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December 17, 2010 by
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Decorating your Venue
If you are actually getting married at Christmas time then your chosen venue may already have their Christmas decorations up so it is worth finding this out first as you can match your colour theme. Make sure you have a Christmas tree in the venue so you can decorate it with your chosen colours, you could also ask your guests to place your wedding presents under the tree. When decorating the venue use seasonal ornaments such as holly bushes, pine cones and ivy and of course mistletoe. For that winter wonderland theme you could hire a snow machine or a snow blanket and have some statues scattered about of snowmen, Polar bears and Penguins etc. If the outside of the venue have bushes or trees then you could make it more seasonal with lights or lanterns.
Table Decorations and Favours
You could have plain white table cloths with rich red or green runners and matching bows for the seats. Instead of flowers as centre pieces why not use festive candles. You could sprinkle glitter or mini snowflakes on each table and place a cracker at each place setting. For napkins use your chosen seasonal colour and tuck a sprig of mistletoe wrapped in ribbon round them. For name settings use baubles or mini Santa’s or snowmen. For favours you could have mini Santa sacks filled with chocolate gold coins or mini Santa’s. Alternatively you could hang your favours on the Christmas tree such as baubles made up with your names and date of wedding, and then your guests could each take one of the tree before they leave. Another good idea i have seen is personalised candles.
Wedding Cake and food
Traditionally Christmas Cake is a rich fruit cake so you could have this with a festive coloured ribbon round it and decorated festively with holly and mistletoe on the top. Alternatively you could go for a sponge or chocolate cake decorated in the same way. If you would prefer a
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December 06, 2010 by
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The founding years
The name “Grass Roots” originated in 1965 as the name of a band project by the Los Angeles, California songwriter and producer duo of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Sloan and Barri had written several songs in an attempt by their record company, Dunhill Records to cash in on the budding folk rock movement. One of these songs was “Where Were You When I Needed You,” which was recorded by Sloan and Barri and a now forgotten line-up of studio musicians. Sloan provided the lead vocals and played guitar. The song was released under “The Grass Roots” name and sent, as a demo, to several radio stations of the San Francisco Bay area.
When moderate interest in this new band arose, Sloan and Barri went to look for a group that could incorporate The Grass Roots name. They found one in a San Francisco group named “The Bedouins” and cut a new version with that band’s lead vocalist, Willie Fulton. In 1965, the Grass Roots got their first official airplay on Southern California radio stations, such as KGB(AM) in San Diego and KHJ in Los Angeles with a version of the Bob Dylan song, “Mr. Jones (Ballad Of A Thin Man)”. For some months, The Bedouins were the first “real” Grass Roots but the partnership with Sloan and Barri broke up when the band demanded more space for their own more blues rock-oriented material (which their producers were not willing to give them). Willie Fulton, Denny Ellis, and David Stensen went back to San Francisco, with drummer Joel Larson the only one who remained (he was to become a member of a later Grass Roots line-up, as well). In the meantime, the second version of “Where Were You When I Needed You” peaked in the top 40 in mid-1966; an album of the same name sold poorly, probably because there were no Grass Roots anymore to promote it at the time of its release.
The years of success
The group’s third and by far most successful incarnation was finally found in a Los Angeles band,
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December 05, 2010 by
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IMPACTS OF CHRISTIANITY ON THE NYISHIS:
A CASE STUDY ON HIYA VILLAGE: KURUNG KUMEY DISTRICT, ARUNACHAL PRADESH
INTRODUCTION
Rapid religious change is gradually occurring in the Hiya village in the recent years. Three Christian prayer Churches— a Baptist, a Catholic, and a more recently constructed a Revivalist —already exist in Hiya village, a largest village of Kurung Kumey District. Despite small population size of Christianity in Hiya village in mid 1980s, when Christianity was first introduced into the village, conversion has increased. This has also led in the present day to doubts amongst people living in Hiya village about the moral desirability of ritually interacting with Uyub (termed ‘devils’ by Christian missionaries and converts). In the village, oral historical forms of knowledge, of which shaman-priests and accomplished storytellers are the main custodians, remain robust. However, many people oscillate between Christian forms of worship and ritual engagement with Uyub. Whilst many people in village have a strong faith in the efficacy of modern medicines, incidents of human misfortune, illness, and a wide range of other phenomena are still commonly referred back to the activity of Uyub. In the event of serious or prolonged illnesses, people often take the long journey, sometimes of days, to the nearest medical facilities in Ziro and Itanagar. If medical interventions fail, people usually turn to the shaman-priests for diagnosis through divination, and ritual forms of healing.
Many who convert to Christianity develop syncretistic forms of understanding. Whilst many preachers request members of their congregations to discontinue all ritual practices, and in many cases seek to dissuade people of the power and influence of Uyub, concerns about the influence of malign and benign Uyub persist. Thus Nyishi Christians
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