I love all things like this, like really love them. When im board I doodle and these things is all i draw.
Why do i love these things. What catagory would you put them in? if you know what i mean. No im not drunk or a hippy or into flower power. Im a mum of a 4 year old boy.
Im gonna get a tatto of all these cute things.
Give me a word to describe all these things.
Can anyone relate to me?
Rainbows, Stars, unicorns, butterflys, hearts, flowers?
you need a daughter! both of my girls went thru phases of loving these things. they are great comforts to the mind. gentle and beautiful all of them. magical too. i don't know what category but sweet. love it.
you are a sweet soul. i am glad you seem to be feeling a lot better. i used to always tell my daughter when she went to sleep to think about rainbows and unicorns. it helped keep the nightmares away.
sweet dreams!
Reply:You are a dreamer, with a good heart. But don't get a tattoo. Think how it will look when you are 95 living in a nursing home.
Reply:i cant describe all of these things but i can relate. im a senior in high school and i love unicorns. i draw them all the time lol.
Reply:those 'symbols/objects' remind me of button shapes that my mum use to sew on my blouses or even hair clips i'd wear when i was a kid. .one word to describe them?? how bout two - -'comfort shapes'
Reply:Mystical...and yes I can relate! I love fairies, gnomes, and all the things you mentioned as well! Have a wonderful week! Annie
Reply:Sounds interesting! You've had some great answers - romantic, mystical are both good. How about magical, imaginative, dreamy, fantasy or fairy tale?
Reply:What about Sunshine, Lollypops and Rainbows across your nether region?
The word to describe all these things is "twee"
Reply:GO STARS!!! Beat the holy heck outta the Sharkturds...!!! Avenge the Flames!!!
Reply:Resident of LaLa Land. hah.
Reply:Mystical. me.
Reply:you sound like a happy mom - If u r putting a name w/them then use your sons or if u meant a word to describe all these things then happy does it :O)
Reply:On word to describe them: Happy.
Reply:you're happy...i can relate
Reply:me i do that! lol but ive never drawn unicorns on doodles!
Reply:hope
Reply:gay.
as in happy.
not homosexual u idiots.
so dont bag on me lol
Reply:A hopeless Romantic!....and... that's good!
Saturday, November 19, 2011
At the end of 'silent running' (bruce dern sci/fi) film....?
what song is playing on the credits and who sings it please (it's kind of flower power hippie song)
At the end of 'silent running' (bruce dern sci/fi) film....?
Rejoice in the Sun sung by Joan Baez
http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/psrec/si...
Reply:Joan Baez does the hippie warbling during this film.
Wikipedia isn't too helpful about the soundtrack but i'm sure with a little digging you can get there. Have you seen the episode of 'six feet under' where they discuss it?
Silent running is a great film. If you like that check out dark star aswell.
Reply:1] Rejoice In The Sun (sung by Joan Baez)
[2] The Space Fleet
[3] Rejoice In The Sun (instrumental)
[4] No Turning Back
[5] Driving Crazy
[6] Drifting
[7] Silent Running (sung by Joan Baez)
[8] The Dying Forest
[9] Tending To Huey
[10] Saturn
[11] Getting Ready
[12] Rejoice In The Sun (Reprise sung by Joan Baez)
Reply:Google it: Silent Running soundtrack.
I'm sorry I'm afraid I'm of no more help, I've never seen the movie.
=]
Nintendo Wii
At the end of 'silent running' (bruce dern sci/fi) film....?
Rejoice in the Sun sung by Joan Baez
http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/psrec/si...
Reply:Joan Baez does the hippie warbling during this film.
Wikipedia isn't too helpful about the soundtrack but i'm sure with a little digging you can get there. Have you seen the episode of 'six feet under' where they discuss it?
Silent running is a great film. If you like that check out dark star aswell.
Reply:1] Rejoice In The Sun (sung by Joan Baez)
[2] The Space Fleet
[3] Rejoice In The Sun (instrumental)
[4] No Turning Back
[5] Driving Crazy
[6] Drifting
[7] Silent Running (sung by Joan Baez)
[8] The Dying Forest
[9] Tending To Huey
[10] Saturn
[11] Getting Ready
[12] Rejoice In The Sun (Reprise sung by Joan Baez)
Reply:Google it: Silent Running soundtrack.
I'm sorry I'm afraid I'm of no more help, I've never seen the movie.
=]
Nintendo Wii
My kitten keeps biting?
we just got a two month old kitten two weeks ago. We named her tillie. I am just wondering why she keeps biting and how to make her stop. If you have any information about this problem, it would be helpful. Thanks in advance,
- Flower Power ;-)
My kitten keeps biting?
It's what kitties do! they love to play and that's how they start to learn their "hunting" abilities. She might also be teething. You might find her teeth on things too so don't freak out about that. If there's any hissing or spitting involved with the biting, then I would ask your vet about it, otherwise she's just being a kitty. she'll grow out of it.
Reply:she's teething or other wise very playful
Reply:She is just playing, she will grow out of it.
Reply:try to give her an alternitive like a toy. its is just a phase and she will eventually grow out of it.
Reply:Well all kittens bite no matter what. You can get her to stop but tapping her on the nose when she bites. Best of luck, hope everything works out.
Reply:this is quite normal she is teething that's all after a couple of months the kitten will stop bitting
a solution wold to buy a small cat toy that she could chew on but don't let it have a string she might swallow it and she could choke on it but buy her a cheap Mouse toy and that will help stop the bite marks on your hand hope this helps :)
Reply:shes just teathing so she will stop eventually. Just pick her up and put her away in like a time out area she should stop. Give her toys she can bite on.
Reply:what to do is to play with the kitten it is just playing and teething enjoy it while you can they just get less playful
- Flower Power ;-)
My kitten keeps biting?
It's what kitties do! they love to play and that's how they start to learn their "hunting" abilities. She might also be teething. You might find her teeth on things too so don't freak out about that. If there's any hissing or spitting involved with the biting, then I would ask your vet about it, otherwise she's just being a kitty. she'll grow out of it.
Reply:she's teething or other wise very playful
Reply:She is just playing, she will grow out of it.
Reply:try to give her an alternitive like a toy. its is just a phase and she will eventually grow out of it.
Reply:Well all kittens bite no matter what. You can get her to stop but tapping her on the nose when she bites. Best of luck, hope everything works out.
Reply:this is quite normal she is teething that's all after a couple of months the kitten will stop bitting
a solution wold to buy a small cat toy that she could chew on but don't let it have a string she might swallow it and she could choke on it but buy her a cheap Mouse toy and that will help stop the bite marks on your hand hope this helps :)
Reply:shes just teathing so she will stop eventually. Just pick her up and put her away in like a time out area she should stop. Give her toys she can bite on.
Reply:what to do is to play with the kitten it is just playing and teething enjoy it while you can they just get less playful
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing..
Guess you are all too young to remember when summer's were summer's..
Those hippy day's when flower power was in the air.
Suggest you listen to a record called "Are you goin to san francisco.."..Scott mc kenzie.
Time's were good then ...not like now...
With all that corruption. in politics.
We had FREEDOM...
No traffic wardens..no surveilance camers..no speed cameras..no ramps on the roads.no anti smoking loby that shoot's you on site for smoking in a bar or stubbing a Dog End out in the street.
NO FACIIST GOVERNMENT.
Tony Blair is turning to the church of Rome while Gordon Brown turned coward when faced with a challenge by the torries..
Where have all the flowers gone?
Hi there Vernon, I completely agree with you......excellent times and memories.....
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cellphones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
Reply:I agree!!!
bring back the 60's, from a 60's child :)
Reply:same thing happening across the pond
Reply:I agree with you. Ah the good old days
Reply:hun, it's FALL!!!
ALL THE FLOWERS ARE GONE!!
Reply:I know it sucks, no epidemics of illegal drugs, seatbelt laws, longer living averages, AIDS awarness, advancements in medicine, computers. Its horrible!
Reply:Everyone likes to remember their era with fond nostalgia Vern, but there were riots that were crushed back then and kids died in Vietnam then just the same as now.
As long as we have the likes of Rothschild we will never have governments that work for the people. And the banking cartels are well and truly established now.
Unfortunately the answer is still blowing in the wind.
Reply:new name same avatar??????? or i could be wrong.
peace love and hair grease.....
Reply:"Gone to graveyards everyone, When will they ever learn? When we they ever learn?"
"Where have all the young men gone, ? long time passin', ..........................
Reply:sex, drugs and rock n roll, flower power, the freedom of love
where have those days gone......
Reply:Hey I don't know how I did it but the flower beds out front are still blooming bright purple, yellow,orange and red!
But anyway the corruption is the bit that bothers me the most. Honesty is buried back in the time when people still out numbered the cars.
I used to wear flowers in my hair back in the late 60' early 70's and loved listening to The Monkey's, ahhh those were the days.
Reply:And aids wasn't rife, yes I can remember.
Reply:i loved that song...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...i'm not so young, i'll be 52 in a few days. those were better days for sure.
Reply:Yes, Vern...times were good then, Not only did I go to San Francisco, I also went to Woodstock!...
We did have freedom and excercised it...Hey, you didn't see them breaking up woodstock!...No way, they would have rioted big time...and the government knew it...why they didn't bother us!...
Reply:I wish I had gotten to experience that. It sounds sooo wonderful. *sigh* maybe I'll just move back in the woods, away from the rest of the world and pretend that the world isn't so corrupt and horrid. That's why I listen to hippie music...it just seems so much more free than today's music.
Guess you are all too young to remember when summer's were summer's..
Those hippy day's when flower power was in the air.
Suggest you listen to a record called "Are you goin to san francisco.."..Scott mc kenzie.
Time's were good then ...not like now...
With all that corruption. in politics.
We had FREEDOM...
No traffic wardens..no surveilance camers..no speed cameras..no ramps on the roads.no anti smoking loby that shoot's you on site for smoking in a bar or stubbing a Dog End out in the street.
NO FACIIST GOVERNMENT.
Tony Blair is turning to the church of Rome while Gordon Brown turned coward when faced with a challenge by the torries..
Where have all the flowers gone?
Hi there Vernon, I completely agree with you......excellent times and memories.....
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cellphones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
Reply:I agree!!!
bring back the 60's, from a 60's child :)
Reply:same thing happening across the pond
Reply:I agree with you. Ah the good old days
Reply:hun, it's FALL!!!
ALL THE FLOWERS ARE GONE!!
Reply:I know it sucks, no epidemics of illegal drugs, seatbelt laws, longer living averages, AIDS awarness, advancements in medicine, computers. Its horrible!
Reply:Everyone likes to remember their era with fond nostalgia Vern, but there were riots that were crushed back then and kids died in Vietnam then just the same as now.
As long as we have the likes of Rothschild we will never have governments that work for the people. And the banking cartels are well and truly established now.
Unfortunately the answer is still blowing in the wind.
