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SAUDI ARABIA AND KASHMIR

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<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIWJ0EobDcTSXzfXI4BvWmwXtKbye3ocrtHf4H_8vDdnm3uizaYbXMj_blLckXp5_myJGkHvdQDfwTm7hfMWB7EdoQ3atPeUyXx4onkgptDyMliPB34Y2CbDzeIAcjDg4964yK_nqxQcU/s1600/National-flag-of_kashmir-1956.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIWJ0EobDcTSXzfXI4BvWmwXtKbye3ocrtHf4H_8vDdnm3uizaYbXMj_blLckXp5_myJGkHvdQDfwTm7hfMWB7EdoQ3atPeUyXx4onkgptDyMliPB34Y2CbDzeIAcjDg4964yK_nqxQcU/s200/National-flag-of_kashmir-1956.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE WAHHABI INVASION: HOW SAUDI USES ITS FINANCIAL SOURCE IN ORDER TO RADICALIZE KASHMIR</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via India Today</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The famed Sufi tradition and spirit of KASHMIRIYAT in the Valley, already ravaged by decades of insurgency, faces a new challenge. Wahhabism, an austere, puritanical interpretation of Islam promoted by SAUDI ARABIA, is making deep inroads into KASHMIR due to the efforts of the Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, which calls itself a religious and welfare organisation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEW MOVEMENT</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/saudi-arabia-origin-of-wahhabism.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/saudi-arabia-origin-of-wahhabism.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Swelling congregations flock to about 700 mosques that the organisation, which registered itself way back in 1958, has built across the Valley. Practically every village along the picturesque, poplar-lined, 60-km stretch northwest of Srinagar towards Gulmarg has one or more Ahl-e-Hadith-funded mosques. The new mosques and their attendant madrassas make for a contrasting picture with the hundreds of dilapidated mosques built over centuries in the age-old Sufi tradition. Unlike worshippers at the older Sufi shrines, Ahl-e-Hadith mosques are overtly more conservative: women wear burqas or at least a headscarf, while the men sport beards and don skull caps; their traditional salwars end just above the ankle in accordance with Wahhabi tenets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFQncz6MRTmupbxNH9tz0q11ArQX-qHLUhV8xz-0WFJ1yjvRQgGXTQZStgAPa173CVPZ4BGKt6Js9pvIDbHvo7TkoJ44FUgxv2-00_GwU-GEUgI_CAiUUJ77RrKy5CasUZH1j4tE-xaBS/s1600/kashmir_rel_2003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFQncz6MRTmupbxNH9tz0q11ArQX-qHLUhV8xz-0WFJ1yjvRQgGXTQZStgAPa173CVPZ4BGKt6Js9pvIDbHvo7TkoJ44FUgxv2-00_GwU-GEUgI_CAiUUJ77RrKy5CasUZH1j4tE-xaBS/s400/kashmir_rel_2003.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 3.7pt; mso-padding-alt: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 450px;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">  <td style="padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;">  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Young Kashmiris are restive and   disillusioned. To them, Ahl-e-Hadith is a new, more committed and determined   option.”<br />  Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, CPI(M) legislator</span></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SAUDI ARABIA PLANS TO EXPAND MOSQUES AND MADRASSAS CONSTRUCTIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police and Central intelligence officers say Ahl-e-Hadith’s funding comes primarily from SAUDI ARABIA. Based on US intelligence, they believe that the House of SAUD, rulers of SAUDI ARABIA, had in 2005 approved a $35-billion (Rs 1,75,000 crore) plan to build mosques and madrassas in SOUTH ASIA. “Wahhabi groups across Jammu and Kashmir were beneficiaries of this largesse,” says a senior police officer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SAUDI CHARITY NGOS FUND WAHHABISM </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Intelligence sources say SAUDI charities and private donors route zakat (charity) money to J&K through illegal hawala channels. It increases during the Eid season. Whenever mosque managements are questioned about it, their explanation is that it is donation or goat-skin money. All organisations registered under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA), 1976, have to submit their annual balance sheets to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). “Not one organisation registered under the FCRA in J&K accounted for money coming in from SAUDI ARABIA,” says a senior MHA official. However, there is no way to keep track of funds received by organisations that are not registered with MHA. Most of the organisations, which have contributed to the growth of Wahhabi and Ahl-e-Hadith movements in KASHMIR, are not registered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">WAHHABISM AT THE DOORSTEPS OF EUROPE </span></span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sources in the Intelligence Bureau admit that they are aware of the large-scale illegal funding, but add that they cannot do much due to the sensitive internal situation. “We have taken up the issue several times with the state police but nobody wants to get into it. It suits them to ignore it,” claim sources.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paramedics at a diagnostic centre run by the Jamiatahl-e-Hadith in Barbarshah, Srinagar.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WORLDWIDE SAUDI WAHHABI TACTICS - FROM BOSNIA TO ASIA: FUNDAMENTALIST INDOCTRINATION BY WAHHABI IN MADRASSAS, SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Admitting massive cash inflows to the Valley, a senior state police officer says that the bulk of the illegal funds meant for Wahhabi groups and other hardline factions are physically transferred across the Line of Control and at the trading station in Uri in the form of hard currency-both real and fake INDIAN currency notes-taking advantage of the barter trade being permitted between J&K and PAKISTAN-Occupied Kashmir. “Checks by customs officers are at best cursory. There are no X-ray machines and other standard international border control equipment. The army merely observes the goings-on,” he says. The officer adds that it is impossible to quantify the smuggled funds and that no agency-Central or state-has made any effort to do so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What concerns police and intelligence officials more is the possibility of Lashkar-e-Toiba and Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen militants relying on Ahl-e-Hadith members to provide them hideouts. “Indoctrinated Wahhabis are the least likely to turn in Islamist militants to the police,” says a senior intelligence official.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 3.7pt; mso-padding-alt: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 350px;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">  <td style="padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;">  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A knee-jerk response could be   dangerous. The organisation is doing a lot of good work and has a   considerable following.”<br />  Mehbooba Mufti, People’s Democratic Party chief</span></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scarcely visible a decade and a half ago, Ahl-e-Hadith now claims over 15 lakh members, over 16 per cent of Jammu and KASHMIR’S Muslims. Besides the 700 mosques and madrassas it built, Ahl-e-Hadith is believed to have funded 150 schools, several colleges, orphanages, clinics and medical diagnostic centres. It has also proposed an Rs 200-crore Islamic university, Transworld Muslim University (TWMU), in Hyderpora, Srinagar, affiliated to leading SAUDI institutions. The proposal was referred to a select committee after state Congress chief Saifuddin Soz opposed it in the Legislative Council on October 9, 2010.