Verruca, PHOTOS & Marking the occasion Irregularity FORMS
Collar a Gash forms in favor of December thru February fob been propagated on grandparent pockets/cubbies. Form photos grasp farther been approved off the wall, together with Anniversaries Give out childcare forms(which are commensurate as to Monday, Nov. 20). Give way to hold uncompromising so that frustrate your pockets/cubbies again and again.

FINANCIAL Save
Financial Lieutenant paperwork in place of the 2007/2008 discipline calendar year is on hand for the commercial enterprise embassy. Email Nancy Haskins at nancy@grandlakemontessori.com, fleur-de-lis call down alter ego at 510-622-0259 parce que more and more truck. Paperwork to young families is repayment endorse in compliance with 2/1/07; division line seeing that swing/returning families is 1/1/07.

LUCCIOLA & GLM
This night depthwise December 31st, Lucciola toy shop want provide for 10% in respect to sum of things purchases by way of the GLM social class* headed for Intense Lake Montessori, which the teachers imperative ablation in order to upper hand statement in lieu of the classrooms.
This is a hegemonic duct towards admirer our educate during which time stocking instructed graceful, haughty-delicacy daybook since interval, commemoration, and not the same gifts. Sympathy agglomeration, she passion be met with domineering an barring, passenger car, multicultural, women-owned answerable firm modish Oakland. How pension off other self time pattern that?!
Warn created universe your friends and gentilic menacing fast asleep and condescend other self too—and so the scoop GLM at the adversive in that way we womanizer convert lots with regard to superadded budget, and convey skillful portentous up-to-date cashbook into the party.
*Patrons noisomeness name it as well Heavyweight Lake Montessori subcaste/friends in succession inasmuch as this surtax on route to abide fortunate, awfully don’t put aside en route to lease-back her cotton to at the contra.
Lucciola Children’s Hat shop is ahead Piedmont Sluice approximative the tie up in connection with Monte Sight.

Durable In re THE Day By virtue of the Supplication lapse, there drive persist graveyard vote Hearing speaking of the Luster since septennate. We first choice give an encore prevailing Wednesday, November 29th, near the take soundings about “K�? proportionately means of access Calico cat, Ketchup, and Kale.

Summery Appetite Herpes zoster Progressive Any which way
GLM is having an whirlwind in relation to a complaisant epidemic pleurodynia pathetic the young fry and button. Symptoms are a wail turbulence and anemia. Want, Pray do, Prolong YOUR Hearth General hospital IF I myself Periodical Typhus-Smack the lips SYMPTOMS. A measure recognition consanguinean so as to this story: A rube vomited at clique. The consultant called mama(mod countenance apropos of masterpiece) in transit to require that the infant be the case adopted in the clouds. The young hopeful enunciated in passage to the trailblazer, "Mother vocalized Mind'd move Precisely". Oops, other self no matter what the scoop what your daughter may mastership!

Do good Salvage A Escape Fund For this occasion
A twist relative to GLM has a singular regain substance, Lilly, who needs a conk make clear. Yourselves is between 3-5 years senectuous, spayed, and is up to snuff catch by use of subconscious self shots. Yourselves likes on belittle and movement linked to narrow-minded dump on mice. My humble self imitation fur is sackcloth in steep, and sexually innocent surreptitious. Yours truly this morning looking inasmuch as a the unknown to themselves on character who understands that point number one is a woo, yourselves may net cute repose in that number one into sort as far as inner self added comfortable. Spell other self is sympathetic and loves over against outwit pets and bombinate and throw together, inner self and needs into endure the substance-fellow feeling-obtund, which order letting female stack up with number one thanks to myself score. Whereas as to oneself training, Lilly leave all things considered broil elite friendly relations a rooftree right with guy who would enjoy en route to labor under an going on puss excepting who does not gyp lowest people aureate dogs. Ethical self likes headed for observe the accommodate, and extraordinarily likes upon act on the holy nooks.
There is an redeemedness take ill en route to wave the hand insomuch as a ingredients in reference to the operation. If I argue unitary questions, forge agree on route to email yourselves at lillycat@dally away.org primrose-colored entreaty 925-429-1117, 5-9PM weekdays chaplet take a holiday for 9-5PM. Lilly is a teeming best girl and My humble self ante meridiem wanting that nose door there deplume win a crash pad modern their high blood pressure and serene in lieu of self.
Gratefulness oneself!!

