The sorrow and hope of Abraham: Public memory and conflict in the Holy Land

JERUSALEM - The flare-up over the Israeli government’s decision to put Rachel’s Tomb along with what Jews call the Cave of the Patriarchs and Muslims call the Ibrahimi Mosque on a list of Israeli heritage sites again puts history and memory at the centre of this conflict. Again we are reminded that those who want a better future must do a better job at dealing with the past. A series of recent encounters has placed the question of how the past is represented in the present to the forefront of my mind. While in Cairo visiting friends early this year, I joined a tour of Egyptian high school students at the “Panorama”, a museum that the Egyptian government built to commemorate the 1973 War between Egypt and Israel. The tour culminated with a rotating view of a battlefield diorama depicting what Egyptians consider to be their great victory over “the enemy”. The clear impression: “we” fought bravely and liberated our land. There is nothing about negotiations between Sadat and Begin. There is no mention of Egypt’s recognition of Israel, which is what made the return of the Sinai possible. Egypt’s decision to exchange peace for land turned it temporarily into a pariah in the Arab world; it also set the stage for subsequent peacemaking. On all of this, the Panorama is silent—even though it is in walking distance from where Sadat was assassinated. More recently, I sat in Jerusalem across the table from a Jewish couple in their sixties from the American Midwest. The man told a story about a friend of his who visited Jenin, a city in the northern West Bank. The visit, arranged at an official level, was part of an initiative to encourage economic cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians in adjacent areas of the north. The delegation stopped outside the city where the Haddad Tourist Village emerges from the lush rural landscape. In addition to a garden cafe, where families sit and eat together, an amphitheatre, a hotel and amusement park, there is a new museum of Palestinian culture and history. The Palestinians led the visiting delegation into the museum. The Jewish visitors became upset: at least some, including the friend of the man sitting across the table, walked out. This past week I asked the Haddad’s manager, the son of the owner, about the visiting delegation. He nodded his head sadly. “Yes”, he said, “they came here”. He did not understand why the visitors walked out. I toured the museum, which is in the last stages of completion. It’s beautifully done. Mostly, the dioramas focus on folkways, on Palestinian culture. The museum, which also depicts Palestinian dislocation and suffering, includes something on Baruch Goldstein, the Jewish Israeli who massacred Palestinians at the Cave of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque. Perhaps the visitors reacted to the implication that Goldstein represents them, for the overwhelming majority of Israelis and Jews worldwide reject such violence. Whatever the reasons, those who walked out missed a precious opportunity to engage with an authentic Palestinian perspective. After telling the story about the Haddad museum, the man across the table spoke about a visit that he and his wife took to where her parents lived in Europe before narrowly escaping the Nazis. He told this story with such empathy, such tenderness towards the plight of his wife’s family and his people. There were no Arabs at the table to listen, or to see the expression on this man’s face, just as he has never seen the sorrow on the face of the Haddad manager—so proud of the museum his family has built—when the Jewish visitors walked out. With the experience and the humanity of the “other” blocked from view, people too often limit empathy and understanding to their own side. In such a context, initiatives such as Project Aladdin, which provides Holocaust education in the Arab world, or PRIME, which presents the Palestinian and Israeli narratives side by side—are critical for the future. Unlike the Panorama museum in Cairo which represents a blatant manipulation, Project Aladdin, PRIME, and the Haddad museum outside of Jenin are serious efforts to represent public memory and history. They are opportunities to tell one’s own story, to engage with the story of the “other”, and to share memories in ways that enlarge the scope of empathy and understanding. We need to introduce such initiatives on a larger scale. A recent USIP (United States Institute of Peace) report proposes a formal education track to ensure that the Israeli and Palestinian governments and societies engage with one another on this critical subject. Let’s extend this track to reach the public memory beyond school buildings. Along with the other patriarchs and matriarchs, Abraham is revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims who are his spiritual children. The Cave of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque—a site of intense primordial memory that somehow must be shared—could be a good place to start. ### * Daniel Noah Moses, Ph.D., formerly a lecturer on social studies at Harvard University, is currently Director of the Delegation Leaders Program at Seeds of Peace. He recently published his first book, The Promise of Progress: The Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan. He lives in Jerusalem. This article was written for the Common Ground News Service (CGNews). Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 11 March 2010, www.commongroundnews.org Copyright permission is granted for publication.