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUGbJLmunpiLmCP5qmL9eooJoNQTFvmyrMKPkwXlTr9Ih2i2OD1RTslRJBDgNE323xyDVbGqqiUSaqV5MPEJs4JBwAjLdb1gz4pmOq5NfP20ADrHGPzRe0-KFT_NTwKoGBzfVD6nbP6dMF/s1600/wahabi-islam-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUGbJLmunpiLmCP5qmL9eooJoNQTFvmyrMKPkwXlTr9Ih2i2OD1RTslRJBDgNE323xyDVbGqqiUSaqV5MPEJs4JBwAjLdb1gz4pmOq5NfP20ADrHGPzRe0-KFT_NTwKoGBzfVD6nbP6dMF/s1600/wahabi-islam-2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TWMU is planned as a multi-disciplinary institution with a stated mission to “facilitate a new generation of leaders in medicine, science, technology and religion based on the ShariahÃ¢”. Ahl-e-Hadith is already engaged in setting up key faculties within its existing institutions across Srinagar. Accepting responsibility for halting the proposal, Soz was reticent about his reasons for refusing permission, since the proposal was cleared in February 2008 by then Congress Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Official sources claimed it was blocked, following intervention by J&K Governor N.N. Vohra on the advice of security agencies. Both the ruling National Conference and the Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had supported the bill. PDP head Mehbooba Mufti cautions that any decision to scuttle the university must be preceded by a thorough investigation into Ahl-e-Hadith’s sources of finance. “A knee-jerk response could be dangerous. After all, the organisation is doing a lot of good work and has a considerable following,” she says.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LIKE IN BOSNIA, WAHHBISM IS EXPERIENCING INCREASING POPULARITY AMONG YOUTH</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 3.7pt; mso-padding-alt: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 250px;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">  <td style="padding: 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt;">  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PURISTS ON THE PROWLWahhabi codes   run counter to the age-old Sufi tradition.</span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wahhabis forbid invoking        names of prophets or ‘pirs’; Shrines are viewed as ‘deviant’ and        forbidden.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stringent dress codes are        prescribed for both men and women. Men must grow beards, wear a prayer        cap and keep trousers just above their ankels; women must observe        purdah.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Music and dance, even loud laughter        and demonstrative weeping at funerals, is actively discouraged.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alcohol, tobacco and other        stimulants are prohibited.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Women are dissuaded from        working except where their families are in financial distress.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gender segregation is        actively enforced. Men and women are discouraged from socialising in        public forums.</span></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The organisation’s rapid proliferation and increasing popularity among youth is making KASHMIR’S predominantly Sufi-Hanafi community anxious. “Opportunities for better education and secure future draw young KASHMIRIS for whom Ahl-e-Hadith represents a new, untested alternative,” says CPI(M) legislator Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami. The conservative Jamaat-e-Islami, too, is nervous at the prospect of ceding political ground. Ahl-e-Hadith’s feisty General Secretary Abdul Rehman Bhat, 65, insists, “Delhi is unwittingly playing into the hands of separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who are opposed to our university.” Hurriyat leaders Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq belatedly voiced support for the university in a joint statement in November. Non-committal on the Wahhabi proliferation, Geelani says the greatest threat to KASHMIRIYAT is from “the occupation forces deployed by INDIA”. But Tarigami says Ahl-e-Hadith is contrary to the Jamaat’s ideological framework: “The Jamaat- e-Islami leadership perceives a dilution in their own brand value.”</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AHL-E-HADITH-RUN ENGLISH COACHING INSTITUTE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Jammu and KASHMIR Peace Foundation (JKPF), a Hanafi organisation devoted to reviving historic Sufi shrines, believes that a sinister process of “fundamentalist indoctrination” is under way in Wahhabi madrassas and schools. Based on a district-wise count, JKPF’s Chairman Fayaz Ahmad Bhatt, 40, says nearly 7,000 mosques, including 911 in Srinagar, preach the orthodox Wahhabi brand of Islam. KASHMIR’S non-Muslim minority, too, views the Wahhabi ingress as a “conspiracy to Talibanise KASHMIR”. “The Taliban had also sprung from PAKISTANI madrassas funded by the Wahhabis,” says former Kashmir University professor Kashi Nath Pandita.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahl-e-Hadith leaders vigorously deny all links to Islamist extremist groups. “We are more liberal than those that criticise us,” says Bhat. He points out that former Ahl-e-Hadith president Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah was assassinated by Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen militants outside a mosque in Srinagar’s Maisuma locality on April 8 because he opposed extremism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bhat talks about the Ahl-e-Hadith-run English coaching institute for adolescent girls just above his Barbarshah, Srinagar, office and the diagnostic facility and pharmacy on the floor below that offers services at concessional rates. “No one is turned away, not even CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) jawans,: he says. He also points to the Salafia Muslim Institute, the co-educational school with 800 children on Srinagar’s airport road in Parraypora. “We get strict about scarves for girls only after Class VI,” says Principal Mufti Altaf. Students are segregated by gender after Class II.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahl-e-Hadith has two registered charities that are eligible to receive foreign funding under FCRA. But the organisation denies receiving any SAUDI money after 1996. Bhat, however, admits there are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">grants and scholarships for students to go for studies in Jeddah</b>. He claims that the money spent on building new mosques and schools is raised via zakat. The total annual collection from all 700 mosques Ahl-e-Hadith claims to run across the state is around Rs 2.5. Even if one were to accept Bhat’s claim that it costs them only Rs 10 lakh to build a new mosque, the organisation would have ended up spending much more in building the 350 new mosques it has since 2004 than what it gathered through zakat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mehbooba is not overly worried about the Wahhabis because she believes KASHMIRIS would never surrender their inherent freedom so easily. “Sufism is not merely a religious belief but a way of life. Women here did not take to the burqa even when militancy was at its peak,” she says. Her confidence is cold comfort, given the rapid growth of the Ahl-e-Hadith’s influence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More Background Information:</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/dagestan-syria-comes-to-russia.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/dagestan-syria-comes-to-russia.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/sunni-versus-shia-middle-easts-new.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/sunni-versus-shia-middle-easts-new.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div>