Reply:new name same avatar??????? or i could be wrong.
peace love and hair grease.....
Reply:"Gone to graveyards everyone, When will they ever learn? When we they ever learn?"
"Where have all the young men gone, ? long time passin', ..........................
Reply:sex, drugs and rock n roll, flower power, the freedom of love
where have those days gone......
Reply:Hey I don't know how I did it but the flower beds out front are still blooming bright purple, yellow,orange and red!
But anyway the corruption is the bit that bothers me the most. Honesty is buried back in the time when people still out numbered the cars.
I used to wear flowers in my hair back in the late 60' early 70's and loved listening to The Monkey's, ahhh those were the days.
Reply:And aids wasn't rife, yes I can remember.
Reply:i loved that song...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...i'm not so young, i'll be 52 in a few days. those were better days for sure.
Reply:Yes, Vern...times were good then, Not only did I go to San Francisco, I also went to Woodstock!...
We did have freedom and excercised it...Hey, you didn't see them breaking up woodstock!...No way, they would have rioted big time...and the government knew it...why they didn't bother us!...
Reply:I wish I had gotten to experience that. It sounds sooo wonderful. *sigh* maybe I'll just move back in the woods, away from the rest of the world and pretend that the world isn't so corrupt and horrid. That's why I listen to hippie music...it just seems so much more free than today's music.
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I was just sitting back wondering in awe about music and it's role in the human race. Can I explain?
We have the era from late 1950's to early 60's which is labeled the Malt Shop, then from Late 60's to early 70's called the Love Generation with Flower Power and all that. From late 70's to late 80's we have the Reagan and the Me generation which is my favorite (1980's Rule!). This goes on and on with time. There is one common denominator involved in all of the memorable music moments from the 1950's on. When the music was great and was sure to become an icon for that period, the British bands and sound were invovled. The British sound from the early days to the 1980's with Blinded Me With Science (just to mention one out of many hits) has always marked the beginning of another musical era that will never be forgotten. When you live in an era such as the late 1950's or the 1980's you just don't realize that what you are living through will become history and the British are always involved. All of this has got to tell you something about British Music and Musicmakers. WHY????
I was just sitting back wondering in awe about music and it's role in the human race. Can I explain?
our love of music has always had me baffled?? it's a deep subject in so many ways. Good theory of yours but no answer i'm afraid??
Reply:its all about frequencies
Reply:Why has this got to tell you something about British Music etc.? I don't know. It's your idea. You tell us.
DOG
I was just sitting back wondering in awe about music and it's role in the human race. Can I explain?
our love of music has always had me baffled?? it's a deep subject in so many ways. Good theory of yours but no answer i'm afraid??
Reply:its all about frequencies
Reply:Why has this got to tell you something about British Music etc.? I don't know. It's your idea. You tell us.
DOG
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Spa birthday party?
hi. i'm throwing my little sis a birthday party (she's turning 12) and she wants a spa birthday party but i don't know how and what to do foe a spa birthday party. does anybody know? thnaks in advance,
- Flower Power
P.S. a nice and long answer would be nice
Spa birthday party?
get a nice fluffy pink bathrobe for each girl to wear and keep (they sell them for like 10 dollars at bath and body works) get a few colors of nail polish and paint each girl's toes. get a little tub with bath crystals in the water to soak everybody's feet in. get different color face masks to put on the girl's faces and cucumber slices for the girl's eyes. then after that have a party... GET UP AND DANCE TO JUMOY MUSIC, LIKE HANNAH MONTANA! then have a dinner, like chicken fingers and things like that, and after a cake, wit decorations on it, like spa things! hope she has a fun time!
;-)
Reply:I assume you're going to do this at home, so I'll give suggestions of what you can do on a budget.
Decoration - clear the room except for a couple of couches, pillows, air mattresses/blankets on the floor, and a station for your spa supplies.
- Mirrors - buy a few cheap full length ones from Walmart. I got one for $8
- Candles for lighting
- Flowers in vases, either greenery collected outside, a couple of grocery store bouquets, or plastic, from the dollar shop
- Relaxing music
- Lots of clean towels and soap in the corner, with a sink somewhere nearby.
- Ask the girls to bring robes and slippers.
Spa activities:
- Face masques -
%26gt; Mix up your own clay masque with some water, aloe vera gel, and a few handfuls of 100% NATURAL CLAY kitty litter, or by pureeing a banana, a cup of yogurt, and a half-cup of honey - this is MUCH cheaper for such a large group.
%26gt; Let the girls put the masques on themselves, and sit or lie around chatting while the nutrients soak in. You could get them to wear cucumber slices on their eyes, but the girls might get a little bored - your choice.
%26gt; Have facial wipes around so they can clean their faces afterward.
- Manicures -
%26gt; Buy some plastic dishes at the dollar shop, and fill them with warm water and a drop of dishwashing liquid for the girls to soak their hands in (cleans the nails). Also buy nail buffers for each girl there, or alternatively, buy one nail buffer and clean it thoroughly with isopropyl alcohol between uses.
%26gt; After each girl soaks her hands for 5 minutes, wipe down the nails with a brush or a rough washcloth. Buff the nails, and dry.
%26gt; Let the girl choose from 4 or 5 nail polish colours, then wait to dry, then use a topcoat.
- Aromatherapy massage -
%26gt; Buy a bottle of aromatherapy oil. Read a book on aromatherapy hand/wrist or face massage.
%26gt; Give the girls a lesson on how to do the relaxing massage. They can either give it to themselves, or they can give it to each other if they're comfortable with that.
If you know someone with a massaging chair-cover, borrow that, and let the girls take turns using it.
Refreshments - stick with light foods, not too strong smelling, the kind of foods that focus on health and feeling good.
- Fill a pitcher with soda water or clear lemon soda, lime slices, mint leaves and ice - serve in clear glasses.
- Serve skewers of fresh fruit, with chocolate dip if you want.
- Cocktail sandwiches, like cucumber sandwiches or sliced turkey, or more kid-friendly sandwiches like nut butters with banana or jam or nutella. Cut the crusts off and arrange artfully.
- Tiny bowls of nuts, or larger bowls of air-popped popcorn.
- Raw veggies with dip.
- Veggie, cheese, or chicken pizza sliced into small squares.
- Baked pita or corn chips with guacamole, salsa, hummus, or other dips.
Reply:sounds like a nice party to me
Reply:Awe! You are the perfect big sis. The first thing is to get a list of names for the b-day party. Even though your sister is 12, make sure you tell her only the girls on the list will participate. I'm not sure how much $ you have, but this will give you a clear picture as to how much $ you have to spend. Make sure you contact ALL the parents. Even though a spa sounds innocent, maybe a parent has told her child she can't have polish til she's 13, then you will have a problem on your hand. After you contact the parents and know what you CAN do, then visit a local spa. Most of them have group specials, and will even decorate a room especially for your party. Please visit the spa before you take the girls and let the employees know what the girls can have. If you are organized they will lay back and enjoy. If you let the employees offer addt'l services, the girls will accept them all. To make it easy, you should tell the staff to give them all french manicures! Don't forget to FEED THEM FIRST! Most spas will also offer "lunch specials" which are expensive and will not fill them up. HAVE FUN:)
- Flower Power
P.S. a nice and long answer would be nice
Spa birthday party?
get a nice fluffy pink bathrobe for each girl to wear and keep (they sell them for like 10 dollars at bath and body works) get a few colors of nail polish and paint each girl's toes. get a little tub with bath crystals in the water to soak everybody's feet in. get different color face masks to put on the girl's faces and cucumber slices for the girl's eyes. then after that have a party... GET UP AND DANCE TO JUMOY MUSIC, LIKE HANNAH MONTANA! then have a dinner, like chicken fingers and things like that, and after a cake, wit decorations on it, like spa things! hope she has a fun time!
;-)
Reply:I assume you're going to do this at home, so I'll give suggestions of what you can do on a budget.
Decoration - clear the room except for a couple of couches, pillows, air mattresses/blankets on the floor, and a station for your spa supplies.
- Mirrors - buy a few cheap full length ones from Walmart. I got one for $8
- Candles for lighting
- Flowers in vases, either greenery collected outside, a couple of grocery store bouquets, or plastic, from the dollar shop
- Relaxing music
- Lots of clean towels and soap in the corner, with a sink somewhere nearby.
- Ask the girls to bring robes and slippers.
Spa activities:
- Face masques -
%26gt; Mix up your own clay masque with some water, aloe vera gel, and a few handfuls of 100% NATURAL CLAY kitty litter, or by pureeing a banana, a cup of yogurt, and a half-cup of honey - this is MUCH cheaper for such a large group.
%26gt; Let the girls put the masques on themselves, and sit or lie around chatting while the nutrients soak in. You could get them to wear cucumber slices on their eyes, but the girls might get a little bored - your choice.
%26gt; Have facial wipes around so they can clean their faces afterward.
- Manicures -
%26gt; Buy some plastic dishes at the dollar shop, and fill them with warm water and a drop of dishwashing liquid for the girls to soak their hands in (cleans the nails). Also buy nail buffers for each girl there, or alternatively, buy one nail buffer and clean it thoroughly with isopropyl alcohol between uses.
%26gt; After each girl soaks her hands for 5 minutes, wipe down the nails with a brush or a rough washcloth. Buff the nails, and dry.
%26gt; Let the girl choose from 4 or 5 nail polish colours, then wait to dry, then use a topcoat.
- Aromatherapy massage -
%26gt; Buy a bottle of aromatherapy oil. Read a book on aromatherapy hand/wrist or face massage.
%26gt; Give the girls a lesson on how to do the relaxing massage. They can either give it to themselves, or they can give it to each other if they're comfortable with that.
If you know someone with a massaging chair-cover, borrow that, and let the girls take turns using it.
Refreshments - stick with light foods, not too strong smelling, the kind of foods that focus on health and feeling good.
- Fill a pitcher with soda water or clear lemon soda, lime slices, mint leaves and ice - serve in clear glasses.
- Serve skewers of fresh fruit, with chocolate dip if you want.
- Cocktail sandwiches, like cucumber sandwiches or sliced turkey, or more kid-friendly sandwiches like nut butters with banana or jam or nutella. Cut the crusts off and arrange artfully.
- Tiny bowls of nuts, or larger bowls of air-popped popcorn.
- Raw veggies with dip.
- Veggie, cheese, or chicken pizza sliced into small squares.
- Baked pita or corn chips with guacamole, salsa, hummus, or other dips.