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Bhagwan Chowdhry's FAB Campaign Aims to Put $100 in Bank Account for Every Baby

Bhagwan Chowdhry, a Professor of Finance at UCLA's Anderson School, outlines his organization's mission to give every newborn in the world access to financial legitimacy. The most stunning part of the FinancialAccess@Birth (FAB) campaign isn't the remarkable impact that participants would get from a mere $100 starting balance or even the GNP metrics envisioned to fund this campaign, its the idea that this could help erase poverty. Here's the organization's plan in full. The FAB Campaign, by Bhagwan Chowdhry, Joshua Coval, Paul Hudnut, Vijay Mahajan, and Peter Singer Imagine putting your life savings into a piggybank or under your mattress. That would be crazy, since neither offers much security, nor any interest to make the account grow. Yet, nearly half of the world's population does not have access to any formal financial services. Their savings are kept in small jars or trunks, or through a patchwork of informal methods. Nandini, a village woman in India who deposits 5 rupees every day for 220 days with her village deposit collector, only accumulates 1000 rupees after 220 days--an astonishing APR of minus 30%, notes Stuart Rutherford in his book "The Poor and Their Money." If Nandini had access to a simple bank savings account that paid a modest interest rate of 4% per annum, she would have instead saved 1113 rupees. This loss of 113 rupees may not appear to be significant, but consider the following scenario. Her young daughter, Krupa, gets ill and needs life saving medication which costs 100 rupees. If she does what any desperate mother would do, she may have to pay 5% a day to the local moneylender paying him 150 rupees month after month and still continuing to owe him 100 rupees. Lack of access to formal financial services, forces Nandinis of our world into a cycle of constant indebtedness, preventing them from building up household resources for security or investment, and perpetuating their poverty. The emergence of the microcredit industry, with innovators such as Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, ACCION in Latin America and more recently Kiva in cyberspace, has begun to address the issue of financial services for the poor. But microcredit is only one piece of the puzzle of financial inclusion, and while these early leaders provide inspiring examples, they help only a small fraction of the world's poor. The poor also suffer because they are inadequately insured against unanticipated shocks and contingencies caused by events such as illness or death of a family member, and natural calamities such as floods, droughts or earthquakes. Any security provided by savings and assets is grossly compromised for the poor who are excluded from the formal economy, as emphasized by Hernando DeSoto and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright in a recent U.N. report. Even during catastrophic events, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods and droughts, attempts to provide social insurance in the form of aid and charity are often inadequate and inconsistent. What is required to bring billions into the formal economy, and start them on the path out of poverty? We believe there is a relatively simple solution. It isn't easy and it isn't fast, and we need your help. But the proposal is feasible, and comprehensive enough that it will lead to financial inclusion for every child and young adult by 2030. We propose that starting November 11, 2011 (11/11/11), every child born in this world will start life with a Financial Access at Birth (FAB) bank account. The opening of these "FAB" bank accounts would be integrated with the official birth registration process and perhaps with electronic banking. Governments, with the help of institutional/individual donors will make a deposit of US$100 in each FAB account. This will entice parents into registering the birth of every child. An initial deposit of $100 could significantly change lives for people in poor countries. The deposit cannot be withdrawn until the child reaches an age of 16 - preventing a parent or another adult from misusing the money. Use of new technology, such as biometric identity systems, could further minimize the possibility of fraud and manipulation. How much will it cost and where will the money come from? Currently, 134 million children are born worldwide each year. Assuming that 25% of parents will voluntarily forgo the initial $100, this would require a funding of $100 per child for approximately 100 million children every year, which amounts to a total of $10 billion. It would seem sensible to require the host governments to share part of this burden themselves. This could be managed by a multilateral agency such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in which all member countries could contribute an amount that is proportional to their GNP and would receive a transfer that is proportional to the number of children born in that country. The total requirement per year of $10 billion is about one-fiftieth of one percent of the world GNP of about $50 trillion, and this would be the contribution level for each country. So, for instance, Rwanda with a GNP of nearly $4 billion would contribute less than one million dollars, and would receive a transfer of nearly $30 million for FAB accounts of nearly 300,000 children born every year. India with a GNP of nearly $1 trillion would contribute $200 million and receive $2.5 