Halloween: In the Workplace
by Joseph Paone
Today, in case you didn't know, is Halloween! A holiday where you can pretend to be someone or something you are not and be in a fantasy, it is fantastic...if you are a child. If you are an adult, however, it is borderline creepy to see other adults (without children) dressing up in costumes. To me, there is something especially eerie about single adults dressing up in weird costumes and "inviting" young children into their homes for "treats." I don't know, maybe it's only weird in San Francisco.
What is interesting about this holiday is that it is socially acceptable for professional adults to dress up in costume in their place of business. So if you do have an office job, I am sure that you are seeing some people that have taken the liberty to express themselves on this holiday. Below are the top five best Halloween costumes to wear at work:
5. Ninja - Not so much for the character, but the fact that it is the closest thing to wearing pajamas at work. You might even get a cool office nick name out of it.
4. Executioner - This is basically a ninja costume with a one of those axe type weapons. Any time you can bring a plastic weapon into the office is sure to be a good time.
3. James Bond - If you wear a suit to the office already then all you need is some type of fake gun. If you bring a gun that actually shots plastic bullets I can guarantee that today you will be popular.
2. Angel - If you are a lady then all this consists of is wearing wings. Simple and easy.
1. Your Boss - Make fun of him/her right in front of their face and they can't do a thing about it. Don't just dress the part, but also mimic their mannerisms and voice if possible. Note: if your boss has zero sense of humor then this is probably not a good idea and will not result in any type of promotion in the future.
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2/12/2008
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Have A Look At These Cake Decorating Halloween Themes
by Muna wa Wanjiru
Cake decorating Halloween themes can be a blast. The cake actually has become an essential part of our celebrations today. May that be a birthday, wedding, anniversary, homecoming party or a house warming ceremony, with the festive food you will find a decorated cake on the dining table. So when it is Halloween time you will find a cake to match the festivities.
The tradition of Halloween dates back thousands of years to Celtic rituals. People believed that on once a year the human world and the other dark world of the spirits and ghosts overlap. It is possible for the spirits to return to earth. The date was fixed as October 31.
In the olden days the Celts celebrated their new year on November 1. Which was a official day marked as the end of summer and beginning of cold and dark winter in Ireland. Over the years two Roman traditions were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration. The first tradition was commemorating the dead and the second was to honor the Roman Goddess of fruit and trees called Pomona.
The modern day celebration of Halloween is the mixture of the ancient beliefs and now it is celebrated to have fun.
The surrounding imagery for Halloween is a mixture of old customs and traditions and of course American filmmakers and graphic artists. They have come up with amazing characters. The common theme is dark and mysterious. It also involves skeletons, ghosts, mythical monsters. Bats, Owls and crows along with haunted houses and pumpkin men, black cats are very common things that are associated with Halloween.
All of these things are to be found on a cake decorating for Halloween. The house is decorated to resemble to the haunted house or for Dracula's castle and the cake is decorated with spiders, black cats or bats.
You can get cake toppings with figures associated with Halloween. The figures could be that of Grim Reaper, or Halloween witch. You can have fun with these cake toppers. Cake decorating Halloween can be a family fun activity. If your children can join to decorate the cake the entire family can have lots of fun.
You get many more things to decorate your Halloween cake in the market. Few of them are Halloween Skeleton and hands that you can stick on the cake. You get some spooky looking rings that can be placed on the cake to add to the spirit of the season. 3D Halloween Luminaries Picks can add another dimension to your cake. The predominant color of the season is orange and black. If you have black icing on the cake and it is a chocolate cake and if you stick orange illuminated sticks on the cake it will really blend in with the atmosphere of Halloween.
Cake decorating Halloween can be a fun filled activity for the entire family and it can be a very enriching experience for all the members of the family.
Muna wa Wanjiru Has Been Researching and Reporting on Cake Decorating for Years. For More Information on Cake Decorating Halloween, Visit His Site at CAKE DECORATING HALLOWEEN
by Muna wa Wanjiru
Cake decorating Halloween themes can be a blast. The cake actually has become an essential part of our celebrations today. May that be a birthday, wedding, anniversary, homecoming party or a house warming ceremony, with the festive food you will find a decorated cake on the dining table. So when it is Halloween time you will find a cake to match the festivities.
The tradition of Halloween dates back thousands of years to Celtic rituals. People believed that on once a year the human world and the other dark world of the spirits and ghosts overlap. It is possible for the spirits to return to earth. The date was fixed as October 31.
In the olden days the Celts celebrated their new year on November 1. Which was a official day marked as the end of summer and beginning of cold and dark winter in Ireland. Over the years two Roman traditions were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration. The first tradition was commemorating the dead and the second was to honor the Roman Goddess of fruit and trees called Pomona.