Reply:sounds like a nice party to me
Reply:Awe! You are the perfect big sis. The first thing is to get a list of names for the b-day party. Even though your sister is 12, make sure you tell her only the girls on the list will participate. I'm not sure how much $ you have, but this will give you a clear picture as to how much $ you have to spend. Make sure you contact ALL the parents. Even though a spa sounds innocent, maybe a parent has told her child she can't have polish til she's 13, then you will have a problem on your hand. After you contact the parents and know what you CAN do, then visit a local spa. Most of them have group specials, and will even decorate a room especially for your party. Please visit the spa before you take the girls and let the employees know what the girls can have. If you are organized they will lay back and enjoy. If you let the employees offer addt'l services, the girls will accept them all. To make it easy, you should tell the staff to give them all french manicures! Don't forget to FEED THEM FIRST! Most spas will also offer "lunch specials" which are expensive and will not fill them up. HAVE FUN:)
Why was the 60's called 'the swinging sixties'?
six reasons , flower power,
Why was the 60's called 'the swinging sixties'?
The Swinging Sixties is currently a band made up of one female and four males. And, of course, sing hits of the 60's.
It's nearly 40 years since the end of the 60's and we are all getting that much older. Memories of the great personalities and stars of the decade who have left us - God bless them all.
It was truly a fantastic decade. In the words of John Lennon:
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer...it just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
Here's a web site that will tell you all the events, famous celebrities, trends, etc.
http://www.sixtiescity.com/index.shtm
Why was the 60's called 'the swinging sixties'?
The Swinging Sixties is currently a band made up of one female and four males. And, of course, sing hits of the 60's.
It's nearly 40 years since the end of the 60's and we are all getting that much older. Memories of the great personalities and stars of the decade who have left us - God bless them all.
It was truly a fantastic decade. In the words of John Lennon:
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer...it just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
Here's a web site that will tell you all the events, famous celebrities, trends, etc.
http://www.sixtiescity.com/index.shtm
China: From Death Camp to Civilization. Why very limited power to government is crucial? Mao unknown story?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/chin...
A hysteria of sorts has been generated by reports that some of China's products lack quality control. Some cat food has been tainted. A few cell-phone batteries have blown up. Cough syrup contained stuff that makes you sick. And so on. In response, the Chinese government actually executed its regulatory head of food and product safety, Zheng Xiaoyu.
How very strange this last point is! In the West, we long ago gave up the idea that these people are actually supposed to carry out their jobs and should be personally responsible for their failure to do so.
What is most striking about these product criticisms is how historically insular they appear in light of the modern history of China. This is a subject that is deeply painful, horrifying in its detail, highly instructive in helping us understand politics – and also puts into perspective these reports of recent troubles in China. It's a scandal, in fact, that few Westerners are even aware, or, if they are aware, they are not conscious, of the bloody reality that prevailed in China between the years 1949 and 1976, the years of rule by Mao Zedong
How many died as a result of persecutions and the communist policies of Mao? Perhaps you care to guess? Many people over the years have attempted to guess. But they have always underestimated. As more data rolled in during the 1980s and 1990s, and specialists have devoted themselves to investigations and estimates, the figures have become ever more reliable. And yet they remain imprecise. What kind of error term are we talking about? It could be as low as 40 million. It could be as high as 100 million – or more. In the Great Leap Forward from 1959 to 1961 alone, figures range between 20 million to 75 million. In the period before, 20 million. In the period after, tens of millions more.
As scholars in the area of mass death point out, most of us can't imagine 100 dead or 1000. Above that, we are just talking about statistics: they have no conceptual meaning for us. And there is only so much ghastly information that our brains can absorb, only so much blood we can imagine. And yet there is more to why China's communist experiment remains a hidden fact: it makes a decisive case against government power, one even more compelling than the cases of Russia or Germany in the 20th century.
The horror was foreshadowed in a bloody civil war following the Second World War. After some nine million people died, the communists emerged victorious in 1949, with Mao as the ruler. The land of Lao-Tzu (rhyme, rhythm, peace), Taoism (compassion, moderation, humility), and Confucianism (piety, social harmony, individual development) was seized by the strangest import to China ever: Marxism from Germany via Russia. It was an ideology that denied all logic, experience, economic law, property rights, and limits on the power of the state on grounds that these notions were merely bourgeois prejudices, and what we needed to transform society was a cadre with all power to transform all things.
It's bizarre to think about it, really: posters of Marx and Lenin in China, of all places, and rule by an ideology of robbery, dictatorship, and death. So spectacular has the transformation been in the last 25 years that one would hardly know that any of this ever happened, except that the Communist Party is still running the place while having tossed out the communist part.
The experiment began in the most bloody way possible following the Second World War, when all Western eyes were focused on matters at home and, to the extent there was any foreign focus, it was on Russia. The "good guys" had won the war in China, or so we were led to believe in times when communism was the fashion.
The communization of China took place in the usual three stages: purge, plan, and scapegoat. First there was the purge to bring about communism. There were guerillas to kill and land to nationalize. The churches had to be destroyed. The counterrevolutionaries had to be put down. The violence began in the country and spread later to the cities. All peasants were first divided into four classes that were considered politically acceptable: poor, semi-poor, average, and rich. Everyone else was considered a landowner and targeted for elimination. If no landowners could be found, the "rich" were often included in this group. The demonized class was ferreted out in a country-wide series of "bitterness meetings" in which people turned in their neighbors for owning property and being politically disloyal. Those who were so deemed were immediately executed along with those who sympathized with them.
The rule was that there had to be at least one person killed per village. The number killed is estimated to be between one and five million. In addition, another four to six million landowners were slaughtered for the crime of being capital owners. If anyone was suspected of hiding wealth, he or she was tortured with hot irons to confess. The families of the killed were then tortured and the graves of their ancestors looted and pillaged. What happened to the land? It was divided into tiny plots and distributed among the remaining peasants.
Then the campaign moved to the cities. The political motivations here were at the forefront, but there were also behavioral controls. Anyone who was suspected of involvement in prostitution, gambling, tax evasion, lying, fraud, opium dealing, or telling state secrets was executed as a "bandit." Official estimates put the number of dead at two million with another two million going to prison to die. Resident committees of political loyalists watched every move. A nighttime visit to another person was immediately reported and the parties involved jailed or killed. The cells in the prisons themselves grew ever smaller, with one person living in a space of about 14 inches. Some prisoners were worked to death, and anyone involved in a revolt was herded with collaborators and they were all burned.
There was industry in the cities, but those who owned and managed them were subjected to ever tighter restrictions: forced transparency, constant scrutinies, crippling taxes, and pressure to offer up their businesses for collectivization. There were many suicides among the owners of small and medium-sized businesses, who saw the writing on the wall. Joining the party provided only temporary respite, since in 1955 began the campaign against hidden counterrevolutionaries in the party itself. A principle here was that one in 10 party members was a secret traitor.
As the rivers of blood rose ever higher, Mao brought about the Hundred Flowers Campaign in two months of 1957, the legacy of which is the phrase we often hear: "let a hundred flowers bloom." People were encouraged to speak freely and give their point of view, an opportunity that was very tempting for intellectuals. The liberalization was short lived. In fact, it was a trick. All those who spoke out against what was happening to China were rounded up and imprisoned, perhaps between 400,000 and 700,000 people, including 10 percent of the well-educated classes. Others were branded as right-wingers and subjected to interrogation, reeducation, kicked out of their homes, and shunned.
But this was nothing compared with phase two, which was one of history’s great central-planning catastrophes. Following the collectivization of land, Mao decided to go further to dictate to the peasants what they would grow, how they would grow it, and where they would ship it, or whether they would grow anything at all as versus plunge into industry. This would become the Great Leap Forward that would generate history's most deadly famine. Peasants were grouped into groups of thousands and forced to share all things. All groups were to be economically self-sufficient. Production goals were raised ever higher.
People were moved by the hundreds of thousands from where production was high to where it was low, as a means of boosting production. They were moved too from agriculture to industry. There was a massive campaign to collect tools and transform them into industrial skill. As a means of showing hope for the future, collectives were encouraged to have huge banquets and eat everything, especially meat. This was a way of showing one's belief that the next year's harvest would be even more bountiful.
Mao had this idea that he knew how to grow grain. He proclaimed that "seeds are happiest when growing together" and so seeds were sown at five to ten times their usual density. Plants died, the soil dried out, and the salt rose to the surface. To keep birds from eating grain, sparrows were wiped out, which vastly increased the number of parasites. Erosion and flooding became endemic. Tea plantations were turned to rice fields, on grounds that tea was decadent and capitalistic. Hydraulic equipment built to service the new collective farms didn't work and lacked any replacement parts. This led Mao to put new emphasis on localized industry, which was forced to appear in the same areas as agriculture, leading to ever more chaos. Workers were drafted from one sector to another, and mandatory cuts in some sectors was balanced by mandatory high quotas in another.
In 1957, the disaster was everywhere. Workers were growing too weak even to harvest their meager crops, so they died watching the rice rot. Industry churned and churned but produced nothing of any use. The government responded by telling people that fat and proteins were unnecessary. But the famine couldn't be denied. The black-market price of rice rose 20 to 30 times. Because trade had been forbidden between collectives (self-sufficiency, you know), millions were left to starve. By 1960, the death rate soared from 15 percent to 68 percent, and the birth rate plummeted. Anyone caught hording grain was shot. Peasants found with the smallest amount were imprisoned. Fires were banned. Funerals were prohibited as wasteful.
Villagers who tried to flee from the countryside to the city were shot at the gates. Deaths from hunger reached 50 percent in some villages. Survivors boiled grass and bark to make soup and wandered the roads looking for food. Sometimes they banded together and raided houses looking for ground maize. Women were unable to conceive because of malnutrition. People in work camps were used for food experiments that led to sickness and death.
How bad did it get? 1968 an 18-year-old member of the Red Guard, Wei Jingsheng, took refuge with a family in a village of Anhui, and here he lived to write about what he saw: "We walked along beside the village…Before my eyes, among the weeds, rose up one of the scenes I had been told about, one of the banquets at which the families had swapped children in order to eat them. I could see the worried faces of the families as they chewed the flesh of other people's children. The children who were chasing butterflies in a nearby field seemed to be the reincarnation of the children devoured by their parents. I felt sorry for the children but not as sorry as I felt for their parents. What had made them swallow that human flesh, amidst the tears and grief of others – flesh that they would never have imagined tasting, even in their worst nightmares?" (The author of the passage was jailed as a traitor but his status protected him from death and he was finally released in 1997.)
How many people died in the famine of 1959–61? The low range is 20 million. The high range is 43 million. Finally in 1961, the government gave in and permitted food imports, but it was too little and too late. Some peasants were again allowed to grow crops on their own land. A few private workshops were opened. Some markets were permitted. Finally, the famine began to abate and production grew.
But then the third phase came: scapegoating. What had caused the calamity? The official reason was anything but communism, anything but Mao. And so the politically motivated round-up began again, and here we get to the very heart of the Cultural Revolution. Thousands of camps and detention centers were opened. People sent there died there. In prison, the slightest excuse was used to dispense with people – all to the good since the prisoners were a drain on the system, so far as those in charge were concerned. The largest penal system ever built was organized in a military fashion, with some camps holding as many as 50,000 people.