billion for FAB accounts for nearly 25 million children born in India every year. Developed nations such as the United States with a GNP of $14 trillion would contribute less than $3 billion - raised by a partnership between the government, private banks, and charitable giving - for FAB. These amounts would require prioritization, but are within the ballpark of many other development initiatives. Once the FAB account is set-up, a number of useful benefits become feasible. Relatives, private donors, other social organizations could design plans in which regular payments are made to FAB accounts to provide for education, training, health-care. Imagine that, at the time of Krupa's birth, Nandini opens a FAB account for her. A retired teacher in Germany might like to sponsor Krupa's school fees for middle school. By using the FAB account, this can happen easily, with the bank transferring payments directly to the school. Imagine further that your teenage daughter Emily decides to contribute $10 a month for Krupa for her college education. Krupa's initial $100 deposit plus a $10 a month contribution from Emily accumulates interest until Krupa turns sixteen. At a (real) interest of 4% a year, Krupa would have accumulated nearly $3000 or Rupees 150,000 that can pay for her college education in India. Another direct mechanism could be to pledge a small amount every time those who wish to give use a credit card. Supported by electronic banking, these transfers could occur automatically, at very low cost, and at limitless scale. The interest earned on the initial deposit could either be reinvested or used for providing critical services such as immunization, health-insurance or catastrophe insurance. Perhaps most importantly, delivery of aid or charity in times of emergency can be targeted to individuals and communities in affected areas. When FAB accounts are integrated with mobile telephony, those to whom the aid is directed, such as Krupa and her mother Nandini, could withdraw (only) emergency funds donated by private citizens or aid agencies, or direct payments to the FAB account from catastrophe insurance, in time of need almost immediately and without any slippage or loss that is often associated with traditional aid. This would require a serious commitment and coordination among many. Governments will have to agree to fund the initiative and allow the official birth registration process to be integrated with setting-up online bank accounts. Banks would have to do their part and determine business models to implement such accounts. Technology companies will have to develop and provide the necessary hardware and software support. The telecom industry will have to integrate mobile banking with telecom services using mobile phones. Civic and charitable organizations will have to assist with financial education and enrollment systems that would make it simple for individuals to participate in making donations and sending targeted aid. Furthermore, we would need to ensure that funds are transferred in their entirety to the recipients, which means that institutions involved must agree to bear additional administrative and transactions costs as acts of corporate social responsibility. All of the required pieces to make this happen, in fact, exist today. Korea, Singapore, Canada and the U.K. have all tried opening bank accounts at the time of birth. Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) in the United States, pioneered by Michael Sherradan, provide mechanisms to match, through a variety of government and private sector sources, savings accounts of low-income families. India is embarking on an ambitious unique identification program (UID), headed by Nandan Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys, for its entire resident population, using biometric technology. Online access for banking is the norm in many countries. Mobile banking using cell-phones has arrived in Kenya, Philippines and other countries. Organizations such as Kiva and United Prosperity have made it easy to identify people in need, and companies such as Paypal make transfer of even small amounts of money easy and instantaneous. Large amounts of financial aid from rich to poor countries already occur though organizations such as the World Bank. The time has come to integrate all of these together and provide financial access to every child that is born in the world. The idea is simple, transparent and universal. Many details need to be worked out. We invite the world community to come together to work on the implementation challenges, think creatively and persuade each other on the simplest ways to achieve various parts of the concept. You can support the FAB Campaign by visiting the Web site FABCampaign.org and signing your name. We urge leaders of technology and telecom companies, banks, non-profit foundations, microfinance institutions and government and multilateral agencies to support and join the FAB Campaign team by writing to us through the FABCampaign.org Web site. The FAB Campaign team will study the implementation of the idea by identifying a country or two to get started, and showing that this can work. For instance, it would take $30 million a year to get every child born in Rwanda a FAB account. Let's make financial security a reality for Nandini and billions just like her. Let's put our resources to work and help the poor gain another foothold on the slippery path out of poverty. To read more about the names behind the FAB Campaign, and to include yours visit FABCampaign.org