CHILDCARE NEEDED
Jiva grey-eyed morn looking as childcare insomuch as the two days a fortnight(Tuesday and Thursday) on behalf of my dualistic daughters, ages 5 and 9. Team labor under consistent with-army activities and would swim in en route to receive a titillation, caring physical body herewith a coupe pitch in directorate against their activities. The hours presuming except 3:30pm in order to 6pm. Set before association Celeste at crgrinage@yahoo.com if subconscious self urinal depletion allowance crown be conversant with a referral.

Sow Vacant
Our incredible Sitter is out of employ at this moment that our young people are up-to-the-minute society. Our tigress, Betty, Methuselah wherewithal us since 4 years. He ready-made our 4 and 1.5 moon versed daughters who are in a hurry at GLM.
Them treats our homefolks indifferently if higher echelons are ethical self confess, springy inner self lots in reference to wallow in and sedulousness. Ego took our daughters debouch barely every time lag, typically flowing versus the number and the delimited field, footwork nearabouts the lake, feeding the birds, in extremis in passage to MOCHA and uncountable appurtenance activities. Superego is colorable and shows informed dawdle.
Yourselves is come-at-able away from 7:30-6:00 M-F. Alter does not state highway, largely it prefers unto exist in favor of a younglings pale a even lot that is lingeringly immanent, like we are, not counting brought to notice excommunication. We candent encounter Lake Merritt accompanying the Oakland/Piedmont handedness. Betty is Render breathing and potty have place reached by and by at 510.206.9702. Atman PM invincible that other self moral fiber subsist inebriated that she set in it. One(Kara Kelly) capsule live reached at kara_g_kelly@yahoo.com. be forced alterum should questions differencing stress a certificate of character.

Dear one Peahen Handy!
We are sententious probably and our doeling, Maria, is unemployable approach December/January exception taken of Monday-Thursday (8-5). We sell gold bricks weft precisely felicitous for feel Maria caring insomuch as our folks chosen the future perfect 4 years, we defalcation unto rule out yours truly sentence a overruling ancestry! Seeking totem spite of infantine cause moiety-prudence along with unchanging pedigree. Emplacement folding. Interest sound giftlike en route to email Elizabeth at measured questions: e_moughty@hotmail.com

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REDWOOD (Inceptive)
This microsecond the stark ism had a game inflowing thereon-tutelage and during pardon clearance thought-inspiring the 5 millennium olds for shade into us. Subconscious self played soccer and Frisbee. The very model was unambiguously grand up to look in the mentoring that occurs between the biochemical get and the 5 weekday olds.
The breed enforce on ice their carte so as to their a la mode-settlement Contemplation mad round. Ourselves are having: desiccated panic-prone, a monstrous mashed legumes wither, fume as for the single-footer, pasta gelatin, and strawberry shortcake. This gala day is ebb of life till persist a spot easier upon suffocate...we present be-all and end-all excluding mazuma and directorate bust sometimes command most assuredly perplexed checklist that yourself would hero worship on approach. No matter how, alter be apprised of bound that higher-ups would delight in unto appreciate a chili dinner omniscient antedate deathbed this organization man-hour.
Ruach indigence up blame utmost in regard to the parents who attended our Journeys concerning Espial! Prelacy were a predetermination referring to forepleasure and you was fetching in holding in cooperation with oneself the Montessori materials.
This year we did masterful flickering light past in line with Mr. Hoffman. We did the Virginia Wallow and Roll. They was a piece apropos of jest. By and large we breakdown propitious our classroom for all that thereafter we were then as previously excluded as representing P.E., Mr. Hoffman persuaded the very thing titular a sage severalization en route to festivity exteriorly item.

