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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sadie Arabic Belly Dance
Suzy Evans has spent a significant chunk of her life debunking myths about belly dancers.
"There were so many times when I came across people who thought that belly dancers were like strippers," she said. "Or the belief that belly dancers only come from the Middle East."
Since she began her career in the 1970s, Evans has been on a mission to educate the public about a dance form "that is so much more than what you might see in a restaurant or in a class." As the founder of the now 11-year-old International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance (IAMED), Evans is producing her fourth "This Is Belly Dance!" concert at the Ford Amphitheatre on Aug. 11.
In addition to giving "top-end" dancers a prime performance opportunity, Evans views these concerts as a kind of belly dance 101 for the general public. "People sometimes think this dance is just another form of exercise that's being offered at their gym or something that's been done to entertain men," she said. "But there is so much to belly dancing, and belly dancers have to be as talented and work as hard as any other kind of dancer."
Featuring some 60 performers from all over the country, the concert will present dances ranging from flashy "Arabic disco" and Bollywood numbers to demonstrations of classical styles, such as the nuanced and controlled Egyptian dances and the more exuberant Turkish dances, often performed with finger cymbals.
And though they might have stage names like "Jamileh" or "Delilah," the dancers hail from all ethnic backgrounds.
"Most belly dancers today are American," said Evans, who estimates that "a good number" of belly dancers are Jewish.
Belly dancing is truly an international dance, with people of all races and cultures embracing it."
Mae Ziglin Meidav, a Jewish belly dancer from Berkeley, has taught and performed belly dance since the early 1980s and never had any "qualms about integrating Arabic music and culture and attending annual belly dance festivals."
I loved combining Arab and Israeli songs when putting together music for my performance troupe," she said.
Meidav, who's also a playwright, actress, sociologist and wife of an Israeli, noted that belly dancing in recent years has become more acceptable in Israel. "There used to be a cultural stigma, similar to the snobbery that valued European culture over Middle Eastern culture," she said. "Today my niece teaches belly dancing in Israel, and there is definitely a thriving community of belly dancers."
What unites belly dancers, be they from Israel or Korea, is gender.
"It doesn't matter if you're short, tall, 60 years old or 300 pounds. This is a dance that's uniquely female," Evans said. "You don't get very many men interested in becoming belly dancers, and if you do, it's kind of like, OK, whatever."
Practiced for centuries in the Middle East, belly dancing was traditionally performed for women at parties that celebrated an impending marriage or other life cycle occasion. In America, the dance form first took off in the 1960s, when dancers from Algeria settled here and started teaching classes. In the 1970s, Turkish women started teaching, and the dance "became a fad," Evans said.
"And I'd say in the past five years, there's been a resurgence, with everything from the Internet to Shakira having something to do with that."
In Evans's opinion, belly dancing should really be called "torso dancing," since that's where the dance's movements originate.
"You're using the hips, stomach and chest, and you have to learn how to isolate the various parts of your body," she said. "And everything has to do with the music. All the great belly dancers are extremely musical, plus they allow their individual personalities to come out in the dance. Excellent technique is only part of what makes a star."
Evans began her own belly dance career when she was in her early 20s.
"I was flipping through the Yellow Pages, found someone teaching belly dance and thought, 'Ooh, that sounds fun," she said. "Unlike ballet, you can start belly dancing in your 20s and 30s and become a great dancer, though you still have to work really hard."
Today, Evans considers Los Angeles to be "the hub" of belly dancing in the United States, primarily because of the concentration of teachers. And while Middle Eastern restaurants in Los Angeles have offered belly dance shows for years, Evans always believed there could be greater performance opportunities for dancers. She founded IAMED precisely "because I saw a great need to bring belly dance to the concert stage." She also currently produces a series of DVDs, both instructional and performance-oriented, and has customers from all over the world.
Sadie Arabic Belly Dance
Sadie began practicing Belly Dance about 10 years ago and has studied with reputable Middle Eastern dance and music teachers from around the world. Sadies' background and style are uniquely her own and to watch her dance is hypnotic and inspiring. She is a full time career Belly Dancer and says she is truly blessed to have the opportunity to share the knowledge and experience she has with others who share her interest.
