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Happy almost holiday season, Bagel Babes! If you’ve been following me over on Instagram, you know I’ve been very into seasonal living lately – which means this year I’ll be celebrating the pagan Christmas holiday, Yule!
This holiday season, I’m bringing contributors on to the blog to showcase their awesome writing skills and add new perspectives to B&B. First up is Angela Myers!
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Angela doesn’t have her own blog – yet. She runs a digital marketing agency specializing in social media and SEO copywriting. Angela also creates bookish content, provides literary lifestyle advice, and reviews books on her Angela Anne platforms on Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube. She can usually be found in a coffee shop or bookstore.
Yule is one of the eight pagan holidays-and it’s almost Yule time! With many major religions having holidays near the end of the year, December is often a cozier, slower month full of time with friends and family. The pagan Christmas holiday is no exception to that!
Despite similarities to other major holidays in December, the pagan Yule does have its own customs. In this guide, learn how to celebrate the pagan Christmas holiday, Yule, to add extra coziness to your holiday season. We’ll go over the history of paganism, eight Yuletide traditions, two traditional recipes, five Yule decor ideas, and four Yule gift ideas.
While I don’t personally celebrate the pagan Christmas, I am an avid history lover who enjoys researching countercultures and stories lost to mainstream historical narratives. This love drew me to researching the cultural history of Yule (and those who still celebrate it today!). One particularly interesting element is how similar many pagan traditions are to Christian and secular holiday traditions.
Even if they are similar, there are some distinct differences. This guide goes over how to more accurately celebrate the pagan Christmas holiday, Yule. And fear not. These changes are easy to implement-you might be celebrating with some of these traditions already!
The idea of paganism is a general term which can be used to refer to many non-Christian cultures ranging from the vikings to the Aztecs. The beliefs of pagans vary wildly and it’s important to respect the entire spectrum of pagan beliefs instead of type-casting based on inaccurate historical fiction stereotypes from shows like Reign and the Last Kingdom.
For this blog, we’ll be discussing pagans who follow European customs which are not attached to one of the major world religions. Yule is a common pagan celebration in Europe which has since spread all around the world.
Generally speaking Yule lasts December 21st until January 1st, though this can vary based on culture. Because the pagan end of year festivities usually lasts 12 days, it’s where we get the idea of the 12 days of Christmas!
The 12 Days of Christmas isn’t the only thing Christianity stole from the Pagan winter festivals. In fact, there is a lot of overlap!
While the pagan festivities usually last around 12 days, Yule is commonly associated with December 21st or the winter solstice. Yule is celebrated within modern day wicca, but also has a deep cultural history.
The word Yule is traceable to an old Germanic language and is still used to refer to Christmas in Nordic regions. The holiday is also considered to be Germanic or Nordic in origin and was celebrated for centuries before the Christian church created Christmas in the 11th century A.D.
Yule started as a celebration to honor the Gods, land spirits, and ancestors and to ask for protection during the colder, deadlier months. While the weather outside is frightful in December, Yule is a bright, vibrant celebration of the past year and new beginnings in the year ahead.
When Christians began to spread their religion further across Europe, they adapted certain traditions from conquered pagan people to make converting to Christianity more enticing. Along with adapting many Yuletide activities and traditions, they also decided to place the birth of Christ at the same time of year as Yule.
However, early Christians did not want anyone to consider this new holiday to be the same as Yule or practice pagan traditions during Christmas.
Early Christians tried to emphasize the darker elements of Yule, such as Krampus, a half-goat, half-demon who punishes naughty children, to try to demonize the religious beliefs of pagans. For a long time, pagan Christmas was seen as dark and evil.
Yet in many nordic countries today, people are starting to reclaim Yule and the old pagan traditions. These traditions are not at all evil or demonic. In fact, the entire idea behind pagan Christmas is to celebrate the light’s victory over the dark as the days start to lengthen again.
Pagan Christmas is an upbeat celebration of hope, new intentions, and good fortune for the upcoming year.
As you might imagine given the shared history of Christmas and Yule, many pagan traditions have found their way into modern and secular celebrations of Christmas.
Yule celebrations included feasts with ham and setting intentions to better serve the gods in the new year. These traditions have transformed into the Christmas hog and New Years Resolutions. Other features which had pagan origins include Christmas trees, giving gifts, and Christmas caroling.
In fact, if you’re used to celebrating a more secular Christmas (or even a Christian one), you’ll be surprised just how many pagan traditions are familiar to you!
Other traditions for the Yule have been lost over time (at least in mainstream culture). Some of these include:
Traditions adapted in Christian and secular ceremonies and those unincorporated can become a magical part of your own holiday celebrations.
Like any major holiday, there are specific activities and traditions that are associated with Yule. These eight Yule traditions can provide coziness and clarity to your end-of-year celebrations. For more Yule activities, check out ten more Yule traditions to do this year (our blog post going live on 11/11/21!).
Intentionally looking ahead to the new year and reflecting on the past one is at the heart of Yule.
To look ahead to the new year, you could burn a Yule log. While often compared to the Christmas tree, it was used for a very different purpose…unless you burn your Christmas tree.
It was usually a big, chunky piece of wood which was burned over the fire throughout the festivities. The Yule log symbolized releasing the old and making room for the new. It would also ward off bad spirits and prevent sickness and disease for the new year.
The fire from the Yule log also reminded pagans of the fight between the evil Holly King and the Sun God. The Holly King wants to plunge the world into darkness every year, but the Sun God fights and defeats him every year on the winter solstice. From then on, the days begin to grow longer. Fires, as well as lighting candles, symbolized the return of the Sun God to many pagans living in pre-Christian Europe.
While you can simply find a log to burn in the fireplace as your yule log, there’s also the opportunity to decorate the log before burning it or to decorate your fireplace with traditional pagan Christmas decor.
If you want to get fancy with your Yule log, the Hallmark channel has a great carving tutorial, though they do state it’s meant for intermediate carvers and crafters.
Along with the Yule log, a key practice to prepare for the new year is time for introspection. Pagans will often use their holidays as a time to reflect back on the past year and set new intentions for the upcoming year.
With your Yule log burning in the fire, take out a journal or laptop. Reflect back on the past year and set your goals and intentions for the upcoming one.
One of my favorite end of year reflections is to write ten bulleted lists in my journal. The prompt is:
When you’re setting intentions for the next year, it’s important to keep them realistic. If you’re looking to improve your health next year, check out Blondes & Bagels guide to setting realistic new year fitness goals.
Because the pagan religion emphasizes the natural world and our connection to nature, it might also be a good idea to consider how you can spend more time in nature during the upcoming year. During Yule, people would begin to plan which crops to plant on their farms and how they could still spend time outside and in sunlight in the upcoming cold months of January and February.