There was some sense in which everyone was in prison. Arrests were sweeping and indiscriminate. Everyone had to carry around a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book. To question the reason for arrest was itself evidence of disloyalty, since the state was infallible. Once arrested, the safest path was instant and frequent confession. This time, guards were forbidden from using overt violence, so interrogations would go on for hundreds of hours, and often the prisoner would die during this process. Those named in the confession were then hunted down and rounded up. Once you got through this process, you were sent to a labor camp, where you were graded according to how many hours you could work with little food. They were fed no meat nor given any sugar or oil. Labor prisoners were further controlled by the rationing of the little food they had.
The final phase of this incredible litany of criminality lasted from 1966 to 1976, and during this phase the number of killed fell dramatically to "only" one to three million. The government, now tired and in the first stages of demoralization, began to lose control, first within the labor camps and second in the countryside. And it was this weakening that led to the final and, in some ways the most vicious, of the communist periods in China's history.
The first stages of rebellion occurred in the only way permissible: people began to criticize the government for being too soft and too uncommitted to the communist goal. Ironically, this began to appear precisely as moderation became more overt in Russia. Neo-revolutionaries in the Red Guard began to criticize the Chinese communists as "Khrushchev-like reformers." As one writer put it, the guard "rose up against its own government in order to defend it."
During this period, the personality cult of Mao reached its height, with the Little Red Book achieving a mythic status. The Red Guards roamed the country in an attempt to purge the Four Old-Fashioned Things: ideas, culture, customs, and habits. The remaining temples were barricaded. Traditional opera was banned, with all costumes and sets in the Beijing Opera burned. Monks were expelled. The calendar was changed. All Christianity was banned. There were to be no pets such as cats and birds. Humiliation was the order of the day.
Thus was the Red Terror: in the capital city, there were 1,700 deaths and 84,000 people were run out. In other cities such as Shanghai, the figures were worse. A massive party purge began, with hundreds of thousands arrested and many murdered. Artists, writers, teachers, scientists, technicians: all were targets. Pogroms were visited on community after community, with Mao approving at every step as a means of eliminating every possible political rival. But underneath, the government was splintering and cracking, even as it became ever more brutal and totalist in its outlook.
Finally in 1976, Mao died. Within a few months, his closest advisers were all imprisoned. And the reform began slowly at first and then at breakneck speed. Civil liberties were restored (comparatively) and the rehabilitations began. Torturers were prosecuted. Economic controls were gradually relaxed. The economy, by virtue of human and private economic initiative, was transformed.
Having read the above, you are now in a tiny elite of people who know anything about the greatest death camp in the history of the world that China became between 1949 and 1976, an experiment in total control unlike anything other in history. Many more people today know more about China's exploding cell-phone batteries than the hundred million dead and the untold amount of suffering that occurred under communism.
When you hear about shoddy products coming from China or wheat poorly processed, imagine millions in famine, with parents swapping children to eat in order to stay alive. And what do China's critics today recommend? More control by the government. Don't tell me that we've learned anything from history. We don't even know enough about history to learn from it.
Note on sources, all of which you should buy and read in detail: "China: A Long March into Night," by Jean-Louis Margolin in The Black Book of Communism, by Stephane Courtois et al. (Harvard, 1999), pp. 463–546; Death by Government, by R.J. Rummel (Transaction, 1996); Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, by Jaspar Becker (Owl Books, 1998); and Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (2006).
July 21, 2007
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him mail] is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, editor of LewRockwell.com, and author of Speaking of Liberty.
China: From Death Camp to Civilization. Why very limited power to government is crucial? Mao unknown story?
This is a great question! Except I don't really understand exactly what you're getting at. Can you refine your question a bit? I can tell you that limited power is important because it prevents overbearing governments from doing things like warrantless wiretaps upon its own citizens.
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A hysteria of sorts has been generated by reports that some of China's products lack quality control. Some cat food has been tainted. A few cell-phone batteries have blown up. Cough syrup contained stuff that makes you sick. And so on. In response, the Chinese government actually executed its regulatory head of food and product safety, Zheng Xiaoyu.
How very strange this last point is! In the West, we long ago gave up the idea that these people are actually supposed to carry out their jobs and should be personally responsible for their failure to do so.
What is most striking about these product criticisms is how historically insular they appear in light of the modern history of China. This is a subject that is deeply painful, horrifying in its detail, highly instructive in helping us understand politics – and also puts into perspective these reports of recent troubles in China. It's a scandal, in fact, that few Westerners are even aware, or, if they are aware, they are not conscious, of the bloody reality that prevailed in China between the years 1949 and 1976, the years of rule by Mao Zedong
How many died as a result of persecutions and the communist policies of Mao? Perhaps you care to guess? Many people over the years have attempted to guess. But they have always underestimated. As more data rolled in during the 1980s and 1990s, and specialists have devoted themselves to investigations and estimates, the figures have become ever more reliable. And yet they remain imprecise. What kind of error term are we talking about? It could be as low as 40 million. It could be as high as 100 million – or more. In the Great Leap Forward from 1959 to 1961 alone, figures range between 20 million to 75 million. In the period before, 20 million. In the period after, tens of millions more.
As scholars in the area of mass death point out, most of us can't imagine 100 dead or 1000. Above that, we are just talking about statistics: they have no conceptual meaning for us. And there is only so much ghastly information that our brains can absorb, only so much blood we can imagine. And yet there is more to why China's communist experiment remains a hidden fact: it makes a decisive case against government power, one even more compelling than the cases of Russia or Germany in the 20th century.
The horror was foreshadowed in a bloody civil war following the Second World War. After some nine million people died, the communists emerged victorious in 1949, with Mao as the ruler. The land of Lao-Tzu (rhyme, rhythm, peace), Taoism (compassion, moderation, humility), and Confucianism (piety, social harmony, individual development) was seized by the strangest import to China ever: Marxism from Germany via Russia. It was an ideology that denied all logic, experience, economic law, property rights, and limits on the power of the state on grounds that these notions were merely bourgeois prejudices, and what we needed to transform society was a cadre with all power to transform all things.
It's bizarre to think about it, really: posters of Marx and Lenin in China, of all places, and rule by an ideology of robbery, dictatorship, and death. So spectacular has the transformation been in the last 25 years that one would hardly know that any of this ever happened, except that the Communist Party is still running the place while having tossed out the communist part.
The experiment began in the most bloody way possible following the Second World War, when all Western eyes were focused on matters at home and, to the extent there was any foreign focus, it was on Russia. The "good guys" had won the war in China, or so we were led to believe in times when communism was the fashion.
The communization of China took place in the usual three stages: purge, plan, and scapegoat. First there was the purge to bring about communism. There were guerillas to kill and land to nationalize. The churches had to be destroyed. The counterrevolutionaries had to be put down. The violence began in the country and spread later to the cities. All peasants were first divided into four classes that were considered politically acceptable: poor, semi-poor, average, and rich. Everyone else was considered a landowner and targeted for elimination. If no landowners could be found, the "rich" were often included in this group. The demonized class was ferreted out in a country-wide series of "bitterness meetings" in which people turned in their neighbors for owning property and being politically disloyal. Those who were so deemed were immediately executed along with those who sympathized with them.
The rule was that there had to be at least one person killed per village. The number killed is estimated to be between one and five million. In addition, another four to six million landowners were slaughtered for the crime of being capital owners. If anyone was suspected of hiding wealth, he or she was tortured with hot irons to confess. The families of the killed were then tortured and the graves of their ancestors looted and pillaged. What happened to the land? It was divided into tiny plots and distributed among the remaining peasants.
Then the campaign moved to the cities. The political motivations here were at the forefront, but there were also behavioral controls. Anyone who was suspected of involvement in prostitution, gambling, tax evasion, lying, fraud, opium dealing, or telling state secrets was executed as a "bandit." Official estimates put the number of dead at two million with another two million going to prison to die. Resident committees of political loyalists watched every move. A nighttime visit to another person was immediately reported and the parties involved jailed or killed. The cells in the prisons themselves grew ever smaller, with one person living in a space of about 14 inches. Some prisoners were worked to death, and anyone involved in a revolt was herded with collaborators and they were all burned.
There was industry in the cities, but those who owned and managed them were subjected to ever tighter restrictions: forced transparency, constant scrutinies, crippling taxes, and pressure to offer up their businesses for collectivization. There were many suicides among the owners of small and medium-sized businesses, who saw the writing on the wall. Joining the party provided only temporary respite, since in 1955 began the campaign against hidden counterrevolutionaries in the party itself. A principle here was that one in 10 party members was a secret traitor.
As the rivers of blood rose ever higher, Mao brought about the Hundred Flowers Campaign in two months of 1957, the legacy of which is the phrase we often hear: "let a hundred flowers bloom." People were encouraged to speak freely and give their point of view, an opportunity that was very tempting for intellectuals. The liberalization was short lived. In fact, it was a trick. All those who spoke out against what was happening to China were rounded up and imprisoned, perhaps between 400,000 and 700,000 people, including 10 percent of the well-educated classes. Others were branded as right-wingers and subjected to interrogation, reeducation, kicked out of their homes, and shunned.
But this was nothing compared with phase two, which was one of history’s great central-planning catastrophes. Following the collectivization of land, Mao decided to go further to dictate to the peasants what they would grow, how they would grow it, and where they would ship it, or whether they would grow anything at all as versus plunge into industry. This would become the Great Leap Forward that would generate history's most deadly famine. Peasants were grouped into groups of thousands and forced to share all things. All groups were to be economically self-sufficient. Production goals were raised ever higher.
People were moved by the hundreds of thousands from where production was high to where it was low, as a means of boosting production. They were moved too from agriculture to industry. There was a massive campaign to collect tools and transform them into industrial skill. As a means of showing hope for the future, collectives were encouraged to have huge banquets and eat everything, especially meat. This was a way of showing one's belief that the next year's harvest would be even more bountiful.
Mao had this idea that he knew how to grow grain. He proclaimed that "seeds are happiest when growing together" and so seeds were sown at five to ten times their usual density. Plants died, the soil dried out, and the salt rose to the surface. To keep birds from eating grain, sparrows were wiped out, which vastly increased the number of parasites. Erosion and flooding became endemic. Tea plantations were turned to rice fields, on grounds that tea was decadent and capitalistic. Hydraulic equipment built to service the new collective farms didn't work and lacked any replacement parts. This led Mao to put new emphasis on localized industry, which was forced to appear in the same areas as agriculture, leading to ever more chaos. Workers were drafted from one sector to another, and mandatory cuts in some sectors was balanced by mandatory high quotas in another.
In 1957, the disaster was everywhere. Workers were growing too weak even to harvest their meager crops, so they died watching the rice rot. Industry churned and churned but produced nothing of any use. The government responded by telling people that fat and proteins were unnecessary. But the famine couldn't be denied. The black-market price of rice rose 20 to 30 times. Because trade had been forbidden between collectives (self-sufficiency, you know), millions were left to starve. By 1960, the death rate soared from 15 percent to 68 percent, and the birth rate plummeted. Anyone caught hording grain was shot. Peasants found with the smallest amount were imprisoned. Fires were banned. Funerals were prohibited as wasteful.