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FP Tech Desk: Twitter launches @anywhere, wants it to wind up everywhere

Twitter's new service may be called @anywhere, but the plan is to help Twitter be everywhere. Today at the South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, Texas, Twitter chief executive Evan Williams announced a new service which will allow third party Websites to integrate Twitter into their online operations. Check out our live coverage of Mr. Williams' keynote speech. The new service, dubbed @anywhere, will enable Websites to use Twitter simply by adding a few lines of code to their properties. Twitter said that sites operated by Amazon.com Inc., Yahoo Inc., YouTube, The New York Times will be among the first to offer new Twitter-integration services. "Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page — and that’s just the beginning," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the company's official blog. "Twitter has proven to be compelling in a variety of ways. With @anywhere, web site owners and operators will be able to offer visitors more value with less heavy lifting." Other sites which have pledged to take advantage of @anywhere include Microsoft's Bing, The Huffington Post, eBay, Digg and Salesforce.com. Twitter's @anywhere feature is similar to Facebook's Facebook Connect technology and the OpenID universal sign in program. Part of the reason why Twitter is seen as such a valuable online partner for organizations looking to establish and grow their footprint on the Internet is its ability to gather and disseminate real time information. With @anywhere, Twitter will be integrated into a growing number of properties, helping cement the service as the online hub for up to the minute information about everything people are saying on the social Web. The more people Tweet about what they're reading, what they're buying and what they're doing online, the more valuable Twitter's data set becomes, not just to Twitter, but to anyone who buys data from the company, including search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. “Twitter continues to defy expectations -- @anywhere may create a means for advertising, but that is not its purpose," Forrester Research social media analyst Augie Ray said in an email. "Instead, @anywhere will further cement Twitter’s place as the place where information is shared and discovered in real time. The name they’ve chosen is an obvious sign of what Twitter has in mind: They intend to be anywhere you are." Twitter is built on an open system which allows anyone to build applications which take advantage of the service. The company has said in the past that its goal is not to drive people to Twitter.com, but rather to allow them to experience Twitter through as many different platforms as possible. "We’ve developed a new set of frameworks for adding this Twitter experience anywhere on the web," Mr. Stone wrote. "Soon, sites many of us visit every day will be able to recreate these open, engaging interactions providing a new layer of value for visitors without sending them to Twitter.com." Prior to Twitter's announcement, the technology community was anxiously awaiting Mr. Williams' chat at SXSWi after reports surfaced that Twitter was preparing to unveil an advertising strategy which would help the site generate new revenue. Although Twitter has reportedly raised more than US$160-million in funding and is making money by providing search engines operated by Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. with real-time search data, observers were hoping the company would unveil a long-awaited business model. - Matt Hartley

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The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative Introduces www.DengueWatch.org - a News hub for Tracking Dengue Fever Epidemics Worldwide

SEOUL, March 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- PDVI (Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative), a program of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announces today the launch of http://www.denguewatch.org, a news hub for tracking dengue fever epidemics worldwide. Breaking news articles from reliable sources are displayed on a world map according to the location of dengue outbreaks. Dengue fever is endemic in over 100 countries and puts at risk half of the world's population. "Denguewatch.org is an important public health tool providing instant access to news regarding dengue fever epidemics and their impact on global health," said Dr. John Clemens, IVI Director General, and PDVI Acting Director. "We believe that news reports about dengue hot spots and other important developments can help public health officials track the spread and understand the growing importance of this disease." Denguewatch.org reports worldwide news alerts provided by Healthmap.org, a freely available Web site. HealthMap is a system based at Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, MIT Media Lab and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology which integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Dengue news is aggregated and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. "The Internet has become a critical medium for clinicians, public health practitioners, and the public seeking health information," said John S. Brownstein, Ph.D., co-founder of Healthmap.org with Clark Freifeld, "We are proud to collaborate with PDVI for http://www.denguewatch.org and we believe it can help foster surveillance and prevention of dengue fever worldwide." Dengue: a global health threat Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by four types of dengue viruses (type 1 to 4). Overall, the disease is a potential threat for almost half of the world's population. Of the estimated 230 million people infected annually, two million, mostly children, develop dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), a severe form of the disease[1]. DHF is a leading cause of hospitalization, placing tremendous pressure on strained medical resources. Dengue fever occurs mostly in tropical and subtropical countries in Asia and Latin America and is spreading to new parts of the globe each year. In addition, dengue affects countries such as Australia (Queensland) and the United States (Puerto Rico, Texas-Mexico border, Hawaii and the US-affiliated Pacific Islands). A substantial number of people travelling to endemic regions are also infected each year. Expansion of dengue fever is driven by increased movement of people[2], massive unplanned urbanization, added to a lack of effective mosquito control[3]. Dengue prevention requires fostering a thorough knowledge of the disease. About PDVI The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, a program of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) founded in 2001, aims to reduce the burden of dengue disease by accelerating the development, evaluation and introduction of affordable dengue vaccines. PDVI works with public and private partners to accelerate the development and introduction of a dengue vaccine that is safe, effective and affordable for children in endemic countries. PDVI is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.pdvi.org About the IVI The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is the world's only international organization devoted exclusively to developing and introducing new and improved vaccines for the world's poorest people, especially children in developing countries. Established as an initiative of the United Nations Development Program in 1997, the IVI operates under a treaty signed by 40 countries and the World Health Organization. IVI conducts research in more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America on vaccines against diarrheal infections, bacterial meningitis and pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, dengue fever and more. For further information, please visit: http://www.ivi.int --------------------------------- [1] Beatty M Letson GW Margolis HS, Estimating the global burden of dengue., Am J Trop Med Hygiene 81, 5 :231 2009 [2] Mackenzie JS, Gubler DJ, Petersen LR. Nat Med 2004 Dec; 10 (12 Supll) :S98-109 [3] Mackenzie JS, Gubler DJ, Petersen LR. Nat Med 2004 Dec; 10 (12 Supll) :S98-109