SAUDI ARABIA AND KASHMIR

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Information Literacy Program Internship - DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University

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<strong>Information Literacy Program Internship - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University</span></strong>,  Fall 2013. Description of Program: In concert with the mission of  Fairfield University, the DiMenna-Nyselius Library Instruction Program  seeks to develop information-literate lifelong learners. We define  information literacy as the ability to recognize when information is  needed; to effectively locate and organize information while considering  the myriad of information sources and formats available; to logically  and critically evaluate and assimilate information while seeking  objective truth and personal meaning; to synthesize and use information  to communicate conclusions persuasively; and to apply these skills  ethically and legally throughout life, with a sense of social  responsibility. Qualifications: Interns must be currently enrolled in a  graduate level Library and Information Science or School Media program.    Relevant class work in reference or instruction preferred. Description  of Internship: The Intern will play an active role in our Information  Literacy Program. The Intern will: Work closely with the Instruction  Coordinator to design and deliver approximately 8-10 library instruction  classes. The exact number and types of classes will be determined  through careful review of the Intern’s experience and interests, as well  as our Program’s needs. Have the opportunity to observe seasoned  instruction librarians, and receive substantive feedback on content and  delivery of instruction. Work collaboratively with faculty on lesson  plans. Depending on experience, career interests, and need, the Intern  could also produce a project related to our instruction program. The  Intern would work closely with the Instruction Coordinator on such a  project. Meet regularly with the Instruction Coordinator for ongoing  feedback and discussion.  Depending on experience, previous coursework,  and interest, readings and discussions of information literacy related  readings may be included. This internship is an excellent opportunity to  work in an academic environment, learn about Information Literacy  Standards in theory and in practice, and gain valuable instruction  experience. This internship begins in late August and runs through  December, 2013. Contact: To apply, send a brief letter of interest and  availability to Christina McGowan, Assistant University Librarian of  Reference & Circulation Services, <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:cmgowan@fairfield.edu" href="mailto:cmgowan@fairfield.edu">cmgowan@fairfield.edu</a>, (203) 254-4000 x2465.

Information Literacy Program Internship - DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University

Information Literacy Program Internship - DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University , Fall 2013. Description of Program: In concert wi...

Viewpoints

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The new World-Architects eMagazine includes the feature "<a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/page_item/viewpoints-architectural-photographers">Viewpoints: Uncommissioned Work of Architectural Photographers</a>" that I put together with my fellow W-A curators. Click the link or photo to see the feature and read a little bit about it below.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/page_item/viewpoints-architectural-photographers"><img alt="Insight13-13.jpg" src="http://c105419.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/files/newsletters/375/600:w/Insight13-13.jpg" title="Viewpoints" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote><i>The importance of photography in promoting buildings and architects is undeniable. But what about the uncommissioned work—the personal explorations, the fine art exhibitions, the free work, the side projects—that architectural photographers undertake outside of their commercial jobs? That is the focus of this Insight, which gathers ten photographers from around the world and presents three photos and three questions and answers on their unique viewpoints.</i></blockquote>

Viewpoints

The new World-Architects eMagazine includes the feature " Viewpoints: Uncommissioned Work of Architectural Photographers " that I ...

Computer Lab Supervisor - Bristol Public Library

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<strong>Computer Lab Supervisor - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Bristol Public Library</span></strong>.  Summary: Schedules and oversees public use of computer equipment in the  computer lab and throughout the library system.  Assists users and  staff with public computer equipment and software, Public Access  Catalog, the Internet and various databases. Schedules public use of  computers in the Computer Lab. Provides training and classes to the  library users in various computer software applications and related  topics. Trains library staff in the use of new equipment and software as  needed.  Performs basic troubleshooting. May assist with installation  of new equipment and software. Ensures library policies and procedures  for the use of computer equipment are followed. Reads relevant  publications and attends training workshops. Assists throughout the  library when necessary as deemed by the supervisor. Working Conditions  & Physical Demands: Works in indoor or office environment.   Regularly required to sit, talk, or hear; stand and reach with hands and  arms. Frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.   Occasionally required to climb or balance.  Frequently lift and/or move  up to 40 pounds. Work Hours/Schedule/Type: Full time position, 37½ hours  per week. Works Monday through Thursday and alternate Fridays and  Saturdays from September through June. Work Monday through Friday during  the months of July and August. Qualifications: Associate’s Degree in  Computer Science or related field with one (1) year experience;  education and experience may be substituted. Experience in conducting  computer training programs and experience in public libraries preferred.  Must have knowledge and be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office  Suite, Windows and the Internet. Requires ability to communicate with  staff and the public in a non-technical level, and in a cooperative and  courteous manner. Ability to work independently with minimal  supervision.  Ability to remain current in computer operation skills,  maintenance and basic troubleshooting. Salary:  $18.73/hr.  Generous  benefits. Complete Online Application:  <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.bristolct.gov" href="http://www.bristolct.gov/" target="_blank">www.bristolct.gov</a>. Deadline: Friday, <span style="color: red;">April 5, 2013</span>. Equal Opportunity Employer.

Computer Lab Supervisor - Bristol Public Library

Computer Lab Supervisor - Bristol Public Library . Summary: Schedules and oversees public use of computer equipment in the computer lab an...

Library Assistant - West Haven Public Library

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Library Assistant - West Haven Public Library

Library Assistant - West Haven Public Library , seeks a part-time circulation assistant (16 hours per week) days, evenings and Saturdays....