Villagers who tried to flee from the countryside to the city were shot at the gates. Deaths from hunger reached 50 percent in some villages. Survivors boiled grass and bark to make soup and wandered the roads looking for food. Sometimes they banded together and raided houses looking for ground maize. Women were unable to conceive because of malnutrition. People in work camps were used for food experiments that led to sickness and death.
How bad did it get? 1968 an 18-year-old member of the Red Guard, Wei Jingsheng, took refuge with a family in a village of Anhui, and here he lived to write about what he saw: "We walked along beside the village…Before my eyes, among the weeds, rose up one of the scenes I had been told about, one of the banquets at which the families had swapped children in order to eat them. I could see the worried faces of the families as they chewed the flesh of other people's children. The children who were chasing butterflies in a nearby field seemed to be the reincarnation of the children devoured by their parents. I felt sorry for the children but not as sorry as I felt for their parents. What had made them swallow that human flesh, amidst the tears and grief of others – flesh that they would never have imagined tasting, even in their worst nightmares?" (The author of the passage was jailed as a traitor but his status protected him from death and he was finally released in 1997.)
How many people died in the famine of 1959–61? The low range is 20 million. The high range is 43 million. Finally in 1961, the government gave in and permitted food imports, but it was too little and too late. Some peasants were again allowed to grow crops on their own land. A few private workshops were opened. Some markets were permitted. Finally, the famine began to abate and production grew.
But then the third phase came: scapegoating. What had caused the calamity? The official reason was anything but communism, anything but Mao. And so the politically motivated round-up began again, and here we get to the very heart of the Cultural Revolution. Thousands of camps and detention centers were opened. People sent there died there. In prison, the slightest excuse was used to dispense with people – all to the good since the prisoners were a drain on the system, so far as those in charge were concerned. The largest penal system ever built was organized in a military fashion, with some camps holding as many as 50,000 people.
There was some sense in which everyone was in prison. Arrests were sweeping and indiscriminate. Everyone had to carry around a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book. To question the reason for arrest was itself evidence of disloyalty, since the state was infallible. Once arrested, the safest path was instant and frequent confession. This time, guards were forbidden from using overt violence, so interrogations would go on for hundreds of hours, and often the prisoner would die during this process. Those named in the confession were then hunted down and rounded up. Once you got through this process, you were sent to a labor camp, where you were graded according to how many hours you could work with little food. They were fed no meat nor given any sugar or oil. Labor prisoners were further controlled by the rationing of the little food they had.
The final phase of this incredible litany of criminality lasted from 1966 to 1976, and during this phase the number of killed fell dramatically to "only" one to three million. The government, now tired and in the first stages of demoralization, began to lose control, first within the labor camps and second in the countryside. And it was this weakening that led to the final and, in some ways the most vicious, of the communist periods in China's history.
The first stages of rebellion occurred in the only way permissible: people began to criticize the government for being too soft and too uncommitted to the communist goal. Ironically, this began to appear precisely as moderation became more overt in Russia. Neo-revolutionaries in the Red Guard began to criticize the Chinese communists as "Khrushchev-like reformers." As one writer put it, the guard "rose up against its own government in order to defend it."
During this period, the personality cult of Mao reached its height, with the Little Red Book achieving a mythic status. The Red Guards roamed the country in an attempt to purge the Four Old-Fashioned Things: ideas, culture, customs, and habits. The remaining temples were barricaded. Traditional opera was banned, with all costumes and sets in the Beijing Opera burned. Monks were expelled. The calendar was changed. All Christianity was banned. There were to be no pets such as cats and birds. Humiliation was the order of the day.
Thus was the Red Terror: in the capital city, there were 1,700 deaths and 84,000 people were run out. In other cities such as Shanghai, the figures were worse. A massive party purge began, with hundreds of thousands arrested and many murdered. Artists, writers, teachers, scientists, technicians: all were targets. Pogroms were visited on community after community, with Mao approving at every step as a means of eliminating every possible political rival. But underneath, the government was splintering and cracking, even as it became ever more brutal and totalist in its outlook.
Finally in 1976, Mao died. Within a few months, his closest advisers were all imprisoned. And the reform began slowly at first and then at breakneck speed. Civil liberties were restored (comparatively) and the rehabilitations began. Torturers were prosecuted. Economic controls were gradually relaxed. The economy, by virtue of human and private economic initiative, was transformed.
Having read the above, you are now in a tiny elite of people who know anything about the greatest death camp in the history of the world that China became between 1949 and 1976, an experiment in total control unlike anything other in history. Many more people today know more about China's exploding cell-phone batteries than the hundred million dead and the untold amount of suffering that occurred under communism.
When you hear about shoddy products coming from China or wheat poorly processed, imagine millions in famine, with parents swapping children to eat in order to stay alive. And what do China's critics today recommend? More control by the government. Don't tell me that we've learned anything from history. We don't even know enough about history to learn from it.
Note on sources, all of which you should buy and read in detail: "China: A Long March into Night," by Jean-Louis Margolin in The Black Book of Communism, by Stephane Courtois et al. (Harvard, 1999), pp. 463–546; Death by Government, by R.J. Rummel (Transaction, 1996); Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, by Jaspar Becker (Owl Books, 1998); and Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (2006).
July 21, 2007
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him mail] is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, editor of LewRockwell.com, and author of Speaking of Liberty.
China: From Death Camp to Civilization. Why very limited power to government is crucial? Mao unknown story?
This is a great question! Except I don't really understand exactly what you're getting at. Can you refine your question a bit? I can tell you that limited power is important because it prevents overbearing governments from doing things like warrantless wiretaps upon its own citizens.
Best Wishes!
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Do I act Dramatic or questionable in this scene?
PUCK
Through the forest have I gone.
But Athenian found I none,
On whose eyes I might approve
This flower's force in stirring love.
Night and silence.--Who is here?
Weeds of Athens he doth wear:
This is he, my master said,
Despised the Athenian maid;
And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
On the dank and dirty ground.
Pretty soul! she durst not lie
Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
All the power this charm doth owe.
When thou wakest, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:
So awake when I am gone;
For I must now to Oberon.
Do I act Dramatic or questionable in this scene?
What is Puck doing in the scene? That will tell you how you should act.
He's about to put a love-spell on the wrong man. And he's carrying a flower.
Reply:Your suppose to act kinda both, i saw midsummer nights dream a couple of months ago. My friend was puck and my brother, i forgot who he was.
Reply:Act as naturally as you can. Be a storyteller. Let the story be as dramatic as it is without adding to it.
Reply:You need to act in accord with your interpretation.
Reply:i think u will be able to do it in double role....it can be more attractive by acting questainable in this scene.......
Through the forest have I gone.
But Athenian found I none,
On whose eyes I might approve
This flower's force in stirring love.
Night and silence.--Who is here?
Weeds of Athens he doth wear:
This is he, my master said,
Despised the Athenian maid;
And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
On the dank and dirty ground.
Pretty soul! she durst not lie
Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
All the power this charm doth owe.
When thou wakest, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:
So awake when I am gone;
For I must now to Oberon.
Do I act Dramatic or questionable in this scene?
What is Puck doing in the scene? That will tell you how you should act.
He's about to put a love-spell on the wrong man. And he's carrying a flower.
Reply:Your suppose to act kinda both, i saw midsummer nights dream a couple of months ago. My friend was puck and my brother, i forgot who he was.
Reply:Act as naturally as you can. Be a storyteller. Let the story be as dramatic as it is without adding to it.
Reply:You need to act in accord with your interpretation.
Reply:i think u will be able to do it in double role....it can be more attractive by acting questainable in this scene.......
In line nine, Emerson addresses the Rhodora. What question does he ask the flower? What is the response?
"The Rhodora"
On being asked, whence is the flower.
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals fallen in the pool
Made the black water with their beauty gay;
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for Being;
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask; I never knew;
But in my simple ignorance suppose
The self-same power that brought me there, brought you.
K well anyways, poems from back in the day i just can't stand, cause I have no clue what there saying. Its so confusing and i wanna know if you can help me out with this question i have? By the way if you dont know than dont answer.
In line nine, Emerson addresses the Rhodora. What question does he ask the flower? What is the response?
He asks the flower why it is out here in the wilderness, where nobody will see and appreciate its beauty. "this charm is wasted on the earth and sky"
The response is that beauty does not have to been seen; just that it exists is enough.
Reply:Poem Summary
In the heading, "Whence" does not mean when, but from what place, or from what origin or source. Thus, the heading of the poem implies that someone asked the speaker where the flower came from. Which might be another way of asking, what is so special or important about this ordinary flowering shrub?
Lines 1 – 4
The speaker begins by noting the season and the general weather. It is May, when flowers are just beginning to bloom; an off-shore breeze has inspired him (and, noting the plural use of "solitudes," possibly a companion) to take a walk. He then describes coming upon the rhodora and its immediate surroundings, which seem to indicate that the plant is alone in an otherwise none too thrilling spot: it is a damp nook or corner; the brook is not babbling happily, but sluggishly. He even uses the word "desert," which seems oddly misplaced for this part of the world, especially given the description of the nook. However, the New England spring comes notoriously late, following several months of very muddy conditions, so perhaps it is the desert of mud — with no other blooms in sight — that Emerson is referring to. As line 3 reveals, the rhodora is a shrub that blooms before its leaves appear, meaning that the petals stand out in stark relief.
Lines 5 – 6
With the alliterative "P's" in line 5, Emerson uses the most musical line in the poem to describe the flower itself. Notice, though, that the petals have fallen into a pool of black water, which might mean that it is really more of a stagnant puddle, an image that is consistent with the sluggish brook of line 4. Perhaps the speaker was particularly struck by the purple blooms because they were in such an otherwise unattractive water, just as the water brought a special beauty to the otherwise simple petals.
Lines 7 – 8
Emerson continues to add colors, as "red-bird" joins the purple petals and black water. The bird's plumes will be outdone, says the speaker, by the flower's color. He also uses the word "court," which hints at the fertility of spring.
Lines 9 – 10
As the second half of the poem starts, the speaker shifts and addresses the flower, rather than the companion whose question inspired the poem. He even uses an exclamation point to add a celebratory verve to the line. The rest of this couplet, and the two lines that follow, have an implication of Emerson's impatience with those who would elevate Man above Nature. Readers might even hear a certain sarcasm for the so-called sages who fail to appreciate the flower's charm or beauty, as well as the majesty of the earth and sky.
Lines 11 – 12
The use of the affectionate term "dear" personalizes the flower even more. The speaker also cleverly plays off those who would ask, and have asked, "what's the purpose of this flower?" by pointedly remarking that the purpose of one's eyes is to appreciate beauty for its own sake, without asking the flower to justify its existence.
