2003 ACURA TL FLOOR MATS

Household Essentials Revolving 4-Tier Shoe Tree, Chrome

This WHITNEY DESIGN #2134 chrome revolving 4-tier shoe tree is a great solution for shoe storage and organization. It is made of heavy duty chrome plated metal. It will hold up to 24 pair of shoes. One of the important features of this shoe tree is the adjustability of the rack levels to accommodate smaller and larger shoes. It stand 54" high and has a width of 12". It has a built-in handle at the top to allow easy movement of the rack. The bottom is weighted with extra weight to provide stability. Assembly takes about 5 - 10 minutes. Easy to follow assembly instructions are included.

Shown here are images from the "Winter Holidays: A Celebration for Everyone" exhibit on display just inside the front door and in the Special Collections Research Center located on the first floor of Swem Library. The exhibit features various editions of "The Night Before Christmas" books; books and artifacts from the Chapin-Horowitz Collection of Cynogetica, a comprehensive collection from the 16th through 21st centuries that provides research opportunities in every aspect of the canine from literature to psychology; the Woodbridge-Weston Collection of Christmas Books donated by Julia Woodbridge Oxrieder, Manuscripts Collection, and the Swem Library book collection.

The following is a transcription of the labels in the case:

Winter Holidays: Traditional and Pop Culture

Pop-Culture
More recently, some groups have rejected traditional religious celebrations and instead created artificial holidays, and even entire religions, as an alternative. Although the rituals and creeds of these unconventional celebrations are often tongue-in-cheek, the motives for their establishment and propagation have more serious roots.

Festivus: the Holiday for the Rest of Us
Established in the 1997 Seinfeld Christmas episode, Festivus quickly spread as an alternative to Christmas, celebrated by those who were frustrated with the commercialism and stress of the traditional holiday. The three main components of Festivus are the Airing of Grievances, in which each person announces all the ways that the other people have disappointed them throughout the year; the Feats of Strength, in which the head of the household is wrestled to the floor; and the raising of the Festivus Pole, a plain aluminum or metal pole which takes the place of the traditional ornate Christmas tree. People who celebrate Festivus perform these rituals with varying degrees of seriousness, but all share a common rejection of the over-commercialization of modern Christmas celebrations.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was originally created by Bobby Henderson in 2005, as a protest against the Kansas State Board of Education’s decision to teach intelligent design theory as an alternative to evolution. In a satirical letter composed to the school board, he asserted that intelligent design could encompass a variety of theories, including the “Pastafarian” belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Henderson’s new religion of Pastafarianism quickly became a sardonic symbol of anti-religious sentiment, and many who sympathized with his rejection of ritual and formalism took up its creed. The Pastafarian celebration of Holiday, corresponding to the Christmas season, involves no requirements whatsoever and dictates that Pastafarians celebrate the season however they wish.

Tradition
Other more traditional holidays come from a variety of religions, some more archaic than others. The religious significance of these customs in modern day celebrations depends on whether or not a large number of people still follow the faith from which they stem.

Hanukkah: the Festival of Lights
This Jewish holiday, celebrated for eight days beginning on the second day of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar (anytime from late November to early December in the Gregorian calendar), has its roots in the “Miracle of the Oil” at the rededication ceremony of the temple after the Maccabean revolt of the 2nd century BCE, as described in the Talmud. When the victorious Maccabees went to rededicate the temple, they only found enough consecrated oil to perform the ritual for one day; however, the oil miraculously burned for eight, allowing enough time to prepare and consecrate fresh oil. In honor of this event, the celebration of Hanukkah was instituted as a festival of rebirth and miracles.
The modern celebration of Hanukkah primarily involves the ritual lighting of the menorah, but also often incorporates other traditions such as singing traditional Jewish songs, spinning the dreidl, making food fried in oil, and giving gifts to one’s children.

Kwanzaa: an African-American Tradition
Many African-American families in the United States celebrate Kwanzaa as a way to remember their cultural heritage, emphasizing that while every people has its own traditions, everyone can and should celebrate the common humanity that binds them together. It was first created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966 as part of the civil rights movement to remind African-Americans of their roots and unite them in their common experiences, in conjunction with giving African-Americans an alternative celebration to the dominant American traditions. The modern incarnation places more stress on the varied traditions of individual tribes, but still holds to the core concept of celebrating a common humanity, symbolized by the pan-African colors and the Seven Principles of Blackness, or Nguzo Saba.