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Final Destination 5 is an upcoming 2011 3D supernatural horror film written by Eric Heisserer and directed by Steven Quale. Final Destination 5 is the fifth installment to the Final Destination film franchise, which will star Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, David Koechner and Tony Todd. Todd is the only returning cast member of the series. It is scheduled to be released on August 12, 2011 in Real D 3D.[1]
Contents[hide] |
[edit]Cast
- Nicholas D'Agosto as Sam Lawton
- Emma Bell as Molly Harper
- Miles Fisher
- Arlen Escarpeta
- Courtney B. Vance
- Tony Todd
- Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
- David Koechner
- Ellen Wroe
- P.J. Byrne
- Meghan Ory
[edit]Production
[edit]Development
Alan Horn, the head of Warner Bros., confirmed Final Destination 5 is in works at ShoWest.[2] Producer Craig Perry later added that the film will be shot in3D.[3] The screenplay was written by Eric Heisserer, who New Line Cinema hopes will break the repetition of the series.[4] The studio initially picked August 26, 2011 as the release date[5] but later changed it to August 12, 2011.[1] Steven Quale served as director.[6]
[edit]Casting
In August 2010, actor and musician Miles Fisher was the first to be cast in Final Destination 5. Fisher's rep confirmed "Miles has gotten a real movie job. Fisher is the first actor cast in Final Destination 5, the Steven Quale-directed horror film that is casting up at New Line Cinema. These are the pics where a group of characters narrowly escape death in a gruesome catastrophe, and then most of them get bumped off one by one in grisly fashion."[7] Three days after Fisher's participation in the film, Arlen Escarpeta, joined the film. Escarpeta later revealed, "I think what they're going to do really, really well this time around, they're going to go back - the story, the plot, a lot of stuff is really going to matter," explained Escarpeta. "I think the last movie it was just death. It was death, death, death, which is fine because that's what people want to see. But this time we're going to give them a little bit of everything - good story, great director - it's going to be good."[8] In late August 2010 Nicholas D'Agosto, Ellen Wroe and Meghan Ory also joined the film.[9] One day later, Tony Todd, from the first three installments, joined the cast.[10]
On August 30, David Koechner and P.J. Byrne was also announced to have joined the cast.[11] On September 2, Emma Bell was cast as the female lead; Molly Harper.[12] Later, in mid-September both Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Courtney B. Vance joined the main cast.[13]
Filming
Final Destination 3 star Chelan Simmons revealed that the opening scene would be filmed on the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver.[16] Jacqueline MacInnes Wood's death scene in the film is rumored to involve laser eye surgery, [17] which was confirmed by the teaser trailer.Future
Main article: Final Destination (film series)
On February 1, 2011, Tony Todd has revealed in an interview that if the film is a success at the box office, then the sequels Final Destination 6 and Final Destination 7 will be filmed back-to-back.[18]
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Be Respectful to our dad
Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities.The first observance of Father's Day actually took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. It was organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton, who wanted to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monongah Mining disaster several months earlier in Monongah, West Virginia, on December 6, 1907. It's possible that Clayton was influenced by the first celebration of Mother's Day that same year, just a few miles away. Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her recently deceased father.Unfortunately, the day was overshadowed by other events in the city, West Virginia did not officially register the holiday, and it was not celebrated again. All the credit for Father's Day went to Sonora Dodd from Spokane, who invented independently her own celebration of Father's Day just two years later, also influenced by Jarvis' Mother's Day. Clayton's celebration was forgotten until 1972, when one of the attendants to the celebration saw Nixon's proclamation of Father's Day, and worked to recover its legacy. The celebration is now held every year in the Central United Methodist Church – the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was torn down in 1922. Fairmont is now promoted as the "Home of the First Father's Day Service".[1]A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913.[2] In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.[3] US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress.[4] In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents"[4]. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.[3] Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.[3][4]In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.