Children’s Library Assistant - West Haven Public Library

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Children’s Library Assistant - West Haven Public Library

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Interim Library Director - Raymond Library, East Hartford

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<strong>Interim Library Director - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Raymond Library</span></strong>,  East Hartford. The Interim Library Director will be responsible for  overseeing and directing the relocation of the Raymond Library staff and  services to a temporary location in order to accommodate for the  expansion of the current facility. The expansion project for the Raymond  Library is scheduled to last approximately two years. Minimum  qualifications include a Master’s Degree in Library Science and six  years of progressively responsible experience in library work, including  two years in the supervision of a library department. Qualified  candidates with a working knowledge of automated library operations will  be preferred. Salary Range is $88,763 - $107,403 plus benefits.  Applicants should complete and submit the attached application to: Town  of East Hartford, Human Resources Department, 740 Main St., East  Hartford, CT  06108. Closing date for return of completed application is  <span style="color: red;">April 5, 2013</span>. The Town of East Hartford is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Interim Library Director - Raymond Library, East Hartford

Interim Library Director - Raymond Library , East Hartford. The Interim Library Director will be responsible for overseeing and directing ...

Beauty in Black and White - the Film Noir Art of Guy Budziak

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63yH06yEzUlB5JSkpBKpxls0fia8uUicGZgrqBVC-rL55q3UlqqbJ6iOwna8-aRx1sGtxvic6_i4tctqwZt9K82DLxe_gExiXUm5vQcntggOiD6GmAvfi1Js0gLSUtw9tJTKwk-pRJHU/s1600/the_big_sleep_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63yH06yEzUlB5JSkpBKpxls0fia8uUicGZgrqBVC-rL55q3UlqqbJ6iOwna8-aRx1sGtxvic6_i4tctqwZt9K82DLxe_gExiXUm5vQcntggOiD6GmAvfi1Js0gLSUtw9tJTKwk-pRJHU/s400/the_big_sleep_opt.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in</span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The Big Sleep</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span>uy Budziak is a woodcut artist whose striking high-contrast prints <span style="font-size: small;">evoke</span> dense and haunting images from classic noir, proto-noir and neo-noir films. My recent  <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2013/02/cmba-blogathon-nightmare-alley-1947.html"><i><span style="color: red;">Nightmare Alley</span></i></a><span style="color: red;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">blog entry </span></span></span>featured <span style="font-size: small;">Guy's<span style="font-size: small;"> rendering of a<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>tantalizing moment<span style="font-size: small;"> from the film</span></span></span>:</span></span><br /><a name='more'></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQiRL4ZQv7t4O61z_ge8T9TZq3SrF7nvjUYZ42Sd4Z32ZbBXTbjMpFsNCw1Rt2Q3N8-_tEXmaRqwlT8DwouDJ6S4ez9Z4PyGe90iz9Tafk4m8t6jFNO33sjtBBZzvYAZzotE01vYI9MA/s1600/Guy+Budziak+woodcut_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQiRL4ZQv7t4O61z_ge8T9TZq3SrF7nvjUYZ42Sd4Z32ZbBXTbjMpFsNCw1Rt2Q3N8-_tEXmaRqwlT8DwouDJ6S4ez9Z4PyGe90iz9Tafk4m8t6jFNO33sjtBBZzvYAZzotE01vYI9MA/s1600/Guy+Budziak+woodcut_opt.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tyrone Power, Ian Keith and Joan Blondell in <i>Nightmare Alley</i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guy studied painting and earned his BFA at Wayne State University in Detroit, his interest in printmaking confined to a class or two he’d taken along the way. After moving into a downtown Detroit neighborhood, Guy began checking out film noir rentals from a nearby public library with a sizable movie catalogue. His dedication to painting would wane, but his passion for film noir would lead to his move into woodcut printmaking; a friend urged him to create art inspired by his love of noir. His first piece, completed in 1999, was an image from <i>Out of the Past</i>. A few years later Roger Ebert, a great fan of the film, would buy (<i>note: see Guy's comment below</i>)<i> </i>a print.</span> </span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytww-VGOIm4yLIHjwk3MhJvmdziZBiFtoEB_wj75l8FXAMlBcJScWRhyXLeMKymvXEMYJFrYOvPtF_y2FFh0NgVSyb2ZYzaW1S8CWeLNghSM0vrWJqzMwbKchoO11Z9S5seNXpWlVCZI/s1600/out_of_the_past_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytww-VGOIm4yLIHjwk3MhJvmdziZBiFtoEB_wj75l8FXAMlBcJScWRhyXLeMKymvXEMYJFrYOvPtF_y2FFh0NgVSyb2ZYzaW1S8CWeLNghSM0vrWJqzMwbKchoO11Z9S5seNXpWlVCZI/s1600/out_of_the_past_opt.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer in <i>Out of the Past</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I</span>n 2008, Guy’s image of Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville’s <span style="font-size: small;">1967 </span>neo-noir <i>Le Samourai</i> appeared on the cover of Ginette Vincendeau’s book,<b> </b><i>Les Stars et le Star-Systeme en France </i><span style="font-size: small;">(<i>The Stars and the Star-System in France</i>), published by L'Harmattan.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKCl7kGhBDu3p4JMJgT4pMrC5WiH6k4rIbMlTdO77-2DgcIC2LNRjqZ9a0EUwyTPk0sfxw4RP7xAhFcfeVqthW_v02syTxvnT3LgL1wvHk_ghK9WkyQZNG210_6zqp9jo-9Z8t6NI3SU/s1600/budziak_book_cover_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKCl7kGhBDu3p4JMJgT4pMrC5WiH6k4rIbMlTdO77-2DgcIC2LNRjqZ9a0EUwyTPk0sfxw4RP7xAhFcfeVqthW_v02syTxvnT3LgL1wvHk_ghK9WkyQZNG210_6zqp9jo-9Z8t6NI3SU/s400/budziak_book_cover_opt.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 2012, <a href="http://giuseppinamagazine.com/"><span style="color: red;"><i>Giuseppina Magazine</i></span></a>, a lavish art, entertainment and fashion quarterly <span style="font-size: small;">(</span>$48 per issue) published a six page spread <span style="font-size: small;">spot</span>lighting Guy’s work. In the interview that accompanied his images, Guy was asked what he found most <span style="font-size: small;">intriguing</span> about film noir<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“<i>…I think above all else it is mood, mood and atmosphere perhaps more than anything. Night and fog, and rain, of course. While I can appreciate those films inhabited by gumshoes garbed in trench coats and fedoras and femme fatales in slinky gowns, these components aren’t mandatory for me. What many don’t realize is that the real stars of noir aren’t necessarily writers, actors or directors, but rather cinematographers, directors of photography, those responsible for the overall LOOK of these films.</i>”</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCXv3UgLx0sN9owq5ppdusVpPws8L4vsvDzNBEvf8ErIjzS85PqT0lap_ovh3PW_fS4kLNNfV3uLTkW-iX6qO-K7WimPy8MMN-RIdkZugZJcO_L_tf6May5Djjw1deJBQt9rAx8Rd1Is/s1600/giuseppina_11_opt.png.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCXv3UgLx0sN9owq5ppdusVpPws8L4vsvDzNBEvf8ErIjzS85PqT0lap_ovh3PW_fS4kLNNfV3uLTkW-iX6qO-K7WimPy8MMN-RIdkZugZJcO_L_tf6May5Djjw1deJBQt9rAx8Rd1Is/s400/giuseppina_11_opt.png.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Giuseppina Magazine</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">#11</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>rom now through April 21, Guy’s prints are for sale at <span style="font-size: small;">significantly </span>reduced prices. I’ll soon be framing and hanging the print of <i>Nightmare Alley</i> I just purchased and I<span style="font-size: small;"></span>encourage those interested to </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.filmnoirwoodcuts.com/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.filmnoirwoodcuts.com/"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">click here</span></span></a></span></span> </span>to go to <span style="font-size: small;">hi</span>s website and view an entire gallery of his incredible art.  <span style="font-size: small;">Guy can be contacted through his site for information on</span> how <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span>to purchase prints<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span> <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILr4V42YISk6uzky2tEmAGJMGRYRx_iAyUKL5PKhW91QLK-S0SwZTyLWpM-GITDl3qe3bOPgY1DCGnFRbbxsMl4HAmK2DMu6Kj6ntVOCGT_uu3BDHAPGGvSzHbbtWgevCcNRGU8OgbNw/s1600/on_dangerous_ground_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILr4V42YISk6uzky2tEmAGJMGRYRx_iAyUKL5PKhW91QLK-S0SwZTyLWpM-GITDl3qe3bOPgY1DCGnFRbbxsMl4HAmK2DMu6Kj6ntVOCGT_uu3BDHAPGGvSzHbbtWgevCcNRGU8OgbNw/s400/on_dangerous_ground_opt.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Robert Ryan in <i>On Dangerous Ground</i></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span>