While many of us today don’t have a farm, we could still schedule in more time for nature. This could look like planning winter hikes to go on or buying a houseplant for your home or apartment.
The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year so after it, each day will become longer than the one before. Part of Yule is celebrating this return of sunlight, which for many is a spiritual blessing. One way to lean into the spiritual side of Yule is to meditate on its meaning.
If you prefer to meditate without a guide (i.e. no words while meditating), you could meditate with nature sounds in the background or use this instrumental 32 minute mix of Yuletide carols for meditation.
If meditations aren’t your vibe, you could also say a Yule incantation. Here are two incantations from the book Yule: Rituals, Recipes, and Lore for the Winter Solstice.
Invocation to the Old Woman of Winter
Ancient mother of Midwinter
watcher over life and death,
the one who rebirths the world,
be with us on this longest night!
See us through the dark hours
and stand with us
as dawn births the promise of new life.
So mote it be!
Invocation to Father Yule
Heroic father, giver of life,
one who stands with sword in hand
to fight against the dangers of the wild,
bring that sword into our circle
and stand with us against this night’s darkness.
For the night is long,
and you will keep us safe.
Christmas trees, while popular today, actually originated in the pagan culture! While many other trees lost their leaves, evergreens remained the same. They symbolized that even in the darkest of times, there is hope and life to be found.
While Christians, secular celebrators, and pagans all have Christmas trees, they decorate them differently. If you want to add some more pagan decor to your Christmas tree, consider cinnamon ornaments with shapes etched in icing.
You can even DIY this yourself. Here’s an easy set of instructions to make Yule ornaments in a couple hours:
If you’re like me and you like contrast in your Christmas ornaments instead of all of them looking the same, there are other pagan items you can add.
Pagans often add magical items to their Christmas trees as well as ornaments. If you want to decorate with more magical decor, you might consider hanging these on your tree:
While it was a popular tradition in renaissance England, wassailing’s roots can be traced back to the pagan people who first settled on the British Isle.
To understand this activity, we must discuss both the verb (wassailing) and the noun (wassail).
Wassail is a popular hot cider to be enjoyed around the holidays. The act of wassailing is bringing that cider around to friends and neighbors in exchange for gifts.
Similar to Christmas caroling, those who went wassailing would go door to door with the drink and offer it (and perhaps a yuletide carol too) in exchange for gifts.
If you want to make your own wassail, you need:
The wassail can be made in five easy steps:
For more in-depth directions and to see where I got this recipe from, check out this blog.
Ruins are commonly inscribed on wood in the pagan religion to bring good fortune and to ward off evil spirits. Before burning the Yule log, it is common to carve ruins on it. You could also carve ruins on other decorations, such as homemade ornaments or signs around your home.
Some common ruins used around this time of year are:
If you don’t want to carve the ruins into wood, you can draw them on paper and burn them over the Yule log. The burning of ruins activates them so your home is protected and you attract what you want into your life.
7 Plan Your Herb Garden – H3
A common practice during the Yule season was to plan the crops for the next year. The most important part of a farm or garden in pagan tradition is the herbs. Along with their many health benefits, herbs also serve a spiritual purpose. In fact, planning one’s herb garden was the most important agricultural aspect to plan during yule.
If you’re like me and not a skilled gardener, they’re also easy to grow. Herbs also can be grown inside or on balconies if you don’t have a backyard.
Some easy to grow herbs with spiritual meaning include:
If you’re not into growing your own herbs, many of these can be bought at the grocery store and used to flavor your food, perhaps to even flavor your yuletide feast.
8 Drink Herbal Tea – H3
While planning ahead is a big part of the Yule festivities, it’s also a time to reflect and enjoy last year’s yield. A common drink to celebrate last year’s crop yield is herbal tea.
Herbal teas have soothing and healing qualities. They can be enjoyed with friends and family or on a cozy, winter’s night with a good book.
Some of my favorite herbal teas are:
If you’re interested in making your own herbal teas, Feasting at Home has a great guide on how to make brain booster tea, calm and sleepy tea, and happy liver tea.
Common Pagan Christmas Foods – H2
A big part of a yuletide festival is the feast! While wassailing is a great drink, it’s not a meal. You can, however, prepare your own feast to go with it! Honey Butter Yule Ham, a traditional pagan dinner and winter solstice cookies, a traditional dessert, will make your holiday celebrations more tasty!
Honey Butter Yule Ham – H3
Pagans often sacrificed animals around this time of the year and then feasted on their sacrifice. The most commonly sacrificed animal around this time was a hog, which then became a yuletide feast to be enjoyed with friends and family.
For this recipe you’ll need:
The Honey Butter Yule Ham takes ten minutes to prepare and four hours to cook. The basic instructions are:
For the full recipe, check out the original recipe.
If you’re a vegetarian like me, you might want to skip this dish, though the softened butter, honey, and clove combo could go nice over a meatless alternative.
Winter Solstice Cookies – H3
Want a yule dessert to soothe your sweet tooth? Here’s a Pagan spin on the traditional holiday cookie.
For this recipe you’ll need:
When you make the cookies, make sure to have a cookie cutter in your desired shape nearby. Since these are winter solstice cookies, snowflakes might be fun!
To make the winter solstice cookies:
Check out the full recipe for more detailed instructions and how to make homemade caramel if you’d like to make it instead of buying it.
Yule is one of the coziest times of year and this is reflected in traditional decor ideas. Check out these five pagan Christmas decor ideas to bring holiday cheer into your living space.
The Yule goat was a common Pagan symbol around the winter solstice. While the symbol of the goat was seen as dangerous by some Christians in the 12th-19th centuries, it is now being reclaimed as a cultural symbol to many Nordics. In many Nordic countries, the Yule goat is a common symbol and a larger effigy is put up in many towns.
While Pagans used the goat in their decor, it was also a costume many would wear near the yuletide. Pagans used to have a tradition where a man would dress up as the Yule goat and enter the household. He would be killed by the children and then symbolically come back to life the next day, symbolizing the cycle of life and the seasons.
So why decorate with goats and possibly dress up as one?
It’s meant to symbolize the rebirth of the sun during the winter solstice. Although Christians gave it a bad reputation as a demon, it has been reclaimed as a helpful figure in Yule/Pagan Christmas celebrations today.
Want to add some goats to your yule decor? Here are some ideas for inspiration:
If you want to stick to tradition, purchase a wooden goat statue like this one. Still today in many parts of Sweden, towns build wooden goat effigies for the holidays (but don’t worry the one I found is big enough for your table, not the center of a town).
As previously mentioned, the Yule log was a way to cleanse your household and protect against bad health in the upcoming year. It is one of the most common symbols of pagan Christmas and a great decor piece!