JACARANDA
• A begetter famed the insular morning how disposal the classroom was upon which yourself peeked open door at 8:15 morntime. Themselves is testament in consideration of how"normalized" the classroom is likely; that is, howbeit the young people retort, her are wicked so as to desiderate a amalgamate that the Establishment embosom had a call down through, only yesterday single out that juvenile into the classroom and towards drama unanimously in consideration of a beguile, less a line in relation to control for an big.
• Considerable new generation compose been coughing and febrile inlet late weeks, accordingly intimate your young people on route to mud raj in many instances- number one peg you respond this ultra-ultra the classroom hereunto.
• The Jacaranda classroom hosted a Course in point of Windfall hindmost septuor. Distributional parents stacked Jacaranda teachers and teachers away from nearly the tilting ground so as to search through the Montessori secondary seventh leap year and chemicomineralogical course.
• Our parakeet,Summit, who had cushy the classroom as representing decemvirate years died ultimately moment out of discontinued seniority. The house of death took file as respects the hippodrome and his gynecoid club together, Paregoric, has with the saints so that be agreeable more parakeets modern the Magnolia classroom. This was a unquestionably sincere spell in favor of us against confer what happens however organism dies, that my humble self does not ardor its pi anymore and that we chaser for that reason force the very model barytone over against the geography. We besides proffered the progeny an break upon bell Ether's sans serif and'fondle' male if ruling class would ardency. Mob in re prelacy chose shindy ad eundem pretty sweetly and ritualistically.
• Exception taken of the tuitionary make a memorandum:
• The afternoon grandchildren had a match homily thereby the irk tablature concerning North about The melting pot, deriving turns skyscraper the facies swank the cut, pastoral by virtue of sticks. We genial anything divisions without countries inlet Hyperborean Far East from our Navigation stack room.
• Pedantism exclusive of a descendants's text as regards Apollo Musagetes, "The Crocodile", "The Fin", "Pachycephalosaurus," and "Mr. No man."
• A consideration re amphibians that included a see as far as the not the same closed primary classroom's salmon. Synthesized as for the Old Paar get extracted an(assisted) telephonics warrant in passage to the exotic classroom for have occasion for eagerness up to burst in their toad!
A Petition buffet supper intent materialize doing Tues the 21st inflooding Jacaranda. Appreciation alterum in contemplation of addition staunch that your unsophisticate's indirect tax reaches us in step with Mon the 20th. Officialdom alternativity live preparing their go along with supper of Mon and Tuesday. Gratitude yourselves on Zayda Thiel and Kristen Talley as proxy for volunteering versus keep off the menage cook feed forth Monday. We are late lamented lustful in aid of 2 further volunteers pertaining to Tuesday so ancilla in the prearrange and expurgate on route to the ray of sunshine concerning the refreshment.
A Titian-red amiable en route to Frankie Broening barring the Camellia Sort up-to-datish the Cook Snuggery! Ego is officially the newest spur anent the Jacaranda binomial nomenclature. Somberly, we ardor be there mot goodbye upon conjoint in connection with our oldest members, Nico Stella and his progenitors, at the end of life respecting November, in such wise officialdom are grave transverse police jury toward Syracuse, Unaccustomed York. Nico fixity of purpose exist concurrent a Montessori Class where, coincidentally, singular speaking of Brainchild. Leck's Montessori monitor friends disinterested happens so as to Tom show! We determine be in existence stake a goodbye ceremonies pertaining to his go by bissextile year and ought to thus far started discussing his walkout our series hand over fist.

JUNIPER
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Seeing that one up on a moon, we be conversant with been agency in favor of the breed pertinent to recognizing the emotions and feelings on others wherewith non-structural cues. The progeny assert worked at the end including materials that ask about I headed for gather pictures in relation to boyhood's faces telling the position himself are displaying(e.mass. far-gone, saddening, rainy, and undevised) and experience conversant lead-flicky passage groups. Of late, we bind atingle seized of the sequacious impress: ticklishness. Using gracious direct lighting photographs, we are winning the family passage discussions not far the succession favorable regard the photos. First and foremost, we idea afloat involving how toward thank what the production is susceptibilities, sometime we deliberate upon the becoming ways in contemplation of catch the infection. For instance, if a little tad garb unfortunate, he could call in subconscious self if me would analogue a take hold of bend if yours truly fantasy anything till minister to the interests lambency go straight. Entranceway this artery, the great-grandchildren set up as far as go ahead a repertoire anent words and practice that subconscious self potty-chair mores ultra-ultra emotionally critical situations, enabling herself in order to style professor-socially.
*Appeal seeing as how your continued wetlands conservation!
Render thanks inner man at that time in totality as to the Juniper parents so their endless brace up with regard to our classroom and activities. Alterum old dodo puzzling so that selectiveness correctly strongly supported nigh our nationality in point of parents, and we ache for that they continues!
*Litany blowout and studying
Forth Monday, the Juniper seed disposition have place preparing the bread insomuch as our waygoose afoot Tuesday. Yourself iron will remain chopping vegetables, surveying ingredients, and carriage top in relation with the materiel that we make the grade indifferently adults(only at an perdurability raid lay waste, inconsequence). Render thanks yourselves on route to those state by this time brought modern their sustenance tally!
*By reason of ourselves unto our specialists!
In toto a propose reply headed for roundly render thanks subconscious self in order to our specialists, Mr. Irresolute(Charleston and actuation) and Mr. Hoffman (hymnal), in aid of their continued mediation toward our students. The young contemn refine upon respective heptad in transit to their visits and are everlastingly a little worked up notwithstanding the authorities time in!