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep G uy Budziak is a woodcut artist whose striking high-contrast prints evoke dense and h...

St. Ives Timeless Skin Apricot Scrub Review

5:06 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOCRwlSsxraP_kMyIioBv0rw8ZR1Jl7DE-WFi7RxmZp8J-zAgKQNOpxvKsVZ1P2pIfN0tB7lmd55bIYwxcs1aTxEBELHzBduhZRawfCgru0K0BtIAT0fVm_w_1NnbRdcVBRoxxC4GP9vM/s1600/st+ives+logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOCRwlSsxraP_kMyIioBv0rw8ZR1Jl7DE-WFi7RxmZp8J-zAgKQNOpxvKsVZ1P2pIfN0tB7lmd55bIYwxcs1aTxEBELHzBduhZRawfCgru0K0BtIAT0fVm_w_1NnbRdcVBRoxxC4GP9vM/s1600/st+ives+logo.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a teenager I would always use <a href="http://www.stives.com/">St. Ives </a> facial scrubs, I loved the way it made my skin feel so soft to the touch and that it worked as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I couldn't find them anymore in the stores so I stopped using their products.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Funny because when I used this product I've always used the Apricot Scrub!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HU87-G50yWGTviVzWGxcBgJghJo9xxZABVpZEPu4ybSQ4d11e0lw0xOUeL925QT0KH70DgFT-r7jYd_QBj0mXFS5XxZK6BVWss15ImUTbcMg-2e6pxQ6WuZJnPSJb0hDvhtm9Z98r80/s1600/st+ives.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HU87-G50yWGTviVzWGxcBgJghJo9xxZABVpZEPu4ybSQ4d11e0lw0xOUeL925QT0KH70DgFT-r7jYd_QBj0mXFS5XxZK6BVWss15ImUTbcMg-2e6pxQ6WuZJnPSJb0hDvhtm9Z98r80/s320/st+ives.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I came across their website and noticed that they had new products and thought I have got to try them since I am a huge fan, which brought me to this review today.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent a wonderful new apricot scrub called Timeless Skin and it firms and tones skin as well as cleans your pores for a fresh all natural glow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verdict:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am in love with this new product because it  makes my skin feel soft and it's also easy to use.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just moisten face with warm water, squeeze a small amount onto finger tips and rub it on, then rinse.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now how easy is that?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whoa, they even have lotions and body washes!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would love to try the coconut one! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Facts:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hypoallergenic</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does not contain animal ingredients</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Formulated without parabens and phthalates</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">non-comedogenic </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can find Timeless Skin care and other St. Ives products at:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stop and Shop</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wal-mart </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shaw's</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rite Aid </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and more!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sure to look them up!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Face Book: </u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/stives">https://www.facebook.com/stives</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div 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St. Ives Timeless Skin Apricot Scrub Review

As a teenager I would always use St. Ives facial scrubs, I loved the way it made my skin feel so soft to the touch and that it worked as we...

Fascinating fascinators!