Because the Yule log is such a big part of pagan Christmas, it is common to decorate around the fireplace. Many households to this day still put up stockings on their fireplace even if they celebrate the Christian or secular Christmas. While you can put up stockings, you can also decorate with traditional yule decor.
A warm, well-decorated fireplace can also be a great greeting to any visitors during the holiday season.
You could include symbols of nature to your fireplace such as:
Green and red are also traditionally associated with this time of the year so you could add those to your fireplace as well.
If you practice magic, you might have an altar. Moving the altar close to the fireplace was a common practice during this time of the year. You can also decorate it with traditional decor for the Yuletide season.
Pagan Christmas is a celebration of the light and welcoming in longer days (even if a couple months of cold, long winter nights lie ahead). Because of this, candles and other forms of light are a big part of yuletide decor. Candlelight is more commonly used in pagan Christmas decor than electronic lights.
You could also include the symbol of the sun in your decor. Oftentimes, pagan households would keep the symbol of the sun around their home during this time of year to remind themselves that the days would start growing longer and that time in sunlight is important and healthy, even in winter.
A wreath is a great way to welcome people into your home. Since pagans believe spirits and gods are more active during the colder months, they wanted to have a wreath to welcome helpful spirits and gods into their home. It also warded off bad spirits from entering the home.
A traditional Yule wreath includes pinecones, red berries, and other natural winter decor. You could also add some traditional pagan symbols to your wreath, such as the sun or the Pagan star.
If you want to make your own Yule wreath, check out this easy DIY option.
While commonly thought to be a Christian decoration, mistletoe actually has pagan roots. It was connected to the legend of Freya, the Nordic goddess of love and lust. Some pagans believe that if you kiss under mistletoe, you are put under a spell to fall madly in love with the other person.
If one of your new year intentions is to find romance, call on the powers of Freya and find yourself a yuletide partner with mistletoe!
But mistletoe doesn’t just have to hang in doorways and it doesn’t only symbolize romantic love. If you want to spread familial, romantic, and/or platonic love throughout your home, add mistletoe to your decorations. Mistletoe could be included as garland or as part of a wreath. Check out this wreath from Pottery Barn for inspiration.
Before Santa Claus flew his sled, friends and family shared gifts around this time of year. It was a way to thank loved ones for playing a significant role in one’s life over the past year.
In fact, some folklore states that Odin, one of the main Norse gods, delivered gifts around the Yuletide. As a figure with a long white beard who wore a lot of red, he was quite similar to Santa Claus. While it is debated, he might be the inspiration for Santa Claus along with St. Nicholas, a real life saint who was known to give gifts to children during his lifetime.
If you want to harness your inner Odin and give traditional gifts to your friends and family, here are four ideas.
Instead of sending a traditional Christmas card this year, you could instead share Yule cards with friends and family. These cards are decorated with pagan symbols instead of Christian ones.
To truly emulate the reflective spirit of pagan Christmas, you could also write a note about your past year and everything that happened while wishing your friends and family a fortunate and healthy new year.
2. Ice candles
Traditionally made in Nordic regions, this gift combines ice and light. It integrates a symbol of the darker, deadlier months with the health and fortune of light to remind us there’s always good in every situation.
To make them, you pour hot wax over ice cubes! Check out this blog post for full instructions.
However, it is important to note that this is a gift idea for the crafty. Making these candles is a long process and one which requires above average craft skills. I was exhausted even reading the instructions!
If the recipient of your gift is pagan or wiccan, you can gift them with a set of tarot cards, crystals, or other items to help them deepen their spirituality.
While you might have some personal ideas based on your own interpretation of spirituality, some more common ideas include:
Why keep the magic of Yule to yourself when you can share it with friends and family?
Since the New Years’ Resolutions originated from the pagan Christmas traditions, you can select a gift which embodies a new beginning: a planner or a journal!
Here are some of my favorite planners and journals:
You could also make time in your 2022 schedule for your loved ones or family members. Planning and funding an event you know they’ll love is a great gift which doesn’t partake in consumer culture. You could book tickets to a new art exhibit for your creative friend or buy tickets to see the new musical coming to town for the theater nerd(s) in your life.
This blog is in no way a comprehensive guide to everything about the pagan Christmas Holiday Yule. Check out these books, videos, and podcast episodes to dive further into the traditions.
Whether you’re doing a more traditional Christmas Eve or Christmas Day celebration – or celebrating the Pagan way – happy holidays from all of us here at B&B! However you celebrate, may you do it in style.
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Claire did a neat post recently about making her own collage...and asked, if we were to repeat that artistic exercise in patience, what ours would say.
Hers had bright colors and several neat quotes. I've been scribbling neat quotes since I was in high school - everything ranging from lyrics from Sting and the Smiths, to parts from the Talmud and lines from books by Amy Tan and George Stephanopoulos.
Here are some that I like...too busy this week to make a collage!
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Senate Banking Committee Remains Open to Idea of Digital Dollar in Tuesday’s Hearing. If you want a measure of how far things have come in terms of the acceptability of the digital dollar idea in Washington from something that a year or so ago would have been a nutty, fringe idea, read the opening paragraph to Nikhilesh De’s writeup of this hearing: “Not every U.S. lawmaker is on board with the idea of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or digital dollar, but no one explicitly rejected it during a hearing of the powerful Senate Banking Committee.”
Why? Is it my inflation terror driving me on? No. Ethereum is onto a new crypto winning phenomena. DeFi (decentralized finance). Well, that’s what it’s called, but most DeFi is dull and almost pointless, the exciting bit is the crypto lending part where you can stash your cryptocash in a blockchain system and get paid interest on it in a “risk free” way.
The yield cap policy would be new for the Fed, but it’s really an extension of an ongoing effort to do one thing: get the market to believe its intentions. The way monetary policy works these days, it’s meaningless unless the market behaves according to what the Fed wants. It’s not about what the central bank does per se; it’s about what it says and whether those words are incorporated into investor behavior. But the more it doubles down on this, the more the Fed creates situations in which it risks having its words held against it. And that puts it at risk of losing its most important currency: the public’s trust. Commitments to price targets are always especially risky – ask Norman Lamont, the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had to abandon the pound’s currency peg in 1993 because the market didn’t believe the U.K. would back its promises. The Fed has unlimited power to buy bonds, but whether it always has the will to do so will depend on politics and other factors. Once it’s locked into a commitment, the stakes go up. For now, the markets – most importantly, foreign exchange markets – still trust the Fed. But, as the saying goes, trust is hard to earn, easy to lose.
We’ve been using Google Ads for the past 6 months to help us get more visibility for our smart contract auditing services and we’ve noticed a strange change in the last few days. It seems that Google completely blacklisted Ethereum as a keyword. Any of the keywords that contain ‘ethereum’ in our campaigns are no longer showing ads as of January 9th.