Lines 13 – 14
Continuing the thought of the previous lines, the speaker declares that it never even occurred to him to ask the simple rhodora what purpose it served. Furthermore, he considers it the rival of the rose, the most poetically celebrated flower of all.
Lines 15 – 16
The "simple ignorance" is probably written with a dash of irony since the rest of the poem seems to argue that the speaker's view is more knowledgeable, or at least more encompassing and tolerant, than that of those who question the flower's purpose. The last line openly suggests that since the rhodora was made by God as surely and as expertly as He made Man, the flower — and by extension all living things — should be granted a deserved respect and honor. The flower might just as easily have asked, and have a God-given right to ask, whence is this man? For Emerson, the answer to both questions might be that man and flower both came from the self-same Power — the Creator — and that power brought each of them to this meeting as equals.
To better understand this final point, it is helpful to consider what Emerson said of himself as a poet, in an 1862 entry in his journal: "I am a bard because I stand near them [flowers, rocks, trees, etc.], and apprehend all they utter, and with pure joy hear that which I also would say." In other words, Emerson and nature not only speak the same language, but they speak for each other.
On being asked, whence is the flower.
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals fallen in the pool
Made the black water with their beauty gay;
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for Being;
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask; I never knew;
But in my simple ignorance suppose
The self-same power that brought me there, brought you.
K well anyways, poems from back in the day i just can't stand, cause I have no clue what there saying. Its so confusing and i wanna know if you can help me out with this question i have? By the way if you dont know than dont answer.
In line nine, Emerson addresses the Rhodora. What question does he ask the flower? What is the response?
He asks the flower why it is out here in the wilderness, where nobody will see and appreciate its beauty. "this charm is wasted on the earth and sky"
The response is that beauty does not have to been seen; just that it exists is enough.
Reply:Poem Summary
In the heading, "Whence" does not mean when, but from what place, or from what origin or source. Thus, the heading of the poem implies that someone asked the speaker where the flower came from. Which might be another way of asking, what is so special or important about this ordinary flowering shrub?
Lines 1 – 4
The speaker begins by noting the season and the general weather. It is May, when flowers are just beginning to bloom; an off-shore breeze has inspired him (and, noting the plural use of "solitudes," possibly a companion) to take a walk. He then describes coming upon the rhodora and its immediate surroundings, which seem to indicate that the plant is alone in an otherwise none too thrilling spot: it is a damp nook or corner; the brook is not babbling happily, but sluggishly. He even uses the word "desert," which seems oddly misplaced for this part of the world, especially given the description of the nook. However, the New England spring comes notoriously late, following several months of very muddy conditions, so perhaps it is the desert of mud — with no other blooms in sight — that Emerson is referring to. As line 3 reveals, the rhodora is a shrub that blooms before its leaves appear, meaning that the petals stand out in stark relief.
Lines 5 – 6
With the alliterative "P's" in line 5, Emerson uses the most musical line in the poem to describe the flower itself. Notice, though, that the petals have fallen into a pool of black water, which might mean that it is really more of a stagnant puddle, an image that is consistent with the sluggish brook of line 4. Perhaps the speaker was particularly struck by the purple blooms because they were in such an otherwise unattractive water, just as the water brought a special beauty to the otherwise simple petals.
Lines 7 – 8
Emerson continues to add colors, as "red-bird" joins the purple petals and black water. The bird's plumes will be outdone, says the speaker, by the flower's color. He also uses the word "court," which hints at the fertility of spring.
Lines 9 – 10
As the second half of the poem starts, the speaker shifts and addresses the flower, rather than the companion whose question inspired the poem. He even uses an exclamation point to add a celebratory verve to the line. The rest of this couplet, and the two lines that follow, have an implication of Emerson's impatience with those who would elevate Man above Nature. Readers might even hear a certain sarcasm for the so-called sages who fail to appreciate the flower's charm or beauty, as well as the majesty of the earth and sky.
Lines 11 – 12
The use of the affectionate term "dear" personalizes the flower even more. The speaker also cleverly plays off those who would ask, and have asked, "what's the purpose of this flower?" by pointedly remarking that the purpose of one's eyes is to appreciate beauty for its own sake, without asking the flower to justify its existence.
Lines 13 – 14
Continuing the thought of the previous lines, the speaker declares that it never even occurred to him to ask the simple rhodora what purpose it served. Furthermore, he considers it the rival of the rose, the most poetically celebrated flower of all.
Lines 15 – 16
The "simple ignorance" is probably written with a dash of irony since the rest of the poem seems to argue that the speaker's view is more knowledgeable, or at least more encompassing and tolerant, than that of those who question the flower's purpose. The last line openly suggests that since the rhodora was made by God as surely and as expertly as He made Man, the flower — and by extension all living things — should be granted a deserved respect and honor. The flower might just as easily have asked, and have a God-given right to ask, whence is this man? For Emerson, the answer to both questions might be that man and flower both came from the self-same Power — the Creator — and that power brought each of them to this meeting as equals.
To better understand this final point, it is helpful to consider what Emerson said of himself as a poet, in an 1862 entry in his journal: "I am a bard because I stand near them [flowers, rocks, trees, etc.], and apprehend all they utter, and with pure joy hear that which I also would say." In other words, Emerson and nature not only speak the same language, but they speak for each other.
Can anyone help me with trees?
i am looking for some kind of dwarf tree to put in the corner of my fenced in yard...the roots cannot go too deep because of water lines and it cannot get too tall because of power lines. I was hoping for something that flowers...any suggestions?
Can anyone help me with trees?
Almost any type tree is going to put down a pretty good root system. Are you in an area where a Japanese Maple would work? They have a reddish purple tint to the leaves in spring and summer and turn burgandy in the fall. They don't have the root system that dogwoods and fruit trees have. You might also consider an oleander bush. These get up to about six feet or more in height and very bushy and are beautiful when flowering. They also do well in moderate winters and don't lose their leaves.
Reply:If the roots cannot grow deep because of water lines, then DO NOT plant a tree at all -or a shrub. You cannot guarantee that dwarf trees will have roots that grow shallow enough. Roots go where they find water, no matter the 'dwarfiness' of the tree/shrub.
Also, unless you intend to prune the tree regularly, you cannot force a tree to stay out of power lines. Even dwarf trees can grow high.
Consider, instead, a flower bed of annuals.
Reply:Rhododendrons have shallow roots and certain types will only get about 6 feet tall.
Reply:Where do you live? Flowering crabs and plums would be good, redbud, dogwood, lilac
Reply:If you live in the south try an Indica Azalea. They are a shrub but will attain a hight of 6 or 7 feet. George Tabor is stunning.
Can anyone help me with trees?
Almost any type tree is going to put down a pretty good root system. Are you in an area where a Japanese Maple would work? They have a reddish purple tint to the leaves in spring and summer and turn burgandy in the fall. They don't have the root system that dogwoods and fruit trees have. You might also consider an oleander bush. These get up to about six feet or more in height and very bushy and are beautiful when flowering. They also do well in moderate winters and don't lose their leaves.
Reply:If the roots cannot grow deep because of water lines, then DO NOT plant a tree at all -or a shrub. You cannot guarantee that dwarf trees will have roots that grow shallow enough. Roots go where they find water, no matter the 'dwarfiness' of the tree/shrub.
Also, unless you intend to prune the tree regularly, you cannot force a tree to stay out of power lines. Even dwarf trees can grow high.
Consider, instead, a flower bed of annuals.
Reply:Rhododendrons have shallow roots and certain types will only get about 6 feet tall.
Reply:Where do you live? Flowering crabs and plums would be good, redbud, dogwood, lilac
Reply:If you live in the south try an Indica Azalea. They are a shrub but will attain a hight of 6 or 7 feet. George Tabor is stunning.
Need help with a tv ad for cereal!!!?
I have a project where I was assigned to make a tv ad for a cereal called Flower Power, which is marketed toward young girls. Do you have any ideas of what a good commercial might be? Do you know any sites that would provide me with good information that may help me with this? Thank You in advance.
Need help with a tv ad for cereal!!!?
maybe do lk a hippie theme or mayb gogo dancers? it sounds very 60s..maybe market to the young girls by saying they'll be groovy too..lol i dono
Reply:Show by consuming Flower Power, young girls will grow from weeds to roses, American Beauties.
Help for melasma
Need help with a tv ad for cereal!!!?
maybe do lk a hippie theme or mayb gogo dancers? it sounds very 60s..maybe market to the young girls by saying they'll be groovy too..lol i dono
Reply:Show by consuming Flower Power, young girls will grow from weeds to roses, American Beauties.
Help for melasma
How do you reset a Mac iBook?
I think it is shift - alt - then that square button with the weird flower? I was just at the Genius Bar and the guy did this to my iBook to reset the power. Now I am home and need to do it again but can't seem to get the right combination.
Does anyone know?
How do you reset a Mac iBook?
Here you go...
Reply:its mac kay alt key and 7 i think and hold while your turning on and hold for 5 chimes! then let go and re boot might what to google it
Reply:Ctrl - Alt - Delete .... wait a minute... something not quite right here.... Hmmmm.
Does anyone know?
How do you reset a Mac iBook?
Here you go...
Reply:its mac kay alt key and 7 i think and hold while your turning on and hold for 5 chimes! then let go and re boot might what to google it
Reply:Ctrl - Alt - Delete .... wait a minute... something not quite right here.... Hmmmm.
In line nine, Emerson addresses the Rhodora. What question does he ask the flower? What is the response?
Question ^^
"The Rhodora"
On being asked, whence is the flower.
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals fallen in the pool
Made the black water with their beauty gay;
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for Being;
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask; I never knew;
But in my simple ignorance suppose
The self-same power that brought me there, brought you.
K well anyways, poems from back in the day i just can't stand, cause I have no clue what there saying. Its so confusing and i wanna know if you can help me out with this question i have? By the way if you dont know than dont answer.
In line nine, Emerson addresses the Rhodora. What question does he ask the flower? What is the response?
i was walking in the woulds and found a prety purple flower i tought it was the best is anyone asks well no one deserves it
something like that i hope it helped bye.
"The Rhodora"
On being asked, whence is the flower.
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals fallen in the pool
Made the black water with their beauty gay;
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for Being;
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask; I never knew;
But in my simple ignorance suppose
The self-same power that brought me there, brought you.
K well anyways, poems from back in the day i just can't stand, cause I have no clue what there saying. Its so confusing and i wanna know if you can help me out with this question i have? By the way if you dont know than dont answer.
In line nine, Emerson addresses the Rhodora. What question does he ask the flower? What is the response?
i was walking in the woulds and found a prety purple flower i tought it was the best is anyone asks well no one deserves it
something like that i hope it helped bye.
How can I pick the best tea to fit my health?
Tea is known as traditional health drink for thousands of years in China, it spreads to Asian, Europe, India, and many other countries. We divide into few groups, Black tea group, Green tea group, and other tea groups...