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Safely Losing Weight with Slender Pu’erh Tea

There are various benefits of Slender Pu’erh Tea; medical studies have been researching about this for over a decade. The consumption of certain teas reduces stress levels, assures you a restful sleep, improves eye sight and regulates blood circulation. Are you aware that one variety helps in digestion and weight loss? Slender Pu’erh tea helps in doing the aforesaid things in a systematic manner. For years the Chinese have been using teas for obtaining good health and now many other countries are being benefitted through this medical knowledge. The benefits of drinking Slender Pu’erh tea is it increases blood flow and circulation flushes out toxins and helps in weight loss All this is done simultaneously. This Slender Pu’erh Tea is made from wild tea trees that grow in China. This tea is consumed by the Chinese when eating a high fat content meal. It helps break down the fatty foods and cleans the digestive tract. Natural metabolism boosters are present in Slender Pu’erh tea. It assists the body in breaking down fatty foods, speeds up the process of breaking up of food at a shorter time. We know that obesity causes high blood pressure which is a big problem, however drinking this tea has increases blood circulation and this in turn brings down the blood pressure. Medication is a must for high blood pressure. Slender Pu¡¯erh is 100% natural and has no side effects whatsoever. It has no adverse reaction with any type of medication. It is a supplement drink which promotes good health. Slender Pu’erh Tea is known for its detoxifying qualities. Many harmful go into our body through the air we breathe and the food we eat. Our bodies get exhausted by trying to eliminate these toxins. This tea has proved its worth. Many times the body has a tough time dealing with the daily stress in our life and trying to undergo a healing process to encounter the toxic hazards caused by the environment. How about making things easier for the body? Slender Pu’erh tea is the perfect answer for health related problems. Slender Pu’erh Tea is suggested that you drink Slender Pu’erh tea - for loosing weight, detoxifying your body, increasing blood circulation and metabolism, lowering your blood pressure, and to have an all around good health. Make the right choice before it’s too late.!!! It has a good track record. Slender Pu’erh tea is an answer to many of your worries. It is recommended to drink one cup with each of the three meals one has throughout the day. Your body helps you protect from many different harmful substances every day. Slender Pu’erh tea can help you to help your body with its routine fight. To learn further, please visit Slimming official site today. Maybe you are interested: 1. Detoxify your body and loose weight by BodyDetox-RISK FREE Trial 2. human growth hormone (HGH) -Body Building-RISK FREE TRIAL 3. Resveratrol Select (Weight Loss Formula)-Risk Free Trial 4. Superfood supplements with risk free trial offer 5. Effective weight loss supplement - free trial offer 6. Weight Loss Made Easy-Acai Berry Actives-Free Lifetime Supply Offer Tags: Weight Loss, slimming, Slender Pu'erh Tea Related posts Lose Weight and Improve Health with Slender Pureh Tea (0) Dietrine reduces Calorie Intake (0) Abstain from Carbohydrates easily with Dietrine (0) Doubling Your Weight Loss Results with Alli (0) Alli-The Safe Weight Loss Enhancer that's guaranteed (0) Slender Pu'erh Tea, a simple method to address weight loss plans (0) Advantages of Lean cuisine diet (0) Excessive fat can reduce by the help of Thermogenic fat loss tablets (0) Adios and Adios Max to transform you into a Confident and Healthy You (0) Zotrim to help lose weight (0)

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Win a Copy of Ninja Assassin on DVD