DeFi’s ‘Agricultural Revolution’ Has Ethereum Users Turning to Decentralized Exchanges. DEX, often touted as a fairer and safer way to trade cryptocurrencies, might finally have its use case: yield farming. In the past, as Brady Dale reports, most people haven’t wanted to self-custody, preferring institutions to manage the risks of holding their keys for them. But in DeFi, where people undertake dual borrowing-and-lending schemes to make big, quick returns on incentives and high interest rates, is better if you control the keys during the trade. And decentralized exchanges are seizing the opportunity.
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Gold has had at least three millennia to establish itself as a store of value people turn to when social systems are in stress. Bitcoin has only existed for 11 years. While plenty of investors are willing to speculate on the possibility bitcoin might supplant or compete with gold, the idea is far from ingrained across society. When will it be more widely accepted? Perhaps when the international crisis of global leadership unleashed by COVID-19 undermines the capacity of institutions like the Federal Reserve to sustain economic and social confidence. Whatever new institutions and systems we create going forward will need to address how the internet has upended society’s centralized systems of governance. When that happens, we’ll need a decentralized, digital reserve asset as the base value layer. As I said, it will take time. Meanwhile, the developers will keep building.
Unlike earning Bitcoin online currently, there are only a few legitimate ways available to earn Ethereum since Ethereum is younger than Bitcoin and yet to reach more people though it is the second most dominant cryptocurrency even if Litecoin is called the predecessor of Bitcoin. Some sites have started to pay free Ethereum and we can expect more sites to pay Ethereum for doing online jobs like taking paid surveys, completing tasks, & offers, etc. For now, there are only a few ways to earn Ether online. More ways to earn ETH will be updated once they are tested and found authentic.
That network now sustains its financial system, a decentralized microcosm of the massive traditional one. It takes tokenized versions of the underlying currencies that users most value (whether bitcoin or fiat) and provides disintermediated mechanisms for lending or borrowing them or for creating decentralized derivative or insurance contracts. What’s emerging, albeit in a form too volatile for traditional institutions, is a multifaceted, market for managing and trading in risk.
The Ethereum has seen an unexpected growth in the past few years and its development over time is exponential. The invincible Ethereum is not only used as a digital currency like the Bitcoin, but it is used in several blockchain-based applications. So, there are no chances for the Ethereum to fail it’s intended for creation. If you’re looking to make money online, spending the time to earn Ether online is worth. By the time you have an ETH, you can sell it for a few thousand dollars in the future that could help you to fulfill your dreams. In this article, let us see a few ways to earn Ethereum online with and without investment.
Ethereum is what is known as an open-source, blockchain-based, distributed computing platform. It has smart contract features that enable the processing of contractual agreements online. These smart contracts can be used to process the transfer of assets, such as shares, property, and money. When a smart contract is run on a blockchain, it becomes a self-operating program. It will automatically execute once certain predefined conditions have been met.
The de facto cryptocurrency leader, no other coin even comes close to Bitcoin, or BTC. At the time this article was written, the dollar value of all outstanding Bitcoin was $150 billion. The total market capitalization for all cryptocurrencies is $230 billion, and the second-most valuable digital currency was Ethereum, with a market value less than $18 billion.
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The potential applications of Ethereum are wide-ranging and are powered by its native cryptographic token, ether (commonly abbreviated as ETH). In 2014, Ethereum launched a presale for ether, which received an overwhelming response. Ether is like the fuel for running commands on the Ethereum platform and is used by developers to build and run applications on the platform.
You earn free Ethereum by spinning a wheel of fortune wheel. The number of spins that you can have is determined by the “energy” that you have in reserve. Energy regenerates itself slowly, or you can watch videos to top up your energy faster. You need to accumulate 10,000 Gwei before you can withdraw your winnings. But, that doesn’t take as long to do as you have thought.

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One of my fave rockers from the '70s, Bob Welch, died today. His body was discovered by his wife at their home in Nashville, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. A suicide note was found, according to Nashville police.
I first tuned in to Welch's music back in the mid-'70s, when the 1973 Fleetwood Mac album, Mystery To Me, was making the rounds on my trusty Yamaha turntable. I was particularly fond of the Welch-penned tune, "Hypnotized". I also really loved the Welch song "Future Games", which was the title track of the first album he made with Fleetwood Mac, back in '71.
Welch left Mac after the 1974 album, Heroes Are Hard to Find, and it took two people--Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks--to replace him. I followed him when he formed the power trio Paris, which released two albums in '76, including the awesome Big Towne, 2061. That album was packed with great tunes, including "Blue Robin", "Janie", and "Heart of Stone". I'm quite shocked that no one I've ever met has even heard of this band. The timing just wasn't right for them, I guess.
In 1977 the fame that eluded Paris came to Welch big time with the platinum solo album, French Kiss, which boasted such hits as "Ebony Eyes" and "Sentimental Lady", which he'd originally recorded on the '72 Mac album Bare Trees. Even though it had string arrangements, I played the French Kiss album a lot, and bought most of the five or so solo albums Welch released afterwards. I remember quite enjoying the 1979 LP, The Other One, which didn't have strings, and also boasted a nice reworking of "Future Games".
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How To Make Trini Coconut Fudge
Kez learns how Arlene prepares her oh-so-irresistible Coconut Fudge:
Yield: 8 to 12 Servings
Warm Water - ½ cup
Coconut Milk Powder – ½ cup
White Sugar – 1 cup
Condensed Milk – 1 cup
Margarine - ½ tbsp + 1 tbsp
Ginger - ½ tsp (finely grated)
Coconut Essence – 1 tsp
Aromatic Bitters – 2 dashes
Coconut - ¼ cup (finely grated)
Coconut - ¼ cup (toasted)
Line a 6inch pan with greased wax paper and set aside.
Mix warm water and coconut milk powder together.
Heat a medium sized pot over medium to high heat.
Once heated, add coconut milk mixture, sugar, condensed milk, margarine and remaining coconut.
Allow to cook for 30 mins, stirring occasionally.
When mixture has reduced to half, add ginger, essence and bitters.
Continue to stir and allow to cook for about 10 mins or until mixture has been reduced to half.
Remove from heat and pour into prepared pan.
Let cool for 2-3 mins and cut into desired squares.
Let cool completely for about 1 ½ hours.

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The part is set in the middle of the dance plate and locater which is on the cylinder pole. At the point when the valve is opened, the packed air from the compressor will go into the chamber through a gap at the base of the barrel. The cylinder inside the chamber is made to push the upward way. At the point when the cylinder moves the locator cinches the part inflexibly. Presently the part is prepared for boring activity.
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Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and Nigerians In Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) today August 24th, 2021, inaugurated a Joint Committee for the commencement of the Abuja Diaspora City project.
