK Saints Calendar.


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