Winter Solstice and Yule: Origins of Christma

At one time the Bristol Evening Post owned a chain of newsagents called Kiosks. One of these was in the ground floor of the Post building, as you went around the corner into Broad Plain. Emerging from this establishment one day with the current issue of Jugs ...well, I used to get it for the Spot The Ball competition... I glanced behind before releasing my hold on the door. At this moment a spry, white-haired figure in an ostentatious jacket flashed past me from the pavement to slip through before the door shut. It was Reece Winstone, probably come to replenish the shop's revolving display rack of his books.
Winstone described himself as a freelance photographer. His topographical photographs appeared in publications like the Shell Guides, alongside those of such eminent photographers as J. Allan Cash. His photographs were featured in many periodicals. A list of these was sometimes helpfully provided in his books. In 1957 Winstone began his "Bristol As It Was" series, the first volume covering the period between the two wars. They were very much a one-man affair. He took the photographs, wrote the captions and editorial matter and designed the covers. The printing alone was entrusted to an outside firm, the Burleigh Press. This gave the books an idiosyncratic look, often found in small-scale publishing ventures produced for local consumption. Alfred Wainwright's fell-walking guides or the Jarge Balsh dialect stories by W. M. Jones are further examples. The first book met with considerable success and further volumes covering different periods were produced at roughly annual intervals. Eventually they covered the whole photographic record from the 1840s to the 1960s. Winstone's son, John, produced two further volumes bringing the record up to the 1980s.
Winstone's not altogether likeable personality came through in all that he wrote. Clearly he was a vain, boastful and pig-headed man. No sluggard at self-promotion he drove around in a car whose side windows were filled with dummies of his book covers. The cars themselves carried one or other of the two registration numbers Winstone owned ...1 PHT and PHT 1. The PHT, he sometimes reminded his readers, stood for "photographer". As coverage extended back in time he became dependent on photographs donated by readers and wellwishers. This was not dwelt upon in the books and donors received only the bare minimum by way of acknowledgement. The sister of a schoolfriend of mine wrote to him with an enquiry on some historical point which she needed for a school project. He wrote back promptly, saying that the answer to her question could be found in such-and-such of his books, price 7/6d from all good booksellers. Great swathes of his output were devoted to photographs of "the author" (as he always called himself) receiving awards, being interviewed on television or speaking at civic functions. "Appreciations" from readers and newspaper profiles, so long as they were laudatory, were prominently reproduced. Pet obsessions such as the Duke of Windsor or the claim of William Friese-Green to have invented cinematography, were featured ad nauseum.
Yet he was the master of his subject and his books were fascinating. I first became acquainted with them as a boy, under "Local Interest" in the reference section of Downend Library. Once I started work and had money of my own I collected all those that had been published and acquired the rest as they appeared. Goodness knows how many hundreds of hours I must have spent with my head bent over those pages. My surroundings slipped away. I heard the rumble of the market woman's cart, the groan of the trams and smelled the horse dung in the streets. I was fascinated by the way that certain scenes, utterly changed, could still be recognised from the slope of a street or the alignment of a kerb. Coverage was so complete that I almost felt I knew the Victorian city and could find my way around it.
Reece Winstone's example was widely imitated and bookshops are now awash with volumes of old photographs covering various localities. But he was the first, and the photographs he took or collected are a priceless record which is said to have made Bristol the best photographically documented provincial city in the world.

Deflect-O Corporation Products - Floor Display, 16 Pocket, 15"x15"x64", Chrome Base/Black Unit - Sold as 1 EA

Revolving Display Floor Rack features virtually unbreakable plastic pockets made of high-impact plastic. Pockets hold literature more than 2-5/8" deep. Floor rack revolves easily on a sturdy chrome base. Tension bracket keeps literature upright. Embedded grooves prevent literature from sliding. Four sides save space while displaying maximum amount of literature. Pocket dimensions are 9-1/8" wide x 2-3/4" deep x 11-3/4" high.

Sold as 1 EA
Manufacturer: Deflect-O Corporation
Total percentage of recycled content: 0
Post Consumer Waste: 0
Country of origin: US