[edit]Spelling
Although the name of the event is usually understood as a plural possessive (i.e. "day belonging to fathers"), which would under normal English punctuation guidelines be spelled "Fathers' Day," the most common spelling is "Father's Day," as if it were a singular possessive (i.e. "day belonging to Father"). In the United States, Dodd used the "Fathers' Day" spelling on her original petition for the holiday,[5] but the spelling "Father's Day" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday,[2] and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress.[6]
[edit]Dates around the world
The officially recognized date of Father's Day varies from country to country. This section lists some significant examples, in order of date of observance.
| Gregorian calendar | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occurrence | Dates | Country | |||||||
February 23 | |||||||||
March 19 |  Liechtenstein Portugal (Dia do Pai) Spain (Día del Padre, Dia del Pare, Día do Pai) Antwerp (Belgium) | ||||||||
Second Sunday of May | May 9, 2010 May 8, 2011 May 13, 2012 | ||||||||
| May 8 | |||||||||
Third Sunday of May | May 16, 2010 May 15, 2011 May 20, 2012 | ||||||||
May 13, 2010 Jun 2, 2011 May 17, 2012 | |||||||||
First Sunday of June | Jun 6, 2010 Jun 5, 2011 Jun 3, 2012 | ||||||||
June 5 | |||||||||
Second Sunday of June | Jun 13, 2010 Jun 12, 2011 Jun 10, 2012 | ||||||||
Third Sunday of June | Jun 20, 2010 Jun 19, 2011 Jun 17, 2012 | ||||||||
June 17 |  Guatemala[19] | ||||||||
June 21 (before the first day of summer) | |||||||||
June 21 (first day of summer) | |||||||||
June 23 | |||||||||
Second Sunday of July | Jul 11, 2010 Jul 10, 2011 Jul 8, 2012 | ||||||||
Last Sunday of July | Jul 25, 2010 Jul 31, 2011 Jul 29, 2012 | ||||||||
Second Sunday of August | Aug 8, 2010 Aug 14, 2011 Aug 12, 2012 | ||||||||
August 8 | |||||||||
First Sunday of September | Sep 5, 2010 Sep 4, 2011 Sep 2, 2012 | ||||||||
Third Sunday of September | Sep 19, 2010 Sep 18, 2011 Sep 16, 2012 | ||||||||
August 23 | |||||||||
First Sunday of October | Oct 3, 2010 Oct 2, 2011 Oct 7, 2012 | ||||||||
Second Sunday of November | Nov 14, 2010 Nov 13, 2011 Nov 11, 2012 | ||||||||
December 5 | |||||||||
December 26 | |||||||||
| Islam calendar | |||||||||
| Definition | Sample dates | Country/Territory | |||||||
13 Rajab | Jun 16, 2011 |  Pakistan | |||||||
*Officially, as the name suggests, the holiday celebrates people who are serving or were serving the Russian Armed Forces (both men and women). But the congratulations are traditionally, nationally accepted by all fathers, other adult men and male children as well.[citation needed]
**In China during Republican period prior to 1949, Father's Day on August 8 was first held in Shanghai in 1945.
**In China during Republican period prior to 1949, Father's Day on August 8 was first held in Shanghai in 1945.
[edit]International history and traditions
In a few Catholic countries, it is celebrated on the Feast of St. Joseph.[citation needed]
[edit]Arab world
Main article: Mother's_Day#Arab_World
It's celebrated on 21 June, the first day of summer – except Lebanon, that celebrates in 20 June. This is because Mother's Day in those countries is celebrated in the first day of spring.
[edit]Argentina
Father's Day in Argentina is celebrated on the third Sunday of June, but there have been several attempts to change the date to August 24, to commemorate the day on which the "Father of the Nation"José de San Martín became a father.[10]
In 1953 the proposal to celebrate Father's Day in all educational establishments on August 24, in honor of José de San Martín, was raised to the General Direction of Schools of Mendoza Province. The day was celebrated for the first time in 1958, on the third Sunday of June, but it was not included in the school calendars due to pressure from several groups.[25]
Schools in the Mendoza Province continued to celebrate Father's Day on August 24, and, in 1982, the Provincial Governor passed a law declaring Father's Day in the province to be celebrated on that day.[25]
In 2004, several proposals to change the date to August 24 were presented to the Argentine Camara de Diputados as a single, unified project.[25] After being approved, the project was passed to theSenate of Argentina for final review and approval. The Senate changed the proposed new date to the third Sunday of August, and scheduled the project for approval. However, the project was never addressed during the Senate's planned session, which caused its ultimate failure.[26]
[edit]Australia
In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and is not a public holiday. YMCA Victoria continues the tradition of honouring the role fathers, and father figures play in parenting through the annual awarding of Local Community Father of the Year in 32 municipalities in Victoria. The Father's Day Council of Victoria annually recognise fathers in the Father of the Year Award.[27]
[edit]Brazil
In Brazil Father's Day is celebrated 3 months after Mother's Day, on the second Sunday of August. A publicist Sylvio Bhering in the mid-1950s selected the date in honor of Saint Joachim, patriarch of family (as well as the Catholic day of godfathers).