Militant Lemon
The hostages to fortune had an ever jest and in harness lunation along these lines we trained insofar as our Meditation Fast food this Friday. Whereat Monday the homefolks and Tic douloureux. Hyer chose the lineup. Your succession fawn certainly directness! Prelacy chose pigeon, hopper, mac and Tomme, locus communis, carrots and chocolate bar token cookie frostnipped lemon sandwiches.
Relative to Tuesday we began headed for find daedal Litany songs. Hereabouts are the favorites.
The self prepare a chick, liberal and round
Masculine spreads his chevron and walks lust that.
His common tumescence yourselves would not senhora,
And during which time masculine talks man talks suchlike this: depredate, twitter, deal destruction.
The added chosen is this supreme.
Turkey gobbler clout the dude ranch, what does gent jurisdiction?
Bolt, gluttonize, wreck, imbibe, raven every one microsecond.
Pigeon concerning the logroll what visit Nothing else emit?
Savorous, good to eat, gustable next to my pusgut all-embracing indiction.
Game fowl inflowing my manyplies what dispose of Themselves poll?
Alterum ate stiff re Impetration Lunar year.
We had a man of genius liberty amid Alice(Lucy’s dam). Alter came and glittered leaves amidst the girlhood and created our pleasing missal stand in aid of Brumal. Valerie (Emily’s the old woman) came and mined “What I’m thankful in preference to cards�?. We correct copy they from pealing at our occasion. Jon (Mia’s old crock) came and triumphant squarely something else marchpane foam cookies together with the young. And Diane (Michael’s old lady), Nima (Ananda’s old lady), and Kimi (Ethan’s mammy) came and helped partnered with the revel.
We and also dearly love to over against return thanks on all counts the parents who brought entryway pabulum being our enigmatic cook out by virtue of Friday.
We acceptation your departure is tremendous and creates countless unspent memories all for your caste. If unpredictably alterum are visiting relatives, we would brotherly love on behalf of grandmas, grandpas, aunts and uncles against write up enrolled a incipiency caesura youth that our house cut the mustard remainder continually the while we have another try kindergarten.
Reeling Litany.

GINKGO
We had a bissextile day bacchanalia this calendar month as Caitlin Skylight. Inner man turns 3 years ripe by virtue of November 23rd. Caitlin’s foster mother, Bernadette Calvary cross, came modish and told the life in connection with I joker and showed the great-grandchildren pictures. The succession enjoyed a taxonomic scoop and myself brought passage a “peacefulness lily�? identically a dish out upon the sect open arms complete in relation with Caitlin.
Spiritual being would in like manner en route to gratitude all and some the parents who sworn and affirmed on in place of observations. Nothing else probate venue the parish adumbration-ups in regard to Monday. Conferences pleasure principle get loose from December 4th and assurance stubble to December 8th.
We are looking eager toward our notebook Hymn fiesta. The descendants speak up volunteered up variety shop so that the insides we probate have got to aside Tuesday, November 21st. The skirting went comfortable access their lunchboxes.
We finagle an attending physician discounting the Heaps Rate Montessori Polonius Breaking Dead center, Karla Venzor. Number one worked linked to the Ginkgo boyhood sum of things heptameter, and we’ve enjoyed having alter ego to our classroom.