3:39 AM Tukiyooo 0

It has become very fashionable to wear "Fascinators" to Irish weddings rather than the more traditional hat.  I saw lots of fascinators for sale in Boots and Penneys (Primark - not to be confused with JC Penny) this morning. Normally a fascinator will set you back about €25 euro in somewhere like Marks & Spencer's or Monsoon Accessorize but they were only €11 in Boots and half that in Penneys.  My sister got a very nice fascinator in Dunnes Stores so do shop around if you are looking for one!  They tend to be either clip in or on a band.  If you are anyway crafty you could easily make a fascinator to coordinate with your wedding outfit. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fbjeSDkREmWwviIdfdRpr5j2_5dGWXIMMP3KnY1QKUHGE-oUOgVQT7qounim2sw6kNS0eWZrWJVhqp0RdkF50XwzaQwuDfbjrIOlM4Pn1AZvE-Bzl7zUFhyphenhyphenLoFMnpBTBD7ufzbwpKFwj/s640/blogger-image--26178491.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fbjeSDkREmWwviIdfdRpr5j2_5dGWXIMMP3KnY1QKUHGE-oUOgVQT7qounim2sw6kNS0eWZrWJVhqp0RdkF50XwzaQwuDfbjrIOlM4Pn1AZvE-Bzl7zUFhyphenhyphenLoFMnpBTBD7ufzbwpKFwj/s640/blogger-image--26178491.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FnQbQREnO3k20lLGYWTLvN6xRzHW3U_MALqS_RlEq6Ra7TAEF3FS_FF89E77UvmFssrLx_dAdVZA9RUTfqAVjtEJ2IGrLduUzzLaT2lGe4Bdaz1z5h0HB-2gRxHnJfcK35eniySggGeE/s640/blogger-image-750346503.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FnQbQREnO3k20lLGYWTLvN6xRzHW3U_MALqS_RlEq6Ra7TAEF3FS_FF89E77UvmFssrLx_dAdVZA9RUTfqAVjtEJ2IGrLduUzzLaT2lGe4Bdaz1z5h0HB-2gRxHnJfcK35eniySggGeE/s640/blogger-image-750346503.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-8NEg4UubQdGdVVscr598IC6i1rFmFMmk0wJ6li0kKB54xgx7wREdbGlFVwO_xKZFq7G6DS_-LjyAo3TNF7ACLTGJJv9rPT_bV0tsbkXG8h3bu3dy9RociHjdRh9UJd-bfHBLjsXwfrg/s640/blogger-image-1249284618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-8NEg4UubQdGdVVscr598IC6i1rFmFMmk0wJ6li0kKB54xgx7wREdbGlFVwO_xKZFq7G6DS_-LjyAo3TNF7ACLTGJJv9rPT_bV0tsbkXG8h3bu3dy9RociHjdRh9UJd-bfHBLjsXwfrg/s640/blogger-image-1249284618.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhorFVXkUTwCqzNTgUC4ZB5v597VpceLaJpBLXzaDZcOopvDvHp19-DHkA6iEWth5f2e3A_VfbrSkKTfLUemAmcPa-uP2cazfO_4VYX5aNorZDizs41M4snrGjOhLUXZJe-uO_hszEK9xm6/s640/blogger-image-1778776618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhorFVXkUTwCqzNTgUC4ZB5v597VpceLaJpBLXzaDZcOopvDvHp19-DHkA6iEWth5f2e3A_VfbrSkKTfLUemAmcPa-uP2cazfO_4VYX5aNorZDizs41M4snrGjOhLUXZJe-uO_hszEK9xm6/s640/blogger-image-1778776618.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYWMFOfFLhwtHwVQ_fv2n9cQrPCOwrq3wnqCPAaEux1RSnS_MxlxnPo11uMdZsondR5T5vzaAURIvgT5IiSGoPZ6i1_qQlje8zYBmvzXR6lskmPZY9y5LUyPPqblbdOhKmjoaBQB2rigm/s640/blogger-image--1760951753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYWMFOfFLhwtHwVQ_fv2n9cQrPCOwrq3wnqCPAaEux1RSnS_MxlxnPo11uMdZsondR5T5vzaAURIvgT5IiSGoPZ6i1_qQlje8zYBmvzXR6lskmPZY9y5LUyPPqblbdOhKmjoaBQB2rigm/s640/blogger-image--1760951753.jpg" /></a></div>

Fascinating fascinators!

It has become very fashionable to wear "Fascinators" to Irish weddings rather than the more traditional hat. I saw lots of fascin...

How do you earn a student's trust so learning can start?

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How do you earn a student's trust so learning can start?