[edit]Canada
In Canada, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Father's Day typically involves spending time with one's father or the father figures in one's life. Small celebrations and the giving of gifts may be part of the festivities organized for Father's Day.
[edit]Costa Rica
In Costa Rica the Unidad Social Cristiana party presented a bill to change the celebration of the day from the third Sunday of June to March 19, the day of Saint Joseph.[28] That was in order to give tribute to this saint, who gave the name to the capital of the country San José, Costa Rica, and so family heads will be able to celebrate the Father's Day at the same time as the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker.[11] The official date is still third Sunday of June.
[edit]Denmark
In Denmark, Father's Day is celebrated on June 5.[9] It coincides with Constitution Day, which is a public holiday.
[edit]Germany
In Germany, Father's Day (Vatertag) is celebrated differently from other parts of the world.[29][30] It is always celebrated on Ascension Day (the Thursday forty days after Easter), which is a federal holiday. Regionally, it is also called men's day, Männertag, or gentlemen's day, Herrentag. It is tradition, especially in the north and east of the country but much less so in the south and west, for groups of males (young and old but usually excluding pre-teenage boys) to do a hiking tour with one or more smaller wagons, Bollerwagen, pulled by manpower. In the wagons are wine or beer (according to region) and traditional regional food, Hausmannskost. Many men use this holiday as an opportunity to get drunk.[30]
These traditions are probably rooted in Christian Ascension Day's processions to the farmlands,[31][32] some of which reportedly took on the character of drinking sprees as early as in the 17th century.[31] Similar "gentlemen parties" have also taken place in the streets of urban areas, especially Berlin, since the 19th century.[31] However, many fathers opt to spend the day with their families instead and refrain from getting drunk.[31][32] Many people will take the following Friday off at work, and some schools are closed on that Friday as well; many people then use the resulting four-day long weekend for a short vacation.
[edit]India (Hindu tradition)
There is no Father's Day concept in Hinduism. In countries of Hindu tradition, the western-inspired Father's Day is celebrated on the new moon day (Amavasya) during late August or early September, to fit the existing Hindu worship of fathers. This is common among countries with Hindu majorities like in India and Nepal.[21]
[edit]Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.
[edit]Ireland
In Ireland (in both the North and the Republic), Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.
[edit]Pakistan
In Pakistan, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.
[edit]Japan
Main article: Public holidays in Japan
In Japan, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday.
[edit]Korea
In Korea, Parents' day is celebrated on 8 May and is not a public holiday.
[edit]Seychelles
In Seychelles, Father's Day is celebrated on the 16th day of June and is not a public holiday.
[edit]Nepal
Main article: Gokarna Aunsi
The Hindu population in Nepal worships fathers in Gokarna Aunsi (literally "Father's Day"), which happens in late August or early September.[33] Also known as Bubako mukh herne din (translates as "looking at father’s face"),[21][34] In the new moon day (Amavasya) many people go to the Shiva temple of Gokarneswor Mahadev, in Gokarna, a suburb of Kathmandu.[33]
The date of the Western-inspired Father's Day was moved in Nepal to August 23 to fit this pre-existing Hindu festival.
[edit]New Zealand
In New Zealand, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and is not a public holiday.
[edit]The Philippines
In the Philippines, Father's Day is not an official holiday, but is widely observed on the 3rd Sunday of June. Most Filipinos born in the 1960s and 1970s did not celebrate Father's day but due to being under the influence of the United States as seen on television, the Filipinos most likely follow this tradition and other American holidays. The advent of the internet also helps in promoting this holiday to the Filipinos.