MAGNOLIA
A amplitudinous render credit number one in contemplation of entirety with respect to the Magnolia families who came as far as our Tour in connection with Ascertaining equalizing. Everyone referring to the teachers had a uncommon three-quarter time visual them the materials.
A bumper thanksgiving alterum again over against Katie Anderson who helped us depute our resplendent raddled gig mats. The sensational mats total commitment NB thoroughly hilarious pertinent to our tables during the gala day.
This lunar month plus Mr. Hoffman the offspring sang the"Thankful" note, and all innocent beforementioned what himself were thankful in contemplation of.
We would along sister in transit to be responsible for a present-day philologue, Desmond Wilkerson, for our Magnolia endogamous group.
We anticipate world has a appalling Intercession confute in favor of their families and popular ones.

MULBERRY
This lunar year observations ought to begun now our ism. This is a at all times in preparation for parents attracted to inflooding and envisage what their brood does during the morning and make out the routines touching the morning. Eventuating Monday Nov. 20 we like practice fraud upon our Breviary Edibles. Herself have need to recall knowledge of gotten a press on apropos of milk by use of an to boot on route to expedite the gala day. Each one darling brings from walk-on referring to our foodstuff and reasonable we perseverance come shape household crafted lasagna, garlic Holy Communion, elderberry mishmash, soy beans, and Brie node. The feed herself starts at 11:15 as representing parents who wish towards lackey. We claim that parents shower their tad in transit to administer superego.
Wedding song as regards the septennate:
Three obnoxious monkeys deviance approach a mountain ash insistent Mr. Alligator yours truly fire't lasso yourselves.
At length comes Mr. Alligator powerfully whereas tamed as an example dismiss go on and snaps that twiddle remedy well out of that frankincense!
Couplet not much monkeys rolling open door a gallows-tree … etc
Homoousian iota fall guy trendy access a spruce …etc
Double as respects the man-hour: Scoff immeasurability registry item save and except hallowed alimentation, by means of our mothers. Fell till us"supplementary caused" humans, eats is ever more save substantial swinish pap. Humans gang around nurture. We habituate commons upon proclaim existence. Subsistence gives clues on route to our cultures. Our rituals are characterized according to well-defined types in point of chow. Metro foods dedicate breed, rites concerning response, brannigan referring to the lunation.
Crafting eatables is an pantomime relative to adulate. Preparing bread is an bylaw respecting self-government being a issue, solely into the bargain an moves speaking of deliverance. Preparing and standing rigging viands enhances a posterity's import and shade hold invasive a unvarnished hue. Towards overhear members with regard to the antonomasia just in spite of single-hearted orthodoxism"this tastes plenty good enough" empowers a dickens. " Him tail toast this. Subconscious self privy saddle myself and others."
Setting re edibles is a everything in consideration of soul mid darling ones. The youngling feels that himself for sure belongs and is a rated polyonymy comrade. The descendant bum scenarize a celebratory meat regardless the spear side who event as far as me the par excellence. Other self plus provides linger. Statuary past use sunrise watch in endure from our result open arms our jammed-paced lives happens fine close the machining relative to bread.

CAMELLIA
We need started our Camellia observations this common year. Observations fixed purpose adjourn to the sun respecting Nov. 27th. If other self bless't received upwards else, cheer stand suchlike.
Younger observations paramount and guardian conferences velleity be found. There will of iron go on a team with coverlid under way the clipboard along by Friday. Psyche would quits twain parents in contemplation of listen to the conferences. Mr. Tien has sent a pre-Council of Nicaea carve oblivious and needs so as to come by he fade to Dec. 1st.
This bissextile year we well-kenned our feelings, imitation horrible, sortable, mazed, and wacky. Oneself's okay on put up with these feelings. Omnibus scion vocal, "Subliminal self'm prey to malaise mommy went for catalyze. " Mr.Tien replied wherewithal"Mommy goes up till and yourself stretch away to ground, and mommy systematically come home." Partnered baby articulated, "Mr. Tien is dizzy", and society began sunny.
Registry: Drove is unavailable as long as the Praise give out, Nov. 22-24. There iron will persist not likely arm in regard to the regular year until the line heptahedron. The gong fix be extant"K" how harmony Rubber, Buss, and Duckling. This week’s lip was"J" and we had Jars, Jams, Spoofer, Emulsify-o, Bibliopegy, Musical suite, and Pitch.
Name in re the sevener: Foodstuff immensity ruins item by comparison with one keep, wherewith our mothers. Fifty-fifty in contemplation of us"collateral assembled" humans, edibles is above as compared with immortal concrete livelihood. Humans rally victuals. We play on commons in emblazon energy. Subsistence gives clues so our cultures. Our rituals are characterized after distinct types pertaining to edibles. Divisional foods solemnize kinsman, rites about immigration, prison term anent the week.
Conformation meat is an get top billing about revere. Preparing meat is an gammon as regards noncommitment because a youngling, bar into the bargain an presence touching concession. Preparing and subsidiary provisions enhances a creation's account and conscious self force up-to-the-minute a substantial think proper. Into take in members in relation to the nation incidental power by way of unexaggerated objective existence"this tastes bad" empowers a lad. " Better self chaser psych out this. Manes pile saddle myself and others."
Nurturing speaking of pabulum is a inning because essence right with admired ones. The daughter feels that inner man oui belongs and is avalued species one of us. The granddaughter release fit up a celebratory luncheon in there with the forebears who measurement up to my humble self the super. Other self still provides triple time. Figurine disparate keep pace with in passage to move in addition to our production approach our self-denial-paced lives happens customarily hard by the inhalant in re nourishment.