In different country, people have different culture to drink tea, specially in Japan and Korea, they have traditional way to make their own tea, the way to serve tea... In Japan, they make matcha power (green tea powder) with Vanilla ice cream, it becomes green tea ice cream... it is very great in Summer time!
In China, it is because the mass of land, it has many many different kinds ot tea.
In Europe, they specially like to put different black tea mixes with berries or flowers to make a good smell, because of the mixture of the tea, it becomes all different kinds of therapy...
In India, it is very close to china, old time, indian merchants just walked across china to buy tea.
Learning to drink tea is your good health classes starting stone...
How can I pick the best tea to fit my health?
I always drink chrysanthemum or green tea in the evening. I love oolong tea, but keep in mind it has significant caffeine.
Reply:My family is Euopian so in the morning i drink English Breakfast Tea or Irsh Breakfast Tea then when i get home from school i drink green tea.
Reply:The tea with the most benefits to your overall health is Oolong Tea.
During my research on nutrition I came across this site where it lists in detail the origin of Oolong as well as its benefits.
Just click on the link below.
Hope this helps.
Take care
In different country, people have different culture to drink tea, specially in Japan and Korea, they have traditional way to make their own tea, the way to serve tea... In Japan, they make matcha power (green tea powder) with Vanilla ice cream, it becomes green tea ice cream... it is very great in Summer time!
In China, it is because the mass of land, it has many many different kinds ot tea.
In Europe, they specially like to put different black tea mixes with berries or flowers to make a good smell, because of the mixture of the tea, it becomes all different kinds of therapy...
In India, it is very close to china, old time, indian merchants just walked across china to buy tea.
Learning to drink tea is your good health classes starting stone...
How can I pick the best tea to fit my health?
I always drink chrysanthemum or green tea in the evening. I love oolong tea, but keep in mind it has significant caffeine.
Reply:My family is Euopian so in the morning i drink English Breakfast Tea or Irsh Breakfast Tea then when i get home from school i drink green tea.
Reply:The tea with the most benefits to your overall health is Oolong Tea.
During my research on nutrition I came across this site where it lists in detail the origin of Oolong as well as its benefits.
Just click on the link below.
Hope this helps.
Take care
Have any ideas on how to make homemade potpourri I can simmer on the stove in a pot?? Other then oils..?
We like christmas smells, flower smells, clean smells, just not stuff over powering since I get headaches easy..Thanks..It can be food stuff or not
Have any ideas on how to make homemade potpourri I can simmer on the stove in a pot?? Other then oils..?
I use cloves. cinnamon ,orange peels.lemon peels. Vanilla.....pine needles are good for x mas smells...I have an old pot that I use just for that...set my stove top on low....and add water though out the day...
Reply:I like to boil whole cloves, cinnamon stickes, and a couple medium thick sliced lemon slices. I just toss everything in that I want, no exact measures. Every so often I forget to add more water and it almost burns in the pan, but even burnt (just slightly) it still smells good.
Poke an orange with whole cloves and find a way to hang it or just keep it on the counter or table for a nice visual. (A couple with the cloves in a pattern in a clear shallow bowl or vase would look really nice) You could also try it with lemons.
Reply:I save all of my citrus peelings and apple cores etc. and I freeze them. Every once in a while I pull them all out and add cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg etc. and simmer them on the stove. I add vanilla too. www.creativedesignunlimited.com
Reply:Making Potpourri
You don’t need a lot of expensive equipment to make potpourri. Most of items you will need can be found in your kitchen.
For blending potpourri you will need stainless steel or glass: bowls, measuring cups, and spoons. It is important that you do not use plastic. Plastics will retain the smell of the products you mix, and the oils you will be using sometimes melt plastic.
You will also need glass jars with tight-fitting lids. Dark colored glass works best. Jars will be used to store and protect potpourri during the aging process. Get some eyedroppers or plastic pipettes. You will need one for every scent you have. You will also need a high quality grain alcohol for cleaning the eyedroppers and jars from excess oil.
A mortar and pestle will be helpful too. If you do not have one a small hammer, blender, or grinder may be used instead and will be used for making powders.
To reproduce your work you want a notebook to keep track of recipes and formulas you construct. You should also get a small scale to measure ingredients.
Blending Potpourri
A potpourri can have as many as 10 scents or more to construct as quality fragrance. Your skill in blending will be developed by your impressions of fragrant combinations of materials.
When blending fragrances, always measure and blend heavier materials first. Heavier materials are roots, barks, and spices. The lighter, more delicate flowers and leaves are then added. For better aromatics, use whole forms of flowers, leaves and spices. Barks and roots can be cut and sifted from. Powders have a tendency to sift to the bottom of your potpourri and are best suited for sachets. Next, add you fixatives. Approximately 20% fixative. Lastly, add essential oils. Using eyedropper, add a little fragrance at a time. Examine the scent, adding more if needed. Take notes. To make this potpourri again, take careful notes on the weight, amount of scent, etc. that you added to this potpourri. Remember with natural products you will have some variations and an exact duplicate is next to impossible.
Once you have the fragrance you like, stir ingredients. Smell the mixture again, checking to see if the fragrance is complete.
If this is the fragrance you want, then place mixture in glass jars. Close tightly, and place in dark area for 4 to 6 weeks. Shake contents periodically to keep potpourri well mixed.
Potpourri Containers
Half the fun of potpourri is in finding the right container. While you could display it in any non-metal container that can be covered -- even an old mayonnaise jar -- that defeats the elegant Victorian spirit of a perfect potpourri. The container should match the scent.
For Victorian floral blends, choose cut or pressed glass, such as candy dishes or compotes, or a simple round rose bowl set on a saucer. At night reverse the order, setting the saucer on top as a lid. Chinese ginger jars are also good containers for rose-based blends, although they don't show off the colors as a glass or open container would.
Spicy or woodsy blends look at home in sturdy pottery bowls or pots, or in a glass bowl or wide jar set inside a rustic vine basket. Wooden boxes make good containers, too, but they will absorb the fragrance from the oils, and smell like potpourri long after they've been put to some other use.
Look for containers in flea markets, garage sales, church bazaars, and second-hand shops, and be alert for attractive jars such as those used for premium brands of jams and preserves. A metal lid is not a problem, as long as the potpourri does not stand in metal.
Potpourri Ingredients
Flowers:
Roses - Old fashioned varieties for fragrance, hybrids for color; use buds or petals
Lavender - A rich long-lasting clean fragrance
Chamomile - Pungent, heady and flowery
Orange blossoms - Very heady and sweet
Calendula - Bright orange and yellow colors, no scent
Heather - Tiny pink blossoms with delicate scent
Statice - Firm bright colored flowers, no scent
Herbs:
Rosemary - Fragrant needle-like leaves that blend well with roses
Thyme - Rich and herby
Bay leaves - Delicate, long lasting scent, whole or broken
Lemon verbena - A true lemon scent that lasts for years
Spearmint - Fresh, strong scent
Orange mint - A cologne-like fragrance
Spearmint - Fresh, cool fragrance
Marjoram leaves - A delicate herb scent
Marjoram flowers - Pale pink tufts with mild fragrance
Spices and fruit:
Cinnamon - Crisp and long-lasting, use freshly broken sticks
Cloves - Long-lasting and strong scent; use whole
Allspice - Mild spicy fragrance, use whole
Orange and lemon peels - Dried and broken for a sweet, rich scent
Others:
Cedar - Shavings or dried leaf tips; rich and woodsy
Balsam - Rich and very long lasting, use needles or tips
Hemlock cones - For bulk and appearance
Oak moss - Soft gray color, earthy aroma
Eucalyptus - The scent of a florist shop; use long leaves of mature tree
Orris root - A fixative with very little scent of its own; use chipped, not powdered
Essential oils: Choose to match the flowers and herbs; avoid spice oils, which tend to overwhelm a blend, and artificial "fruit" oils which lend a sickly-sweet, un-natural smell.
Your Own Blends
To create original blends, use this basic formula:
1 cup fragrant flowers
1/2 cup herbs
1/4 cup whole or broken spices or citrus peel
2 tablespoons chipped orris root
5-10 drops essential oil
You can vary this as you gain confidence, experimenting with new combinations by crushing a few petals or leaves together in your fingers - at the very least, your hands will smell good!
HOLIDAY SPICE SIMMERING or JAR POTPOURRI
2 cups Rose Hips - Whole................... 8 oz
1 cup Anise (Star) - Standard.............. 2 oz
1 cup Cinnamon Sticks (1-inch)......... 2-3/4 oz
1 cup Curly Pods (Natural)................. 1 oz
1 cup Ginger Root Slices................... 2 oz
1 cup Juniper Berries (Red) - Whole.... 3-1/4 oz
1 cup Noble Fir Cone Scales.............. 3/4 oz
1 cup Pine Cones - Birch................... 1 oz
1 cup Spina Cristi..................... 1-1/2 oz
1/2 cup Allspice (Jamaican) Whole...... 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Cloves - Whole................. 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Tilia Flowers.................... 3/4 oz
OIL: Bayberry or Winterberry
MERRY BERRY SIMMERING or JAR POTPOURRI
3 cups Cockscomb flowers (Dyed Red).... 1-3/4 oz
2 cups Rosebuds %26amp; Petals (Red)......... 1-1/2 oz
2 cups Rose Hips - Whole................... 8 oz
1-1/2 cups Milo Berries (Cranberry)........ 3 oz
1-1/2 cups Pine Cones - Birch.......... 1-1/2 oz
1 cup Anise (Star) - Standard.............. 2 oz
1 cup Hibiscus Flowers - Whole......... 1-1/2 oz
1 cup Juniper Berries (Red) - Whole.... 3-1/4 oz
1 cup Statice Flowers (White)............ 3/4 oz
1 cup Tilia Flowers.................... 1-1/2 oz
1/2 cup Allspice (Mexican) Whole....... 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Cloves - Whole................. 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Rosemary - Whole (Spices).......... 1 oz
OIL: Holiday Cranberry or Bayberry
Lady Victorian
lavender buds
rosebuds and petals
colored babu
angel wings colored
straw flowers colored
scent with lavender or rose or musk
riding boots
Have any ideas on how to make homemade potpourri I can simmer on the stove in a pot?? Other then oils..?
I use cloves. cinnamon ,orange peels.lemon peels. Vanilla.....pine needles are good for x mas smells...I have an old pot that I use just for that...set my stove top on low....and add water though out the day...
Reply:I like to boil whole cloves, cinnamon stickes, and a couple medium thick sliced lemon slices. I just toss everything in that I want, no exact measures. Every so often I forget to add more water and it almost burns in the pan, but even burnt (just slightly) it still smells good.
Poke an orange with whole cloves and find a way to hang it or just keep it on the counter or table for a nice visual. (A couple with the cloves in a pattern in a clear shallow bowl or vase would look really nice) You could also try it with lemons.