The event which took place at the Conference hall of NIDCOM at the Federal secretariat was attend by both the Managing Director/Chief of FHA, Senator Gbenga Ashafa and the Executive Chairman/CEO of NIDCOM, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa.
In his opening remarks, Senator Ashafa thanked Predident Muhammadu Buhari for the encouragement and support of his administration towards the welfare of all Nigerians, which is seeing to the realisation of the project. He also thanked Hon. Abike Dabiri for her strong sense of commitment, and energy, put in towards the fruition of the Diaspora City.
Speaking further, the FHA MD reminded all that the Diaspora City project is a tripartite arrangement, comprising of the Federal Housing Authority, Federal Capital Territory Administration and the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission, with the backing of the ICPC and the Presidency. According to Senator Ashafa, ‘…the inauguration of this Committee has further brought the realisation of this project closer’. He said that the committee is expected to submit their report in 4 weeks.
In her response, the Executive Chairman, Nigerians In Diaspora Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa, thanked FHA for the idea of the Diaspora City. She noted that with this initiative, Nigerians in Diaspora can now comfortably own befitting houses in the country and avoid a lot of the incidences of being short changed or outrightly duped in trying to put up houses back home. She expressed optimism that the project would be completed within the life span of this administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Executive Chairman also said she expects the committee to come up with their report in 4 weeks.
The members of the committee are: for FHA-
Hajara Kadiri, Surv. Jide Odegbaro, Arc. Adamu Tanimu, Ibrahim Dang, Engr.Aloysius Nduka and Barr Jafaru, who will serve as the secretary.
The NIDCOM team is made up of: Hon. Abdulrahman Terab, Mr. Gabriel Odu, Mr Mustapha M. Al- Amin, Barr Habibat Eluameh, Mr Inyang Inyang, Mr. Oladipo Odebowale and Mr Abdulrahman Balogun.


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Jellyfish’s Chris Manning produced and mixed Strangefinger’s debut album Into The Blue. Taking over five months to record and mix, the album was actually finished in 2005. The record finally made its way to SideBMusic in 2009.
Six years ago, virtually homeless and with a budget of Absolute Zero, band leader and principle songwriter Freddie Lemke had to hawk his Yamaha CP-70 keyboard to pay for basic track recordings of an album he was doubtful would ever be heard. He set about writing and recording on a digital 16-track recorder acquired from an anonymous patron saint.
Slowly but surely, Freddie formed a band with bass player Blake Engeldorf, guitarist Patrick Mercier and drummer Joaquin Spengemann. With fourteen tracks ready for mixing, the band was out of resources and feared that the album would die a stillbirth. But after an out of town show, the band was approached by Chris Manning, renowned Bay Area producer and former Jellyfish member.
Chris and Freddie set out to record the lead vocals and finish the final mix. Within a few months, Into The Blue was complete. With a finished record, Freddie moved to Los Angeles to further pursue his musical aspirations. Into The Blue was released by SideBMusic on July 28th, 2009.


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Former Volusia County Council members Art Giles, Frank Bruno, Josh Wagner and Joie Alexander just earned their way into the Asshole category this week.
I said that I would never mention former County Manager Jim Dinneen in this page again – then I opened The Daytona Beach News-Journal this morning and did a spit-take with my Café Bustelo.
Look, I hate to paint all of these former Volusia County Council members with the same brush – but anyone who would put their name on a fantasy puff piece entitled, “Jim Dinneen made a big contribution to Volusia County” is pushing the ragged limits of credibility.
In fact, glorifying poor performance and asking the good citizens of Volusia County to suspend reality while they deify an ineffectual asshole who ruined constituent trust in county government, only serves to perpetuate the mediocrity and slimy backroom practices that have brought us to this dismal point in our history.
In my view, Jim Dinneen was the embodiment of all that’s wrong with this bastardized Oligarchy we find ourselves trapped in – a fetid slit trench where uber-wealthy insiders maintain political control of our future by contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars collectively to the campaign accounts of hand-select candidates for public office.
During his tenure, Jim Dinneen facilitated the wholesale giveaway of tens-of-millions of dollars in public funds couched as “economic development incentives,” orchestrated the discounted sale of public land to private interests, pissed away our heritage of beach access to appease the overweening greed of speculative developers, concocted patent falsehoods about the pressing need for new, astronomically priced courthouses, public works facilities and other county buildings – even as those he was responsible for maintaining literally rotted into the ground.
In exchange for his complicity and facilitation of these and other atrocities against the taxpayers of Volusia County – our ‘powers that be’ granted him the political insulation to do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and damn the consequences to those who were expected to keep quiet and pay the bills.
And make no mistake, the citizens of Volusia County paid a high price for Dinneen’s malleable ethics and preternatural ability to dodge accountability.
From his patented ‘public policy by ambush’ tactic of surprising us all with off-the-agenda sneak attacks – to his vilification of whistle blowers, including sitting Councilwoman Heather Post – he was a mendacious asshole who, in my view, would rather lie that eat.
As I have written before, Mr. Dinneen was perfectly willing to lie like a cheap rug whenever a blatant falsehood served his purpose or those of his political handlers. In fact, I believe – as Sheriff Michael Chitwood said – Mr. Dinneen is a pathological liar with a compulsion to fabricate situational responses on the fly – a strategy that ultimately cost county government the trust of the people it exists to serve.
The staggering level of incompetence, government waste and resource mismanagement during Mr. Dinneen’s administration – and the continuing, almost institutionalized, lack of substantive oversight by our elected officials that allowed this atrocious course of conduct to continue – will haunt Volusia County for years to come.
In fact, the lasting memory for most of us will remain Mr. Dinneen’s Tom & Jerry skit with the intrepid WFTV reporter Mike Springer – with Little Jimmy scurrying out of a public meeting like the rat he was, actively dodging the legitimate questions of the working press regarding the latest Five-Alarm Fuck-Up he was personally responsible for orchestrating.
In government, strong leadership maintains sound discipline, controls the awesome power inherent to public entities, identifies objectives, communicates effectively, exercises judgment, builds esprit de corps, trusts the ability of subordinates and congratulates their performance, instills confidence in constituents, and directs personnel and resources under their command – efficiently and effectively – to accomplish difficult goals important to our collective welfare.
The Dinneen administration was the antithesis of these important attributes.
In my opinion, the rotten legacy of Jim Dinneen will remain failure, mismanagement and the wholesale giveaway of public assets and amenities to meet the needs of those who could afford to pay-to-play. Nothing more.
