Pictured Beethoven
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
Excerpt from Khaled Hosseini´s A Thousand Splendid Suns
The early 1970s fashion scene was very similar to 1969, just a bit more flamboyant.
Polyester was the material of choice and bright colors were everywhere. Men and women alike were wearing very tight fitting pants and platform shoes.
Early 1970s fashion was a fun era. It culminated some of the best elements of the 60s and perfected and/or exaggerated them.
By the late 1970s the pant suit, leisure suit and track suit was what the average person was sporting. Every woman had a cowl neck sweater in her closet and every man had a few striped v-neck velour shirts.
Tunics, culottes and robes were also very popular. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which dresses were meant to be worn at home, and which ones were for a night on the town.
It is probably the first full decade in which women could be seen wearing pants in every walk of life.
It’s also hard to miss the fact that color almost completely disappeared by 1979. Earth tones, grays, whites and blacks were back in full force, as people had apparently tired of the super bright tones of the early 1970s.
There is one common theme throughout fashion in the 1970s: pants were tight fitting.
Pictured Men's 70's
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking”
Pictured: Women´s Japan 01
From Jackie O to space age garments, to hippie fashion.
Pictured: Decades 60's
The 1960s was a very interesting time for fashion. The decade saw a lot of change, not only in styles and fabrics, but also in whom popular fashion was directed toward.
The early part of the decade was still rather conservative, as it was targeted to adults, however fashion ideals began to change very quickly into the mid-60s. This began to change in the 1960s as the tastes and preferences of the youth of the time became just as important in the fashion world, as youth became highly celebrated throughout North America and Europe, designers began to create clothing for them.
The mid-60s saw a lot of new innovations and sources of inspiration in fashion. The “space age” look became all the rage with lots of metallic and unusual materials. The Mod look was well-tailored, with clean lines and very slim silhouettes.
Also popular during the mid-late 60s were the overtly flamboyant Edwardian-inspired looks and the beginnings of the hippie movement. On the flip side was the hippie movement, which began during the end of the era. This was very much inspired by political goings on of the time and tended to be quite androgynous.
I don´t know about you, I remember sitting on the couch to watch reruns of Star Trek a decade later, and this kind of clothing just bring memories.
How about you?
Pictured Decades 1950's
Enamored of the 1950s? I s there really a more glamorous period of time? Women were allowed to look like women, not prepubescent boys (which we can thank the 60s and Twiggy for). For some, the reason they wear vintage clothing is pure vanity!
They feel good wearing vintage items so therefore they wear them. But, also this isn’t necessarily the number one reason most people wear vintage. Dita Von Teese has mentioned she bought vintage because it looked so much like the couture she always admired but wasn’t affordable to her at the time. Now that she can afford high fashion she wears it quite often.
I imagine there are other reasons for wearing vintage. Of course the cost can be much lower then buying quality modern garments. Plus there is the fact the chances of someone else showing up in the exact same vintage dress is quite small. Some people like the “green” factor of vintage- it isn’t contributing to the growing piles of garbage found across the world. Still others like that much of what they buy has a history behind it, especially when so many vintage garments are handmade! I often wonder who wore the dresses I now own and what their story is.
Why do you wear vintage? What is your favorite decade of clothing and why do you feel an affinity for it?
Let’s get an entertaining discussion going in the comments, we are seriously intrigued with this topic.
“What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes.”
Monday morning to remember: Coffee solves everything!
Pictured Work Propaganda
Pictured: Bee Nectar
Which Foods Depend on Bees?
Many of the foods and crops we rely on need or, at the very least, benefit from bee pollination. Here's a list of some of those crops.