Reply:I save all of my citrus peelings and apple cores etc. and I freeze them. Every once in a while I pull them all out and add cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg etc. and simmer them on the stove. I add vanilla too. www.creativedesignunlimited.com
Reply:Making Potpourri
You don’t need a lot of expensive equipment to make potpourri. Most of items you will need can be found in your kitchen.
For blending potpourri you will need stainless steel or glass: bowls, measuring cups, and spoons. It is important that you do not use plastic. Plastics will retain the smell of the products you mix, and the oils you will be using sometimes melt plastic.
You will also need glass jars with tight-fitting lids. Dark colored glass works best. Jars will be used to store and protect potpourri during the aging process. Get some eyedroppers or plastic pipettes. You will need one for every scent you have. You will also need a high quality grain alcohol for cleaning the eyedroppers and jars from excess oil.
A mortar and pestle will be helpful too. If you do not have one a small hammer, blender, or grinder may be used instead and will be used for making powders.
To reproduce your work you want a notebook to keep track of recipes and formulas you construct. You should also get a small scale to measure ingredients.
Blending Potpourri
A potpourri can have as many as 10 scents or more to construct as quality fragrance. Your skill in blending will be developed by your impressions of fragrant combinations of materials.
When blending fragrances, always measure and blend heavier materials first. Heavier materials are roots, barks, and spices. The lighter, more delicate flowers and leaves are then added. For better aromatics, use whole forms of flowers, leaves and spices. Barks and roots can be cut and sifted from. Powders have a tendency to sift to the bottom of your potpourri and are best suited for sachets. Next, add you fixatives. Approximately 20% fixative. Lastly, add essential oils. Using eyedropper, add a little fragrance at a time. Examine the scent, adding more if needed. Take notes. To make this potpourri again, take careful notes on the weight, amount of scent, etc. that you added to this potpourri. Remember with natural products you will have some variations and an exact duplicate is next to impossible.
Once you have the fragrance you like, stir ingredients. Smell the mixture again, checking to see if the fragrance is complete.
If this is the fragrance you want, then place mixture in glass jars. Close tightly, and place in dark area for 4 to 6 weeks. Shake contents periodically to keep potpourri well mixed.
Potpourri Containers
Half the fun of potpourri is in finding the right container. While you could display it in any non-metal container that can be covered -- even an old mayonnaise jar -- that defeats the elegant Victorian spirit of a perfect potpourri. The container should match the scent.
For Victorian floral blends, choose cut or pressed glass, such as candy dishes or compotes, or a simple round rose bowl set on a saucer. At night reverse the order, setting the saucer on top as a lid. Chinese ginger jars are also good containers for rose-based blends, although they don't show off the colors as a glass or open container would.
Spicy or woodsy blends look at home in sturdy pottery bowls or pots, or in a glass bowl or wide jar set inside a rustic vine basket. Wooden boxes make good containers, too, but they will absorb the fragrance from the oils, and smell like potpourri long after they've been put to some other use.
Look for containers in flea markets, garage sales, church bazaars, and second-hand shops, and be alert for attractive jars such as those used for premium brands of jams and preserves. A metal lid is not a problem, as long as the potpourri does not stand in metal.
Potpourri Ingredients
Flowers:
Roses - Old fashioned varieties for fragrance, hybrids for color; use buds or petals
Lavender - A rich long-lasting clean fragrance
Chamomile - Pungent, heady and flowery
Orange blossoms - Very heady and sweet
Calendula - Bright orange and yellow colors, no scent
Heather - Tiny pink blossoms with delicate scent
Statice - Firm bright colored flowers, no scent
Herbs:
Rosemary - Fragrant needle-like leaves that blend well with roses
Thyme - Rich and herby
Bay leaves - Delicate, long lasting scent, whole or broken
Lemon verbena - A true lemon scent that lasts for years
Spearmint - Fresh, strong scent
Orange mint - A cologne-like fragrance
Spearmint - Fresh, cool fragrance
Marjoram leaves - A delicate herb scent
Marjoram flowers - Pale pink tufts with mild fragrance
Spices and fruit:
Cinnamon - Crisp and long-lasting, use freshly broken sticks
Cloves - Long-lasting and strong scent; use whole
Allspice - Mild spicy fragrance, use whole
Orange and lemon peels - Dried and broken for a sweet, rich scent
Others:
Cedar - Shavings or dried leaf tips; rich and woodsy
Balsam - Rich and very long lasting, use needles or tips
Hemlock cones - For bulk and appearance
Oak moss - Soft gray color, earthy aroma
Eucalyptus - The scent of a florist shop; use long leaves of mature tree
Orris root - A fixative with very little scent of its own; use chipped, not powdered
Essential oils: Choose to match the flowers and herbs; avoid spice oils, which tend to overwhelm a blend, and artificial "fruit" oils which lend a sickly-sweet, un-natural smell.
Your Own Blends
To create original blends, use this basic formula:
1 cup fragrant flowers
1/2 cup herbs
1/4 cup whole or broken spices or citrus peel
2 tablespoons chipped orris root
5-10 drops essential oil
You can vary this as you gain confidence, experimenting with new combinations by crushing a few petals or leaves together in your fingers - at the very least, your hands will smell good!
HOLIDAY SPICE SIMMERING or JAR POTPOURRI
2 cups Rose Hips - Whole................... 8 oz
1 cup Anise (Star) - Standard.............. 2 oz
1 cup Cinnamon Sticks (1-inch)......... 2-3/4 oz
1 cup Curly Pods (Natural)................. 1 oz
1 cup Ginger Root Slices................... 2 oz
1 cup Juniper Berries (Red) - Whole.... 3-1/4 oz
1 cup Noble Fir Cone Scales.............. 3/4 oz
1 cup Pine Cones - Birch................... 1 oz
1 cup Spina Cristi..................... 1-1/2 oz
1/2 cup Allspice (Jamaican) Whole...... 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Cloves - Whole................. 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Tilia Flowers.................... 3/4 oz
OIL: Bayberry or Winterberry
MERRY BERRY SIMMERING or JAR POTPOURRI
3 cups Cockscomb flowers (Dyed Red).... 1-3/4 oz
2 cups Rosebuds %26amp; Petals (Red)......... 1-1/2 oz
2 cups Rose Hips - Whole................... 8 oz
1-1/2 cups Milo Berries (Cranberry)........ 3 oz
1-1/2 cups Pine Cones - Birch.......... 1-1/2 oz
1 cup Anise (Star) - Standard.............. 2 oz
1 cup Hibiscus Flowers - Whole......... 1-1/2 oz
1 cup Juniper Berries (Red) - Whole.... 3-1/4 oz
1 cup Statice Flowers (White)............ 3/4 oz
1 cup Tilia Flowers.................... 1-1/2 oz
1/2 cup Allspice (Mexican) Whole....... 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Cloves - Whole................. 1-3/4 oz
1/2 cup Rosemary - Whole (Spices).......... 1 oz
OIL: Holiday Cranberry or Bayberry
Lady Victorian
lavender buds
rosebuds and petals
colored babu
angel wings colored
straw flowers colored
scent with lavender or rose or musk
riding boots
How to make a small outdoor chair from firewood?
I am a 15 year old girl, and live on a lake house. I would love to build (by myself) a small outdoor chair. The only wood that we have is round, but from a few trees which have been cutdown. They are about 18-20 inches long, and 4-6 inches wide.
I would love to make this to make my own little 'spot' by the water, complete with some flowers. I'm not sure how much wood I have, but any plan would be great. Of course it would be awesome if it isnt too hard, because I AM only 15. I have open-access to power tools and nails, etc.
How to make a small outdoor chair from firewood?
Take a tape measure and measure what you have. Send me an email and I will try to draw up a plan.....But just to let you know...firewood and plywood will have wood splinters.....Ouch!!!
Maybe you could just outfit your special hid away with an old lawn chair....It wont rot and no splinters...And you can fold it up and hide it under some brush....
Reply:Bless your heart for being so ambitious. What a great thing for you to be interested in. Figure this out and you have a real money maker on your hands! The key to this is figuring out how to join the logs together. You will probably be forced to use some form of mortise %26amp; tenon joinery, where you shape the ends of the logs to fit into a hole you carve in the accepting logs. You won't want to use nails or screws. That won't last long, and it won't work as well. Have access to a lathe? Reduce the size of the log ends, and make round holes in the accepting logs. Use a rubber mallet to tap in your logs. Don't be afraid to use some glue in there!
If for some reason you can't hack the mortise/tenon method, look into using a pocket hole jig to make hidden predrills for screws which you can make pretty with plugs. Good luck!
I would love to make this to make my own little 'spot' by the water, complete with some flowers. I'm not sure how much wood I have, but any plan would be great. Of course it would be awesome if it isnt too hard, because I AM only 15. I have open-access to power tools and nails, etc.
How to make a small outdoor chair from firewood?
Take a tape measure and measure what you have. Send me an email and I will try to draw up a plan.....But just to let you know...firewood and plywood will have wood splinters.....Ouch!!!
Maybe you could just outfit your special hid away with an old lawn chair....It wont rot and no splinters...And you can fold it up and hide it under some brush....
Reply:Bless your heart for being so ambitious. What a great thing for you to be interested in. Figure this out and you have a real money maker on your hands! The key to this is figuring out how to join the logs together. You will probably be forced to use some form of mortise %26amp; tenon joinery, where you shape the ends of the logs to fit into a hole you carve in the accepting logs. You won't want to use nails or screws. That won't last long, and it won't work as well. Have access to a lathe? Reduce the size of the log ends, and make round holes in the accepting logs. Use a rubber mallet to tap in your logs. Don't be afraid to use some glue in there!
If for some reason you can't hack the mortise/tenon method, look into using a pocket hole jig to make hidden predrills for screws which you can make pretty with plugs. Good luck!
Is infidelity the wave of our future?
It seems so often, individuals, gay or straight, are so quick to jump from person to person without a care towards their health, heart or mind. Long gone are the days of flower power and free love.
Is fidelity a thing of the past or is it only for older individuals?
Is infidelity the wave of our future?
"The Future Is Now."
Infidelity transcends matters of sexual orientation.
It comes down to what kind of *person* they are inside - not gay or straight - but what kind of character and morals they have.
For one, I hope fidelity makes a strong resurgence.
Reply:Infidelity unfortunately has always been with humans throughout our history. I'm for a committed relationship and it takes hard work not to stray.
Reply:Its not the wave of the future, its all too prevalent right now.
Is fidelity a thing of the past or is it only for older individuals?
Is infidelity the wave of our future?
"The Future Is Now."
Infidelity transcends matters of sexual orientation.
It comes down to what kind of *person* they are inside - not gay or straight - but what kind of character and morals they have.
For one, I hope fidelity makes a strong resurgence.
Reply:Infidelity unfortunately has always been with humans throughout our history. I'm for a committed relationship and it takes hard work not to stray.
Reply:Its not the wave of the future, its all too prevalent right now.
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