For years to come, We, The People of Volusia County will continue to deal with the fallout of unchecked growth and sprawl, the almost criminal lack of preparedness and infrastructure to handle the massive influx to come, the abject failure to even attempt to ask development to pay its fair share and the cowardly inability of incumbent Volusia County Council members to reign in Dineen’s shadowy maneuvers and cloistered backroom collusion’s that brought us to this sad and desperate place.
Sometimes I wonder how current and former politicians develop such a conveniently selective memory.
Is it that the reality of the situation they helped create is too disturbing to recall accurately – so they mask reality with horribly skewed hallucinations of times that never existed?
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Damn, you nailed every thought I had when I read that nonsense, damn idiots! Give them hell!
Not sure the purpose of their comments other than to help him get his next job. “Glorifying poor performance” is right. It seems not only do people who get elected drink the look-aid, but it makes them blind as well!
We must understand that those council members are really just protecting their asses, their negligent involvement and their so-called legacies. What do you think they would say? He sucked and we let him suck?
Interested in your thoughts on Pat Rice and the political bent of the News-Journal.


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The day started as usual for the staff of Wayne National Forest, but it ended a lot sooner for most. A little after 8 a.m. on Tuesday, during an all-staff meeting, employees were notified most of the operations were closing, an immediate effect of the government shutting down because of the impasse in Congress.
“We knew this was coming down; we’ve been preparing for it,” said Gary Chancey, spokesman for the national forest.
Effective immediately, the offices in Nelsonville, Marietta and the Ironton Ranger District in Pedro are closed, placing about 60 employees on furlough, meaning they’re told not to come to work and are not paid. That includes Chancey. Around 10 individuals who either hold leadership roles, are involved with fire safety or law enforcement remain employed to respond to potential emergencies, he added.
Facilities normally open to the public will undergo an “orderly shutdown,” Chancey said. Trails for ATVs, horses and mountain bikes will all be closed. Hiking trails and camping spots traditionally used by hunters will remain open.
The national forest falls under the U.S. Forest Service, which prepared a contingency plan for closing down the agency on Sept. 20. The agency estimates it will take seven days to complete orderly closedown procedures.
Funding during the hiatus is expected to come from unobliged discretionary funding from the previous year.
“Until Congress makes a decision on the funding, we’ll stay (closed),” said Anne Carey, forest supervisor, who attended the grand opening of the Nelsonville bypass. “It’ll be a day-by-day thing. We’re sorry for the impacts. We’ll continue to move on. As soon as Congress is able to pass authorization, then we’ll reopen.”

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This program was designed for experienced hikers who like to test their limits. Test your endurance on this hike through Rog, which is really something special. Each one of the 64 km of the Roška hiking trail will reveal a part of the secret Kočevsko forest, and during your hike will be able to get to know the natural and cultural sights, visit the old Gottschee villages and feel the power of the primeval forests. Embark on an unforgettable adventure where you will connect with nature and yourself.
Program duration: 2 days
Season: April - September
Suitable for: hikers, small groups (5 to 20 people)
Hike length: 64 km (33 km on the first day and 31 km on the second day)
- upon arrival, the guide will introduce you the route of the hike,
- early in the morning after breakfast you will set off on a 33 km long adventure,
- you will get to know the many beauties of Kočevsko,
- you will visit Lake Kočevsko and old Gottschee villages,
- you will visit the forest reserve Pugled - Žiben,
- after lunch you will continue your hike to the heart of Kočevski Rog,
- you will spend the night at the Scout Home by the Rog Sawmill,
- next day, after breakfast you will continue to the edge of the Rajhenav Forest, where you will be able to admire the Queen of Rog,
- you will visit the forest reserve Prelesnik Collapse Valley,
- you will have a break for rest and lunch on Lovski vrh,
- you will end the hike at the Bearlog Hostel.
On Friday in the late afternoon, we gather at the Bearlog Hostel, which is the starting and ending point of this program. After accommodation in the rooms, we gather in the common area of the hostel, where we meet a guide who briefly introduces us to the adventure that awaits. Socializing and rest follow.
Early in the morning on Saturday we have breakfast at the hostel and then we set off on a guided 33-kilometer long hike that leads past Lake Kočevsko and Željnje Caves towards Pugled, where the remains of one of the oldest Gottscheer villages still stand. Just a few steps further we enter the first forest reserve Pugled - Žiben, a beautiful example of a devastated cultural landscape, older than 400 years. We continue our way towards Luža, which represents about half of the hike. There a warm snack and a refreshing drink awaits us. After a well-deserved short rest, we continue our way to the heart of Kočevski Rog, until we reach the highest point, located at an altitude of 1099 m. From the top we descend towards Rog Sawmill, which was once the largest sawmill in the area of the wider Kočevsko. This is also the endpoint of the first day, as dinner and a comfortable bed await us at the Scout Home by the Rog Sawmill.
On Sunday, we start the day with fresh coffee and breakfast and get ready to continue the hike. Just a few steps from the Rog Sawmill, we enter the edge of the Rajhenavski Rog primeval forest, where we admire the forest in all its authenticity and natural beauty under the canopy of several hundred-year-old giants. We continue in the direction of The Queen of Rog, the largest fir tree in Kočevski Rog, which measures 50 meters in height, and then continue towards Podstene. The path leads us past Rajhenav towards the forest reserve Prelesnik Collapse Valley, which is a real natural peculiarity and is known for its original spruce primeval forest that succeeds due to its thermal turn. From here we continue towards Lovski vrh, where a picturesque view awaits us. Here we have time to rest and enjoy a warm snack. We continue past Onek towards Kočevje, where in the evening, after returning to the Bearlog hostel, we finish the hike.
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Bollywood’s favourite star kid Taimur Ali Khan is going to be an elder brother. Yes. Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan are expecting their second child together.Â Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan have issued a statement saying that they are expecting their second child. “We are very pleased to announce that we are expecting an addition to our family!!Thank you to all our well-wishers for all their love and support”, the statement read.
Saif’s sister Soha Ali Khan was the first one to congratulate the couple. Within a few minutes of Kareena and Saif’s announcement, Soha congratulated the star couple in full filmy style. Soha shared a picture of Saif Ali Khan on Instagram and the caption on it read, “The Quadfather,” referring to the Hollywood classic The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.She wrote: “Couldn’t resist! Congratulations Kareena Kapoor. Be safe and healthy and radiant as ever.”
Kareena and Saif welcomed Taimur on December 20, 2016. They had got married in October 2012.


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The Toronto Maple Leafs edged the Washington Capitals in the NHL playoffs on a Monday full of overtime drama.
The Maple Leafs twice faced two-goal deficits but battled back from 2-0 and 3-1 to force overtime for the third time in three games to begin this must-watch series.
Tyler Bozak's goal, a point-blank deflection that gave Braden Holtby scant chance at a save, was a thing of beauty, sending Leafs fans into an unfamiliar frenzied state of euphoria courtesy of a 4-3 OT win and 2-1 series lead.