- Alfalfa
- Almonds
- Apples
- Asparagus
- Beans
- Beets
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Brussels sprouts
- Buckwheat
- Cabbage
- Cantaloupe
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Cherries
- Chestnuts
- Chives
- Clover
- Cranberries
- Cucumber
- Currants
- Eggplant
- Flax
- Garlic
- Gooseberries
- Grapes
- Horseradish
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Mustard
- Onions
- Parsley
- Peaches
- Pears
- Plums
- Pumpkins
- Radishes
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb
- Squash
- Strawberries
- Sunflowers
- Sweet potatoes
- Turnip
- Watermelon
Pictured: Bee Friend
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
Pictured Christianity All Saints
Pictured: Classified
In the U.S., information is called "classified" if it has been assigned one of the three levels: Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret. Information that is not so labeled is called "Unclassified information".
The desired degree of secrecy about information is known as its sensitivity. Sensitivity is based upon a calculation of the damage to national security that the release of the information would cause. The United States has three levels of classification: Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. Each level of classification indicates an increasing degree of sensitivity. Thus, if one holds a Top Secret security clearance, one is allowed to handle information up to the level of Top Secret, including Secret and Confidential information. If one holds a Secret clearance, one may not then handle Top Secret information, but may handle Secret and Confidential classified information.
Levels of classification used by the U.S. government
Core secrets
The highest level of classification. Information at this level is released only to select government individuals (NSA exclusively).
Top Secret
The highest security level outside of the NSA framework. "Top Secret shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe." It is believed that 1.4 million Americans have top secret clearances.
Secret
This is the second-highest classification. Information is classified Secret when its unauthorized disclosure would cause "serious damage" to national security. Most information that is classified is held at the secret sensitivity.
Confidential
This is the lowest classification level of information obtained by the government. It is defined as information that would "damage" national security if publicly disclosed without the proper authorization.
Public Trust
Despite common misconception, a public trust position is not a security clearance, and is not the same as the confidential clearance. Certain positions which require access to sensitive information, but not information which is classified, must obtain this designation through a background check. Public Trust Positions can either be moderate-risk or high-risk.
Unclassified
Unclassified is not technically a classification; this is the default and refers to information that can be released to individuals without a clearance.
“Let’s rather be completely exhausted from the hard times which breed success, than well rested from achieving nothing.”
Waking up tired from a long week's chores.. is that a blessing or what?
Pictured Women Tee GUNS
Given our post More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S., someone suggested that the growth of middle class in Mexico might be a reason.
Before jumping to conclussions, what does it means to be middle class in Mexico?
A member of the middle class should meet some of these criteria:
Can afford to send one or more children to University and pay for their child's room, board, and expenses outside of the home.
Works as a licensed professional (Licenciado)
Lives in a good neighborhood
Owns a car less than 5 years old
Owns a successful business, or works in management of a successful business
Can afford to vacation in places where no family members are residents
Salary ranges vary according the region where the family lives, since living wages are very different between states in Mexico, also, note that credit card use is more a luxury than a commodity in Mexico, however, store credits are very easy to obtain.
Truth is, there are several studies that suggest that middle class is dissapearing in Mexico, leaving a gap between low and high economical segments of population.
Where do you read us from? What do you consider middle class?
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
Family reunification, Top reason for return
More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated here since the end of the Great Recession, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from both countries. The same data sources also show the overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the two countries is at its smallest since the 1990s, mostly due to a drop in the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the U.S.
From 2009 to 2014, 1 million Mexicans and their families (including U.S.-born children) left the U.S. for Mexico, according to data from the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID). U.S. census data for the same period show an estimated 870,000 Mexican nationals left Mexico to come to the U.S., a smaller number than the flow of families from the U.S. to Mexico.
Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the U.S. each year. This report uses the best available government data from both countries to estimate the size of these flows. The Mexican data sources — a national household survey, and two national censuses — asked comparable questions about household members’ migration to and from Mexico over the five years previous to each survey or census date. In addition, estimates of Mexican migration to the U.S. come from U.S. Census Bureau data, adjusted for undercount, on the number of Mexican immigrants who live in the U.S.
“To Forgive The Terrorists Is Up To God, But To Send Them To Him Is Up To Me. ”
A quote attributed to Vladimir Putin circulated in the wake of the Paris attacks, crediting him with the following statement: "To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me."