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anatomy of a gallery wall

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Happy Monday! I trust that y'all had a splendid weekend. We got pummeled with more snow than we should have for the whole month of December, never mind the fact that it is almost April. Mamma ain't happy. I've got some flip flops burning a hole in my closet. I need spring!<br /><br />I want to thank all of you for your kind words about the girls' room and all of your great questions. You know how to make a girl blush! There were lots of questions about things on the gallery wall so I thought I would tackle those today.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZ6B2cpZQibcUWS3GKxZ8xnrbXT1_k0K0TeHG1OYjdh4TeyQbwLWSDnIEr1CWexrF2Hdc9mzNHglExOeXSK4wuuKbInMK_wiKmwHuXBtQxMsm23v32aNEt69z71FFcrvAHIcpp5dDqPbw/s1600/Anatomyofagallerywall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZ6B2cpZQibcUWS3GKxZ8xnrbXT1_k0K0TeHG1OYjdh4TeyQbwLWSDnIEr1CWexrF2Hdc9mzNHglExOeXSK4wuuKbInMK_wiKmwHuXBtQxMsm23v32aNEt69z71FFcrvAHIcpp5dDqPbw/s640/Anatomyofagallerywall.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Here are the specifics on what I included and why.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFD_MaggTBkfI9AlAeJbL8ESdG-j1F4rFrFt9Cy4U_uWmvrhfy8Nqm0QxRbQUysFNwgHOkvDun32xpxEuwE7kJvVoHQr2ni31FN7jDp7DCKoUIge1CXMcL9ZyVXptnGfwEcNpYjyqdvm5/s1600/loveyouforever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFD_MaggTBkfI9AlAeJbL8ESdG-j1F4rFrFt9Cy4U_uWmvrhfy8Nqm0QxRbQUysFNwgHOkvDun32xpxEuwE7kJvVoHQr2ni31FN7jDp7DCKoUIge1CXMcL9ZyVXptnGfwEcNpYjyqdvm5/s400/loveyouforever.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br />1. <b>Keep it personal.</b> This is a 'commissioned original'. I wanted something vertical so I asked my uber talented graphic designer bestie to take some lyrics and make them pretty. This is from a song, I Will, by a little band called The Beatles. I sing this each night to the girls (Eve sings along). They are the only ones allowed to hear me sing unless cocktails are involved.<br /><br />2. <b>Add something with dimension.</b> A <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/02/pom-pom-heart-art.html" target="_blank">craft I did with the girls</a> for Valentine's Day. It is their handy work and they are very proud of it.<br /><br />3. <b>Humor is important.</b> Let me introduce you to Herb. 'Herbie' to his friends. The hubs got the ceramic dear head for Christmas and as soon as he opened it the girls were smitten. It was Amelia's idea to put Herbie in their room and the hubs was gracious enough to share him. Right now he wears some forsythia for this season I hear we are supposed to get someday called 'spring', but Amelia is on the hunt for the perfect antlers (aka branches) that we can make glittery. Because when you think of a mounted deer head, you think of glitter. At least I do.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIETPfSravutrWwWjyaqPMb2N0kZ3l_BjhS-G1kWjE86y_lOvGs6rylXOg2pl4TWKCcK0VCjDds_R4WZHrzetUsZiYaPyJft7TFAy_sIwSrEc3h-TN5gXUPvN9SIVDze2I511Kdm2CCjIY/s1600/AmeliaArt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIETPfSravutrWwWjyaqPMb2N0kZ3l_BjhS-G1kWjE86y_lOvGs6rylXOg2pl4TWKCcK0VCjDds_R4WZHrzetUsZiYaPyJft7TFAy_sIwSrEc3h-TN5gXUPvN9SIVDze2I511Kdm2CCjIY/s400/AmeliaArt.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br />4. <b>Art is in the eye of the beholder.</b> An unsolicited piece by Amelia herself. She came into the kitchen one day over the moon to show this off. My favorite is a toss up between the swing on the tree and the paver walk. The girl is a genius obviously.<br /><br />5. <b>Include something that includes all the colors of your scheme.</b> One of my favorite watercolors from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/MaiAutumn" target="_blank">MaiAutumn</a>.<br /><br />6. More pretty watercolors my parent's gave <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/02/very-first-birthday.html" target="_blank">Eve for her 1st birthday</a>. And yes, the one on the right is in there sideways.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxkNh8aEhiqioCuOoXl_vnvN101_DkAZeNLi_HA5qOiLwiHu6JnKVZUpMz6_hOgEJ4ijcNBNDkNy1DeIGgrUwhpfQ4BudbzytDURnYOAfkxB4JfX57qEFBpsRfrMqsbB5J7NQpTeUAcduj/s1600/BabyHat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxkNh8aEhiqioCuOoXl_vnvN101_DkAZeNLi_HA5qOiLwiHu6JnKVZUpMz6_hOgEJ4ijcNBNDkNy1DeIGgrUwhpfQ4BudbzytDURnYOAfkxB4JfX57qEFBpsRfrMqsbB5J7NQpTeUAcduj/s400/BabyHat.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />7. <b>You need an 'awww' factor.</b> I keep several pieces of clothes from the early baby days (no matter what my mom might tell you about my sentimentality) and this is one of the few items that both of them wore. This is the hat that both girls had on when they came home from the hospital. How I wish I had better handwriting.<br /><br />And good gracious, have you ever tried to take a picture of something behind glass?! It isn't pretty, and neither are the pictures.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCd3g-b6SeX5ohWjw1QxXg2ma5lTvyM61RtjTl3ZLGhvSdJ-q2bfbDbXnd7ut1Rb6Fzrd32tken9s-US6BTSzT2xXrhyphenhyphenW1zH8-mGwVP2EdrH1wij6-IZmVArdvhX-hiPOaeiVM2L2HP8-/s1600/BirthAnnouncements.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCd3g-b6SeX5ohWjw1QxXg2ma5lTvyM61RtjTl3ZLGhvSdJ-q2bfbDbXnd7ut1Rb6Fzrd32tken9s-US6BTSzT2xXrhyphenhyphenW1zH8-mGwVP2EdrH1wij6-IZmVArdvhX-hiPOaeiVM2L2HP8-/s640/BirthAnnouncements.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />8. <b>History.</b> The girls' birth announcements. Memories.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlJxv1Yv5e9zEHhMahqKaXQ71C01Su-tzsSip8z1oAppxNZiRtaFG6tGUmTS65wljR7rynJv5ZJGVbRIoRFRMvHQE12C7pUqcXzeKyY5KWU1Es5jSc1dc0lJCStzSEG4w694kXAVn2GNpE/s1600/vintagebutterflies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlJxv1Yv5e9zEHhMahqKaXQ71C01Su-tzsSip8z1oAppxNZiRtaFG6tGUmTS65wljR7rynJv5ZJGVbRIoRFRMvHQE12C7pUqcXzeKyY5KWU1Es5jSc1dc0lJCStzSEG4w694kXAVn2GNpE/s320/vintagebutterflies.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />9. <b>Add a bit of life.</b> Mean I know as they are no longer alive, but the girls love butterflies. And the yellow ties into the colors of the room. Any random group of things can become cohesive thru color.<br /><br />10. <b>Break the routine.</b> A vintage oval gold frame from my stash. Something nice and round...or oval, helps to break up all the squares and straight lines.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeR5tgHPpw46FWPGfgvVpwimtZuFvagJO7MnbDAU2sCb1qHVeW93Se7sR85ijMl87LC_hZ8jtKrYjMWCV04ZZdxScSkEVeSMOU49jLWcZ7fAN-5NnbF3Y13FNPJEaRsK8yY96TCCea8ANf/s1600/KateSpadequote.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeR5tgHPpw46FWPGfgvVpwimtZuFvagJO7MnbDAU2sCb1qHVeW93Se7sR85ijMl87LC_hZ8jtKrYjMWCV04ZZdxScSkEVeSMOU49jLWcZ7fAN-5NnbF3Y13FNPJEaRsK8yY96TCCea8ANf/s320/KateSpadequote.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />11. <b>Words to live by.</b> Kate Spade has spoken. Amen Kate.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduQRLYHWsOmRs02ayk4vJtFOYKydHMW_onxg_2QG9GxJYAP2uvNQtqiSz1ImaEjIi6ulx4Ltg-K9rHXawmC1fzsRN5B6H2ShOxSS_vD_4BUDcAOUwWH4xXKwIcbv9RF3kBqsR5oVS5RQg/s1600/embarrassing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduQRLYHWsOmRs02ayk4vJtFOYKydHMW_onxg_2QG9GxJYAP2uvNQtqiSz1ImaEjIi6ulx4Ltg-K9rHXawmC1fzsRN5B6H2ShOxSS_vD_4BUDcAOUwWH4xXKwIcbv9RF3kBqsR5oVS5RQg/s400/embarrassing.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><br />12. <b>Lessons Learned.</b> I believe I wrote this in sixth grade. There is also an accompanying illustration that severely dates me. Let's just say Benetton was one of the stores featured. They did have great rugbys. I'll keep that little drawing for myself.<br /><br />13. B. Baumgartner. No expanding on that really.<br /><br />And yes, I used my tried and true <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/02/step-into-my-gallery.html" target="_blank">template hanging method</a> and it worked like a charm. Take that plaster.<br /><br />So that is how I go about picking what little nuggets make it up on the wall. How do you pick what goes on your wall?