Overtime was needed in all four games.
The Ottawa Senators took a 2-1 series lead against the Boston Bruins with a 4-3 win and the Nashville Predators are 3-0 up against the Chicago Blackhawks after a 3-2 victory.
The Anaheim Ducks overcame the Calgary Flames 5-4 to lead their series 3-0.
Corey Perry, Ducks - Perry's first goal of the playoffs one minute, 30 seconds into overtime capped a ferocious Ducks comeback from down 4-1 in the second period to a 3-0 series lead. This was the 11th game decided in overtime through the first 22 of the playoffs.
Bobby Ryan, Senators - Ryan disappeared often during the regular season, but he has been Ottawa's most productive playoff performer thus far. He netted the overtime winner, bringing his series point total to four and putting Boston in a 2-1 series hole.
Filip Forsberg, Predators - Forsberg was the beneficiary of a couple of fortunate bounces to score both Predators third-period goals that erased a 2-0 deficit and forced overtime. Kevin Fiala finished the job, scoring with 3:16 left in the extra frame.
Was Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford interfered with on the Predators' tying goal? Just before Forsberg buried his second of the game, Viktor Arvidsson appeared to bump Crawford's head while skating in front of the crease. Chicago coach Joel Quenneville challenged the call, but the goal stood.
Tuesday's game to watch
Game four: Penguins at Blue Jackets - The Blue Jackets, after finishing fourth in the NHL with 108 regular-season points, are in serious jeopardy of coming up empty in the postseason, facing a 3-0 series deficit. If a comeback is in the offing, it will have to be done without stud rookie defenseman Zach Werenski, who is out for the playoffs with a facial fracture suffered in game three. The Penguins will end the misery sooner rather than later.
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Louise Kavanagh Loughlin
Louise Kavanagh Loughlin is a 21yr old Irish fashion design graduate of the National College of Art and Design. As a child despite growing up in the inner city suburbs of Dublin, she obsessed about moving away. Her current collection is inspired by the move to New York city and reflects upon todays society (read below). Her work is influenced by the people around us and the current political climate, but nothing is taken too seriously, but it is blunt -just like her personality. Surface hand embroideries and concepts play a very important role in her work. Inspiration is always influenced by the sickness of the western world and consumerism and takes on a graphic style. Loughlin has interned with stylists and as a wardrobe assistant for stage and screen in Ireland over the many years, -as well having completed internships with irish designers Emma Manley, John Rocha, and her most recent experience which was spent with Proenza Schouler in New York City.
‘Make America Fake Again’ is a 6 outfit womenswear collection which stems from my childhood idea of the American Dream and the ironically still beautiful, nightmare its become. Each outfit is designed around a character synopsis derived from the American Dream, The Money Maker, The Immigrant,The Housewife, The Beauty Queen, The Consumer, and The Cowboy. The collection is a visual response to the sickening culture of consumerism. Garments are a combination of layered up silhouettes i.e. coats upon coats which contain illustrated embroideries which are a visual response to the world we live in today. Hand embroidery, appliqué and beading are a main feature in my collection serving the purpose of reflecting on today’s society. Pieces are made up of hand embroideries of caricature images of sick exhausted looking women with bags under their eyes, who are glamourised by sequins and beading in a graphic style. The glamorisation of the worn out women is a response to how women today are taught to buy into products to alter their look all while keeping up with many other expectations.


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Encouraging as some developments in 2005 were, they could not obscure the many compromises in the defense of human rights that have arisen in the context of the fight against terrorism. There is no doubting that terrorism today poses a serious threat. All governments have a duty to take effective steps to counter this deadly danger. Yet the seriousness of the threat does not justify the flouting of human rights standards to which the response of certain governments has given rise. Many governments have experienced serious security threats, from invasion to civil war, that put the lives of their citizens at risk. The current threat of terrorism is different only in that citizens of the major Western powers appear prominently among the victims. After preaching for many years that all governments should respond to security threats within the constraints of human rights law, these Western governments should hardly be surprised that hypocrisy alarms ring loudly when they cite security concerns to defend their own human rights transgressions.
Because of the enormous influence of Western governments, and because of their importance as major parts of the global defense of human rights, this official hypocrisy has substantially harmed the human rights cause. It diminishes the persuasive power of these governments when they do rise on behalf of human rights, as it undermines the effective strength of the international standards that they transgress. That these human rights compromises are unnecessarythat they undermine rather than advance the campaign against terrorismmakes the behavior of the major Western powers all the more tragic. There is an urgent need for enlightened leadershipfor governmental leaders who still embrace human rights to stand up, reject this misguided approach to fighting terrorism, and reaffirm that even in the face of a serious security threat respect for human rights is good for all.
Washingtons role in the ongoing degradation of human rights leadership is especially dangerous. Now that responsibility for the use of torture and inhumane treatment can no longer credibly be passed off to misadventures by low-level soldiers on the night shift, it is time for the Bush administration to acknowledge the wrongfulness of its interrogation policies and to embrace respect for human rights as a moral, legal, and pragmatic imperative. Pressure will be needed, both from the citizens of the United States and from friends and allies around the world. For the good of the human rights cause, and for the security of those at risk of terrorist strikes, reevaluation and reversal of Washingtons shameful policies are essential.


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I’ve mentioned it before -many times!- but it bears repeating. It’s the lovely quote by prestigious screenwriter/writer William Goldman concerning making films, and their chances of becoming box office successes:
Nobody knows anything… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.
I point this quote out because we’ve had, IMHO, two prime examples which demonstrate the wisdom of this quote.
I refer to the box office performances of Terminator: Dark Fate and the just released Doctor Sleep.
Terminator: Dark Fate (let’s refer to it as TDF from here on) looked to me like it would be a success well before its release.
I mean, come on! You had James Cameron back to the Terminator universe, not as a director but providing the story and producing the film, his first involvement in this universe since Terminator 2. You had hot director Tim Miller (Deadpool) behind the camera. You had the Arnold Schwarzenneger and Linda Hamilton. The film gets released and, over on rottentomatoes.com, winds up with a very strong 71% positive among critics and another very strong 84% positive among audiences.
Things were certainly looking good.
What could possibly go wrong?
Rebecca Rubin at variety.com notes the following:
According to the article, the movie has made approximately $200 million so far, counting both the U.S. and worldwide residuals. However, to “break even” the film needed to make around $450 million, which means -again according to the above article- Paramount stands to lose around $100 million from this film.
Scroll back up, my friends, and re-read that wonderful quote from William Goldman. Can you at least begin to understand why I feel it is so on the mark?
TDF had so much going for it, yet when it was finally released, audiences essentially didn’t care to go see it.