The line predictably registered with critics of President Barack Obama, whose rhetoric following the Islamic State group's assault on Paris was decidedly more measured.
Just one problem: It looks like Putin didn't really make the remarks.
The story seemed to spread after a Russia Today anchor attributed the quote to Putin in a tweet. Later, Remi Maalouf apologized:
In the 2004 movie "Man on Fire," Denzel Washington's character discusses who exactly is responsible for arranging face-to-face meetings between bad guys and the Man Upstairs.
A passenger arrived from Mexico on Nov. 2 and was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists, who found 450 pork tamales wrapped in plastic bags in the passenger’s luggage. S/he apparently denied that the tamales were made with pork, which is on the list of products that travelers may not bring into the country under customs regulations.
The passenger would have been in the clear had he tried to bring sweet tamales – or those all masa ones that always seem to be left over. But bringing pork from another country into the United States carries potentially serious health risks, according to Customs and Border Protection.
“Although tamales are a popular holiday tradition, foreign meat products can carry serious animal diseases from countries affected by outbreaks of Avian influenza, mad cow and swine fever,” an agency’s acting field operations in Los Angeles, said in a statement.
On 18 November 1307, Tell visited Altdorf with his young son and passed by the hat, publicly refusing to bow to it, and so was arrested. Gessler—intrigued by Tell's famed marksmanship yet resentful of his defiance—devised a cruel punishment: Tell and his son would be executed, but he could redeem his life by shooting an apple off the head of his son, Walter, in a single attempt. Tell split the apple with a bolt from his crossbow.
But Gessler noticed that Tell had removed two crossbow bolts from his quiver, not one. Before releasing him, he asked why. Tell was reluctant to reply, but after Gessler promised he would not attempt to kill him, he replied that if he had killed his son, he would have used the second bolt on Gessler himself. Gessler was angered and had Tell bound, saying that while he had promised to spare his life, he would imprison Tell for the remainder of the life he had been granted.
Tell was brought to Gessler's boat to be taken to the dungeon in his castle at Küssnacht. But, as a storm broke on Lake Lucerne, the soldiers were afraid that their boat would founder, and they begged Gessler to allow them to remove Tell's shackles so he could steer the boat and save them. Gessler agreed, and Tell used the opportunity to escape, leaping from the boat at the rocky site now (and already in the White Book) known as theTellsplatte ("Tell's slab"), since the 16th century the site of a memorial chapel.
The Hohle Gasse betweenImmensee and Küssnacht.
Tell ran cross-country to Küssnacht. As Gessler arrived, Tell assassinated him with the second crossbow bolt along a stretch of the road cut through the rock between Immensee and Küssnacht, now known as theHohle Gasse. Tell's blow for liberty sparked a rebellion in which he played a leading part, leading to the formation of the Swiss Confederation.
Today was a stressful and intense team-bonding experience, we couldn’t be happier.
We had great expectations and were pleasantly surprised by the response of our community on our Opening Day.
We appreciate the comments we hear along the day, we love hearing compliments of our designs, and we can’t wait for the items to be received by you, so you can feel the high quality materials used and the great print techniques.
To us, every piece delivered is not only a clothing, but a form of individual expression that will last long.
Thinking about it, we would like to mention the fact that the most requested item was the Joan Of Arc shirt,
which can be found here. What do you think about that?
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We may look different, however, inside we are all alike. We were raised in different environments, yet, we all breathe the same air, drink the same water, bleed the same color and walk away from pain whenever possible.
The unfortunate events in Paris can have as many explanations as actors involved, however, we feel ideas should be discussed with wit, and differences must be accepted with respect.
Hate should never be part of an argument.
We strongly believe that differences must be used to bond humanity. Diversity makes us wiser.
Our thoughts are with the victim’s families not only in Paris tonight, but Beirut the day before, and all those who live under the shadow of senseless terror.