anatomy of a gallery wall

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Don't Be an Enemy of Fun

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hola y’all! We all love to talk a lot about what’s wrong with this country. Everyone has an opinion and what you think is the problem generally depends on which political party you belong to. But, I think I’ve actually discovered what’s REALLY wrong with America. There are too many people opposed to having fun. Who are these Enemies of Fun? <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Conservatives hate fun. HATE! In fact, as we all know, the driving force behind most conservatives is that they’re afraid that someone somewhere is having a good time. Conservatives are generally obsessed with sex, so that’s where they focus their anti-fun activities. If you’re not having one-man-one-woman married sex in the missionary position for the exclusive intent of procreation, conservatives want you thrown in jail or at least publicly shamed. Same goes for having a drink or even worse … GAMBLING! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Liberals hate fun almost as much as conservatives. I know they like to claim it isn’t true, but liberals get very upset when they see someone having fun. Let’s say you’re sitting on the front porch of your own home, minding your own business, smoking a cigarette. Liberals lose their shit over this! And, if it’s a really big home that you bought with money you made in the financial services industry and there also happens to be a really expensive car in the driveway liberals DOUBLE HATE the fun you’re having. Also sporting events where someone has to lose and not get a trophy makes liberals sooooo sad. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Teachers hate fun. Yeah, I know they have to keep kids in line and they have to be in charge and all that, but mostly the teachers are just trying to make sure the kids aren’t having any fun. Even if you’re allowed to go outside for recess there will be NO RUNNING! No loud talking or laughing! No playing Tag or Red Rover or any other game that might involve touching each other at all. Also, if the playground equipment isn’t covered with Nerf Foam then you must stay off it! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Preachers, Priests, Mullah, Rabbis and all other religious and “spiritual” leaders hate fun. Anything that’s really fun is immoral. Unless of course they are the ones engaging in said fun, then that’s different! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2xZ_8Oe3DKXDcKcYCBhjn4oZJs9fNWcidiIURNzk7wFlRWu_tXqjEIyLnWwFZpGdB7CQyJANPzNpbPNfWFbFXmFwwsDsS7BjlZN7KL97AXrWm5Qrh2qR-F86ZDEImzMrD-LhpCC6auD8/s1600/mika-brzezinski-nanny-state.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2xZ_8Oe3DKXDcKcYCBhjn4oZJs9fNWcidiIURNzk7wFlRWu_tXqjEIyLnWwFZpGdB7CQyJANPzNpbPNfWFbFXmFwwsDsS7BjlZN7KL97AXrWm5Qrh2qR-F86ZDEImzMrD-LhpCC6auD8/s320/mika-brzezinski-nanny-state.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Nanny Staters like Michael Bloomberg and Mika Brzezinski hate most things that are fun, especially if they taste good. They are here to protect you from yourself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want a big, refreshing Pepsi or Coke? Nope, it should be against the law. While they can’t outlaw having a cheeseburger they think they should be able to set calorie limits on foods private businesses serve to their customers who WANT those things. And, you’ve gotta love Bloomberg’s latest idea to HIDE the cigarettes. He’s hoping that if you don’t see them you won’t want any and magically everyone will stop smoking! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Bitter, angry sportswriters hate fun. A player that gets excited and wants to celebrate isn’t being classy enough for these morons. A lot of them are on full display this weekend and they don’t even bother to hide their disgust at small schools and unknowns like Florida Gulf Coast having the AUDACITY to beat people like Georgetown. They feel like the big, rich schools from the “power” conferences have some special entitlement that means the small schools should just roll over for them. Now that the tournament gets more and more even every year, with more of the “big” schools losing they’re bitching that too many teams are allowed in and arguing the NCAA should do away with the automatic qualifiers. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The internet is full of people who really fucking hate anyone having fun. I’m not really talking about haters, I’m just talking about those people who just shit all over everyone's fun. A great example would be this chick who last week was bitching up a storm about St. Patrick's Day. She was saying if you aren't FROM Ireland then you can't call yourself Irish even if you parents are from there but you aren't. Why do people get all picky and bitchy like that over something that is just about having fun?<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">All of these people I just mentioned are so sad. It must be awful to go through life never having any fun. Worse than that though is being one of those people who get angry when others are having fun. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Let’s all agree right here and right now to NEVER be an Enemy of Fun! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_38102941"><br /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_Iws">@Jayman_IWS</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaking of fun, we celebrated Palm Funday over on I’m With Stupid Sunday morning it was pretty much nonstop fun the whole time! We talked Palm Sunday, Obama in Israel, the NCAA Tournament and more. Plus there was a live remote from Guy Ahnyurdyck in Jerusalem plus Billy Roy “Stonewall” Jackson here in Redneckville. Then we called Billy the Kid at the Beer Mine and Drive-By Mikey to check on his cholesterol. On top of all that, our correspondent Joshua brought us a very special interview of John the Apostle! All that and so much more! 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Don't Be an Enemy of Fun

Hola y’all! We all love to talk a lot about what’s wrong with this country. Everyone has an opinion and what you think is the problem genera...