The modern day celebration of Halloween is the mixture of the ancient beliefs and now it is celebrated to have fun.
The surrounding imagery for Halloween is a mixture of old customs and traditions and of course American filmmakers and graphic artists. They have come up with amazing characters. The common theme is dark and mysterious. It also involves skeletons, ghosts, mythical monsters. Bats, Owls and crows along with haunted houses and pumpkin men, black cats are very common things that are associated with Halloween.
All of these things are to be found on a cake decorating for Halloween. The house is decorated to resemble to the haunted house or for Dracula's castle and the cake is decorated with spiders, black cats or bats.
You can get cake toppings with figures associated with Halloween. The figures could be that of Grim Reaper, or Halloween witch. You can have fun with these cake toppers. Cake decorating Halloween can be a family fun activity. If your children can join to decorate the cake the entire family can have lots of fun.
You get many more things to decorate your Halloween cake in the market. Few of them are Halloween Skeleton and hands that you can stick on the cake. You get some spooky looking rings that can be placed on the cake to add to the spirit of the season. 3D Halloween Luminaries Picks can add another dimension to your cake. The predominant color of the season is orange and black. If you have black icing on the cake and it is a chocolate cake and if you stick orange illuminated sticks on the cake it will really blend in with the atmosphere of Halloween.
Cake decorating Halloween can be a fun filled activity for the entire family and it can be a very enriching experience for all the members of the family.
Muna wa Wanjiru Has Been Researching and Reporting on Cake Decorating for Years. For More Information on Cake Decorating Halloween, Visit His Site at CAKE DECORATING HALLOWEEN
12/31/2007
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A Scary Halloween: Bigotry in America
by Walter Brasch
WANDERINGS, by Walter Brasch For release: after Oct. 29, 2007 brasch@bloomu.edu
TAGS: Halloween, bigotry, racism, Christianity, Islam, Muslim, Inquisition, U.S. Postal Service, 9/11
A Halloween Scare by Walter Brasch
There are a lot of scary things in the world. There's the "fun-scary"--kids who dress up as clowns, monsters, or fairy princesses once a year to get a month's supply of candy, which they'll finish off by morning. There's scary movies, from "Jaws" to "Friday the 13th" to--well--"Scary Movie." The murder mystery genre--in books, TV, and film--can scare even the least gullible. What's even scarier is that there were about 1.4 million violent crimes last year; about 17,000 of them were murders, about 89 percent from firearms, according to the FBI. Poverty, the deterioration of the environment, and Dick Cheney are all scary. But the scariest of all is ignorance, hatred, and bigotry, wrapped within the cloak of fear. This past week, along with a mini-mail list of about 60, I received an e-mail from a friend. She's a nice lady, relatively bright, and active in community affairs. The e-mail has been around for several years, but is refreshed every year between Halloween and Christmas. As is custom, thousands who receive it forward it to thousands of others who are asked to boycott stamps that honor Muslim holidays. The first lines of the e-mail are bold. "How ironic is this??!!" it screams at us. "They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp . . ." The graphics-laden e-mail displays a 37-cent postage stamp. The rest of the e-mail, all in bold type and colors, tells us that we are supposed to remember the "MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103," the "MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993," and the "MUSLIM" bombings of the military barracks in Saudi Arabia and American embassies in Africa, the U.S.S. Cole, and 9/11. We are told not only to "remember to adamantly and vocally boycott this stamp," but that buying this stamp "would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors." We are urged to forward the e-mail to "every patriotic American you know." The stamp, according to the U.S. Postal Service, was issued to commemorate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, considered by Muslims as the two most important festivals in their calendar year. The calligraphy in the center of the stamp translates literally as "blessed festival," or more loosely as, "May your religious holiday be blessed." The stamp was first issued on Sept. 1, 2001, and then reissued in 2002, 2006, and in September this year to reflect postage increases. Although the Post Office each year issues a stamp to honor Christmas, it also issues a non-denominational holiday stamp. It also issues stamps to honor Chanukah and Kwanzaa. Those who write and forward the e-mails of intolerance don't understand, and probably never will, that while some Muslim extremists were at the heart of some terrorist plots, they don't represent Islam or any other religion. If we believe that the few Muslim terrorists represent the entire religion, we must then go to the absurdity of believing that we should boycott all Christmas stamps because some Christian extremists destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City and murdered 178 and wounded more than 800. We would have to boycott the Christmas stamp because God-fearing Christians lynched as many as 10,000 Americans--most of them Black but many of whom were Jews, Italians, and Irish--in the century after the Civil War. We would condemn Christianity because of the Inquisitions of the 15th and 16th centuries. We would blame the Protestants and the Catholics for a religious civil war in Northern Ireland that led to the deaths of more than 3,700 in a four decade period. We would never speak favorably of any German or millions of other Europeans because the Nazis and their collaborators, good Christians all, launched the holocaust that led to the murders of 12 million and a war that claimed more than 50 million lives, most of them civilian. On Halloween, we see pre-teen girls cutely dressed as witches, happily going door to door for candy, and we readily help them get the sugar-kick they expect every Oct. 31. We don't condemn these pretend-witches, unlike Christians of the 17th century America who burned and drowned women because they were "witches." Every religion has its militant extremists who violate laws and commandments against murder, but every religion has people of peace who believe in love and tolerance. Indeed, by condemning all Muslims, we also condemn ourselves to ignorance, hatred, bigotry, and fear.