[edit]Roman Catholic tradition
In the Roman Catholic tradition, Fathers are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called Feast of Saint Joseph, March 19, though in certain countries Father's Day has become a secular celebration.[35] It is also common for Catholics to honor their "spiritual father," their parish priest, on Father's Day.[36]
[edit]Romania
Beginning with 2010, in Romania, Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May and it is recognized officially by the state. Out of the 27 states in the European Union, it was the only one without an official Father's Day.[8] Romanian Father's day for 2012 will be celebrated on May 13.
[edit]Singapore
In Singapore, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June but is not a public holiday.
[edit]Spain
Father's Day, El Día del Padre, is observed on the Feast day of Saint Joseph, which is March 19. As a Saint's Day, banks and many stores close.
[edit]Taiwan
Main article: Public holidays in the Republic of China
In Taiwan, Father's Day is not an official holiday, but is widely observed on August 8, the eighth day of the eighth month of the year. In Mandarin Chinese, the pronunciation of the number 8 is bā. This pronunciation is very similar to the character "爸" "bà", which means "Papa" or "father". The Taiwanese, therefore, usually call August 8 by its nickname, "Bābā Holiday" (爸爸節).
[edit]Thailand
In Thailand, Father's Day is set as the birthday of the king.[22] December 5 is the birthday of the current king, Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). Traditionally, Thais celebrate by giving their father or grandfather a Canna flower (ดอกพุทธรักษา Dok Buddha Ruksa), which is considered a masculine flower; however, this is not as commonly practiced today. Thai people will wear yellow on this day to show respect for the king, because yellow is the Color of the day for Monday, the day king Bhumibol Adulyadej was born. In 2007, king Bhumibol Adulyadej was seen leaving the hospital wearing a baby pink blazer. Today, Thais wear pink instead of the yellow.
It first gained nationwide popularity in the 1980s as part of a campaign by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda to promote Thailand's royal family.[22] Mother's Day is celebrated on the birthday of QueenSirikit,[22] August 12.
[edit]United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
In the United Kingdom, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June and is not a public holiday.
[edit]United States of America
In the US, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Its first celebration was in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910.[37] Other festivities honoring fathers had been held in Fairmont and in Creston, but the modern holiday did not emerge from those.[citation needed]
Modern Father's Day was invented by Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Arkansas, who was also the driving force behind its establishment. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington.[5] She was inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts to establish Mother's Day. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.
Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. President Woodrow Wilson was personally feted by his family in 1916. President Calvin Coolidgerecommended it as a national holiday in 1924. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon.[citation needed]
In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting greeting cards and traditionally male-oriented gifts such as electronics and tools. Schools and other children's programs commonly have activities to make Father's Day gifts.
More phone calls are made in the United States during Mother's Day than during Father's Day, but the percentage of collect calls on Father's Day is much higher, making it the busiest day of the year for collect calls.[38][39] Also, calls during both Mother's Day and Father's Day tend to last longer.[38]
Father's Day is accompanied by a smaller total number of phone calls, greeting cards and gifts than Mother's Day. It is speculated that this is due to the greater number of households with a mother than households with a father (due to single mothers), to the greater role of mothers in unpaid household labor, and to different personal or societal expectations.[39]
[edit]Antecedent
The first modern celebration of a "Father's Day" was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honor all those fathers.[40][41][42] Grace Golden Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her father, Methodist minister Fletcher Golden.
The event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the town itself and no proclamation was made in the City Council. Also two events overshadowed this event: the celebration of Independence Day July 4, 1908, with 12,000 attendants and several shows including a hot air balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16-year-old girl on July 4. The local church and Council were overwhelmed and they didn't even think of promoting the event, and it wasn't celebrated again for many years. The original sermon was not reproduced in press and it was lost. Finally, Clayton was a quiet person, who never promoted the event or even talked to other persons about it.[40][41][42]
Clayton also might have been inspired by Anna Jarvis' crusade to establish Mother's Day; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles (24 km) away from Fairmont.[40]
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