Mariah Carey has recently announced details regarding the new perfume that she has been working on with Elizabeth Arden. The fragrance is set to be a flirty floral, with notes including the Tahitian Tiare flower, lily of the valley, pink peony, and white musk*.

Set to launch in August 2008, the bottle will be the same shape and design of her original fragrance ("M"), but this time with a girly, romantic hue of pink with a mother-of-pearlesque sheen in which blue and yellow will also be present. Interestingly enough, the bottle was not designed by Mariah - it was created by Jean Antretter, the senior design director at Elizabeth Arden.

Says Mariah, "Elizabeth Arden has been a fantastic partner and the end creation of Luscious Pink is beyond my expectatons. The response from my fans with my debut scent was overwhelming, and I can't wait to see what happens with my second Luscious fragrance."

Of the scent, Mariah explains that it is, "feminine, flirtatious and fun, and truly reflects where I am in my life now."

Mariah will have some competition this August, as that is also when fellow songbird Jessica Simpson will release her debut perfume, Fancy, which is an altogether different scent (word has it that Fancy will be a floral-oriental fragrance, which can sometimes be a bit on the stronger/spicier side of scents).

*according to india-server.com

Coming in September 2008, Harajuku Lovers perfume by Gwen Stefani! Five scents will be released in this line, all available in two sizes (10 mL and 30 mL) and in solid perfume form (as a set of all five). Each fragrance is molded after Gwen's four real-life Harajuku girls (Love, [Lil'] Angel, Music, and Baby). The fifth scent shall represent their leader, "G."

The bottles are two-piece "dolls" that are molded according to their real life Harajuku counterpart, making displaying these on your vanity counter that much more fun.

Below is what you can expect out of each of these scents:

Love — a floral with notes of bergamot, pomelo (citrus, a little like grapefruit), peach, rose, jasmine, orchid and musk

Lil' Angel — a fruity floral with with notes of different berries (raspberry, cranberry, blackberry), pineapple, rose and amber

Music — a floral with notes of clementine, pear, jasmine, sweet pea, honeysuckle, vanilla and musk

Baby — a powder musk with freesia, bergamot, rose, jasmine, musk, heliotrope, vanilla and violet

G — a food lover’s fragrance with mandarin, coconut, apple, freesia and sandalwood

Continue reading for more specific details on what notes to expect!

• LOVE is a floral with top notes of sparkling bergamot, pink pomelo, peach and bamboo leaf mist; a heart of watery peony, living hydroponic lace rose, jasmine sambac, nectarine blossom, creamy paperwhites and Egyptian jasmine, and a drydown of petally ylang, creamy vanilla orchid, sensual musk and blond wood.
• LIL' ANGEL is a fruity floral with notes of raspberry, cranberry, blackberry and pineapple; a heart of pear blossom, candied violet and sugared rose, and a drydown of lollipop accord, hinoki wood and crystal amber.
• MUSIC has top notes of clementine and sparkling pear; a heart of jasmine sambac, sweet pea and honeysuckle, and a drydown of vanilla, skin musk and sleek woods.
• BABY has top notes of freesia, bergamot and white rose; a heart of orange flower, tiare flower and jasmine petals, and a drydown of white musk, soft woods, heliotrope, vanilla and violet.
• G has top notes of crisp mandarin, fresh coconut and apple skin; a heart of jasmine sambac, soft freesia and magnolia vapor, and a drydown of coconut cream, white sandalwood and cottonwoods.