If much violence, many flying limbs, and geysers of gore sound like a good time to you, not to mention the opportunity to spend a little time with the original Ninja badass Shô Kosugi, then look no further as we've got your chance to win a copy of James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin on DVD. Dread Central, in association with Warner Home Video, has two copies of Ninja Assassin (review here) to give away. To enter, just hit us off with an E-MAIL HERE that includes your FULL NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS, and we'll do the rest. Synopsis: Korean pop star Rain stars as heroic, deadly Raizo. Trained from childhood in the way of the Ozunu Clan ninja, he is stalked by fellow warriors for breaking free of them and their iron-willed dojo patriarch (martial arts legend Shô Kosugi) ... and is on the run with a Europol agent (Naomie Harris) who has proof the clan sells assassination services to governments. The action is start-to-finish – fast, fierce, filled with weaponry (chains, swords, staffs, shuriken) and awesome athleticism. Fear not the weapon, but the hand that wields it. Ninja Assassin is available on Blu-ray™, DVD, On Demand and Download March 16, 2010! For more visit the official Ninja Assassin site here, or buy it at the WBShop! Good luck! - Uncle Creepy VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Win stuff in the Dread Central forums!

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How to buy inexpensive clothing To Party

Go to a party means that you must wear special clothing to make you attractive and be the center of attention at the party. If you need a beautiful dress for a special occasion, you may not need to spend much money to buy a special dress. You can buy an inexpensive dress that looks more expensive. However, buying cheap clothes are usually casual and easy. Remember just a few simple tips to help you get a special costume that you want it cheap. You can shop smart and get gown elegant and cheap. Read on to learn how to buy a cheap dress for the party. Look for garage sales seasonal. In fact, during marriage and the party season, you see the costume at a high price. Therefore, you can buy cheap dress in the fall or the summer after the official season is over. Look for a simple dress. They are less expensive than complicated clothes. After that, you can put on some accessories to make your best costume. Then buy a large variety of accessories. They can make an expensive look cheap clothes. Consider scarves, jewelry, shoes and other accessories when you buy your dress. You can buy cheap clothing by browsing online stores. See catalogs are available at the online store. This dress design was inspired by the most famous designers. Try to buy a beautiful dress for the party. Providing cheap clothing online. You can find cocktail dresses bearing the brand name. In fact, other stores to find a cocktail dress discount is DressUp Discount. Try to visit this site if you want a beautiful dress with a prize of beauty. Resale shops are everywhere and you can select the appropriate one, because it varies from the fashionable clothing and a very natural class. Look for dresses at the mall or the old shops with goods or overstocks. You can dress cheap there, with different designs. Show thrift shop. While you may have some intolerance to a thrift store, you may be surprised by the many offers of clothing than you can find. Go through the racks of dresses to find cheap and beautiful. Wait for sales. If you have casual clothes you really want, but it is really expensive, wait for it to sell. The dress may be completed within your budget, after all. Instead of buying the dress, you can rent designer clothes at low prices. Enter the Elite Closet, and then you can pay the price for getting hired to dress up your event. Wearing a dress, then return to the company in the prepaid mailer provided. Beautiful and elegant dress with a dress that you'll find that you become the center of attention at the party. For an attractive performance does not require much money. If you're really smart to shop. You have the dress you want a good price. These few tips to help you buy a dress efficiently at low cost for the party.

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10:30 PM: Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman

Mike and Willie are challenged to investigate the microbial world of germs and discover which places in Mike's house are the "germiest." With the help of a public health expert, the boys swab several locations in Mike's house. Then, they head off to a lab to grow the germs in culture and analyze the growth of bacteria to determine which place has the most germs. Meanwhile Nina and Madi visit a chocolate factory and learn how to make candy. The girls quickly learn that it's not as easy as it looks, and that they must work together to accomplish their challenge. Go to KQED.org for additional air times and email reminders, or go to this program's official site.

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The Marathon De Sables: 3 weeks to go

I’d firstly like to say a big thank you to all those who have kindly sponsored me to do this mad race, please if you would like to help me raise money for F.R.O.D.O. then please visit my just giving site at justgiving.com/georgie-islip Thank you for all your support as it will keep me going through the tough stages of the race. I’ve just read the official website and seen the following: “Exclusively for the darbaroud.com website, I can reveal and confirm what numerous competitors have imagined for the 2010 edition! Yes indeed, the course, which is still made up of 6 stages, has been slightly extended to reach a total of 250 km - the 25th anniversary requires this! The itinerary will be packed with the most beautiful sites in the Saharan provinces. The menu will include dunes, mountains, dried up lakes, regs, oases and … more dunes!” This is excellent as it is 6km shorter than I thought! Brilliant news! Although I think it may be harder!

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Tron Legacy Trailer

The Tron Legacy trailer is available online and it looks great! You can watch a HD version via this link or you can visit the official Disney Tron site. While it did give me chills down my spine (I love Tron), I do have some doubts about the story set up. How is it possible [...]

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