by Walter Brasch
WANDERINGS, by Walter Brasch For release: after Oct. 29, 2007 brasch@bloomu.edu
TAGS: Halloween, bigotry, racism, Christianity, Islam, Muslim, Inquisition, U.S. Postal Service, 9/11
A Halloween Scare by Walter Brasch
There are a lot of scary things in the world. There's the "fun-scary"--kids who dress up as clowns, monsters, or fairy princesses once a year to get a month's supply of candy, which they'll finish off by morning. There's scary movies, from "Jaws" to "Friday the 13th" to--well--"Scary Movie." The murder mystery genre--in books, TV, and film--can scare even the least gullible. What's even scarier is that there were about 1.4 million violent crimes last year; about 17,000 of them were murders, about 89 percent from firearms, according to the FBI. Poverty, the deterioration of the environment, and Dick Cheney are all scary. But the scariest of all is ignorance, hatred, and bigotry, wrapped within the cloak of fear. This past week, along with a mini-mail list of about 60, I received an e-mail from a friend. She's a nice lady, relatively bright, and active in community affairs. The e-mail has been around for several years, but is refreshed every year between Halloween and Christmas. As is custom, thousands who receive it forward it to thousands of others who are asked to boycott stamps that honor Muslim holidays. The first lines of the e-mail are bold. "How ironic is this??!!" it screams at us. "They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp . . ." The graphics-laden e-mail displays a 37-cent postage stamp. The rest of the e-mail, all in bold type and colors, tells us that we are supposed to remember the "MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103," the "MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993," and the "MUSLIM" bombings of the military barracks in Saudi Arabia and American embassies in Africa, the U.S.S. Cole, and 9/11. We are told not only to "remember to adamantly and vocally boycott this stamp," but that buying this stamp "would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors." We are urged to forward the e-mail to "every patriotic American you know." The stamp, according to the U.S. Postal Service, was issued to commemorate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, considered by Muslims as the two most important festivals in their calendar year. The calligraphy in the center of the stamp translates literally as "blessed festival," or more loosely as, "May your religious holiday be blessed." The stamp was first issued on Sept. 1, 2001, and then reissued in 2002, 2006, and in September this year to reflect postage increases. Although the Post Office each year issues a stamp to honor Christmas, it also issues a non-denominational holiday stamp. It also issues stamps to honor Chanukah and Kwanzaa. Those who write and forward the e-mails of intolerance don't understand, and probably never will, that while some Muslim extremists were at the heart of some terrorist plots, they don't represent Islam or any other religion. If we believe that the few Muslim terrorists represent the entire religion, we must then go to the absurdity of believing that we should boycott all Christmas stamps because some Christian extremists destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City and murdered 178 and wounded more than 800. We would have to boycott the Christmas stamp because God-fearing Christians lynched as many as 10,000 Americans--most of them Black but many of whom were Jews, Italians, and Irish--in the century after the Civil War. We would condemn Christianity because of the Inquisitions of the 15th and 16th centuries. We would blame the Protestants and the Catholics for a religious civil war in Northern Ireland that led to the deaths of more than 3,700 in a four decade period. We would never speak favorably of any German or millions of other Europeans because the Nazis and their collaborators, good Christians all, launched the holocaust that led to the murders of 12 million and a war that claimed more than 50 million lives, most of them civilian. On Halloween, we see pre-teen girls cutely dressed as witches, happily going door to door for candy, and we readily help them get the sugar-kick they expect every Oct. 31. We don't condemn these pretend-witches, unlike Christians of the 17th century America who burned and drowned women because they were "witches." Every religion has its militant extremists who violate laws and commandments against murder, but every religion has people of peace who believe in love and tolerance. Indeed, by condemning all Muslims, we also condemn ourselves to ignorance, hatred, bigotry, and fear.
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