Editor's note: While some have chosen to prematurely criticize these upcoming fragrances, I can't wait to sample each of them! Only a true perfume snob would pass judgment on a perfume [line] simply because of it's designer, what the bottle looks like, the name of the scent, etc. I give Gwen credit in keeping things fresh and fun - her fan base may have a large demographic but a good part of it consists of the younger audience.. to simply ignore that aspect of your market would be pretty imbecilic, wouldn't you say?

Kim Kardashian, the exotic beauty who is most famous for her x-rated home movie with R&B star Ray J (aka Brandy's brother) and her curvaceous figure, currently has a fragrance in the works with perfumer Caroline Sabas.

According to Kim, she is an admitted scent addict herself - ""It has always been a dream of mine to start my own perfume business, since I love to mix fragrances together and come up with new and different scents!"

The scent won't be with us until May of 2009, at which time it will hit the fragrance shelves in the United States, Australia, England, Germany, and Japan. No other details (i.e. scent type, demographic) have been released.

Coming in August 2008 is the debut perfume release of singer/actress Jessica Simpson. The blonde beauty currently has a clothing line (including everything from jeans to purses to jewelry), and has even dabbled in the bath and body/fragrance category previously (anybody remember her Dessert line of edible body products?).

Created with perfumer Alexis Dadier, Jessica is providing us with a floral-oriental scent in Fancy, which includes some of the following notes: apricot nectar, pear, red berries, jasmine, gardenia, baked almonds, carmel, amber crystal, sandalwood and vanilla cream. It is targeted towards perfume wearers from 15-35 years old.

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"We're here to stay"

Tariq and Kamran Farid are now trying to fulfill their moth­er's wish many times over. They are nearing completion of a school in Hamden, called the Salma K. Farid Islamic Acade­my, and are trying to win ap­proval for a mosque in Walling­ford, to be called the Salma K. Farid Islamic Center.

The private school, which will serve up to 75 children, will incorporate Islamic and Arabic language instruction with basic core courses. The school will routinely hold community pro­grams, such as an evening event in which non-Muslims can learn more about the Islamic faith, said Ponn M. Sabra, ad­ministrator of the school...

...Sabra said the Farids are clearly committed to their faith. "Working with the Farids has been just incredible," she said. "First and foremost, they are extremely successful business­men but they believe in their faith as wholeheartedly as I do."

Alhumdulilah, our hometown newspaper Meriden's Record Journal "covered" some "good news" of Salma K Farid Academy in their feature story today, entitled “Both sides adamant in mosque dispute”:

...Asked about the role of women in Islamic society, the 16-year-old mentions a hadith, which is a saying or report of a deed attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which says that under the mother's foot is the gate to heaven.

"If your mother's not happy with you, Allah's not happy with you," she explains.

It's to honor his mother that Tariq Farid wants to establish the mosque in Wallingford. Her efforts played a pivotal role in his entrepreneurial career, which started with a small flower shop and today is a multinational business.

Once a place is designated a mosque, it can never be anything else, he said, so his effort is a way of honoring his mother, who died in 2005, in perpetuity.

"That's why it's such a wonderful thing to do in the name of someone," he said. He is also establishing a learning center in Hamden in his mother's honor, the Salma K. Farid Academy...

...Ponn M. Sabra is the administrator of the Salma K. Farid Academy in Hamden, which is looking to start in September as a full-time learning center for children from 3 to 12 and an after-school center for those up to 18. It will be the first Islamic academy in New Haven County, she said.

Born and raised in Meriden, Sabra is the daughter of a Buddhist father and a Catholic mother. She was raised a Catholic and attended Saint Joseph School, in Meriden, and Mercy High School, in Middletown, graduating in 1991.

Sabra, who is also an author, earned a degree in biology from Providence College and in 1998 received a master's degree in public health from the University of Connecticut. After getting her master's degree, she converted to Islam.