I suppose in part it could be because of fatigue with the Terminator brand. Even in my review of the film (you can read it here) I noted the weak box office and stated:
If I could go back in time, maybe I’d convince the makers of those (Terminator) sequels to lay off and, by the time TDF shows up, people might be more willing/eager to give it a shot.
It is also possible that, plain and simply, Arnold Schwarzenneger simply no longer holds the box office appeal he used to have. Maybe seeing an older Linda Hamilton was also a turn off. Let’s face it: The big box office hits often involve the young and pretty. Or maybe the story presented simply wasn’t “good enough” to justify seeing the film again. In other words, maybe the movie had few/no repeat customers, another ingredient necessary for box office success.
Nobody knows anything.
Regardless, the studios gambled on what I personally would have thought was a sure thing and, ultimately, it looks like that gamble won’t pay off. In time I suspect the film will make its money, especially through home video, but for now the film is a loser.
Which brings us to example “B”: Doctor Sleep.
Released just this past Friday, here was another film I would have thought would do quite well.
The movie is based on a Stephen King novel, the sequel to one of his most famous works and movie adaptations, The Shining. The director, Mike Flanagan, was a director on the rise known for his work in horror. He won plenty of accolades for his The Haunting of Hill House mini-series. He earned both Stephen King and the Stanley Kubrick (director of The Shining) estate’s thumbs up for his attempts to merge both movie and books.
The movie’s trailers, I thought, were intriguing. The idea of seeing what happened to the main character of Danny Torrence some forty years after the events of The Shining was to me very appealing. Hell, I don’t read Stephen King novels but I admit I was tempted to get that one!
Then, like TDF, the movie is released and gets wonderful ratings on rottentomatoes.com. As of today, the film has a 74% positive rating from critics and an incredibly strong 90% positive among audiences.
Only, it too underperformed.
Anthony D’Alessandro at deadline.com writes:
The movie opened much softer than expected, earning some $14.2 million and coming in second to the wartime drama Midway. According to the above article, if Doctor Sleep manages to make some $100 million at the box office in its run, it will still nonetheless lose that $20 million. If it makes even lower than that…
Unlike TDF, I wound up not liking Doctor Sleep (you can read my review here). Having said that, I nonetheless really expected audiences to flock to the film the first week, yet that clearly didn’t happen.
Perhaps it was because the film was inexplicably released just after Halloween. Seriously, what’s up with that? You have a horror film you’re going to release and you don’t take advantage of the one holiday associated with all things that go bump in the night?!
Perhaps it was the fact that, despite many viewing The Shining -movie and book- as a classic, it is an older work and they simply weren’t that interested in revisiting something that old. Perhaps the cast simply wasn’t strong enough to elicit interest.
Nobody knows anything.
And so it goes.


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Kate Hudson designs LBD range
After modelling little black dresses for Ann Taylor campaigns, actress Kate Hudson now takes the creative route by designing the next range.
Hudson has collaborated with the brand's creative director Lisa Axelson on a collection of LBDs (Little Black Dress), which will hit stores in April, reports eonline.com.
"We designed them to fit how we all live. So, there's something for every occasion and everyone," said Hudson.
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Financial Issues in Retailing and Budgeting
This section contains manuscripts examining topics involving financial issues in retailing and budgeting
Dickinson, Roger, Mike Gable, Anthony Herbst and Beth Mariotz, “Risk in Retail Decision Making” ,ACRA, Winter 1985.A critical examination of the problems associated with the financial definition of risk as a basis for management decision making, particularly in a retail setting.
Dickinson, Roger and Anthony Herbst , “Capital Budgeting for Marketers-A Comment”.This paper discusses the problems of various financial capital budgeting models used for marketing decisions. It also suggests possible alternatives.
Eastlick, Maryann, Richard Feinberg and Richard Widdows, “Understanding Retail Markets Through the Shift Approach”,ACRA, Spring 1988 .The authors compare relative gains or losses in individual market areas to those experienced in the total market as a measure of economic change.
Eastlick, Mary Ann, Richard A. Feinberg and Richard Widdows, “Retail Sales: More Basic Than People Think” ,ACRA, Winter 1988 .A study showing the stability of retailing within the various states. Individual states are not prominent in the total retail world. Data included is total annual retail sales, total annual value added by manufacture, and annual population estimates for each state.
Gifford, John and James M. Stearns, “Perceived Importance of Financial Rations as Indicators of Corporate Health and Vitality in the Retail Field” ,ACRA, Spring 1985. A study of which financial ratios are perceived as being meaningful measures of corporate health by both practitioners and academics. One hundred thirty-six ratios were initially considered and ultimately reduced to thirty-two. These ratios were ranked by practitioners in department stores, specialty stores, and retail academicians. There was general agreement between the three groups but specialty store representatives tended to rank operating expenses higher while the department stores placed more emphasis on financial ratios.
McGurr, Paul T. “A Comparison of Financial Ratios Between Small and Large Retail Firms”.The purpose of this article is to report a study that compares financial ratios between large and small retail firms. The study will test the hypothesis that there is no difference in the mean ratios between large and small retail firms. If the hypothesis can't be supported, the results of the study will indicate that financial ratios are no linear in relation to size in the retail industry.


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Statement by President of the Republic of Finland, Mr. Sauli Niinistö, at the Leaders’ Summit COP24 in Katowice, Poland, 3 December 2018
Two months ago the special report of the IPCC showed us the radical difference half a degree makes. The consequences of a two-degree temperature rise would be dramatically more severe than those of 1.5 degrees. And at the moment, we are on a dangerous track to go well beyond two degrees.
There is still hope, but there is no time to waste. We have to act immediately. And ”we” means each and every one of us. All of us have to do more, and more quickly.
In 2015, Finland was one of the first countries to introduce a Climate Act, with a binding target of at least 80 % emission reductions by 2050. Since then, we have set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. We have decided to ban the use of coal for energy in 2029.
Yet we also need to further accelerate our climate action. I have been glad to see that there is a growing willingness in the Finnish society to do so. Finland wants to show that it is possible to be a carbon-neutral, resource-efficient society without sacrificing our wellbeing or economic growth.
In Finland, we are already feeling the impact of climate change in our neighbourhood. The Arctic region is warming twice as fast as the global average. As the current chair of the Arctic Council, Finland is pushing to reduce the emissions of black carbon. The Arctic cannot be saved without CO2 mitigation, but reducing black carbon would bring additional and more immediate results in slowing down the temperature rise. And saving the Arctic is needed to save the globe.
We have one main task here in Katowice – to finalize the Paris rulebook. It will be a crucial step as we move towards the Secretary General’s Climate Summit next September.
We all know that the ambition level must be raised. We have to step up our efforts, together, starting right here and now. We owe it to the future generations.