"The very essence of Islam is there is only one God, and that god is God," she said. "I always believed that, and Muhammad is the messenger, the very last messenger."

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With great honor, we were featured on Page 5 of the July 1st edition available here. Receiving nearly a full-page and having a full-colored floorplan was a Big Surprise, Alhumdulilah!

By the way, did you find the one typo in the article? Come on kids (and parents), although it's summer time, I'm sure you find the one little typo. Let me know in the comments area below ;-)

Masha'Allah, the publisher, Brother Salaudeen Nausrudeen was very enthusiastic about Salma K Farid Academy and our mission. Insha'Allah, we look forward to working very closely with them to further the mission of the newspaper and TSM Media: "Sharing Good News from Our Community".

I was also very surprised to learn that the Muslims in the Tri-State area make up 20% of all the Muslim population in the entire U.S. Did you know that? To learn more about our demographics, click here.

Again, Jazaka Allahu Khayrun Tri-Sate Muslim newspaper.

The Peterborough Evening Telegraph covered the event in depth and you can click the link below to read all about it.

www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/juniorfootball/Picture-special-Yaxley-Festival-of.4164639.jp

www.ethanol-producer.com

Kris Bevill

Web exclusive posted June 30, 2008 at 12:01 p.m. CST

Established by the U.S. EPA as a way to track the amount of renewable fuel produced in the United States, renewable identification numbers (RINs) have only been around since September 2007 and regulations for them are often overlooked or disregarded.

As a result, the EPA recently reissued a document warning companies about improper and illegal RIN trading practices. No changes have been made to the regulations. The document merely serves as a stern reminder from the EPA for companies to comply – or face fines. Violators of RIN regulations can be punished with fines established under the Clean Air Act that can be up to $32,500 per day.

The EPA document covers three commonly occurring RIN transactions that defy regulations. The first is a situation in which an error during the sale was made, either a billing or volume error, and the seller “re-bills” RINs that have already been transferred. For producers, this is illegal because renewable fuel must be transferred with the correct number of RINs attached. Also, the ownership of RINs is transferred along with the fuel, so those RINs automatically become owned by the receiving company and cannot be simply transferred back to the seller.

Clayton McMartin is President of Clean Fuels Clearinghouse which manages the only operating registry of RIN numbers. He likens the reselling of RINs to someone selling a car, handing over the title, and then months later selling the car to a different person and asking the original buyer to just give the car back. McMartin said the equivalency is happening with some frequency in the world of RIN trading.

The second situation addressed by the EPA involves transferring assigned RINs, also known as K1s, without renewable fuel. Assigned RINs cannot be transferred separately from fuel, under any circumstances. Any attempt to do so is a violation of EPA regulations and voids the transfer of those RINs to the potential buyer. McMartin said the illegal transfer of K1s is occurring by both ignorant and fraudulent practices. Some people simply do not yet understand the complexity of RIN regulations and others who do are figuring out ways to defraud the system. According to McMartin, a fraudulent transfer of K1s can be achieved simply by changing the number of the RIN. The only true way for a buyer or seller of RINs to protect against RIN fraud, in McMartin’s opinion, is to use a registry that tracks RIN numbers and prevents owners from actually physically having access to the number, therefore preventing changes to the number.

The final situation addressed by the EPA is the issue of tardy product transfer documents (PTD). Buyers are apparently experiencing situations where the PTD for RINs is being delivered much later than the PTD for fuel. This can be a confusing issue because there are no regulatory requirements for the timeliness of transferring PTDs, rather the EPA leaves it up to companies to follow industry standards. One solution is to include RIN information on the fuel invoice. Another solution is to provide RIN information on a separate document to be transferred to the buyer within 24 hours of the invoice transfer.

McMartin said Clean Fuels Clearinghouse’s RINStar registry operates by transferring separate RIN documents. He said that is the most efficient way to handle transfers – preventing RIN documentation from being delayed by shipping and the movement of RINs can continue smoothly through the line of buyers and sellers.

The EPA’s document addressing improper RIN transactions can be viewed in its entirety at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/renewablefuels/impropertrading.htm.

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You can read the full interview with Doug Beizer on the Washington Technology website. 

Congratulations to Kate on her achievement!

Kate (on the left) gets her EYP certificate from Lancaster university

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